Posted on 02/16/2002 3:08:38 PM PST by T'wit
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:59 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
NEW HAVEN -- The prosecutor stood before the judge and bluntly described the defendant's crimes: former Yale professor Antonio Lasaga had repeatedly raped a little boy and had obsessively collected tens of thousands of images depicting the sexual torture of children.
The crimes are not in dispute. They were horrific enough that Lasaga's family wept in court Friday when they heard them recounted.
They were horrific enough to merit, in the judge's view, a 20-year sentence.
(Excerpt) Read more at ctnow.com ...
LESS LAW MORE JUSTICE
No, of course not. But one can hardly resist a joke first told about lawyers: "99% of academics give the rest a bad name."
I understand and share your concerns. But consider the point -- I believe it was Rousas Rushdooney's -- that a scientist may deny G-d with his lips but affirms Him every day in the laboratory.
The argument is, science is meaningless unless the universe is ordered by its Creator. If we live in a chaos instead of a universe, our search for replicable results and physical laws is simply nonsense.
I'm convinced that if the secularism is triumphant, we will lose our faith in the validity of science. In fact, I think the process is well along.
The communists are pretty good at this, wait a minute, those professors are communists. Explains but doesn't justify the disgusting support they showed. Makes me wonder if it wouldn't be better to home school children all the way through college?
It is comments like these, through which academics - and all leftists - parade their (or what they think is) intellectual superiority, that particularly iritate me. I want to scream - "HOW!!!!????" How are we penalizing society for penalizing him? Because his advancment of the field of geology means so much....?
How can they be so intelligent and not understand the simplest of theories - If we have no morality, then we can have no future.
I was studying biochemistry this summer and got up to how the simple cell feeds itself. Perhaps I covered about 70-80 pages of text. In almost every other paragraph the authors wrote about the 'miracles of nature', how wondrously nature remembers the good protein structures and discards the duds, miraculosuly this combination of amino acids were selected. How nature cleverly uses the same plan over again. And many other equally contradictory comments were sprinkled through the text. The authors were screaming there is plan and purpose, a blue print, a designer, an intelligence that chose the correct path. But because of the absolute ban on giving any credence to the teleological proof of a creator they were forced to resort to the inanities I mentioned. I was tempted to write a short pamphlet using these paragraphs right from the text and replacing G-d in a side by side comparison. But I realized that those who have the benefit of seeing the wonders more clearly than anyone else, those masters of the subject, are the ones who would ridicule the effort the most. The ones who are blessed to witness G-d's infinite wisdom are capable of herculean contortions of self-blinding belief in sciencism. Perhaps I still should do it.
The article said:
Lasaga's sentence will run concurrently with the 15-year term issued earlier this week on federal child pornography charges.
Which brings up the point:
*Where* will he serve his sentence?
I bet they worked out a deal that he will go to Club Feb for the 15 year federal term. Does anyone know for sure?
I sure hope you're right. I'm afraid the Feds will say, "Ah, this guy just had some dirty pictures--its not like he's a violent criminal."
Liberals. Communists at least had their own tortuous version of right and wrong. Liberals are so sunk in moral relativism that they can change two principles and three deeply held beliefs before breakfast and be wrong all five times. That is about the same as "moron," but worse.
Liberals. Communists at least had their own tortuous version of right and wrong. Liberals are so sunk in moral relativism that they can change two principles and three deeply held beliefs before breakfast and be wrong all five times. That is about the same as "moron," but worse.
Liberals. Communists at least had their own tortuous version of right and wrong. Liberals are so sunk in moral relativism that they can change two principles and three deeply held beliefs before breakfast and be wrong all five times. That is about the same as "moron," but worse.
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