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The first MGTOW Podcast, featuring a talk by KellyMac, of A Woman Against Feminism.
Today, while catching up on my reading, I came across 4 separate items that really caught my attention. I thought would be of interest to readers of this blog, and thus decided to provide links to them, so you can read them too.
So, without further ado, here they are:
More on the saga of the middle-school boys:
Judge dismisses case against boys
Posted by The Oregonian August 20, 2007 09:36AM
By Susan Goldsmith
The OregonianMCMINNVILLE — A judge dismissed charges this morning against the two Patton Middle School teens accused of sexual harassment for swatting girls on the buttocks.
Judge John L. Collins said he acted “in the interests of justice” after both prosecutors and the boys’ defense lawyers said four alleged victims had signed a civil compromise in the case, which drew national attention. The victims said they want to drop the charges.
The boys, Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison, 13, read statements of apology to a packed courtroom today. Some of the four alleged victims — teary-eyed — also were present.
“Girls, if I offended you or your parents, I’m sorry,” Cornelison said. “I hope we still can be friends.”
Mashburn said: “I did not mean to offend you in any way. None of this is your fault.”
The boys initially were charged with felony sexual abuse in February after a teacher’s aide saw them running down the hallway at Patton and grabbing or swatting girls in the buttocks.
In interrogations — later ruled inadmissible by the judge — the boys also admitted touching two girls in the breast. Those two girls were among the four who signed settlements.
Debra J. Markham, the deputy district attorney who prosecuted the case, read letters in court today from some of the alleged victims and their parents.
One girl wrote that she was sorry the boys had to go through the seven-month ordeal, which included five days in juvenile detention and suspension from school. She said she forgave them “100 percent.”
Another girl wrote that “Cory and Ryan shouldn’t have been singled out” for prosecution because many kids at Patton also were swatting other students in the rear.
I’m glad that finally a little sanity appeared, and that the judge threw the case out. However, there something has obviously gone very wrong in a system that let it get this far. Five days in detention!
David Boaz wrote a stunning post concerning how uneven sentencing is in this country. I think it’s good reading, so I’m going to repost it here:
Mary Winkler is out of jail. She served 67 days after her conviction for shooting her husband in the back as he lay in bed and killing him. Now she’ll go back to work at the dry cleaners in McMinnville, Tennessee, and seek to regain custody of her children.
Meanwhile, Will Foster was sentenced to 93 years for using marijuana to relieve the pain of his acute rheumatoid arthritis. An appeals court reduced the sentence to 20 years, and Gov. Frank Keating made him serve more than four years before granting him parole.
A few miles from Mary Winkler in Tennessee, 57-year-old Bernie Ellis has been confined for the past 18 months to a halfway house. His crime? Growing marijuana to treat a degenerative condition in his hips and spine. A public health epidemiologist specializing in substance abuse, he also provided pot to some other sick people. 10 officers of the Tennessee Marijuana Eradication Task Force swooped in to put a stop to that, and to try to seize his farm as well.
In a more just world, Tennessee would set up a Murder Eradication Task Force, leave Bernie Ellis alone, and give Mary Winkler a tad more than 67 days for shooting her husband to death.
Personally, I’m rather ambivalent about whether or not marijuana should be legal or not. (Actually, I think it’s a matter for the States to decide, not the federal government, but that’s another issue.) Regardless, to punish growing grass that much more harshly than killing another human being is a moral outrage and an injustice that cries out to high heaven. Matthew Winkler’s blood cries to God no less than did Abel’s.
I’ve found another blog by a woman who is a conscientious objector in the war of the sexes. You can find her blog here: Equal But Different. I’ve added a link to her forum in the blogroll.
Hat tip to Fidelbogen for the link.
In this post, I quoted a newspaper article about Viola Trevino using the child support system of New Mexico to defraud her former husband, Steve Barreras. His wife, Shelly, replied to my request for more information about the governor’s investigation into the matter. Her website is here. I encourage everyone to read what she has to say.
MSNBC is reporting that child abuse rises when dad is away at war. Did you catch that? Mom is more likely to abuse the kids when dad isn’t there to stop her. This is an official government study, folks. And you thought women were the more caring, nurturing sex.
Furthermore, the study showed that when it’s mom who’s deployed, and dad that stays home with the kids, the frequency of child abuse doesn’t change. Why do you suppose that is? There should be a study on that. Did we get a study? NO! Instead, we get some idiot blowing it out his pie-hole. Apparently, the patriarchal support system gives men some sort of “help” that is denied to women. (I almost wrote that I’d never heard such hooey, but then I remembered that I’ve heard some real whoppers from the mainstream media.)
I tell you, these sorts of gratuitous, back-handed slams against men just irritate me.
Hat tip: Just another disenfranchised father
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