Reply #172: Reading replies of centrist nanny-staters to this issue is like out-takes from the movie BRAZIL.

[Leopolds Ghost]

The status quo has dissolved into an authoritarian nightmare without anyone realizing it. They weren't born when Americans had true freedom of movement and true civil rights under civil law. They appeal to the crowd, appeal to notions of morality to defend immoral government overreach on the ground of authoritarian notions of decency and social expectations. They want to throw Thelma and Louise (or simply the irresponsible college student next door) in jail and sue them for victimizing their families or victimizing the police force by failing to report their whereabouts to the Authorities.

This is NOT about the rights of abused women. Get a clue people.
This is about the right to be secure in our own freedom of movement.

This is not Afghanistan under the Taliban, this is not New Orleans
under martial law. This is about the society you claim to be
comfortable living with.