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Good luck with this man, my best wishes are with you.

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Phoenix-D, in this state the liberals have control.... Not the US Government which for the most part has tried to nip the BS in the butt like the lawsuites to remove "In God We Trust" from our currency, and "Under God" from the pledge of allegience. GOD does not stand for "God" Almighty, it stands for Government Of Democracy BTW. - Us being a republic and all.

Most of these liberal panzy arse changes are being done at the state level. Granted some are needed to avoid discrimination and violence, but sending a five year old kid to JDH for kissing a school mate on the cheek or having a six year old arrested for bring a miniture GIJOE with its M-16 too school is going over the edge of stupidity in to the utter assignine! Politically correct speach SHOULD never be mandated by laws, rules, or authority, it should be mandated by common sense and a bit less wussiness and more tolorance. Suck it up guys, they are just words... Actions, and intent to do such action as displayed through behavior, not words alone, should be the deciding factor in choosing to hold someone accountable for their words, but not a five or six year old kid for being just a kid. Did you know that this five year old has to register now as a sex offender?

That is just sickening!!!

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Waitaminnit: Sex and Violence are both considered bad things? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. The advertising industry doesn't agree.

I can understand if the group known as Pathetic Retards Incessantly Contemplating Kindergarden Security (P.R.I.C.K.S.) need to cut down on breeding by pumping kids full of Sex-Is-Bad mentality. Simple population control. Hey, that's another fine use for the military; sending young males off to die. Same purpose; it makes fathers feel less sinful about lusting after their own daughters. I say go ahead and f*ck em and be done with it. The only real consequence is the daughter will marry an older father-figure man instead of someone from her generation. Hey, that gives the new family a financial strength, and the young males a chance to develop more fully. 'Cause men need that http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

So why is it a bad thing? Too many of the Doogooders Under Moral Bonds (D.U.M.B.) people deciding that a good thing to do would be to psychologically cripple the next generation.

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Uh. No, it doesn't. Go look up when it was added- it was put in during the rapid anti-Communist period of the 1950s, specially as what you say it isn't..

As for the rest, yes this is stupid. The conervative type of state government just has different types of stupid...trust me on that (Hi, we claim to be pro-small goverment, but we support allowing cities to sieze land and give it away to buisnesses we like more!)

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In Canada, an older school-teacher married (Not officially) a teenager. I still remember the gist of their statements in the newspaper.

Her: 'This is the greatest thing that ever happened to me! We'll be together forever and ever!'

Him: 'It'll do untill something better comes along.'

There's a huge gap between 14-18. There's another one between 18-22 and once I'm 26, I'll probably marvel at how I was when I was 23.

Oh, and explain to me how liberals can beleive both that people are mature, rational adults who can make decisions about their sex lives and the beleif that people who are attracted to each other will have sex, no matter what. Keep in mind I'm a 25-year old virgin while you do this. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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A lot of these "zero-tolerance" laws for violence/threats came out right after Columbine. When most laws of this sort can be passed after a crisis (like the Patriot Act, placing Japanese Americans in internment camps in WW II, etc.). People seem to knee-jerk react during a crisis, creating powerful laws, but then don't go back and repeal the laws when common sense kicks in.

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Give it, oh, 50 years and it'll be some other state (perhaps a semi-united Europe) that will attack the US to liberate them from the despotism they've become.

Crisis? What crisis? Al-Qaeda is all but beheaded and won't be in a position to act (coherently, on a large scale) for at least a decade, Saddam Hussein has been taken prisoner and the nukes in Iraq were just mirages spotted by sunstroke-suffering weapons inspectors. What crisis is there?

Ed, good luck. Go to that trial. Convice them you're innocent. Kick a**.

edit: It's just that the name of this thread (I'm not dead YET) has got me a little worried. Admitted, I'm no expert on the US penal system, but still it's got me worried.....

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As far as I know, the only crimes for which the death penalty is applicable in the US are murder (usually the premeditated form, not things like manslaughter, etc.), and other things, like treason. Threats are not enough by a long shot to warrent the death penalty.

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Yet.

*ducks*

Ed, hope all this gets worked out soon. Knowing bureaucrats, it probably won't, but we can still hope, eh?

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And who decides what can be called Treason and what isn't?

Good Luck with Everything Ed, we all wait for your return and half-finished-mod-ideas http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smirk.gif