Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Gee, Republicans don't like it when you call them "child molesters."

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » The DU Lounge Donate to DU
 
NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 12:28 AM
Original message
Gee, Republicans don't like it when you call them "child molesters."
Who knew? :shrug:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
GRLMGC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 12:29 AM
Response to Original message
1. hahaha
what happened?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 12:30 AM
Response to Original message
2. Deleted message
Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.
 
ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 08:49 AM
Response to Reply #2
13. It only took two replies to call one out.
Good job NightTrain. :toast:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
meow2u3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 12:31 AM
Response to Original message
3. They can't stand it when someone tells the truth about them
Edited on Mon Feb-07-05 12:35 AM by StopThePendulum
What are we supposed to call'em? Hands-on sex educators? :eyes:


Edited to correct grammar
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 12:33 AM
Response to Original message
4. lol lol that is funny, and what are you doing
randomly going up to repugs and calling them molesters. if that were the case, well, i would have known they wouldnt like it. or is it something specific
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
OffWithTheirHeads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 12:55 AM
Response to Original message
5. Soo?
Edited on Mon Feb-07-05 12:55 AM by tmfun
call it the way you see it! In fact, the name works for me.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
nickgutierrez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 01:14 AM
Response to Original message
6. I pretty much did just this very thing on a Yahoo board earlier today.
:shrug:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
rppper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 04:10 AM
Response to Reply #6
8. funny...i nailed one there too
some ass-hat named "nate"...had a link to a teen porno site on his profile...he's in his late 40's....he booted me...i just keep calling him a pedophile over and over....must be in denial or something...ahh, family values repukes......
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
nickgutierrez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 04:13 AM
Response to Reply #8
9. Ha -- mine was more subtle
Him: "so-and-so (don't remember what) isn't worth a girls' blouse."
Me: "What is it with Republicans and little girls' clothing?"
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
imenja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 02:10 AM
Response to Original message
7. touchy aren't they
:shrug:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 04:43 AM
Response to Original message
10. define "child"
Check out Robert McMullen in the 1930 census in Farmington, Fulton, Illinois. He was 71, his wife was 56. Nothing wrong with a 15 year age difference is there? Except when they married, he was 29 and she was 14. Still married 42 years later, but no way to tell from the census if they were happy.
Something funny, in pre 19th century America it was common for girls to marry and often bear children, before they were 18. In 17th and 18th century in parts of Deutschland where the Catholic church was also the government, girls never married before the age of 20.
When the tunnel to the 19th century is completed perhaps they will bring back the child bride along with the child laborer. It must be in their plan.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
TheOriginalAmerican Donating Member (100 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 08:34 AM
Response to Original message
11. Do not fall for that.
Edited on Mon Feb-07-05 08:36 AM by TheOriginalAmerican
One of my big pet issues is child abuse. Don't assume that it's typically Republicans who do that (even if priests and some other ones probably are Republicans). Besides the fact that it's wrongly labeling Republicans, it's downsizing the child molestation problem (which is a very huge one). I don't want one of my pet issues to be thrown away on bashing Republicans. My issues against child abuse are too important to me to do that.

There's simply no proof that Republicans are more into that than Democrats.

I will admit that Republicans are often the ones wanting less child abuse enforcement laws though. That's where I normally want to smack the Republicans in the head.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 08:42 PM
Response to Reply #11
16. Deleted message
Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.
 
NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 08:48 PM
Response to Reply #16
17. Sorry! We can't all be perfect like you.
:eyes:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Carson Donating Member (560 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 08:58 PM
Response to Reply #17
20. Perfect? No. Try to stick to facts and logic? Yes.
Anything else is either humor, attempts at humor or ignorant crap. Passing off emotional ranting as fact is the latter category.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 09:01 PM
Response to Reply #20
23. I think this was humour.
And as a way to flush Freepers out of the brush, it's working.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 09:08 PM
Response to Reply #23
26. Shh! You'll destroy his rush of self-righteous superiority.
And we certainly can't have that now, can we?

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Carson Donating Member (560 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 09:12 PM
Response to Reply #26
28. Ah, yes, I must think I'm better than you to dare question a post.
I love that argument as well. Classic.

I'm a "she" by the way.

:hi:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-05 11:34 AM
Response to Reply #23
35. Gee, do ya think?
Some people... :eyes:

(not you, obviously... )
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 09:00 PM
Response to Reply #16
21. "An exercise in framing an illogical and indefensible argument"
Sounds like what the right wing have been doing for five or six years, across the whole spectrum of the media, Carson. What was Iraq, if not illogical and indefensible?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Carson Donating Member (560 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 09:07 PM
Response to Reply #21
25. True. And so why would I want to defend the practice in someone here
at DU?

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 09:10 PM
Response to Reply #25
27. I think it was a satirical attempt to flush Freepers out of the
undergrowth. They can dish it out, but they don't like tasting it.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 08:54 PM
Response to Reply #11
18. republicans lie about us all the time
Why cant we throw it back in their face for once?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 08:56 PM
Response to Reply #18
19. My point exactly!
Unfortunately, far too many people on the Left have a bug up their ass. I think I might hate those types even more than I hate the Right!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-05 11:41 AM
Response to Reply #19
36. Can it be fairly said that they're some of the ones keeping us as a party
from fighting back EFFECTIVELY?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 08:43 AM
Response to Original message
12. were you talking to Phil Giordano?
How did it come up?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 09:23 AM
Response to Original message
14. All the ones I knew were Republicans.
:shrug:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 09:54 AM
Response to Original message
15. George Carlin said
"If you outlawed religion, these crimes (child molestation) would eventually disappear...but we don't have TIME for rational solutions!"

I think he has a point. That is definitely one thread that runs through a lot of child abuse/molestation, over zealous religiousness, either by the molester themselves or by their family of origin.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 09:00 PM
Response to Reply #15
22. Really?
There are bad people who are republicans. There are bad people who are Democrats. There are bad people who are religious. There are bad people who aren't religious.
To say that there is a link between a belief in God and child molesting? I find that a bit disturbing.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-05 11:45 AM
Response to Reply #22
38. I think the link is more tenuous
that child molesters see religion as a way to put themselves in a position where they have access to children.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 09:03 PM
Response to Original message
24. Last time I checked, democrats don't like it much, either...
go figure
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 09:12 PM
Response to Reply #24
29. Ooo! Let's get all serious in what I intended as a smart-ass thread.
Christ, some people....
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Carson Donating Member (560 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 09:15 PM
Response to Reply #29
30. I agree that this post seemed more intentionally humorous than your
original post on this topic.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 09:15 PM
Response to Reply #29
31. no droll smart #ss response allowed
to a self-admitted smart #ss thread?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
RedSpartan Donating Member (736 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-05 11:11 AM
Response to Original message
32. Truth hurts, I guess. Check it out...
Repulsive. I know it it long. Sorry.
From the Newark Star-Ledger (NJ):



State Police seize 29 in distribution of child-rape video
Police charge another 7 with possession as sweep nets pediatric surgeon and high school coach

Friday, January 28, 2005

BY RICK HEPP
Star-Ledger Staff

State Police said yesterday they arrested 29 people across New Jersey for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped, including a pediatric neurosurgeon from Basking Ridge, a hockey coach from Morristown and a local Republican Party chairman from Sparta.

Another seven were arrested on charges of possessing the graphic footage on their computers, although additional charges could be filed based on a forensic examination of their hard drives, police said. Of those arrested, 10 were juveniles as young as 14 and one was a registered sex offender, police said.

"We will prosecute anyone who knowingly downloads from the Internet and circulates images of children who are being sexually exploited," Attorney General Peter Harvey said in an afternoon news conference announcing the charges. "We have to protect children from people who prey upon them."



Authorities arrested the man in the video, James Bidwell of Georgia, after he sent copies of the videotape he made to Canada and England. He is now serving 45 years in prison after pleading guilty in 2002 to sexual assault and child pornography charges. Yet police said the video continues to be passed over the Internet among pedophiles who find out about it and others through e-mail messages or chat room discussions with one another.

"We are aware of other similar videos on the Internet," State Police Superintendent Rick Fuentes said. "Every time another person transmits these sickening images, the children depicted in them are victimized all over again."



The agent contacted the State Police in October with the IP address of the 42 computers that downloaded the video. An IP address is the number assigned to every computer connected to the Web, and no two are alike. They can be traced back to the computer by the Internet service provider that gave it access.



Detectives then conducted a two-month investigation that included background checks and surveillance to identify the suspects and produce enough evidence to obtain search warrants, Fuentes said. Police executed those search warrants beginning Jan. 17.

After seizing the computers, police also found evidence that the suspects had downloaded other child pornography as well. In some cases, the suspects had unsuccessfully attempted to destroy the video and images using various software programs.

"Do not assume that you can sufficiently shred digital computer evidence," Fuentes warned potential child porn collectors. "Those pieces of evidence can be reassembled."

Police completed their roundup of the 36 suspects during early morning raids yesterday. In what has become a common theme with many of these high-profile stings, several of the suspects turned out to be the well-known, respected members of their communities:

Pediatric neurosurgeon Ross B. Finesmith, 43, of Basking Ridge is a clinical instructor in the Department of Neurology at New York University Medical Center. He also has been paid by the Florham Park, Madison and Union Township boards of education as a neurological consultant to evaluate students in the past few years. Attempts to reach him were unsuccessful.

Defense attorney Jeffrey Patti, 36, of Sparta, who is married with two daughters, ages 2 and 6 months, is well-known in Sussex County, where news of the arrest stunned acquaintances. Patti and his father, Frank, are partners in a Sparta law firm, and he also serves as the municipal chairman of the Sussex County Republican Committee.

"Jeff vehemently denies the charges and looks forward to his day in court, and expects to be exonerated," Frank Patti said. "Jeff is a straight shooter -- a good father, a good parent, a good husband. Jeff had no pornographic materials in his possession, and he did not distribute to anyone."

Andrew R. Friedman, 27, of Morristown has been an assistant hockey coach with the Kinnelon High School hockey team in Morris County for two years, said Kinnelon Superintendent James Opiekun. He also participates in the local youth hockey program.

Opiekun said after he learned about the charges yesterday he immediately suspended Friedman from the program and banned him from having contact with the team. Friedman, a graphic artist, does not teach at the high school.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-05 11:14 AM
Response to Original message
33. Phil Giordano?
37 years. Nuff said.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-05 11:14 AM
Response to Original message
34. Please! Call them "primally child-oriented."
Just kidding. No, they hate it when they hear the truth about themselves--it's like Kryptonite to Superman.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
fit4life Donating Member (561 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-05 11:43 AM
Response to Original message
37. So are you saying democrats DO like it?
Seriously, do you know ANYONE who likes to be called a child molester? Not even child molesters like it.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Fri Dec 27th 2024, 09:45 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » The DU Lounge Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC