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Saturday, November 3, 2012 3:10 PM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote:Eric Bodenweiser, a former Republican candidate for the Delaware state Senate with ties to Christine O'Donnell and the Tea Party, was indicted Monday on charges that he sexually abused a child. Bodenweiser, who suspended and then ended his campaign earlier this month, was indicted on 113 felony charges, including 39 counts of unlawful sexual intercourse and 74 counts of unlawful sexual contact, according to The News Journal. Bodenweiser is currently being held pending bail on charges that he sexually abused the victim between 1987 and 1990. Bodenweiser, a businessman who is alleged to have committed the crimes at his family's dairy store business, defeated Sen. Joe Booth (R-Georgetown) in the September primary and had been backed by O'Donnell in the race. The News Journal reports that O'Donnell praised Bodenweiser as a “great man that deserves our support and that we need to send to Dover. Eric has the kind of character that will stand up against corruption, that will do what is right in the face of opposition, in the face of pressure.”
Saturday, November 3, 2012 3:43 PM
OONJERAH
Saturday, November 3, 2012 4:19 PM
Saturday, November 3, 2012 10:01 PM
FREMDFIRMA
Sunday, November 4, 2012 6:45 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:Again, the more one denies and suppresses their humanity, often at the behest of insane, inhumane puritanical "values", the more twisted in which the form with which it finally expresses itself.
Quote:A big, male-dominated institution is presented with evidence of sexual abuse perpetrated from within its ranks. Rather than doing all they can to report the crimes and aid victims in their pursuit of justice, leaders of the institution circle the wagons and protect their own. Maintaining the institution's vaunted reputation, which brings with it much power and riches, is prioritized over rooting out the guilty and promoting a safe environment for all. Today the subject is the Penn State football program, but it could just as easily be the Catholic Church or the U.S. military or any institution that enjoys a faithful following. The many individuals who are the real strength of these institutions -- the players, the churchgoers, the troops -- are mostly innocent bystanders or collateral damage in these terrible scandals. The men at the top who stand to lose the most, they are the ones who tarnish these institutions through reckless acts of self preservation. Even worse than the shame they bring to the institutions they lead is the danger to countless women and children that they help to sustain, the crimes that accumulate under their watch. Let's not fool ourselves: Sexism and patriarchy are tightly woven into these "scandals" -- without them, these heinous acts would be viewed much more critically and not allowed to fester. Silence and denial would not be an option. The privilege that has been heaped upon these men flows from a culture that continues to value men's authority and accomplishments over the rights and safety of women. Powerful men have proven time and again that they will fight fiercely to protect the elevated status from which they greatly benefit. Protecting children, meanwhile, is still considered mainly the province of women. Which begs the question, if women ran these institutions, would sexual abuse be swept under the rug to the degree that it is now? http://www.now.org/news/blogs/index.php/sayit/2012/07/12/bringing-an-end-to-sexual-abuse-cover-ups
Sunday, November 4, 2012 7:47 AM
HERO
Quote:Originally posted by Oonjerah: List of offenders is rather impressive. Can the Democrats match it?
Sunday, November 4, 2012 8:00 AM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Sunday, November 4, 2012 11:55 AM
MAGONSDAUGHTER
Quote:Originally posted by Hero: In my job I prosecute a large number of sex offenders. I've found that most tend to be low income and on govt assistance of some kind...in other words, Democrats. But these people are not political or famous in any way so party affiliation has nothing to do with what they do or who they are. I note for the record that ideology does matter in some circles. For example, if you are a famous devient Republican you get condemned. If you are a liberal producer/director who drugs and rapes young girls you get defended...because it's not "rape rape". But this is not about sex offenders, its politics. A liberal can get drunk and drive off a bridge killing his passenger, use racist language, sexually harass a subordinate, rape a child, or pretty much anything else and as long as he or she votes the right way...it's all good.
Sunday, November 4, 2012 1:42 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Hero: In my job I prosecute a large number of sex offenders. I've found that most tend to be low income and on govt assistance of some kind...in other words, Democrats.
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JONGSSTRAW
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Sunday, November 4, 2012 5:21 PM
Quote:Mark Souder, (R-IN) a staunch advocate of abstinence and family values, resigned to avoid an ethics investigation into his admitted extramarital affair with a female staffer. Famously, he and she had made a public video in which they both extolled the virtues of sexual abstinence.
Sunday, November 4, 2012 10:59 PM
AGENTROUKA
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Here's just some of the Republican pedophile scandals: Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.
Monday, November 5, 2012 12:38 AM
Monday, November 5, 2012 6:37 AM
Quote: I've found that most tend to be low income and on govt assistance of some kind...in other words, Democrats
Quote: It's the sheer hypocracy that adds the sting.
Quote:hypcrits who sermonise on one thing and do the exact opposite in their private lives.
Quote: It just never occurred to me that people who suffer from this illness would commonly seek public office where their behavior inevitably destroys the respect and acceptance they need.
Quote: Pedophiles still identify as children
Monday, November 5, 2012 7:21 AM
STORYMARK
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: Great Dems in history.... Bill Clinton : Governor - President - serial sexual predator and rapist
Monday, November 5, 2012 10:22 AM
Monday, November 5, 2012 10:52 AM
BYTEMITE
Quote:In the same vein, I would also claim bullshit to putting people found to have possessed child pornography, unless facts can be given that they actually engaged in sex-abuse.
Monday, November 5, 2012 10:55 AM
Quote:Originally posted by BYTEMITE: Quote:In the same vein, I would also claim bullshit to putting people found to have possessed child pornography, unless facts can be given that they actually engaged in sex-abuse. Not me. If someone has the stuff, then they probably PAID for it and that means they tacitly supported, aided, and abetted those activities. Paying the people who do it is in my book as bad as doing it themselves.
Monday, November 5, 2012 12:42 PM
Monday, November 5, 2012 2:34 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: The fact that you are listing extra-marital sex--and with PROSTITUTES no less--with sexual child abuse is waaaay beneath you.
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Monday, November 5, 2012 9:35 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Monday, November 5, 2012 10:42 PM
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Monday, November 5, 2012 11:52 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: AR, You didn't get me wrong at all AR... I'm merely stating from a non Atheistic point of view that both are abominations without the restraint of decent law and the citizens that back that law. It's not Religion's place to put us in our own place when there are two consenting adults though. We, collectively, have no idea if there is or is not a god, so I say let the gays fuck each other on City Hall steps for all I care. I'm just saying that the Dems jumped on that opportunity with adult gays....
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