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Many of the laws the libertarians here find so offensive have been only very selectively enforced, but when they were enforced, it was for a good reason. Case in point: I live in a very, very conservative and family-oriented community, Peachtree City GA. A couple years ago, a teenage girl here let her boyfriend into the house in the middle of the night, and the mother caught the two teens in the act.

The 16-year-old boyfriend was abusive to the mother, so she called the police, and the kid was charged with violating Georgia's law against fornication., a law that had been on the books since 1833. He was convicted and sentenced to write an essay on why his conduct was irresponsible.

Instead, he got an ACLU lawyer and had the conviction thrown out. He literally thumbed his nose at the parent who tried to call him to account (very like our aging adolescent FReepers do on threads like this one).

The message the court gave to our kids was contained in a banner headline in the local newspaper: 'Fornication' OK for 16-year-olds, Ga. Supreme Court rules . . .

Many people on this forum think that is a message we should be giving our kids, but they would never ask a state legislature to send it. They would be too ashamed. But, like this loathesome child, they would not hesitate to rant and rave about their personal privacy and then get an ACLU lawyer to back them up. As the kid crowed to the press when he got off the hook: "Invading personal privacy just isn't right. It now goes that way for everybody." In other words, all you guys who have spent your lives trying to make decent people of your children, you are screwed - just like your daughters! HA, HA, HA!

I live in a very, very conservative and family-oriented community, Peachtree City GA. A couple years ago, a teenage girl here let her boyfriend into the house in the middle of the night, and the mother caught the two teens in the act.

A tale as old as time. Yeah, the kid should be kicked out of the house and the girl is probably in for some meted out punishment. Oh wait, they wanted to use the DA to stick it to the boy, even though none of the standard (i.e. actually enforced) sex laws had been violated? Ruh roh....

The 16-year-old boyfriend was abusive to the mother, so she called the police, and the kid was charged with violating Georgia's law against fornication., a law that had been on the books since 1833. He was convicted and sentenced to write an essay on why his conduct was irresponsible.

"Abusive"....guessing he was mouthing off since no mention is made of a physical assualt. Well if he refuses to leave, yep, you should call the cops and report him as a trespasser. Except, oops, they decided to charge him under an antiquated statute that was, for the most part, long forgotten. Intentional selective enforcement of laws is simply wrong on many levels, and when some DA feels like getting something extremely dusty out of the closet that is only used to "get" certain people, it should be struck down. They should have stuck with trespass charges. I'm guessing age-of-consent (16 in Georgia) was not an issue either otherwise the charge could have been statutory rape if there was some sort of age differential there.

In other words, all you guys who have spent your lives trying to make decent people of your children, you are screwed - just like your daughters! HA, HA, HA!

I sincerely hope this was an attempt to paraphrase the punk in question, because it doesn't sound very nice out of the mouth of a freeper.