In general there are way too many laws and way too much "punishment." We live in what could be accurately characterized as a "police state" with more men in prisons than any other nation at any other time in the history of humanity.
Victimless "crime" is not a crime at all. The government should mind its own business. If the prosecutor can't find a victim to appear in court and demonstrate their injuries, then the prosecutor should be slapped with a penalty. And police don't count as "victims." They aren't there to create "crime."
Annoyances are not crimes. The government should not get involved.
That leaves crimes against other people, murder, robbery, assault, etc. Again, if the person isn't harmed, then no crime is committed. Most fights are offsetting penalties, no government penalty involved. Robberies and other property crimes need restitution, not punishment. The criminal needs to be an indentured servant to the victim until the debt is paid back.
That leaves serious injury or death crimes. If its a whiny MIL he should get a medal, not a punishment.
Good thought. The punishment should fit the crime.
Arrogant young A**holes who want to "punish" everyone SHOULD be put in a public stock with a supply of whips available to the public.
A terrorist organization that will use internationally banned "WMD" poison gas (CS) to anhillate a whole village of American men, women, and dozens of children, and then burn the bodies, will not blink at merely robbing computers from honest men. The FBI and all their agetnts are the enemies of a free nation.
By "raped" you mean the young women got laid. The **Average** age for initial sex in the US is during the young woman's 14th year. You say she was on the net looking to get laid. It is a huge lie to call that "rape."
The whole "internet rape" thing is another anti-men hate program. It does not protect young women who are never hurt by getting laid on the internet any more than at home. It is young men who are being hurt by the aggressive hate program. The numbers of young men destryed by the varsious rape-hate campaigns are beginning to make the medieval witch hunts look like a sunday school picnic.
The real perverts in this whole story are the hate mongering bigots who use "the children" as an excuse to focus on sex and hate.
If the US was a democracy we'd still have the institution of slavery, women would not vote, and children would still be property under the law.
Bob: Bob has never favored slavery. We should note, however, that an estimated million white Europeans were captured and sold into slavery in Africa during the several hundred years before Europe, and particularly the US under President Jefferson, became powerful enough to stop it. Female suffrage is a huge mistake crammed down the throats of men by an evil government out of control. And children should still belong to their fathers. Obviously, our representative democracy doesn't work very well.
Luckily, it is not. It is a federal constitutional republic. It is a system where emancipation, suffrage and child labor and welfare laws can be jammed down the majorities throat, for the betterment of the country as a whole.
Bob: Obviously. But not for the good of the people. Jamming crap down our throats is police state tyranny, what our founders fought against. It does not, in general, improve a country.
Likewise, if Afghanistan or Iraq were a democracy, they'd simply return to taliban/warlord control, as nobody would dare vote against them.
Bob: Uh, no. Afghanistan was a representative democracy or rather a tribal society ruled by local chieftains. The Taliban was jammed down the throats of the people without their consent, much like the authors of this absurd article recommend. The people, if allowed to vote, would vote against them in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Voters can be bought, coerced, and easily confused into following the charismatic, but evil candidate. But we have the electoral college to make sure that despite the wishes of the majority of morons, they can choose what is best for the country. This is why Hitler could never have been an American president - no matter how popular his policy of "kill all jews browns and blacks" would be.
Bob: Indeed, females especially should not be allowed to vote. Neither should crack heads on welfare, nor government workers. The rise of the German National Socialist Labor Party, NAZIS was the first great victory for female suffrage. Clearly, female suffrage has been one of the great mistakes of history. It is much easier to buy politicians than voters. Our government has become much like the NAZIS and even worse in some particulars. In America they target men instead of jews.
But, you know, lets all hate America and mouth off blah blah blah and not really understand why the constitution is structured the way it is.
Bob: It is the author of this article who has little understanding of America and our constitution. Our founders included the 2nd Amendment in hopes that we could have the means to overthrow the bastards when they become tyranny as they now are. Unfortunately they abrogated our constitution almost a century ago.
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In general there are way too many laws and way too much "punishment." We live in what could be accurately characterized as a "police state" with more men in prisons than any other nation at any other time in the history of humanity. Victimless "crime" is not a crime at all. The government should mind its own business. If the prosecutor can't find a victim to appear in court and demonstrate their injuries, then the prosecutor should be slapped with a penalty. And police don't count as "victims." They aren't there to create "crime." Annoyances are not crimes. The government should not get involved. That leaves crimes against other people, murder, robbery, assault, etc. Again, if the person isn't harmed, then no crime is committed. Most fights are offsetting penalties, no government penalty involved. Robberies and other property crimes need restitution, not punishment. The criminal needs to be an indentured servant to the victim until the debt is paid back. That leaves serious injury or death crimes. If its a whiny MIL he should get a medal, not a punishment.
Good thought. The punishment should fit the crime. Arrogant young A**holes who want to "punish" everyone SHOULD be put in a public stock with a supply of whips available to the public.
A terrorist organization that will use internationally banned "WMD" poison gas (CS) to anhillate a whole village of American men, women, and dozens of children, and then burn the bodies, will not blink at merely robbing computers from honest men. The FBI and all their agetnts are the enemies of a free nation.
By "raped" you mean the young women got laid. The **Average** age for initial sex in the US is during the young woman's 14th year. You say she was on the net looking to get laid. It is a huge lie to call that "rape." The whole "internet rape" thing is another anti-men hate program. It does not protect young women who are never hurt by getting laid on the internet any more than at home. It is young men who are being hurt by the aggressive hate program. The numbers of young men destryed by the varsious rape-hate campaigns are beginning to make the medieval witch hunts look like a sunday school picnic. The real perverts in this whole story are the hate mongering bigots who use "the children" as an excuse to focus on sex and hate.