Posted on 08/05/2006 9:37:49 AM PDT by wagglebee
In the nearly ten years since Jon Benet Ramsey’s death, I’ve spent little time pondering the identity of that little girl’s murderer. I’ve known the answer to that question for years. And so have you. But one time several years ago - during the height of the media coverage of the case - I did hear one interesting assertion about the parents of Jon Benet Ramsey; namely, that there was absolutely no evidence they had ever sexually abused their little girl.
When I heard the assertion that there was “absolutely no evidence” of sexual abuse of Jon Benet Ramsey, I immediately recalled a picture of the little girl when she was around the age of four. She was wearing a brightly colored strapless dress that matched her brightly colored lipstick. Her makeup was as heavy as that of any hooker or drag queen in San Francisco.
This begs a fundamental question: Are we sexually abusing our little girls when we dress them up to look like prostitutes? Of course, I would submit that we are.
Fortunately, when the Ramsey case broke it was very unusual to see a couple dressing a small child like a hooker. Unfortunately, today it is commonplace. An episode I witnessed the other day illustrates just how little parents seem to think before allowing their little girls to dress and carry themselves in an entirely-too-adult fashion.
On my daily jog though my neighborhood I ran by the house of a man I know fairly well. His garage door was open and music was blaring out of a jam box inside - in fact, the music was so loud it was barely recognizable. But I could tell the song was “These boots are made for walking,” which was popularized by Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s. His two grandchildren were dancing in the driveway to the recent remake of the tune, sung by Jessica Simpson.
As my neighbor’s two grandchildren were standing in the driveway - while gyrating their hips like a couple of prostitutes - I noticed they were both wearing cutoff “Daisy Duke” style short and halter tops. The oldest girl looked like she was wearing mascara. She is 11 years old, by the way. Her younger sister is nine.
There is obviously something very wrong psychologically with the parent who actually dresses a four year old girl like a prostitute. There is also something wrong with the parent who allows a nine or even an eleven year old girl to dress herself like one – not to mention carry herself like one, too. It is not cute. It is simply crude and indecent.
But there is more to the equation than bad taste, here. In today’s world, people who do not make sure their little girls are dressed like little girls are exposing them to extreme danger.
Shortly after I finished my afternoon jog, I went to one of the numerous websites (http://www.mapsexoffenders.com/) that can be used to locate registered sex offenders. I wanted to know how far those two little girls – the ones dancing like hookers - were from the nearest convicted pedophile. The answer: about 500 yards.
Parents of small children (especially little girls) need to do the following things after finishing this short but important column:
Log on to the internet and find the nearest registered sex offenders in your neighborhood.
Make sure you voice your complaints to local retailers who sell sexually provocative clothes marketed for little girls.
Make a note of the names of the companies that manufacture inappropriate clothing for children next time you see these products. Write them and tell them exactly why you will never, ever buy their products.
Tune in occasionally to The O’Reilly Factor to keep track of Bill’s segments on Jessica’s law – a measure designed to impose mandatory 25-year sentences on first-time child molesters.
Make sure that your lawmakers know you will not support them unless they support Jessica’s Law. In other words, impose a simple ideological litmus test on all of your representatives.
I hope all of my readers will give serious consideration to the advice I have proffered today. Even if you reject some of my specific points, keep my general thesis in mind. Our little girls will be women far sooner than we would like. For the time being we should just let them be little girls.
I can't say that I think Patsy Ramsey had anything to do with Jon Benet's death...
But I do find it horribly unusual that the murder was obviously sexually based ... and little Jon Benet was often portrayed in very suggestive clothing...
I realize there is a pageant "culture" .. and Patsy would not have seen anything wrong with it. Nonetheless - I have problems with the entire "baby" pageant thing.
It doesnt mean that they arent still offending. Most of them still commit the same crimes.
Maybe you should consider changing your message, it didn't seem to work to well on you.
And what do you base that on?
Following your thought line, what did these people do to deserve this?
Oh goodie, I have seniority on you, so I can declare you wrong.
Books written by John Douglas. Sexual predation is not an occasional hobby, it is a disease. Sexual predators can never be cured, nor will they stop. The worst of the lot may develop into serial killers. But, once a sexual predator, ALWAYS a sexual predator.
Well, you almost got the absurdity of my post. I was sure someone would get it. My point from the beginning (and made a second time in this very thread) is that time on the forum does not in and of itself lend any credibility to the argument. Let the ideas stand on their own.
I would argue that you're wrong. The differences between individuals are far greater than you'll find by taking homeschoolers vs public schoolers as a group. The difference in siblings alone can be absolutely astounding, homeschooled or not. Those who don't homeschool are far too quick to think homeschooling is some kind of pancea that it's not.
We're all awaiting proof. You may be correct in that the recidivism is high, but to state that predators ALWAYS (emphasis yours) recidivate is recognizably absurd to any thinking individual. The only absolute declaration that can be accurately made is: There are always exceptions, always.
bttt
I made no mention of abuse, parental responsibility, etc. I simply took issue with freeper Muryan's extremely silly position that suggesting a return to modesty equated an almost fanatical oppression of women.
That is a slogan. It is not based on facts. You WANT it to be true. But, it's not.
15-20 years ago we knew that "Women don't lie" / "Children can't lie!" / " 'Recovered Memories' " are real!" Thousands of innocent men went to jail and Janet Reno came to power.
Noted
Might not be a bad idea. There are some that are becoming a little tired of the public debauchery. It is more serious than the fact some folks cover their women from head to toe. As the man said of his sick society many years ago "...I would then have him trace the process of our moral decline, to watch, first, the sinking of the foundations of morality as the old teaching was allowed to lapse, then the rapidly increasing disintegration, then the final collapse of the whole edifice, and the dark dawning of our modern day when we can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them.....of late years wealth has made us greedy, and self-indulgence has brought us, through every form of sensual excess, to be, if I may so put it, in love with death both individual and collective...” THE ROMAN HISTORIAN TITUS LIVIUS 59 B.C. TO 17 A.D.
Yet another reason why I'm thankful to have sons and not daughters. A terrible thing to say, I know, but true.
Your post #175 is the dumbest thing I've read in over 5 years here on Free Republic.
You don't like statistics that disprove your prejudices?
I'm guessing you don't even know or care about the child abuse witch hunts of the 80s-90s.
People like you are why Janet Reno is happily retired instead of rotting in prison where she belongs.
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