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Aggravating Circumstances: Against the #FreeKate Campaign for Sexual Anarchy

Posted on | May 25, 2013 | 26 Comments

“The law is what it is, and if it is truly equality the Gay rights activists want, then they have it in this case. . . . You do not get to scream ‘special privileges’ when you break the rules.”
– Doug Hagin, “An undeniable truth, sex sells”

“Judges want to f— young girls. Juries want to f— young girls. Everyone wants to f— young girls!”
– Roman Polanski

“Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.”
– Colonel Fletcher, The Outlaw Josey Wales

Some perverts get away with it and some perverts go to prison, and there are certainly people walking around scot-free today who have done things worse than what Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt admitted doing to a 14-year-old girl in Sebastian, Florida.

Does this mean Kate Hunt should go free? I think not.

Beyond the outright lies of the #FreeKate mob — a movement I’ve sarcastically dubbed “Occupy 14-Year-Old Vagina” — their arguments typically boil down to a few sophistries:

  1. Kate is gay and the younger girl’s parents are bigots;
  2. Both girls were in high school together and their sexual activity was consensual, which makes it OK;
    and/or
  3. Heterosexual cases involving 18-year-olds and 14-year-olds have been pleaded down to misdemeanors, so it was wrong for Florida prosecutors to have offered Kate Hunt a deal that required her to plead guilty to a felony.

All three of these arguments are flawed:

  1. Parents do not forfeit their right to the protection of the law merely because of their opinions. Even if it were proven that Jim and Laurie Smith, parents of the younger girl, were particularly prejudiced against homosexuals (an assertion they deny), this does not nullify the Florida law against sex with 14-year-olds. The parents’ motive in reporting the crime doesn’t decriminalize Kaitlyn’s action.
  2. Kaitlyn Hunt was older than most high school students. I’m grateful to Phil Kerpen (who is more libertarian than conservative, I should mention) for pointing out that Hunt’s birth date (8/14/94) meant that she was already 18 before she even started her senior year in high school, whereas most seniors are 17. Kerpen wondered if Hunt may have been deliberately “held back” a year, a not-uncommon scholastic practice known as “redshirting.” Whatever the explanation, the mere fact of two people going to school together does not void Florida’s law against sex with 14-year-olds, and the same law states specifically that “consent” is not a defense.
  3. Prosecutorial leniency in some cases cannot be used as an argument that leniency should be extended to all cases, and the discretion of prosecutors requires them to judge each case on its merits. There may be valid reasons why other perpetrators were allowed to plead down to misdemeanor charges, whereas there may also be valid reasons why prosecutors insisted that Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt could only avoid trial by pleading guilty to a felony.

The most likely reason why prosecutors are not caving in to the #FreeKate mob, I suspect, is that this case involves certain aggravating circumstances. For example, the first sexual activity between Hunt and the 14-year-old freshman (which Hunt admitted, according to the arrest affidavit) took place on school property, in a toilet stall.

Do Floridians really want to permit such things? I think not.

Another aggravating circumstance involves the night of Jan. 4, 2013, which is described in the affidavit (“Smith” is the 14-year-old) :

[Smith] told [Sheriff's Department Detective Jeremy Shepherd] that there was one occasion that she ran away from home in January of 2013. [Detective Shepherd] researched this and learned that [Smith] ran away on January 4, 2013. [Smith] stated that Kaitlyn picked her up and took [Smith] back to Kaitlyn’s house at 231 Stony Point Drive, Sebastian, Florida. That night, while in Kaitlyn’s bedroom, [Smith] and Kaitlyn put their fingers inside of each other’s vaginas, put their mouths on each other’s vaginas, and both of them used a vibrator on each other to insert it in each other’s vaginas. . . .
During the interview [with Kaitlyn Hunt] . . . Kaitlyn also confirmed that she put her finger inside of [Smith's] vagina the time that [Smith] ran away from home and they met up. [Detective Shepherd] asked Kaitlyn if she knew it was wrong to have sex with [Smith] due to [Smith] being 14 years old. Kaitlyn stated that she did not think about it because [Smith] acted older.

No further questions at this time, your honor. Defense, your witness.

You see what an open-and-shut case this is? Kaitlyn doesn’t deny what prosecutors would call “digital penetration,” although the younger girl’ s claims about cunnilingus and penetration with a vibrator are evidently still a she-said/she-said situation.

Nevertheless, fingering a 14-year-old is sufficient offense to convict Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt on the felony charge of “lewd and lascivious conduct” under Florida law, and Hunt admits that this occurred in her bedroom on Jan. 4, while the younger girl was a runaway.

The 14-year-old’s parents, Jim and Laurie Smith, say when they woke up the next morning and discovered their daughter missing, they had no idea where she was and feared she had been abducted — every parent’s worst nightmare, a situation that any responsible adult would seek to prevent. Kaitlyn was 18 years old, an adult old enough to be considered responsible and — we might well ask — where were Kaitlyn Hunt’s parents during this Jan. 4 episode?

This is unknown, but I’ve seen enough of the arguments made by Kaitlyn’s mother to believe that she condoned her daughter’s affair with the 14-year-old, and to suspect that Kaitlyn’s home environment was one of permissiveness bordering on negligence. Leaving aside that question, however, the known facts regarding the incident of Jan. 4 qualify as aggravating circumstances which, I think prosecutors will argue, would make them negligent of their own duties if they were to let the defendant plead down to a misdemeanor.

Many of those in the #FreeKate mob have argued — and this would be Number Four on the list of their common sophistries — that the felony charge is wrong because it would require Kaitlyn’s name to be placed permanently on the sex offender registry. This argument, like all their arguments, is false.

The applicable statute includes a “Romeo & Juliet”  exemption if the defendant is no more than four years older than the (consenting) victim. The age difference between Kaitlyn and the Smith girl is three years, eight months (44 months), so this exemption would be applicable, and prosecutors said quite clearly that it would be up to the judge at sentencing to determine (as the law provides) whether or not to put Kaitlyn’s name on the sex offender registry.

Most lawyers would probably advise their clients in such a circumstance to accept the deal, but Kaitlyn turned it down, and the prospect of a June 20 trial in this case is fraught with peril on both sides.

The 14-year-old (who turned 15 just last month) might be required to testify, and there is the prospect that Kaitlyn’s lawyers, having given her bad advice so far, might be foolish enough to have her testify in her own defense, which could set up a dramatic cross-examination by the prosecution. A trial like that might become the biggest tabloid-TV drama since the O.J. Simpson case.

The back-and-forth stuff between pro- and anti-Kaitlyn factions on the Internet is just a warm-up for the big show, but like the man said, “Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.”

Right now, I don’t know what angers me more: The deceptive sophistry practiced by the #FreeKate mob, or the ostentatiously disinterested poses of legalistic even-handedness struck by Jazz Shaw and Doug Mataconis. People who care about America’s future should be angry about this case and, personally, I’m so angry I’m starting to get angry at other people for not being angry about it.

If we can’t draw the line here, folks, there is no hope at all.

Supporters of Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt are making flawed and dangerous arguments which, if we don’t argue back against them, could subvert the rule of law and bring about a culture of sexual anarchy, where school children are violated and corrupted “consensually” and parents have no legal recourse to prevent such outrageous behavior.

Are judges and prosecutors in Indian River County, Florida, reading this blog? Are the citizens of Florida reading it? Are readers concerned about the direction of our culture sharing these arguments on your Facebook pages and via e-mail with your friends?

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Will you let it be said that you did nothing?




 

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#FreeKate Lies Rejected by Daily Kos Staffer, and Other New Developments

Posted on | May 25, 2013 | 58 Comments

Generally speaking, people who care about facts are not liberals, so I was amazed when Donald Douglas pointed this out to me.

McCarter’s original story on Monday, May 20, began with a touching lament about Kaitlyn Hunt’s “young life” being “turned upside down and her future jeopardized simply because . . . she fell in love with a younger girl who has vindictive bigots for parents.”

Right: “She fell in love,” and fingered a 14-year-old in a toilet stall at school. Isn’t it so delightfully romantic?

If you’ve followed the story at all — and my Thursday article at The American Spectator has been widely cited — you know that this “vindictive bigots” angle is crucial to the narrative that the #FreeKate mob has been pushing. And if you saw Jana Eschbach’s WPEC-TV interview with Jim and Laurie Smith, parents of the 14-year-old girl, you know what an evil and dishonest smear that is.

Where did this smear come from? Directly from Kaitlyn’s mother, Kelley Hunt-Smith, who wrote May 17 on Facebook:

“[The younger girl's parents] are bigoted, religious zeolites [sic] that see being gay as a sin and wrong, and they blame my daughter. . . .
“They are trying to send an innocent young girl to prison because they are full of hate and bigotry. These girls are teenagers in high school, who had ONE mutual consenting sexual experience.”

Lies, lies, lies.

Is it possible, I will dare to ask, that Kelley Hunt-Smith’s dishonesty is somehow related to her daughter’s problems? There seems to be some kind of dysfunctional family situation here. If Kaitlyn’s mom is a pathological liar, isn’t mental illness often hereditary?

The “Free Kate” Facebook community also seems to have been the source for other falsehoods, especially the lie that the sexual activities between Kaitlyn and the younger girl occurred when they were 17 and 15, rather than 18 and 14. Joan McCarter bought that false narrative hook, line and sinker:

[A]ccording to Hunt’s parents, Hunt was 17 when the relationship began, but the other girl’s parents waited until after she turned 18 to go to police.

Anyone can read the arrest affidavit in the case and see that Kaitlyn’s date of birth is Aug. 14, 1994, meaning she turned 18 before she began her senior year at high school year and before she met the younger girl, who was a 14-year-old freshman throughout the period when the two were sexually involved together. Kaitlyn was arrested Feb. 16, and the freshman girl didn’t turn 15 until April.

Joan McCarter of Daily Kos — who had originally posted a petition supporting Kaitlyn Hunt — removed that petition and corrected the story as soon as she learned the truth:

Thu May 23, 2013 at 10:29 AM PT: The public scrutiny of this case has brought to light problems with the initial reporting, and with the original story coming from the Hunt family. Previously, Hunt’s parents said that the younger girl was 15, and Hunt 17 when the relationship began. The release of the arrest warrant made clear, as subsequent news stories report, that the younger girl was 14 and Hunt was indeed 18 when the relationship began.
These corrections, and the initial dishonesty of Hunt’s parents, make this story much more problematic, and our original petition moot.

Wow! If only we could explain to McCarter that Keynesian economics doesn’t work and ObamaCare will bankrupt the county . . .

OK, maybe that would be too much worldview trauma, too soon. But you might be surprised how often a situation like this, where a liberal discovers she’s been misled by her fellow liberals, leads to the kind of second thoughts that slowly unravel a belief system. Remember, I was a lifelong Democrat and voted for Bill Clinton in ’92, only to learn too late what a shameless liar he was (and still is).

Anyway, now that the facts about Kaitlyn’s Jailbait Dildo Deviance are beginning to break through the wall of #FreeKate lies — and Kaitlyn has, probably unwisely, rejected the prosecution’s plea bargain offer — Momma Weirdo is having conniptions:

Liars hate the truth. Therefore tell the truth boldly, because there are few honors more rewarding than to be hated by liars.

UPDATE: Ann Althouse blogged about the story and some of the most interesting bits are her remarks in the comments:

Based on the video [i.e., the WPEC-TV interview with Jim and Laurie Smith, parents of the younger girl], it seems that kids at school are putting a lot of pressure on their daughter to reject her parents.
Now, the parents did report her girlfriend in to the police. They did this, they say, as a last resort after their daughter had already run away (without telling them). That was not a good strategy for getting their daughter back, as it’s alienated her further, so that she may feel that her entire social life depends on rejecting her parents.
So, do you think that was very savvy of the parents?
I don’t think so, but the question is what can they do once the other girl has shifted the rhetoric?
The younger girl’s parents made one drastic decision: to report behavior that is, under the law, a felony.
The accused girl got control of the narrative, with much support, making it about homophobia.
There’s really no way back for the younger girl’s parents. They can present their point of view and make it somewhat better, but they must regret going to the police.

What happened, Professor Althouse, was that Kaitlyn Hunt’s parents lied. And why should lying — “shift[ing] the rhetoric” to gain “control of the narrative,” as you say — be rewarded? It seems important to me that liars should never prevail in a situation like this, or else the rule of law will be subverted by dishonesty.

Then again, that seemed important to me when Bill Clinton lied about having sex with Monica Lewinsky, too.

As to the decision of the younger girl’s parents to report Kaitlyn Hunt to the police, both the arrest affidavit and the WPEC-TV interview suggest that this was the only remedy they had left, if their purpose was to protect their daughter against Hunt’s selfish predation.

From studying this story, a picture of Kaitlyn Hunt emerges that is far from flattering: She is reckless and arrogant, and feels entitled to do whatever she wants, without any criticism, any opposition or any consequences — the Veruca Salt Syndrome, as it were. Had she been willing to take “no” for an answer, had she been amenable to reason, had she thought twice of the potential consequences of continuing to pursue this 14-year-old even after repeated warnings from the parents, it never would have come to this.

Kaitlyn Hunt at all times had agency over her fate, and by her selfish impetuosity she has done dreadful damage to everyone involved here. To criticize the “drastic” action of the younger girl’s parents, or to suggest they “must regret” having gone to the police is to overlook their duty as citizens: Kaitlyn Hunt is a menace to the safety of the community. How many others has she victimized, exploited or corrupted? All this yammering about what a popular and successful student she was — is it true? Is it relevant?

She seems to be a dishonest, selfish, impudent whelp, and however “popular” she may have been, her attempt to evade responsibility by playing the victim — and enlisting a mob to pressure the prosecutor on her behalf — looks an awful lot like pathological narcissism.

The more I examine the arguments made in support of Kaitlyn Hunt, the more I’m of the opinion that she should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, if only to provide an example to any other young fool who might be tempted to emulate her.

Think of it this way: #FreeKate = “Occupy 14-Year-Old Vagina!”

Damn her, and damn her lying supporters, too.

 


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Because She’s Cute, That’s Why

Posted on | May 24, 2013 | 41 Comments

Some friends have asked why I’m being such a hard-ass about the Kaitlyn Hunt case. Certainly, my personal experience and opinions are relevant to the situation, and perhaps later I’ll discuss the case in terms of my perspective as an erstwhile teenage hoodlum.

No one familiar with Rule Five of “How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog” could miss the professional interest in a case where it is entirely legitimate to use Jailbait Lesbian Scandal as a headline.

Ouch. Stop. You’re twisting my arm.

This case involves serious matters of law, politics, culture and morality. It also involves journalism bias, with liberals pushing the #FreeKate propaganda of gay victimhood, and it is that aspect of the Kaitlyn Hunt case that angers me most: Stop the damned lies.

So the story engages my interest on multiple levels, and I readily admit that my sarcastic tendencies and tabloid instincts — on the one hand — might appear to conflict with my social conservative stance against the “emerging awareness,” on the other hand. But this is merely an apparent conflict, and the only reason it is apparent is because I’m trying to pull back the curtain and show readers the inherent hypocrisy that practitioners of Serious Journalism would like to pretend doesn’t really exist: They know damned well that Sex Sells, and the more kinky and lurid, the better. And to have Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt — 18 years old, 5-foot-1, 110 pounds — as the “face” of a sex story as kinky and lurid as this one? Yeah, it’s gold, baby.

When the networks trot this story out on Good Morning America and The Today Show, they understand the Rule 5 factor, and the liberal activists understand it just as clearly. That media hypocrisy needs to be exposed by brutally irreverent sarcasm.

It’s important in doing so to make clear that I’m not a stuffy narrow-minded prude. Advocating on behalf of the right of parents to protect their children against moral corruption does not require me to talk like a Baptist deacon addressing a ladies’ Sunday School picnic. Reporters are legendarily rude and profane people, and I expect some of them will be reading this stuff, so readers will excuse me if I speak the native language of the tribe at times.

A friend asked: Am I trying to “crucify” Kaitlyn Hunt? No, she’s quite voluntarily climbing up on that cross — refusing a plea deal that was very generous, all things considered — and I’m merely the minstrel bard telling the tale of her doom. Because she’s cute.

Oh, the pretty ones never see it coming, do they?

Everybody Loves a Pretty Girl, and they become accustomed early to smiling and charming their way out of trouble. Never mind who gets hurt, or how unfair it is that the pretty girl always manages to get away with breaking rules that other people have to obey.

Well, from what I’ve learned about this case — have you read the affidavit? — the sheriff and the prosecutor didn’t really want to put pretty green-eyed Kaitlyn Hunt in prison, but she and her indulgent mother got the idea that the rules shouldn’t apply to Kaitlyn.

Let’s see how this works out, eh? My guess is Kaitlyn’s wardrobe for the final scene will be handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit.

And she’ll look hot.

Don’t judge me, haters.





 

UPDATE: The courageous Teenage Dildo Queen:

If Hunt loses at trial, she faces up to 15-years behind bars.
“Our client is a courageous teenager who is choosing not to accept the current plea offer by the state of Florida.”
Defense attorney Julia Graves advised her client to go to trial, rather than accepting a plea deal by the state.

“All is proceeding as I have foreseen . . .”

 

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BREAKING: Kaitlyn Hunt Refuses Plea Offer, Will Face Trial on June 20

Posted on | May 24, 2013 | 114 Comments

Kaitlyn Hunt, the Florida 18-year-old who admitted a sexual affair with a 14-year-old girl, has rejected a plea-bargain offer from prosecutors in Indian River County and will face trial June 20 on charges of lewd and lascivious battery.

UPDATE: Hunt’s supporters had mounted an online campaign claiming that she was the victim of homophobic prejudice in an effort to pressure prosecutors to drop the felony charges against her.

While prosecutors had offered a plea bargain that would have kept Hunt out of prison on supervised release, Hunt and her supporters wanted the charges reduced to a misdemeanor. Hunt’s supporters say because her sexual involvement with a 14-year-old freshman girl — which began inside a toilet stall at Sebastian High School — was consensual, she should not be charged with a felony.

UPDATE II: Liberal organizations and major media have united behind the #FreeKate movement’s argument that Hunt is a victim, and have demonized the parents of the 14-year-old as “bigoted religious zealots.” However, in an interview with the local CBS affiliate yesterday, Jim and Laurie Smith, denied those accusations, saying they twice warned Hunt to stay away from their daughter. The Smiths say they only went to police after a Jan. 4 incident in which their daughter went missing overnight; a sheriff’s department arrest affidavit in the case says the 14-year-old ran away and spent that night at Hunt’s house, where the two teens “put their fingers inside of each other’s vaginas, put their mouths on each other’s vaginas, and both of them used a vibrator on each other to insert it in each other’s vaginas.”

UPDATE III: It is doubtful that Hunt’s attorneys will attempt what Da Tech identifies as The Roman Polanski Defense:

“Judges want to f— young girls. Juries want to f— young girls. Everyone wants to f— young girls!”

But the cross-examination should certainly be interesting, eh?

And what about the forensic evidence? Will prosecutors include the vibrator as Exhibit A? If readers want to send me to Florida next month to cover The Teenage Lesbian Trial of the Century, this would be a good time to hit the tip jar.





 

UPDATE IV: Darleen Click at Protein Wisdom:

Merely three years ago Whoopi Goldberg was rightfully chastised for defending Roman Polaski’s sexual relationship with a 13 year old girl by questioning whether or not it was rape-rape. . . .
On one hand, we have the the Obama Administration demanding universities criminalize even “offensive” speech as sexual harassment, making all college students nascent sexual harassers; but we have a whole new social movement dedicated to decriminalizing sexual behavior with 14 year olds . . .
Minors must be emancipated from their parents and adults must be dependent on The State.

Dan Collins at The Conservatory:

Meanwhile, on Twitter, with the hashtag #FreeKate, and elsewhere online, the far left has tried to make this a cause celebre, painting the issue as one of two young girls being in love, but tormented by the younger’s Christofascist Godbag parents. . . . [T]hey go so far as to lie about the age of the younger girl, stating that she was just 17 (you know what I mean), when these incidents occurred, because that helps them shape the narrative of victimization.

You should read the whole thing. The automatic conflation of “gay = victim” is one of those emotional buttons that liberals love to push. And speaking of pushing buttons, hit the tip jar.

You’d hate yourself if I missed this one, wouldn’t you?





 

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World’s Youngest Blogger: I Must Plead The Fifth Amendment On The Nutella Question. Have You Got Any Crackers?

Posted on | May 24, 2013 | 8 Comments

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LGF Auto-Beclownment Update

Posted on | May 24, 2013 | 26 Comments

Really, I should feel guilty for so thoroughly enjoying these predictable outbreaks of Johnsonian idiocy. In case you didn’t notice, the terrorist attack in London this week was not committed by radical Belgians or militant creationists or any of the other overblown right-wing bogeymen that occupy the demented mind of Jazzy McPonytail.

No, it was Michael Olumide Adebolajo.

Damn that Pamela Geller!

UK JIHAD MURDERERS WERE
PREVIOUSLY INVESTIGATED BY TERROR PROBE

It’s so unfair for her to be right and popular and successful, while CJ is a wrong, unpopular failure. But nevertheless, his downward spiral into humilation and obscurity continues.

It was reported that Adebolajo, who is not Belgian, was associated with radical leader Anjem Choudary, but before this connection could be fully confirmed, Charles Johnson got into a hilarious dispute with his henchperson Killgore Trout over the definition of “affiliated.”

CHARLES JOHNSON IS NEVER WRONG!

Except when he is, which is pretty much every day now, and I almost feel guilty for enjoying it so much.

Almost, I said . . .

 

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LIVE AT FIVE: 05.24.13

Posted on | May 24, 2013 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
I-5 Bridge Collapse Over Skagit River In Washington Injures Three

All eight lanes in the river

All four lanes in the river

None dead, but collapse sure to snarl traffic between Seattle and Vancouver

Quake Shakes Northern California
Magnitude 5.7 quake does little damage; no injuries

Scouts Vote To Allow Gay Members
Gay adults still banned



POLITICS
Hobby Lobby Takes Contraceptive Mandate Fight To Appeals Court

No surrender.

No surrender.

Tenth Circuit agrees to hear case with eight-judge panel

Sri Srinivasan: Supreme Court Justice In The Making?

GOP Criticizes Obama Over Call For Repeal Of 2001 Force Authorization

Justice Department Invoked Espionage Act To Smear Reporter As Criminal “Co-Conspirator”

Senate Approves Coburn Proposal To End Taxpayer Subsidies For Large Farms’ Crop Insurance

Governor LePage Vetoes Maine College Tobacco Ban: “Maine People Can Make Their Own Decisions”



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Set For Biggest Weekly Drop Since Mid-April: NYMEX $93.90, Brent $102.30
Nikkei Has Second Day Of Wild Rides
Procter & Gamble BRings Back Former CEO To Fix Earnings
Target, Macy’s Sue Mastercard And Visa Over Swipe Fees
California Health Exchange Reveals Premiums, Insurers
Europe Markets Open Higher, Asia Volatile
Cab Drivers Speak Out Against App-Based Car Services
Busybodies Slam McDonald’s At Annual Meeting For “Junk Food”, Ads Aimed At Children, Minorities
Report Says Google Mapping Waze Takeover
Used Computer, $116,000/Best Offer
ITC Refuses Google’s Request To Ban Microsoft XBox
Game Over For Used Games?
Yahoo Acquires Gaming Infrastructure Startup PlayerScale
A&T Imposes New Monthly Admin Fee For Wireless Users
Wisconsin Teen Wins “Doodle 4 Google” Contest With Emotional Entry



SPORTS
Red Wings Put Blackhawks In Stranglehold With 2-0 Win

2-0 win over Chicago puts Detroit up 3-1

Rangers Stave Off Elimination With 4-3 OT Win Against Bruins, Force Game 5

Indians Rout Red Sox In Francona’s Return To Fenway

Kings Shut Out Sharks, Take 3-2 Lead In Series

LeBron James Leads All-NBA Team

Twins Bullpen Can’t Hold On As Tigers Rally To Win 7-6

Coach K Returns To Team USA

Four Dingers Propel Angels Past Royals

Nationals Not Where They Want To Be, But No Major Changes Envisioned



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Amanda Bynes Busted

Not to throw your bong at the cops, this is the law

Not to throw your bong at the cops, this is the law

Hit with felony rap after throwing bong out her 34th-story New York apartment window

Eva Longoria Gets Master’s In Chicano Studies From Cal State Northridge

“S.W.A.T.” Star Steve Forrest Dies, 87


ABC Family Orders Spelling Bee Reality Series

Miley Kissed Liam, Engagement Back On

Katherine Webb’s 1120-Calorie Diet Causing A Stir

A&E Cancels “Intervention” After 13 Seasons

MMA Fighter Sues Kama Sutra Gel Company For Wrecking His Package

Jennifer Hudson Returning To “American Idol” As Judge

Catherine Zeta-Jones Returns Home From Treatment



FOREIGNERS
Chicoms Hope Visit Of Nork Envoy Can Ease Tension
Tremors Felt In Moscow As 8.2 Quake Rattles Sakhalin Region
Kerry To Visit Ethiopia For Security Talks
Syrian Opposition Leader Offers Transition Plan
Niger Suicide Attack Fuels Fears Mali Violence Could Spread
Twelve Security Personnel Killed In Quetta Blast
Pakistan Sets Sights On India For Economic Growth
No Parole For Jailed Pussy Riot Member
Former Comfort Women Cancel Meeting With Hashimoto, Citing “Political Game”
Chicom State Press Irked By Porn Star’s Calligraphy



BLOGS & STUFF
MIchelle Malkin: After Gruseome Beheading In London, Jihadi Swears By Allah “We Weill Never Stop Fighting You”
Michael Cobb Bowen: The Jihad Next Door
The Blaze: Stephen Crowder Gets Death Threats After Posting Anti-Muhammad Video
John Yoo: Obama’s Speech – No More Drone Strikes?
Pat Dollard: Obama Uses Drone Speech To Defend Islam
JustOneMinute: Nixon’s The One, But Obama Is Coming On
Power Line: Two Presidents In One
Legal Insurrection: Huffington Post Joins The Wingnuts, Turns On Eric Holder
Riehl World News: Woolwich Attack – Video Of Jihadis Being Shot As They Attacked Police Car
Weasel Zippers: Cuomo Says “Shame On Us” If We Elect Anthony Weiner
NRO Corner: IRS Source Says Lerner Placed On Administrative Leave
Gateway Pundit: IRS Puts Lois Lerner On Administrative Leave – With Pay
Lonely Conservative: Senators Franken, Schumer Run Away From Reporter Asking About IRS Scandal
Hot Air: Oversight Committee Looking To Interview Thirteen More State Department Officials Plus ARB Report Authors On Benghazi
PJ Tatler: BBC Hack Apologizes For Offending Muslims While Reporting On Muslim Terror Attack
Jawa Report: RIP Drummer Lee Rigby


Deadline to submit links for the FMJRA is tonight at midnight. DO IT.


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Damn You, #FreeKate Liars! UPDATE: Parents of 14-Year-Old Girl Speak Out

Posted on | May 23, 2013 | 34 Comments

Following up on Wednesday night’s post, Thursday morning I wrote an article about the Kaitlyn Hunt case at The American Spectator:

It is a felony in Florida to have sex with 14-year-olds. Hunt was expelled from Sebastian High School — where she and the younger girl had sex in a restroom stall — and charged with two counts of “felony lewd and lascivious battery on a child.” The charges could put Hunt in prison for up to 15 years. Prosecutors have offered Hunt a plea bargain that would spare her jail time, but her supporters have organized an online crusade to have her let off scot-free — in effect, nullifying Florida’s law, which sets the age of consent at 16. . . .
The apparent public-relations strategy was described by Matthew Philbin of Newsbusters: “If you can play the gay card, you immediately trigger knee-jerk support from the liberal media and homosexual activists anxious to topple any and all rules regarding sex.”
None of Hunt’s supporters seem to care about the possible consequences of issuing what Philbin calls a “Get Out of Jail Free” card to their teenage lesbian hero-victim. Some have deliberately falsified the narrative of Hunt’s crime, claiming that the sexual relationship began when she was 17, when in fact Hunt turned 18 last August and the incidents at issue occurred between November and January. According to the arrest affidavit, the 14-year-old ran away from home on Jan. 4 and spent the night at Hunt’s home where, in the words of a Sheriff’s Department detective, the two teens “put their fingers inside of each other’s vaginas, put their mouths on each other’s vaginas, and both of them used a vibrator on each other to insert it in each other’s vaginas.”
This is “behavior that is both fairly innocuous and extremely common,” the American Civil Liberties Union declared Tuesday in a statement condemning the prosecution of Hunt.

You can read the whole thing, but I’m trembling with rage at this particular moment because a number of journalists — including a reporter for Miami’s NBC affiliate — have deliberately repeated the lies propagated by the #FreeKate mob:

When she was 17 years old, Kaitlyn Hunt started a consensual sexual relationship with a fellow Sebastian River High School student, who was 14 at the time.
When Hunt turned 18, an adult, police arrested her on child abuse charges.

This is false. It is an outright lie. WTVJ-TV reporter Steve Litz deliberately repeated this lie, even though the truth is easily determined by reference to the arrest affidavit that states:

  1. Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt’s date of birth is Aug. 14, 1994, meaning that her 18th birthday was in August, before the beginning of her senior year at Sebastian High School.
  2. Hunt’s sexual involvement with a 14-year-old freshman did not begin until last November.

The #FreeKate liars, led by Kaitlyn Hunt’s dishonest mother, have purposefully created the “she was only 17″ myth in an effort to deceive supporters into believing that some kind of trick was played, namely, that the parents of the 14-year-old waited until Kaitlyn turned 18 to press charges. This is part of an orchestrated campaign to smear the younger girl’s parents. It is wrong, and any reporter — such as WTVJ-TV reporter Steve Litz – who willfully assists the Hunt family in this dishonest smear ought to be fired for it.

I’ll be back to add some updates, as soon as I calm down. That lying son of a bitch Steve Litz should be shamed out of the industry.

UPDATE: Damned liars make me angry:

Now I am grateful to Heather Russo for informing me that there is at least one decent honest reporter left in Florida. Jana Eschbach of West Palm Beach CBS affiliate WPEC-TV interviewed Jim and Laurie Smith, parents of the 14-year-old girl:

“We are not the type of people to go in front of the media,” said Laurie Smith.
First, let’s set the facts straight. Kate was not 17, their daughter not 15.
“Our daughter was 14, and this girl was 18,” said Jim Smith.
The Smiths are portrayed by the Hunt Family as going to the law first.
“It’s not the way it was. It was quite different. We had actually told Miss Hunt that this was wrong,” Laurie told CBS12′s Jana Eschbach.
But, according to the Smiths Kate was warned, not once, but twice to stop.
“Another adult, a mother, came to me and said ‘Ms. Smith you need to know this…we told Miss Hunt to leave your daughter alone. But they are in a relationship, and she’s 18.’ 18? My daughter is only 14,” Laure said.
Their 14-year-old began to act out, and one weekend morning they opened her door and she was gone.
“It’s the worst thing that I’ve ever experienced,” Jim said. “Somebody took her is what we thought. Because her running away is the furthest thing from my mind. You hear kids getting abducted out of your home. That was heart-wrenching.”
Reported missing, and found safe, the Smiths found out she was with Kate, who picked her up even though she had been told to stay away.
“Didn’t stop, then we didn’t have an alternative but to turn to the law, use it as a last resort,” said Jim.
“This whole story about you blaming Kate for making you daughter gay…where did that come from?” asked CBS12′s Jana Eschbach.
“I don’t know. It didn’t come from us. That’s not how we feel,” Jim said.
Bloggers shred Laurie online as a gay-basher, abusive to her daughter.
“They made me seem as if I’m a monster,” Laurie said.
But says they will stand strong.
“I will be her advocate for what she needs,” Laurie said.
Under an intense amount of national media attention their daughter still goes to high school every day. Hearing now that her parents hate gay people, and their worse fear is that their own daughter will begin to believe these lies.
“That’s why I’m talking to you…The stories that people are saying…I love my daughter and I am willing to do whatever to protect her,” Laurie said.

You might want to click the image and watch the video:

Now, here’s the situation: The prosecutor offered Kaitlyn Hunt a plea deal, an offer that will expire today — Friday, May 24 — however, the Hunt family wanted to plead this felony charge down to a misdemeanor, a slap on the wrist for their Precious Darling Kaitlyn. When the prosecutor refused to play along, because of the aggravating circumstances that should be obvious enough, the Hunt family decided to (a) enlist the assistance of the gay-rights movement, and (b) start telling lies to make Kaitlyn look like a victim.

This attempt to make their daughter the Rosa Parks of Jailbait has backfired disastrously. Not only did the political pressure fail to sway the prosecutor but now, if Kaitlyn decides to go to trial, she will have to answer for the falsehoods and smears perpetrated against the Smith family by the Hunt family and her supporters. And if Kaitlyn decides to accept the plea bargain? Well, the decision of whether or not she’s compelled to register as a sex offender will be up to the judge at sentencing, and my guess is that judge is going to pissed at how the perpetrator has re-victimized the 14-year-old in this ridiculous, false and futile “civil rights” charade.

 

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Fairfax Free Citizen Thought The VA GOP Convention A Blast

Posted on | May 23, 2013 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

The World’s Youngest Blogger, the new job, an online course in Data Science: I’ve been busy. Hence the fact it’s been mostly Twitter for me, of late. There was a deal with Mrs. Other Smitty that the blogging would be walked back after the election, as well.

Too, Stacy’s been jamming with the new band over at Viral Read, that plague-like hotbed of infectious conservative disease vectors. It’s all great. This year’s CPAC launch of VR, from my little perspective, was like coming in from a Navy deployment (all of the effort leading up to the election) when the highly-trained crew that has persevered together for stressful months scatters to the four winds. Difference here being that we’re sort of still operating together, albeit at a lower tempo. The Internet is kind of like that.

Amidst all of the other projects, the Northern Virginia Tea Party requested that I lend some blog-fu to the Fairfax Free Citizen, which is a shameless knock-off of the Fauquier Free Citizen, and hopes to get a word in edgewise against some of these Patch sites.

As I was actually a delegate to the VA GOP Convention, I put up a post in praise of this November’s “How Conservative Can We Get?” ticket:

The Virginia GOP Convention last weekend showed a party veering to the right in preparation for the off-year election this November.
There was no action in the Governor slot. Ken Cuccinelli was nominated by acclaim.
Some tension arose at the Attorney General level, where the first round vote was so close that the party opted for a hand recount, narrowly going to Mark Obenshain, who was most gracious in victory. Have we seen the last of Rob Bell? One thinks not.

Conventions over primaries? No preference, really.

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LIVE AT FIVE: 05.23.13

Posted on | May 23, 2013 | 4 Comments

– compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Woolwich Machete Attack Leaves Soldier Dead

One of the perpetrators

One of the perpetrators

Soldier hacked to death by Somali immigrants, who were shot by police

Weiner The Wise
NY Post admits disgraced former Congressman may actually be the best candidate out there

Administration Admits Offing Four US Citizens In Drone Strikes
Information contained in AG Holder letter to Congress



POLITICS
Immigration Bill Gets Senate Boost; House Effort Faltering

Does he deserve federal healthcare?

Did he deserve federal healthcare while he was an illegal?

House unenthusiastic about healthcare for illegal aliens

Mass. Lt. Governor Resigns For Job With Chamber Of Commerce, Completely Unrelated To Investigation Into Illegal Contributions


Activists Rally Ahead Of Boy Scouts Vote On Gay Ban

Army Sergeant Accused Of Videotaping Female West Point Cadets In The Shower

Gun Groups Sue Connecticut Over New Weapons Restrictions

Long Island Village Treasurer Charged With Embezzling $60,000

GOP Cries Foul Over Pritzker’s Nomination

House Votes To Force Approval Of Keystone Pipeline



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Extends Losses As Stockpiles Rise: NYMEX $93.63, Brent $101.85
Fed’s Mixed Message Sends Stocks On A Wild Ride
Outlook For PRC Economy Just Keeps Getting Worse
Gold Falls After Fed Talk Boosts Dollar
Tesla Pays Off $451 Million Federal Loan
Sales Of Existing Homes Increase To Most Since November 2009
HP Forecast Tops Estimates As Cost Cuts Counter PC Slump
Target 1Q Profit Trails Estimates
Windows 8.1 Laptops With New AMD Chips To Support Wireless Display
How XBox One Plans To Fight Sony, Steam, And Everything Else
Prevent A Hack Attack With Twitter’s New Two-Factor Authentication
Google Search Gets Smarter
Jennifer Lopez Launches New Cellphone Venture
HP’s $399 Touchscreen Laptop Breaks Price Barrier
Google Drive Updates Android UI, Adds Document Scanning
Ericsson Makes Bus Windows Part Of A Wi-Fi Network



SPORTS
Penguins Dismantle Senators, Take 3-1 Lead

Pittsburgh Penguins' Jarome Iginla (centre) is congratulated by teammates Evgeni Malkin (left) and James Neal after scoring against the Ottawa Senators

Pittsburgh Penguins’ Jarome Iginla (centre) is congratulated by teammates Evgeni Malkin (left) and James Neal after scoring against the Ottawa Senators

Penguins Neal, Iginla score two goals apiece in 7-4 romp


James Saves Heat At The Buzzer In Game 1 Against The Pacers


Yankees Pitcher Kuroda Injured In 6-3 Loss To O’s

America’s Cup Unveils Recommendations For Sailors’ Safety

Astros Vendor Fired After Taking Sno-Cones Into Bathroom

Red Sox Beat White Sox 6-2, Buchholz Now 7-0

Gattis Grand Slam Leads Braves Past Twins 8-3

After Mattingly Criticism, Dodgers Spank Brewers 9-2

Verlander Comes Back After Rain Delay, Cabrera Hits Dinger, Tigers Beat Tribe 11-7

Astros Win 3-1, Take Series From Royals

Harper Does It All As Nationals Salvage Road Trip Finale



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Cash Money Records To Produce Paris Hilton’s “Long Awaited” Second Album

Someone talented, i.e. not Paris Hilton

Someone talented, i.e. not Paris Hilton

Supposedly an album of house music

Inside Amanda Bynes’ Drug-Fueled House Party

Jose Canseco Accused Of Rape

Unspeakable Armenian Shops For Baby In Paris

Demi Moore’s New BF Has A Pearl In His Family Jewels

Convicted “Girls Gone Wild” Mogul Breaks Silence: “Retarded” Jury “Should Be Shot”

Madonna: No Hanky Panky For Lourdes And Timothee

Rihanna To Chris Brown: How Could You Leave My Ass?

Nick And Joanna Swisher: It’s A Girl!

Sharon Osbourne To Rejoin “X Factor” As Judge



FOREIGNERS
Young Lebanese Fighters Leaving Syria For Battle Closer To Home
US Threatens To Increase Aid To Syrian Rebels Of Assad Won’t Talk Peace
Merkel Tops Forbes’ List Of Most Powerful Women Again
Chicom Media Discuss Nork Envoy’s Visit
US Report Warns On PRC IP Theft
Taiwan’s Justice Ministry Rejects Philippine Investigators
Imprisoned Pussy Riot Member Going On Hunger Strike
Stockholm Hit By Third Day Of Muslim Immigrant Riots
Chicom PM Invites Nawaz Sharif To PRC



BLOGS & STUFF
The Looking Spoon: This Is How You Can Make The IRS Scandal Into A Political Reality Show
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Andrew Cuomo, Statist Tool
Sarah Palin: Going Rogue In The Wrong Direction
Michelle Malkin: The Obama Crony In Charge Of Your Medical Records
NRO Corner: Lerner May Have Waived The Fifth, Possible She Could Be Recalled
AmSpecBlog: Issa’s Mistake
Power Line: Did Lois Lerner Waive Her Fifth Amendment Protection?
American Thinker: Lois Lerner Thrown Under The Bus
Weasel Zippers: Mooch Considering Extended Summer Vacation On Martha’s Vineyard
Ed Morrissey: Say, This Attack On Fox News Is Certainly Concerning, Says NYT
Stephen Kruiser: Maverick Is In His Element, Making Lefties Love Him Again
Conservatives4Palin: Frequent Palin Basher Says Ted Cruz “Doesn’t Get The Senate”
Nick Gillespie: Obama’s War On Journalism
Legal Insurrection: Are We Distracted By Scandal While The Democrats Walk Off With The Immigration Amnesty Prize?
Israel Watch: “Human Rights Watch” Official, AP And AFP Reporters Trash Israel In Private Facebook Group


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Liberals Now Arguing for a Lesbian’s Right to Have Sex With a 14-Year-Old Girl

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 68 Comments

But it’s consensual! And . . . equality!

Also, Kaitlyn Hunt — the lesbian charged with two counts of felony lewd and lascivious battery on a child — is a blonde who’s kinda cute, and who could object to cute blonde teenage lesbians? Here’s a local news video:

While some readers may be struggling to resist the temptation to Google “blonde + teen + lesbian,” let me remind you sick freaks that if you were to download photos or videos of what Kaitlyn Hunt is charged with doing to a 14-year-old girl, that would be a federal crime.

If the feds could send you disgusting perverts to prison for those photos, how do the enlightened minds at Think Progress manage to portray the perpetrator of these acts as a victim of bigotry?

Because it was “a consensual, same-sex relationship,” that’s why!

Also, Kaitlyn’s mom (who apparently can’t spell “zealot”) says that the parents of the 14-year-old who pressed charges are “out to destroy my daughter [because] they feel like my daughter ‘made’ their daughter gay,” and these “bigoted, religious” parents “see being gay as a sin and wrong, and they blame my daughter.”

See? You deviant weirdos thought Jailbait Lesbian School Girls was just a popular DVD title, but now it’s a civil right.

And the only people who disagree are bigoted religious zealots — including the authorities in Indian River County, Florida:

“If this was an 18-year-old male and that was a 14-year-old girl, it would have been prosecuted the same way,” Indian River County Sheriff Deryl Loar said during a Monday news conference. . . .
“The idea is to protect people in that vulnerable group from people who are older, 18 and above,” said Bruce Colton, state attorney for Florida’s 19th circuit, which includes Indian River County and other parts of the Treasure Coast. “…The statute specifically says that consent is not a defense.”
Colton said . . .  this case exemplifies the purpose of the current law and added he would not support any effort to make consensual relationships among peers legal.
“There’s a big maturity difference between them,” he said. “You’re talking the difference between a senior in high school and a freshman in high school. That’s what the law is designed to protect.”

But . . . consensual! equality!

These are the only arguments offered by the “Stop the Hate” crowd at Daily Kos, evidently willing to declare open season on Florida 14-year-olds in order to be consistent in their ideology. And if you disagree with them, you’re just a hater.

Left Defends Accused Sex Offender Because She’s Lesbian

Why so judgmental, Newsbusters? Don’t you understand the “emerging awareness” doctrine of the Lawrence v. Texas decision? And isn’t it only logical that this “emerging awareness” would eventually include the constitutional right to bang a ninth-grader?

So if the “Stop the Hate” petitioners get their way, Florida will be overrun by a stampede of perverts following around school-girls in hopes of getting some of that “consensual” action. And they’ll call it Progress.

UPDATE: The freaks have a hashtag (#FreeKate) with some of the usual suspects, including Chris Hayes of NAMBLA MSNBC:

“Lean Forward” — so your 14-year-old daughter can have her vagina penetrated with a vibrator, to cite the affidavit in the Kaitlyn Hunt case:

Kaitlyn Hunt Redacted Affidavit Redacted by Sergio Nahuel Candido

Chris Hayes and MSNBC want your ninth-grader to have that “right.”

 

 


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An Ode To Lois Lerner: “Blown Snow”

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

But Sometimes
Bureaucrats Soar
Beyond Simple
Background Stories,
Brokering Supercilious
Bromides Stashed
Below Silver
Busses Staggered
By Squashed
Bodies Sacrificed,
Bravely Supporting
Beliefs Seemingly
Broken, Soviet-style


–

Losing her 1st Amendment rights?

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