Posted on 08/17/2011 11:09:36 PM PDT by AustralianConservative
I often hear well-meaning people say, “Political correctness has gone mad.” I beg to differ. Political correctness is mad, period. Past, present, or future, it’s absolutely bonkers mad.
Take child sexual abuse now defined as “intergenerational sex” or “complex” when the alleged perpetuator belongs to a media-endorsed tribe.
Even the “dwarf card” is used by the abuse minimization crowd. Some history, from the Irish Times first though (“Man admits 26 sex abuse charges,” 03/16/2005):
A Donegal man, who is a dwarf, has been given four years in jail having pleaded guilty to 26 charges of indecent assault and attempted sexual abuse of children as young as seven.
Donegal Town Circuit Court was told that James O’Donnell (55), Kincasslagh, had a short life expectancy due to his size, as well as heart and kidney problems. Judge Matthew Deery said that while the abuse - which occurred between 1975 and 1988 - ranked as middle of the scale in terms of seriousness, the impact on the victims was long-lasting.
Two points. Notice how the sheltered judge, surrounded by security, my guess, admits that sexual crimes are long-lasting but ranks serial abuse (26 cases we’re aware of!) “as middle of the scale in terms of seriousness.”
Also, note how ill-health is used here as a shield to block the bisexual dwarf from real consequences. It worked a treat:
O’Donnell's size and age as well as his heart and kidney problems were taken into account as he received 24 two-year jail sentences to run concurrently and another two-year jail sentence to run consecutively. He will serve his sentence in Castlerea prison where he can be provided with dialysis.
O’Donnell was known to the families of all the victims and was “a trusted friend” to some. His behaviour came to light in 1998, with one…
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Can you not buy small bullets in Australia?
Remember that 5 foot tall sex predator that was given a suspended sentence because he would have “difficulty being in prison” due to his short stature?
Nature played a dirty trick on me so you can’t hold me responsible for my actions.
BS
Sorry pal 97% of humans have some form of deformity. Sure most of them can not be easily identified by a casual observer and many of us may never know of our own deformity.
Life is hard for everybody.
Your life may be harder than mine but that does not give you carte blanch to abuse anyone’s person or rights. If you do you should be prosecuted and be held accountable for your actions just as anyone else.
Your deformity nor your illness give you any exemption from the law.
What would Owen Meany think?
If I get in trouble, just call me tiny.
“Your deformity nor your illness give you any exemption from the law.”
A quadriplegic lawyer in MN avoided up to 15 years of prison time for having helped organize a prostitution ring largely on grounds that it would have been prohibitively expensive to imprison him in light of his need for 24/7 attendants etc.
http://blog.aacriminallaw.com/?tag=john-st-marie
I myself don’t think the state has any business regulating behavior between consenting adults. That said, I don’t think it’s inappropriate for the state to make a cost-benefit calculation when deciding whether it’s worth taxpayer dollars to keep someone behind bars [if you were a Minnesota taxpayer, would you feel your dollars were being well-spent if millions were used to keep this guy behind bars for 15 years?]. I don’t get the impression that the state made this decision because prosecutors felt sorry for the guy (after all, they did prosecute and convict him, which had to be hugely embarrassing) or thought that handicapped individuals deserved to be cut some slack.
The point being that similar considerations, rather than a misguided PC calculation, lay behind how this dwarf was treated.
“ranks serial abuse (26 cases we’re aware of!) “as middle of the scale in terms of seriousness.”
I think the writer has misconstrued the judge’s meaning. I believe “middle of the scale” is a reference to the severity of each individual act rather than the collective number. The acts aren’t described, but it sounds like it entailed fondling as opposed to rape. Else it’s hard to picture any of the victims acting nice to him in the aftermath etc. This isn’t to condone the behavior, but merely to observe that there is a continuum in the severity of assaults against women and it’s not inappropriate to take this into account when sentencing. If only fondling were involved, would anyone think it fair that the perp received the same punishment as someone found guilty of 26 instances of rape?
The point being that similar considerations, rather than a misguided PC calculation, lay behind how this dwarf was treated.
Perhaps I can agree with the case of the quadriplegic provided that there was no coercion of the prostitutes. However the dwarf was a sexual predator of children. If he died in jail or it was expensive to deal with his medical problem is immaterial to the government’s duty to protect the public from this individual.
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