@hingehead,
I wasn't trying for a "comeback".
I was legit pissed off at all this hypocrisy.
I'm trying to point out that this man literally gropes 5 or 6 girls in a row during his inauguration (in fact it's kinda like some creepy tribute, the way these kid's parents feed their kiddos to this guy), and y'all keep harping on my small time friend who didn't even get to do what he wanted. Yes attempted something or other (let's say rape or murder) is of a way less degree than someone who does a minor less noticeable version to scores of people.
You might object to mass rape or mass murder, but say one guy tries to murder his wife. Before he even starts, the wife finds the plans, and he is put away for life. But a big shot Hollywood producer brutally beats up people in a soft snuff movie. It's not killing people, but since he is punching them in the gut could leave many of them dead (internal organ damage is a fatal thing). But because we see it on film with credits and everything, we conclude it's a movie and those people aren't really being punched for real. It doesn't sell, though, cuz yeah there is no plot.
But he brutally punched people and didn't even get charged for assault. Yet these people are permanently scarred and will wind up dead in some cases.
In the same way, because this looks like an inauguration photoshoot and not a bunch of kids lined up to be pawed and sniffed and hair touched and felt up by an old man, you don't object for the same "It's just a film" mentality. It's just news on CSPAN, it's not like it means anything. You can be damned sure that some of these children it means something. Some will be traumatized for the better part of their lives. Worse, they can't trust their parents, who literally betrayed them to this man.
Oh yes, as a former Trump supporter I know that it's easy to ger swept up in the cult of personality of a president. But we must get a grip. Trump is an ordinary man who failed to deliver the wall (he gets an A for effort, but no) he promised, who failed to reverse NATO's expansion in the Ukraine which landed us in this mess, who failed to stop the COVID overreaction that led us to this burned down economy. Had he had a little more backbone, he might have taken personal risk to show everyone the economic truth of COVID. Instead, Biden takes credit for temporary jobs growth while our country continues to plod toward inflation and collapse. But Trump had feet of clay. And that day, I decided to stop placing trust in leaders and stop worshiping them. I decided to focus on my life and to believe in Jesus, even though Anointed thinks this is a heresy. Biden is not a god or a demon. He is just a pathetic man abusing his power. But when we stop believing in God, we don't automatically believe in nothing. We as humans are easily distracted, we worship objects, the natural world, even people. This is the real flaw of atheism. You don't have a fallback to return to worship of. You say you don't have religion, but that is some self-delusion. When people worship, parts of their brain switch on. I assume I would not be giving you too much credit to say you have a brain, so yeah you are capable of worship. Ask North Korea how easy it was for them to become totally loyal to their state leader and see him as a god.
When we stop seeing the man as anything but a man, we have to apply the penal code to mortals. Mortals should be tried under the law.
Here is the Washington DC penal code on crimes against minors. It was like a library, very easy to click to links to find what you needed. (I thought)
https://code.dccouncil.us/us/dc/council/code/titles/22
8A Crimes Against Minors.
The first is contributing to delinquency, so maybe we gotta go down a ways.
Nope, that was the wrong section due to bad organization. Typical of Washington.
Oh gosh, yeah the law is screwed up. Unlike even California (288a) and most of the country, I can't find child molestation as a crime directly. There was pornography of minors (defined very loosely as under 18), there was sexual abuse of minors (to which they listed failure to report sexual abuse as a crime, shifting the burden from the abuser to the reporter), they have indecent acts with children (oooh look, REPEALED, I clicked on further convictions under this section and they give me something about furloughs), crimes committed against minors (turns out to be violence here), cruelty to children (same), and ultimately I had to go to section II under generalized sex offenses where I find out that child molestation in Washington doesn't seem to be a crime. Oh sure they have first and second degree sexual abuse of a minor, they have defenses to sexual abuse of a minor (what the ****, they have protection for assaulting a minor as long as you are married to them), and they have enticing a minor (which is about the closest thing to this, but still seems to be about getting a child to go to some place an have sex). The most I was able to find was this.
§ 22–3001 (9) Sexual Contact. And even that only applies to overtly sex areas like the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks.
Compare even to California law.
Quote:Elements of the Crime of Child Molestation Under Penal Code Section 288(a)
Child molestation charges are normally filed as Lewd Acts with a Child. To be charged with child molestation the prosecutor will have to establish that:
Defendant touched or fondled the alleged victim with the purpose of achieving sexual arousal or gratification.
It is not necessary to prove you actually touched the child’s sexual organs; the contact may have been through clothing. All that is necessary is that the contact was intentional and that it was sexual in nature.
(...)
Specific Intent to Sexually Arouse The Defendant or The Child
Unless the touching is made by the defendant with the specific intent to sexually arouse the defendant or the child, touching a child, even in a child’s private area, is not a lewd and lascivious act. If the defendant’s touching is for the purpose of sexual arousal, then the touching is a lewd and lascivious act regardless of where touching occurs.
Regardless of where the touching occurs. Yes, even loony leftist California got it right.
So basically? DC has fucked up their own laws so groping little kids is perfectly fine as long as you do it in the nation's capital. You could go to a playground in DC and feel up little kids and as long as you didn't have sex with them or touch certain areas, maybe maybe it would be enticing a minor, not child molestation. But yet someone watching it could be arrested for failing to speak up.
God Bless America. Sigh... I'm out. This country sucks way too much.