SCOTUS Loves Child Rapists ... Including Urban Center/Pretzeldential!

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WiscBadger95	SCOTUS Loves Child Rapists ... Including Urban Center/Pretzeldential!	Lead	[-]
Posts: 11475 (06/25/08 5:42 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	A divided U.S. Supreme Court barred the death penalty for the crime of child rape ... The court divided along ideological lines. Justices Stephen Breyer, John Paul Stevens, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined the majority. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented. The ruling drew criticism from both major-party presidential candidates. Illinois Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, faulted the court for issuing a "blanket prohibition" on the death penalty for child rape. "The rape of a small child, 6 or 8 years old, is a heinous crime, and if a state makes a decision that under narrow, limited, well-defined circumstances the death penalty is at least potentially applicable, that does not violate our Constitution," Obama said at a press conference in Chicago.... Arizona Senator John McCain, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, in a statement condemned the majority for "an assault on law enforcement's efforts to punish these heinous felons for the most despicable crime." More Love for Child Rapists Last Edited By: WiscBadger95 06/26/08 3:57 PM. Edited 2 times.
Atypical Male		#1	[-]
Posts: 1344 (06/25/08 6:06 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I read this earlier, and was too pissed off by it to want to start a thread about it. Unfortunately, while this is quite possibly the worst of the judgments voiced by the Court today, it wasn't the only horribly bad ruling - there were three of which I'm aware: - Rape of a child not subject to the death penalty, as noted. - E$$on had their financial culpability for the Valdez spill diminished by 80%. - And lastly, the court made an utterly ridiculous ruling re: the "must be able to question your accuser" premise, ruling that prior statements of a person can't be entered into a case as evidence if the person isn't available to be cross-examined... even if the reason for their not being present is that the defendant murdered said accuser. Unreal. Meanwhile, 'our' (read: big business') Congress is doing all that they can to protect the telecomm giants from lawsuits stemming from their caving-in to pressure from the DWumbass administration to allow illegal spying / wiretapping. Those who've been elected to govern our country are, all too often - fools.
Super Machine		#2	[-]
Posts: 275 (06/25/08 6:14 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Threadjacker.
Pearl Thrillo		#3	[-]
Posts: 31 (06/25/08 6:15 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	This is just wrong on so many levels!
Shorty		#4	[-]
Posts: 2119 (06/25/08 6:27 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Yeah, I like how they decided that executing child rapists was "cruel and unusual" and that it was disproportionate to the crime. I guess being a child who gets raped, not so much on the "cruel and unusual". Try telling that to them.
khnum		#5	[-]
Posts: 18399 (06/25/08 6:29 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	The death penalty for anyone is cruel and unusual. ^_^
WiscBadger95		#6	[-]
Posts: 11476 (06/25/08 6:30 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Atypical Male wrote: Meanwhile, 'our' (read: big business') Congress is doing all that they can to protect the telecomm giants from lawsuits stemming from their caving-in to pressure from the DWumbass administration to allow illegal spying / wiretapping. And I thought that when the Dems took over Congress, they were going to put a stop this sort of thing? Just more of the same shit, only from a different pile.
PassionatePiscesMan		#7	[-]
Posts: 5140 (06/25/08 6:39 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Libs love baby killers
Atypical Male		#8	[-]
Posts: 1346 (06/25/08 6:41 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Cain't do that, Shorty - the attorneys for the defense would find some way to make such a premise of compassion for the VICTIM inadmissible. Very sadly so, Badger - just a different day.
sealbach		#9	[-]
Posts: 4099 (06/25/08 6:46 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	wow...how shocking...kind of reminds me of the liberal attorney who testified in the senate about a month ago...he's against jessica's law and he'll make those kids suffer the rest of their lives if he has to defend a shmuck who's facing such charges and punishment.
BobbyBrown06		#10	[-]
Posts: 8635 (06/25/08 9:30 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	khnum wrote: The death penalty for anyone is cruel and unusual. ^_^ X
Lloyd Bonafide		#11	[-]
Posts: 718 (06/25/08 9:33 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I would suppose everyone that agrees with this decision will vote for Nader, since Obama has come out against it.
QJaz		#12	[-]
Posts: 1049 (06/25/08 9:41 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I don't believe in capital punishment. I would be much more satisifed having the rapist thrown into the general populace of a brutal prison.
B DeBrun		#13	[-]
Posts: 16958 (06/25/08 9:45 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Obligatory merkyl-UC comment
WiscBadger95		#14	[-]
Posts: 11478 (06/25/08 9:47 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	QJaz wrote: I don't believe in capital punishment. I would be much more satisifed having the rapist thrown into the general populace of a brutal prison. They should. That's another thing that pisses me off about these pigs. In prison they protect them, because the other cons would gut them if they had the chance.
Sloansalad		#15	[-]
Posts: 2500 (06/25/08 9:48 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Yeah, I like how they decided that executing child rapists was "cruel and unusual" and that it was disproportionate to the crime. I guess being a child who gets raped, not so much on the "cruel and unusual". Try telling that to them. I'm going to probably regret this, but Jesus Fuck I hate that kind of argument. Obviously, our society's legal basis for what is acceptable should not be anywhere close to being at the same level as what a child rapist's views are of being acceptable. We should be better than them, not use their disturbing standards to justify lowering our own. "Well, what about the victim's rights????" always sounds like a pep-rallyesque soundbite. Anyhow, child rape/molestation is such an emotionally charged issue that is virtually impossible to have an actual legal or political discussion on the issue.
pussycow		#16	[-]
Posts: 2537 (06/25/08 9:51 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	wow look at all the knee jerkers. Why should a child rapist be put to death? They didn't kill anybody. Yes it is a horrible crime, but not punishable by death.
BobbyBrown06		#17	[-]
Posts: 8636 (06/25/08 9:58 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	pussycow wrote: wow look at all the knee jerkers. Why should a child rapist be put to death? They didn't kill anybody. Yes it is a horrible crime, but not punishable by death. X
Shorty		#18	[-]
Posts: 2122 (06/25/08 10:32 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Ok, do any of you fucks understand that some of these freaks fuck infants and such small children that it physically damages them so bad that their reproductive organs will never be ok? Never. Some of you talk about this like it's adults being raped. Like they can just get a little therapy to rid themselves of their widdle nightmares and then get on with lives. Really? They can? Maybe some of you should think a little harder before you post. How many of you actually know someone that this happened to them as a child or one of their children. I have on both counts and it's been seriously a nightmare for them. Child fuckers don't have my compassion. Sorry. Go bleed your delicate blood elsewhere. And when you actually have kids of your own that you'd give your life to protect, get back to me.
BobbyBrown06		#19	[-]
Posts: 8640 (06/25/08 10:37 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	So killing people makes you sleep better at night? The death penalty, like raping children, is wrong. Period.
Atypical Male		#20	[-]
Posts: 1353 (06/25/08 10:37 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	pussycow wrote: Why should a child rapist be put to death? They didn't kill anybody. Yes it is a horrible crime, but not punishable by death. Some of us don't believe that murder is the only crime for which issuance of the death sentence should be considered. I'd suspect that society as a whole would not view there to be many crimes worse than the sexual exploitation of a child; I certainly don't. Any individual who is so morally bankrupt that they would commit this particular crime is fully deserving of the most severe form of punishment that a society's government has at its disposal... which is, in the case of the United States of America, the death penalty.