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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

#FreeKate Lies Unravel; Roman Polanski Could Not Be Reached for Comment

Posted on | May 27, 2013 | 44 Comments

“The first time occurred in the bathroom of the W wing at Sebastian High School. [The 14-year-old] stated that they sent text messages to each other to meet in the bathroom. [The 14-year-old] and Kaitlyn went into a bathroom stall and started kissing. Kaitlyn then took [the 14-yea-old’s] pants off and put her finger inside of [the 14-year-old’s] vagina.”
— Detective Jeremy Shepherd, Indian River County Sheriff’s Office, Feb. 16 arrest affidavit

“Our client is a model citizen.”
— Julia Graves, attorney for Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt

There’s something pathetic about the reaction of people who’ve bought into a clever lie, once the truth starts coming out. Something they had been told was good and true and right is revealed to be bad and false and wrong, and their emotional investment in the appealing deception causes those who were innocently deceived to lash out at the truth-tellers.

Creating a myth of innocence for a criminal — the arrest affidavit makes clear that Kaitlyn Hunt admitted breaking the law — requires many elements, including deception, as in Steve Hunt’s Change.org petition that misstates the ages of both girls:

My daughter Kaitlyn . . . is not guilty of anything other than a high school romance, but is being prosecuted . . . because she has a girlfriend who is 15. . . .
The two girls began dating while Kaitlyn was 17 but her girlfriend’s parents blamed Kailtyn for their daughter’s homosexuality. They waited until after Kaitlyn turned 18 and went to the police to have charges brought against her.

Let’s call this what it is: A deliberate lie.

To repeat the facts that must be repeated until deceived people turn loose of the pleasant lie, Kaitlyn Hunt’s 18th birthday was Aug. 14, 2012 — she was 18 before beginning her senior year at Sebastian High School — and the younger girl was born in April 1998, so that she was 14 from the time she met Kaitlyn last fall and throughout the duration of their sexual involvement. The younger girl was still 14 when Kaitlyn was arrested in February, and did not turn 15 until last month.

Steven Hunt lied, and people believed his lies, and by the time the arrest affidavit became public last week, the belief in Kaitlyn’s victimhood — the target of an unfair prosecution motivated entirely by homophobia — had solidified in people’s minds. The woman who sincerely believed this case was about “a schoolgirl crush . . . and a little innocent flirting” was obviously a fool (crushes and flirting are not felonies in Florida), but how was she to know any different, based on what she had been told by the clever liars behind the “Free Kate” myth?

And what about Rachel Lockwood, who accuses truth tellers of “a huge defamation of character and slander”? Doesn’t she realize that the Hunt family and their advocates are the ones who have defamed not only Jim and Laurie Smith, parents of the younger girl, but also have wrongly impugned the integrity of law enforcement authorities in Indian River County, Florida? Does Rachel Lockwood have so little regard for truth and justice that she is willing to let the false “Free Kate” narrative discredit honest citizens and public officials?

Given the aggravating circumstances involved in this case, the plea deal offered by prosecutors was about as merciful as anyone could have expected, and Kaitlyn’s decision to reject that deal appears far more foolish now than it must have seemed to her misled supporters.

What will these deluded people say when they are forced to admit what I said on Thursday, that they have been enlisted — willingly or not — in a campaign to normalize pedophilia?

This is a serious charge, which was immediately met with the counter-accusation that I was inciting a “moral panic.” Yet this is a subject about which I have more extensive knowledge than some readers may apprehend. Please carefully read my 2002 article about the arrest of the pedophile lawyer Lawrence Stanley:

An American lawyer who specialized in defending those accused of child pornography is under arrest in Brazil, charged with violating that country’s laws against child exploitation.
Lawrence Allen Stanley, 47, was arrested June 8 after police in Salvador say they found more than 1,000 photographs and more than 100 videos of young girls in swimsuits and underwear. . . .
He has written several articles about child pornography, including one in 1987 in the Dutch pedophile journal Paidika. “Law enforcement officials have exaggerated the incidence of possession of child pornography,” Stanley said. “Only 14 percent depicted children engaged in sexual conduct with adults,” he said, referring to photos in child pornography magazines.
Those assertions were expanded by Stanley in a 1988 Playboy article, “The Child Pornography Myth,” in which he argued that pedophiles were a “small, essentially insignificant group.”
Stanley’s work was cited by Judith Levine in her recent book, “Harmful to Minors,” which several critics said promoted pedophilia. The Levine book was sold by one of Stanley’s Web sites, which praised it as an “important and compelling book” debunking “myths that … adult attraction to children is a serious and pervasive threat.”

Read the whole thing, and then carefully read my post from January of this year, “Rush Limbaugh Is Right: The Academic Pro-Pedophile Movement Is a Real Danger.” You can say whatever you want, but don’t try to tell me the danger is not real, when one of Lawrence Stanley’s fellow contributors to Paidika, Theo Sandfort, is now a professor at Columbia University.

Don’t try to tell me that people like Lawrence Stanley and Theo Sandfort aren’t cheering the fact that the ACLU and the tax-exempt 501(c)3 Purpose Foundation have taken up the “Free Kate” banner.

Don’t tell me such creatures are not smiling in satisfaction at the incremental arguments that excuse an 18-year-old fingering a 14-year-old in a toilet stall as “high-school romance.”

Don’t tell me that people like that aren’t pleased that a Republican state senator in Florida is now proposing to “revise sex offenses law, offering protection to 18-year-olds like Kaitlyn Hunt.”

“Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.”

Appeals for leniency for Kaitlyn Hunt are one thing, but people will have a hard time finding any defensible grounds on which to fight to have the charges dropped altogether, as the Purpose Foundation specifically demanded in its “Free Kate” petition. And if Florida state Sen. Thad Altman thinks he can “revise sex offenses law” to protect Kaitlyn without actually making 14-year-olds more vulnerable to sexual exploitation, he’s suffering under a tremendous delusion.

The argument has been made by some people that because the age difference in this case (44 months) is not so extreme, and because the younger girl’s age at the inception of the affair (14 years, 8 months) is not so young, that this case should not be subject to prosecution as a felony.

OK, fine: How young is too young, and how great must the age difference be, before felony charges can be applied to consensual sex?

You are free to answer that question however you like, but it would be difficult to imagine a law that would decriminalize Kaitlyn Hunt’s actions without also potentially permitting 16-year-olds to cruise the middle-school parking lot on the prowl for seventh-graders.

 Misdemeanor? You’re telling me that the parents of a 14-year-old who discover their daughter missing, as Jim and Laurie Smith did, and then learn she’s been having an overnight dildo romp with an 18-year-old, should be told that this is only a misdemeanor?

Homosexual Activists and Their Lefty Supporters
Have Been Going All Out to Defend Pedophilia

Rather a provocative headline by Donald Douglas, but where is the legal line that any of these people would draw and permit it to be strictly enforced, even against cute green-eyed blondes?

Lies deceive and sophistry confuses, and people are more easily deceived and confused when the cultural elite tell them stories carefully constructed to enlist their sympathies. Speaking of which, our film correspondent Dan Collins has news from Cannes:

#FreeKate Wins the Palme d’Or
[T]his year’s Palme d’Or for best film went to a movie that represents the lesbian love relationship between a 15-year-old girl and an older woman, which the NY Times casts as an “awakening.”

Take that, you godbag christofascists! John Hayward at Breitbart.com hopes life doesn’t imitate art as much as art imitates life:

Sounds like a great film to catch after spending the afternoon at a “Free Kate” rally. Hopefully they allow a bathroom break while this three-hour saga grinds on.  And hopefully the bathrooms will be supervised.

Another top contender at Cannes? An S&M flick by Roman Polanski. Obviously, he should have gone with a “not rape-rape” theme.




 

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Category: Crime, Culture, Kaitlyn Hunt, Sex

FMJRA 2.0: Memorial Day Delayed Edition

Posted on | May 27, 2013 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

Portrait of a Thug: IRS Union Boss

Cultural Survival Instinct

Benghazi and Other ‘Concocted’ Scandals

Should IRS Standards for 501(c) Groups Require Proof of ‘Social Welfare’ Purpose?

FMJRA 2.0: All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down

‘Diversity Is Our Strength’ — And Also Leads to Hate-Crime Murder in New York

Shorter Dan Pfeiffer: ‘Your Partisan Questions Are So Largely Irrelevant and Offensive, I’m Not Going to Answer Them’

@SpeakerBoehner, Sir, Please Don’t Bore Me With Mere Talk Of Jail

Experience Matters: Old Man Schieffer Puts Young Punk Pfeiffer in His Place

When the Truth Is Scandalous

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.20.13

Going For The Presidential WKRP Ref

Enemies List: Holder’s DOJ and Hillary’s State Department Targeted Fox Reporter

Rule 5 Monday

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.21.13

Ruh-Roh: Ambassador Killed by Secret State Department Weapons Program?

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.22.13

Was Chechen Man Shot by FBI in Florida a Suspect in 2011 Waltham Triple Murder?

Doug Shulman: IRS Fall Guy?

‘We Must Fight Them as They Fight Us,’ Says Terrorist Who Beheaded Soldier

An Ode To Lois Lerner: “Blown Snow”

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.23.13

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.24.13

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

LGF Auto-Beclownment Update

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

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

Because She’s Cute, That’s Why

#FreeKate Lies Rejected By Daily Kos Staffer, And Other New Developments

Top linkers this week:

  1. Rick’s Rants (18 the hard way)
  2. (tied) Lonely Conservative, Walla Walla Tea Party Patriots (6)
  3. (tied) Daley Gator, Da Tech Guy, The Camp of the Saints (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Link submissions for next week’s FMJRA are due at midnight Friday, May 31.


Category: FMJRA Award

The Story Too Good to Be True

Posted on | May 27, 2013 | 66 Comments

Kaitlyn Hunt’s family says she’s a victim of homophobia.

There is something . . . hinky about the “Free Kate” narrative. Becca Lower pointed out that teen lesbian/civil rights martyr Kaitlyn Hunt is, according to her own mother, a rather recent convert to the sapphic persuasion. Kelley Hunt Smith said her daughter had “always dated boys” until beginning her affair with the 14-year-old girl.

Hmm.

So, if we can believe a word Kaitlyn’s mom says (a necessary caveat, as she has been caught in multiple lies already) precious Kate was a happy, popular heterosexual until her senior year in high school, when she met this irresistibly hot freshman girl and — boom! —  Instant Lesbian.

This doesn’t make sense. It never made sense, and the real question was, what was being hidden by this Story Too Good to Be True?

R.J. Reidhead has some dark suspicions — dark enough, in fact, to compel her to take desperate measures:

There is absolutely NOTHING I dislike more than having to agree with R. S. McCain, but this is one of those rare times.  . . .
Do you know how much I dislike having to do this? I detest agreeing with R. S. McCain, but he is 100% on this one.  If Hunt were not so attractive, she would be ignored. She’s the face of the modern day lesbian, or so her defense is telling us, never mind that she has some serious issues. Never mind that what she has done has nothing to do with her being gay, and everything to do with the fact that she broke the law. . . .

And then she gets to the really scary part:

The Pink Flamingo will be willing to bet my toy poodle on the fact that Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt was molested as a child. . . .
You will rarely find a pedophile on record who has not been molested. . . .

Boom. There it is.

S.J. goes on to cite research about youthful sex offenders who “may be at higher risk for committing repeat offenses.” Think about that.

This is a great leap of conjecture that takes us far beyond where available evidence supports anything other than mere suspicion, however.

Certainly, I never would have said this myself — speculation is dangerous —  but it was a possibility that must have been in the back of the mind of everyone familiar with deviant psychology who considered the actual facts of the case, as opposed to the Myth of St. Kate that her supporters have crafted on behalf of this accused juvenile sex offender.

Leaving aside entirely the homosexual nature of the offense, what kind of 18-year-old high school senior arranges a rendezvous in a school toilet stall with a 14-year-old freshman?

“The first time occurred in the bathroom of the W wing at Sebastian High School. [The 14-year-old] stated that they sent text messages to each other to meet in the bathroom. [The 14-year-old] and Kaitlyn went into a bathroom stall and started kissing. Kaitlyn then took [the 14-yea-old’s] pants off and put her finger inside of [the 14-year-old’s] vagina.”

What kind of 18-year-old persists in such a sexual pursuit even after being twice warned by the younger girl’s parents to leave her alone? What kind of 18-year-old is so heedless of the legal risks?

You don’t need a Ph.D. in psychology to say that this kind of defiant, risk-taking, sexually aggressive personality is sociopathic.

Let the diagnostic experts have their say, and let the legal experts debate the law. Me, I’m just a journalist, willing to go wherever the facts lead, and certain at this point of exactly two things:

  1. We don’t have all the facts yet;
    and
  2. The Hunt family has been lying about this story from the start.

Gee, I wonder where Kaitlyn gets her anti-social traits? But that’s mere speculation, and then there is what can only be called gossip.

There is a Tumblr blog that has posted a video which purportedly shows Kaitlyn Hunt in a fight on the beach. The person posting this video claims to be a senior at Sebastian High School, and shares some unpleasant gossip about St. Kate:

I can tell you that the way the media is portraying her is far from reality. I have never even made contact with her before, but from personal experience I can say that she is not a good person and is not ‘innocent’. She is known as a whore throughout the school, constantly starts high school drama, gets in school suspensions, and is overall not well liked at all. No, I don’t have a grudge against her, I’ve never even made contact with her. It’s just that my whole school knows she’s not a good person and don’t think it’s fair the media is portraying this otherwise. Hopefully this video further proves she is not the girl everyone thinks she is.
If you don’t believe the video is real, google the Indian River County Sheriff’s website, find her under the inmate search, and see where it lists tattoos. It says she has a bird tattoo on her right, as does Kaitlyn in the video.

Tattoos? That’s interesting, because Kaitlyn’s father, Steven R. Hunt Jr., also has multiple tattoos listed on his own 2012 arrest record.

NTTAWWT.


Just your typical all-American tattooed criminal family.

S.J. Reidhead has some thoughts on Evil 101. And perhaps those who want to think of Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt as a victim will consider the possibility there are things more evil than “homophobia.”

 

 


Category: Crime, Kaitlyn Hunt

In Search of Liberal ‘Principle,’ and Also: Does #FreeKate Have a Larger Agenda?

Posted on | May 26, 2013 | 56 Comments

‘Free Kate’ petition at 501(c)3 Purpose Foundation’s site, AllOut.org

Arguing with liberals is nearly always a waste of time, and I seldom bother, as there are usually more enjoyable ways to waste time.

Any argument with a liberal will quickly descend into name-calling, as the entire point of being a liberal is to imagine yourself morally and intellectually superior to others. The purpose of any argument, to a liberal, is never to discover truth — if they cared anything about truth, they would not be liberals, quod erat demonstrandum — and so whatever the supposed point at dispute, the proposition the liberal wishes to demonstrate is always the same: “Resolved: I am an enlightened being, and anyone who disagrees with me is an ignorant bigot.”

This is why liberals rushed forward to seize the “Free Kate” banner and storm the barricades of homophobic intolerance as embodied (so they imagined) in Florida parents Jim and Laurie Smith.

Persuaded by Kaitlyn Hunt’s dishonest advocates that the Jailbait Toilet Sex Queen of Sebastian High School was a victim of homophobia, liberals wrapped themselves in the offered garb of secondhand martyrdom. The Indignant Self-Righteousness Derby commenced, each attempting to outdo the other in their outrage at the hateful unfairness of it all.

Facts? Optional. Logic? Inadmissible.

Once the Lynch Mob of Universal Enlightenment takes up a cause like this, “facts” and “logic” are denounced as Weapons of Hate.

In the case of “Free Kate, Stop the Hate,” the lynching appears to have started Friday, May 17, with Facebook posts by Kaitlyn Hunt’s negligent parents, whose deliberate distortions of the situation were accepted without question by liberals who desperately wanted to believe it as gospel: St. Kate of the Blessed Finger.

Why argue with liberals, when mockery works so much better?

Having commenced on a Friday, the mob momentum of left-wing indignation built steadily over the weekend, so that by Monday, May 20, the march became a stampede:

After Girl Expelled From High School
and Charged Over Lesbian Relationship,
Anonymous Goes on the Offensive
— Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones

Does anyone else notice the rhetorical method involved here?

“Girl Expelled” — a mere girl! — “Charged Over Lesbian Relationship” — these godbag christofascists are criminalizing lesbianism!

Along with their contempt for facts and logic, liberals are also profoundly hostile to consistency. Never accuse a liberal of hypocrisy, because they have no actual principles to violate.

Ordinarily, feminists would scream with outrage at the infantilizing use of the diminuitive “girl” to refer to an 18-year-old woman (who, in point of fact, will be 19 in less than three months) but if calling Kaitlyn Hunt a “girl” helps to advance the Heroic March of Progress,  feminists will bite their tongues and permit this young woman to be portrayed as a helpless and vulnerable child whom only bigots would expect to behave in the manner of a responsible adult.

Of course, Josh Harkinson’s article was full of lies, particularly misstating the ages of the two girls or rather, the girl and the woman: Unskeptically regurgitating the “Free Kate”  propaganda, Harkinson said that the events happened when the younger girl was 15 and Hunt was 17. In fact, the younger girl was born in April 1998 and Hunt was born in August 1994, so that Hunt was 18 and the younger girl (Smith) was 14 throughout the duration of their (not exactly romantic) affair.

These distortions were necessary to the creation of the “Free Kate” Myth of Symbolic Innocence, which was in turn necessary to her usefulness to liberals as an appealing Symbol of Victimhood.

Ask yourself a question: “Who responds with vehement fanatical certainty to these kinds of fact-deficient appeals to emotion?”

Answer: “Irrational hate-filled kooks like Christine A. Hall, that’s who!”

Thanks to Jeanette Runyon for calling my attention to this screed, providing a glimpse into the damaged psyche of a typical liberal:

I’m GLAD the Smiths are facing the same kind of harassment that they are heaping on another, INNOCENT of everything but a schoolgirl crush (and yes, I’d say the same about a boy and a girl) and a little innocent flirting. . . .

(She hasn’t read the affidavit, but who cares about facts?)

I sure am glad I’m grown now — God knows who my parents would have imprisoned for 15 years I refused to come home because of THEM!! Did anyone ever think of that??

(The word “think” has a definition. Look it up, after you’re done ranting on Facebook in ALL CAPS with extra exclamation points!!)

If these homophobic parents already knew of the “affair” if you like, maybe they had ALREADY been making their daughter’s life hell on earth!! Maybe the younger girl CHOSE to be away on that night and no one “kidnapped” anyone, she was just in a place that made her feel safe, loved and warm . . .

(The womb! We must return to the womb! Eternal infancy is the goal of human development, and only haters disagree.)

. . . as well as ACCEPTING!!! The parents of Kate seem to be very warm and accepting. Kudos to them, 1000%! . . .

(Of course: Kaitlyn fingered a 14-year-old in a school toilet stall, and therefore her “warm and accepting” parents must be praised.)

 Those parents are going to suffer worse than terroristic threats! How about their daughter never inviting them to her wedding, straight OR gay? My ex’s daughter didn’t, I KNOW how that felt to him, and that was even when I hated him like anything! . . .

(Notice that this is no longer about Kaitlyn Hunt, but has instead become a story about Christine A. Hall’s ex-husband’s daughter.)

I STILL know that hurt like nothing else in my life. She’s got 3 kids now, no visits to Grandpa, a pic or two now and then, even tho she certainly has the money. How do the Smiths like the prospect of THAT, huh? . . .

(Unwinding the “logic” here: Christina A. Hall’s ex-stepdaughter — her ex-husband’s child from a previous marriage — is not close to her father, who is now divorced from his second wife, who delights in hoping that similar misfortune will be visited upon the Smiths, as punishment for not wanting their 14-year-old daughter to get fingered in a school toilet stall by an 18-year-old.)

It’s what they’re facing. They’re facing KILLING their kid, which I hope they get murder charges for . . .

(A sudden, if rather ironic, enthusiasm for draconian law enforcement.)

. . . when she gives up and kills herself, after being locked up in the nut ward . . .

(. . . where Christine A. Hall belongs . . .)

. . . cruel “readjustment” camps trying to “make her straight” . . .

(WARNING: You Have Entered the Abyss of Paranoid Fantasy.)

. . . the numerous sermons and talking to’s, possible exorcisms . . .

(Don’t say I didn’t warn you.)

. . . the feeling that your parents hate you because of something you can’t help? She WILL pay her parents back . . .

(. . . by ranting insanely on Facebook . . .)

. . . that’s a swear-to-God promise. Are they ready for THAT??? Oh boo freaking hoo that they’re facing harassment, my heart bleeds purple panther piss for them. They ain’t seen NOTHING yet, I know that for a fact!

Did she forget to take her Prozac? What else explains her desire to immerse the Smith family in a misery resembling her own?

Christine A. Hall may not be legally insane, nor do I have the diagnostic expertise to declare her mentally ill, but I would not hesitate to say that she is what is colloquially known as crazy.

There are lots of these disgruntled nutburgers out there, resentful of the success or happiness of others, and thus eager to jump aboard the Glorious Bandwagon of Equality for a ride to that utopia of vengeance where the problems afflicting them (i.e., the resentful failures) are also inflicted upon others, in the name of Social Justice.

Really, how else could Barack Obama have been elected twice?

Christine A. Hall hates her parents, and hates her ex-husband, too, and you get the sense that these petty hatreds are the only reasons she has any interest in anything we might call “politics.”

Liberals can never admit this to themselves. If they had the capacity to examine their own motives, they would not be spewing out these twisted revenge fantasies on Facebook, transforming an ordinary criminal court procedure in Indian River County, Florida, into a litmus test of ideological purity, a morality play in which anyone who does not share their rage is accused of Sympathy for the Homophobic Devil.

“Pleased to meet you. Hope you guessed my name.”

Mockery is not only more effective than argument in dealing with liberals, it’s also immensely more fun. You may have noticed at the top of the page that I screencapped the online petition from AllOut.org, the Web site of the 501(c)3 non-profit Purpose Foundation, which you may be sure is not being scrutinized by the IRS.

The reason I screencapped that page is because, when you catch liberals lying, they have a predictable way of attempting to make the facts disappear. Since the truth about this case has been belatedly revealed, supporters of the “FreeKate” movement have begun claiming that their only concern was that Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt might be required to register as a sex offender. But (a) the plea bargain offered by prosecutors would have left that to the discretion of the judge at sentencing, and (b) what their petition actually demanded was this:

FREE KATE — DROP THE CHARGES
TO: BRIAN WORKMAN,
FLORIDA ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY
Drop the charges against Kate Hunt. This prosecution isn’t in the public interest. It’s about a consensual teenage romance, not a crime that deserves punishment.
Kate Hunt, a high school student in Florida, USA, faces prison — all because her girlfriend’s anti-gay parents were angry that their daughter was dating another young woman. They went to police just two days after Kaitlyn’s 18th birthday, claiming she had assaulted a minor.
If Kate is found guilty of “sexual battery” she could face 15 years in prison. But this isn’t about a crime — this is about a consenting, high school romance between teenagers little more than two years apart in age. Please sign here to tell Florida Assistant State Attorney Brian Workman to drop the charges.

The petition makes multiple claims that are provably false: The age difference between the two girls is 44 months, not “little more than two years,” and Kaitlyn Hunt’s 18th birthday was Aug. 14, 2012 — before she ever met the younger girl, four months before their first reported sexual activity in a school toilet stall, and seven months before the younger girl’s parents “went to the police,” which was only after the parents had twice asked Kaitlyn to leave their 14-year-old daughter alone, and after the parents woke up on a Saturday morning (Jan. 5) to discover their daughter missing, fearing she had been kidnapped, only subsequently to learn she had spent the night having dildo sex at Kaitlyn Hunt’s house.

“DROP THE CHARGES,” declared the 501(c)3 non-profit Purpose Foundation, because “this isn’t about a crime.”

Nearly 63,000 people had signed the AllOut.org petition as of 5 p.m. today, and hundreds of thousands more signed a similar petition at Change.org, and if these false petitions were intended to organize national pressure against law enforcement officials in Indian River County to hand a “Get Out of Jail” free card to Kaitlyn Hunt . . . why?

Why the lies? What motive, beyond the exculpation of Kaitlyn Hunt, was involved in this orchestrated campaign of deceit? This is not a rhetorical question, and you should know the answer:

State Sen. Altman says he hopes to revise
sex offenses law, offering protection
to 18-year-olds like Kaitlyn Hunt

Yes, that’s exactly what “18-year-olds like Kaitlyn Hunt” need — more “protection” — and state Sen. Thad Altman is a Republican.

Liberals are campaigning to decriminalize sex with 14-year-olds, which would be an interesting proposition to debate, but with the help of a few lies and a bit of sophistry — and with the green-eyed Poster Girl for Normalizing Pedophilia as their hero/martyr — they can avoid a debate. Instead, their “argument” consists of pointing the accusatory finger at opponents and screaming “bigot!”

Insanity is contagious, and Republicans are not immune.




 

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Category: Intellectuals, Kaitlyn Hunt

E.W. Jackson, Per Dr. Michael Dyson, Speaks White Supremacy. Who Knew?

Posted on | May 26, 2013 | 25 Comments

by Smitty

Pimping traffic for the Fairfax Free Citizen again, I’m a little stunned by Dr. Michael Dyson, a Sociologist at Georgetown. NewsBusters lays down the transcript, emphasis mine:

MICHAEL ERIC DYSON: Yeah, the philosopher Jay-Z had it right. We don’t believe you, you need more people. We don’t even know you. You pop out of nowhere. The Republicans seem incapable of making any kind of planning. You’re talking about Oklahoma where they won’t even have $12.9 billion for disaster mitigation because they didn’t want to study.
Planned Parenthood is not about abortions. It’s about cervical cancer screenings. It’s about breast cancer screenings. And it’s about planned, teaching people how to be parents. Now here you got E.W. Jackson puffing up, and here’s a guy who’s a black puppet. He’s a vent, he’s being ventriloquized. His mouth is moving but white supremacist ideology is floating through it, and the most repressive sorts of ideas that we can imagine are being evoked here. Black people are not dumb. Just because you put a black face on buffoonery, we still know the color of ignorance.

Where can E.W. Jackson go from there? Should E.W. offer readings of Mein Kampf? In the original German?

What fascinates here is that both men are ordained ministers. Then again, so are Jesse Jackson, Sr. and Al Sharpton. Are one of those elderly denizens of the Racism Industrial Complex preparing for the Eternal Pasture of the Raaaaaacist Mind? Maybe Dyson is bucking for a promotion in the knucklehead club.

Category: Virginia

The Holiday You Forgot

Posted on | May 26, 2013 | 17 Comments

For reasons unknown, our landlord has decided that inspection of our modest rental abode shall occur the Sunday before Memorial Day, which explains why there has been no #FreeKate update this morning. However, late Saturday night I summarized three days’ worth of breaking developments for readers of The American Spectator:

“The truth is this is not a case of homophobia; it’s a case of a family trying to protect their daughter by using the gay angle of this case to rally sympathy and support from the gay community,” T.J. Askren wrote Wednesday at her Red Treehouse blog. “Kaitlyn Hunt is not a lesbian hero. She is not a gay martyr. … Getting in trouble for finger f*cking your underage girlfriend in the school bathroom is not a noble cause.”
In fact, according to conservative blogger Becca Lower, it may be unfair to lesbians to call Kaitlyn Hunt a lesbian: Her mother said that she had “always dated boys” until beginning her affair with the 14-year-old girl.
The Bisexual Coalition for Teenage Toilet Sex could not be reached for comment.

You can read the whole thing while pitying me — I’m a victim! — for having to attend to the domestic drudgery necessary to prepare for the landlord’s arrival. Or, you could celebrate:

Celebrate Soren Kierkegaard’s 200th birthday
with unrequited love and too much coffee

Actually, my love has been requited. A bit too much, perhaps.

 

Category: Kaitlyn Hunt

It’s Early, Turley: Why So Surly? Thy Blame Laundering Doth Make Me Hurly

Posted on | May 26, 2013 | 15 Comments

by Smitty

Instapundit points to Jonathan Turley in the WaPoo:

For much of our nation’s history, the federal government was quite small. In 1790, it had just 1,000 nonmilitary workers. In 1962, there were 2,515,000 federal employees. Today, we have 2,840,000 federal workers in 15 departments, 69 agencies and 383 nonmilitary sub-agencies.
This exponential growth has led to increasing power and independence for agencies. The shift of authority has been staggering. The fourth branch now has a larger practical impact on the lives of citizens than all the other branches combined.

Wait, what? The bio line at the top of the article says “Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University”. Is it in the public interest just to create some fourth branch of our government via rectal pluck? Why stop there, mate? Pass the fifth!

Turley’s three page whinge-fest is disappointing on at least two levels. In the first place, this country elected a super-hero in 2008, and re-elected him in 2012. He was wildly oversold as a Second Coming, but all that’s stuck in a Godot holding pattern now. Hence we see apologists like Turley casting about for excuses as to why It’s All Jacked Up. Part of me wants these Turleys to eat crow, to choke on a pleasant peasant pheasant.  But that’s childish, and really doesn’t address the issue.

The issue, of course, is that the federal government grew malevolently BECAUSE IT COULD. That is, after 1913, when Amendments 16 & 17 + the Federal Reserve Act kicked in, we started growing our federal government to buy votes. ‘Progress’ has devolved into the two branches of the Ruling Class bickering and arguing over who has the deck, as we stack up on the iceberg of debt.

So thanks for nothing, Turley.

Category: Politics

Aggravating Circumstances: Against the #FreeKate Campaign for Sexual Anarchy

Posted on | May 25, 2013 | 45 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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