Originally published at: Republican lawmaker pleads guilty to Europe child sex tour charge - Boing Boing
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Well, he comes from a good family and has his whole life still ahead of him and boys will be boys and it was far away from home and anyway, it’s okay when you’re a Republican.
Or something.
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Other than missing this one, you got ‘em all.
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I must be losing my touch…
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Aside from the fairly obvious “is a high-powered state senator” angle; I’d be curious what the breakdown between “law enforcement doesn’t really take seriously” and “law enforcement thinks that getting the public to take seriously is difficult” is for child rapists whose taste run toward the higher end of the age range.
There’s no way the plea agreement says “with adolescent-age individuals” purely out of a desire to add more vague specificity to the document; that has to be there because at least one side of the plea deal arrangement thought it was important that it be there; whether it be the prosecution not wanting to sound like they were letting a baby raper off lightly or the defense wishing to avoid the impression that either the age or the prostitution were illegal; and it was just a teensy little edge case where the two at the same time were a compliance problem.
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With this one, the dog fucker, and the ‘no checks for animal cruelty for pet adopters’ article, BoingBoing is going to have to change their slogan.
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Every accusation is a confession with these people.
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Once again, no need to waste valuable headline space on the party affiliiation for gentlemen like this.
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Still not a drag queen…
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… and still not a Texas pastor, either.
(checks watch)
Yep, still hating this timeline.
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The “with adolescent-age individuals” component came from the charges filed against him in Prague, and only serves to distinguish between teenagers and small children. A lot of his willingness to actually plead guilty here is to avoid being extradited to face courts there. Locally (I’m from North Dakota) many are just blowing this off (pun… up to the discretion of the reader) as a “who cares if he went that far for a happy ending”. It’s a deep red state and some things are only considered a hanging offense if the perpetrator votes blue.
Edit: Note the “happy ending” remark is that earlier local reports stated that at least some of the acts involved massage parlors. Local media, today, reports that he did not think he was doing anything illegal because, in the Czech Republic, the age of consent is 15. But US federal law still makes it illegal for US citizens to travel for sex with anyone under 18.
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If he believed that it was ok because he was in a place where his acts were legal, ask him how he feels about women traveling to have abortions.
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Another republican youthful indiscretion.
It’s a shame he won’t live long enough to spend 20 years in prison.
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You might be surprised. My quite progressive mayor was arrested for child porn and is now serving a 30 year sentence.
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I wouldn’t be surprised, but a progressive engaging in this behaviour merits their political affiliiation being mentioned in the hed precisely because it’s less common, usually less hypocritical, and thus more newsworthy.
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There’s nothing wrong with draft dodgers. It’s chickenhawks who are the problem.
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