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and that's not even counting the mulnics that are still active - ArthurBrain, kmoney, InzlKett, Lighthouse ....
 
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Lighthouse

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Town is offering his opinions, nothing more. I have no interest in Town's opinions.
And here I am at a loss as to why either one of you are responding to, or commenting on, one another or anything the other posts.

If you really didn't care, as you claimed later in the thread, then you wouldn't make such comments as the one above.

Stop being a distraction and grow up.

I means, seriously, I have a socially developmental disorder and I know better. What's your excuse?
 

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this example of the normalization of pedophilia got lost in the shuffle:

* Reason 673: We weren’t sure which was the most compelling reason; the fact that a teacher was molesting an elementary school student, or the fact that a fellow teacher believed that in light of the crime others would come to realize that “we are a great school”.




From the link:

Simi Valley Elementary Teacher Accused Of Having Sexual Relationship With Student

"Sexual relationship"? :freak:

An adult and a sixth grader.

An adult and an eleven or twelve year old.

A pedophile and a child.



When did they start calling child molestation or statutory rape a "sexual relationship"? :freak:
 

Stripe

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The judicial system was meant to protect the innocent
Not directly. And the number one reason the law exists is to teach.

Today there still are some honest lawyers and attorneys out there
Contradiction in terms. You cannot be honest when you are required to represent the rightly charged or the wrongly released.

I am not going to be making any blanket statements.
Don't you worry. I've got that covered. :)

It is obvious this guy wasn't tried in a court filled with honest lawyers.
The lawyers need not have been dishonest. They were just doing their job.
 

Stripe

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its conviction rate speaks to the falsity of your feeling here.
Why are you speaking of feelings. The fact is that a guy was set loose who shouldn't have been and the fact is he went and murdered and raped.

I am interested in any argument you can muster to back that feeling or to contradict my counter. So far you aren't offering any.
Of course you're interested in an argument. That way you can hide from the facts.

Where is that written?
Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. (Galatians 3:24 NKJV)

The law is supposed to set limits and impose penalty.
Speaking of the function of the law does not remove the reason the law was given.

the foundation of the law is regulating the interaction of people each possessing right.
Murderers and rapists have no rights. We are supposed to take them all away.

Again, our system overwhelmingly convicts and punishes.
Your broken and evil system is very popular. Congratulations.


It isn't evil any more than a gun fashioned to protect but occasionally used to harm the innocent is evil.
Shall I just call the people who continue to propagate this system evil?

The story you have is of a man perpetrating great evil while he awaited trial for a crime he hadn't been convicted of and without any priors which would have triggered the Court denying bail.
Yep. Your system released a murderer onto society expecting a collar and a debt to keep society safe.

It's tragic, but it isn't a product of the system
Sure, he is. If he's not a product of your system that fails to teach right from wrong, whose system is he a product of?
 

ebenz47037

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A lot of people have the same opinion that res has about attorneys and our legal system. Although I try to judge people by their behavior, not their profession, I don't like many attorneys myself. And, our legal system sucks. Anymore, the rights of the accused matter more than the rights of the victims.
 

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Why are you speaking of feelings.
Because that and an anecdotal is all you're speaking to.

The fact is that a guy was set loose who shouldn't have been
Because after the fact you know he did something horrible? That's not just and it's not physically possible for everyone accused of a crime to be held until trial. Even with that slim two percent.

and the fact is he went and murdered and raped.
He did. That's not in dispute. Whether that's either a failure of the system or anything like the rule if it is assignable are another matter. You haven't established that you can answer on either count.

Of course you're interested in an argument. That way you can hide from the facts.
Arguments are all about facts. Supra.

Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. (Galatians 3:24 NKJV)
That's not the law we're talking about, Stripe. The law given to Israel demonstrated our willful insufficiency and our need for Christ. That was accomplished.

Murderers and rapists have no rights. We are supposed to take them all away.
We determine who is a rapist or a murderer at trial. Not at charging.

Your broken and evil system is very popular. Congratulations.
It's neither and you haven't begun to make the point. Again, the conviction rate speaks against you and you haven't met it with anything more than this declaration.

Shall I just call the people who continue to propagate this system evil?
You can call anyone you want a chair. It doesn't make them furniture.

Yep. Your system released a murderer onto society expecting a collar and a debt to keep society safe.
No. The system released a man accused of possessing child pornography, with no priors, subject to wearing a monitoring device prior to his trial.

It's tragic, but it isn't a product of the system.
Sure, he is. If he's not a product of your system that fails to teach right from wrong, whose system is he a product of?
You think the problem with that man is that he wasn't aware that what he was doing was evil? You think better of him than I do. But the justice system didn't produce the evil in him or the act he committed. He did that. And he'll answer before the Court in this life and, absent grace, in the next before God.
 

Stripe

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That's not the law we're talking about, Stripe.
I know. You want to defend your just-a-system. I want to promote God's law.

God says the law is meant to teach. You think that it is for something else.

And he'll answer before the Court in this life and, absent grace, in the next before God.
He'll answer for every word and action regardless of grace. Grace will save him from the reward for his actions, if granted.
 

Jukia

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Not a big fan of lawyers. As I like teachers ok. As really lawyers are criticized for being ambulance chasers and too overzealous! But teachers don't seem to want to teach kids these days. Back in the days I went to school in the 1980s!

Interesting--your opinion of teachers. My wife is a teacher. She has 2 master's degrees, been teaching for 20+ years, teaches 2 AP courses, has kids coming back to her from college and telling her that they use notes from her classes to get A's in college. Her complaint is about parents who don't seem to want to parent and expect the teacher to be the parent, yet get upset when they are told their kid is a jerk and perhaps if they took the cell phone away or the BMW keys away, or even suggested that getting that nose ring or tatoo is a bad idea they might have more control.
 

Jukia

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So we can expect Jukia to become a Bible believing Christian, right?

Nah, been there, done that. 16 years of Catholic school education, then as a young adult some "born again" type Bible study and church. Stayed away from it all for a while. About 10 years ago first heard Pastor Bob on the radio. He made some sense---personal responsibilty etc. And then, one of his favorite scientists was on suggesting that dinosaurs and man lived together just a few thousand years ago.

Down hill from there. The irrationality and craziness came back in spades.

So thank you to both the Catholic school education which, at least for me, was intellectually stimulating and thanks to TOL for allowing me to understand the fear contained in religion and the lack of intellectual honesty in fundamentalism--be it Catholic, Protestant, Islamic or whatever.
 

chrysostom

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Interesting--your opinion of teachers. My wife is a teacher. She has 2 master's degrees, been teaching for 20+ years, teaches 2 AP courses, has kids coming back to her from college and telling her that they use notes from her classes to get A's in college. Her complaint is about parents who don't seem to want to parent and expect the teacher to be the parent, yet get upset when they are told their kid is a jerk and perhaps if they took the cell phone away or the BMW keys away, or even suggested that getting that nose ring or tatoo is a bad idea they might have more control.

let's talk about the teacher's union that protects the teachers at the expense of the children
 

Jukia

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I know. You want to defend your just-a-system. I want to promote God's law.

God says the law is meant to teach. You think that it is for something else.

He'll answer for every word and action regardless of grace. Grace will save him from the reward for his actions, if granted.

Ah, fundamentalism at its finest. And we are back to making a choice as to which God is providing that law, aren't we. The nasty god from the OT, the loving god from the NT, the Shia god, Sunni god, Jewish (Hassidic, conservative, reformed, liberal)? So hard to choose.

Stripe seems to be in the "If you've been arrested, you are guilty" camp. Would have fit well with Stalin, no? Or W's Texas that never executed anyone other than those who were guilty. Why bother with the expense of a trial at all?

And I thought the party line was that grace was freely granted, it was up to us to take it. Stripe seems to be a bit of a Calvinist.
 

Jukia

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let's talk about the teacher's union that protects the teachers at the expense of the children

the same union that protects the teachers (the workers) from the administrators (management)?

do you have any specific examples or are you just spouting the right wing Rethug line.

I'll wait while you do your google search. Might want to start with WND, that basic fundy source for information.
 

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I know. You want to defend your just-a-system. I want to promote God's law.
Yes, yes, you're much holier than I am, but actually, the system here is what you condemned without foundation and I called you on it. You made a series of one word declarations and you've yet to meet reasoned counter with more than a rephrasing of the same feeling on point and a shifting, which you're adroit at by the way.

He'll answer for every word and action regardless of grace. Grace will save him from the reward for his actions, if granted.
I used answer as in pay penalty. That's why it was paralleled with judgment before a secular court. You teach English to kids. You shouldn't need me to tell you that. And no, if he has grace he won't, because if he did his sin would condemn him just as surely as yours or mine would condemn us.

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