peacefuljeffrey

Kewl! Would it shock you to know that the reason I posted this poll is that I've been eating brussels sprouts and tater tots tonight while I've been playing Halo? -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I've loved them since I was a kid -- along with most other vegetables. At the same time, I love MEAT -- "all-encompassingly," as Mitch Hedberg would say. So what about you? -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Another thread got me thinking about this again. Not only do lots of municipalities, states, etc. require sex offenders to register with the local police, they are more and more passing laws to limit where these offenders may live. What possible excuse can the authorities and the government have for not requiring ANY violent felon to "register" and make his presence known to any community in which he might live? Do we really take sex crimes so much more seriously than violent crimes? Is it so much less to worry about that you have a repeat-violent armed-robber criminal living next door than a child molester? To be perfectly frank, I don't give a fuck whether the guy next door is a child molester. But if he's got a history of fucking armed robbery, armed burglary, murder, or aggravated battery, yeah, those things do concern me! What is with society now? They're chasing sex offenders out of every community they can -- what happens when EVERY community bans sex offenders? They already are trying to figure out what to do with sex offenders who might need to go to a public shelter during a hurricane... This whole, "they may not live within 1500 feet of a school" thing is just so much bullshit useless posturing -- as though that means a molester can't get near kids somehow! So what's the deal? Wouldn't you like just as many restrictions against habitual violent criminals -- who demonstrate plenty of their own incorrigibility and recidivism -- as we have against sex offenders? -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I know that they make kevlar bicycle tires or somesuch, and I know they have ones with some goo inside that will seal punctures. I am wondering if anyone makes a solid-foam tire, that approximates the feel and performance of an inflated-tube tire. Are they available, who makes them, and how much do they cost? -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That is the EPITOME of PATHETIC. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Where the fuck were you about 17 years ago when they stopped playing music videos? I always scratched my head when they started playing Monty Python's Flying Circus, but I didn't bitch because I love the show. But then they started with "House of Style" and other absolute fuckin' NONSENSE. Shit, do bands still even bother to MAKE videos for their songs anymore? Remember when they were all absorbed in it? Ahh, those were the days. Who wasn't freaked out by the mutated hands in "Our Love's in Jeopardy"? Or the creepy glowing eyes in "Total Eclipse of the Heart? Or Top Petty cutting up that blonde Alice in "Don't Come Around Here No More"? And how did the guys in Wang Chung move around so fast? -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Just curious how many people here know how to tie more than just the standard shoelace tie and square knot. If you're a knot-afficionado, let's read about some of the named knots you know how to make. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Great. If hitting kids conditions them to hit others, what is going to happen when they get conditioned that eye-to-eye contact means they're in trouble for something. And with the very deep, slow tone of voice, you may just engender a terrible fear of opera... (which might not be all bad...) -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Here's a helping hand for ya: I didn't start this thread. Why are you replying to me as though you think I did? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Strawman. Who said we don't trust the government to deliver the mail? They always do fine by me, actually. Every time we put a letter into the mail, we're trusting them to get it there. Do they often fail you? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I would have thought that if the consequences were grave, that would inspire people to weigh the facts all the harder. But that's just me. And if the guy rotted in prison for 20 years before someone got off their ass and got him exonerated, your dad would not be very nearly as upset that the guy lived 20 years in a hellish prison existence (you described it being pretty bad in Walpole)?? Some people describe a death sentence as "getting off easy" compared with life in prison, since living in prison sucks big-time. Yet here you are, saying that your dad would have felt better, if a mistaken verdict had been given, if the guy had been enduring the horror of being wrongly imprisoned for 20 years rather than being dead -- "the easy way out." So your explanationof your dad's rationale for preferring life in prison is AT ODDS WITH what many others say about WHY they want people given life. Many people say they want life (as opposed to death) BECAUSE it's a nastier sentence for a nasty person who deserves it. Death penalty proponents like me say we want death because it's the final punishment, and says, "Hey, scumbag, you don't get to enjoy the privilege of living anymore, and you have to face the psychological horror of being put to death!" Which side are you on: the side that wants life imprisonment because it's harsh, or because it's a way to make amends if there's a wrongful conviction, and death would be "too final"? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

And I agree 100% The death penalty is not a deterrent. Also, the government shouldn't be allowed to play God and decide who lives and dies. Killing just one innocent man is too many. Whether someone is dead or in jail, they are no longer a threat to society, so why not let them live? The government brings the charges and prosecutes the case. It is the People who form the jury and decide guilt or innocence. This is not a case of some untouchable tribunal deciding life-or-death. This is the way the laws made by the People's representatives set forth the rules by which we play. The issue is that we as a society don't seem to have the balls to keep dangerous people in prison. Yes, it's true that if people are in prison they are not out and about to harm the public. But they aren't kept there forever, not even the ones who commit vicious, reprehensible crimes. And even the ones who are not allowed out escape now and then, so having them in prison will not necessarily keep the public safe. No dead guy ever murdered anyone. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It is unconstutional not to appeal. Wouldn't work. Would you please cite the section of the Constitution to which you are referring as a guarantee of the right to appeal a murder conviction? I'm not saying it's not there somewhere, but I'm wondering what you think forms such a guarantee. Off the top of my head, I cannot think of anything in the Bill of Rights that clearly protects a right to appeal a criminal conviction. And I see NOTHING AT ALL to justify "automatic appeals" of a capital conviction, which some states have. That must surely be strictly a legislated thing. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I am certainly not downplaying the seriousness of rape, but I would disagree. Murder deprives the world of a person and of future generations. Who knows how many people will never see the world because of a murder. I disagree too, but not for the, "Oh, woe is the world, what if this dead guy's great-great-great granddaughter would have cured pancreatic cancer!" Instead, I mourn THAT person losing his or her life -- taken by someone who lacked the authority to take it. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

LMFAO!! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

IMHO, That's crap. Substitute "Ex-Con" for "Addict" and watch the reactions change... "IMHO" I like that phrase... you ask for opinions yet when I voice mine and it doesn't go along with yours then my opinion is "crap". If you don't like the answer perhaps you shouldn't ask the question... but then that's MHO... Part of the whole point of opinions is that you get to hold YOUR OWN above reproach, and regard those of others as "crap." What's hard to understand about that? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

"First" to cry PA? Hardly. I also didn't go complaining about it to mods or something. I made a prediction. I don't give a shit if you don't like my cursing. I'm not the only one who does it. I got banned once or twice for what were called personal attacks (I did not see them as such, but that's another issue), and you'll notice that I do not do the "YOU'RE a this-or-that," I'm sticking with the issues. Idiotic aspersions on a person reach the level of personal attack, particularly when they are the sum and substance of an entire post. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

And you don't want to mispell, "blatantly" like that. (Although I doubt most congressmen's aides will notice.) -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

The hypocrisy enters the situation with the admission that you think somebody must kill the molesters but you won't do it yourself. It's a good job to do, but you're too good for the job. If it's right and moral, why should it matter that you have a kid? Do it in a way that doesn't get you caught, then, if you don't want to be taken from your kid. Me, I just think that you've lobbed yourself onto the bandwagon that feels it is "vogue" to be righteously indignant at anyone who harms a child. I am just as pissed off when a 24-year-old woman is raped and strangled, or a 32-year-old man is robbed and shot, as I am when a kid is molested. Evil, harmful acts are more or less equivalent to me, when age difference is concerned. I don't devalue the life of a person just because he's over 18. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You're awfully brave for a guy who lives only two hours (or less) down the highway. rl Wait wait wait wait wait... you didn't fuckin' tell me that!! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I love it in movies about demonic possession when the demon and the priest talk back and forth in latin. It's soooo cool! Although, there must have been demons before latin came along. What did the demons and angels speak then? (Everyone knows that they now speak English in heaven. I think hell has laid claim to Ebonics... ) -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Who ever separated this? I dont care how a child molester dies, as long as he dies. Plain and simple. My my my, what passion! Why not do it yourself, then? Or are you just "all talk" about this issue? Why, if you're so passionate about the need to kill child molesters, don't you travel the country seeking out registered sex-offender child molesters and murder them? They are easy to find, and getting easier. Just look them up online in the registries they are forced to sign up for. Easy as blintzes. Really. Why not? My suggestion is that you are hypocritical about it, and want it done only if someone else is gonna do it. Maybe you don't believe your own words. Maybe you just don't want to go to jail yourself. Maybe you think murder is a good thing, but people are damned for it, and you want to safeguard your own entry into heaven by making sure you don't murder anyone, even those who "deserve" it. (But, um, didn't God say that judgment like that is His purview alone?) Once again, if you want something done right, do it yourself. I don't know you, and I don't know that you don't have the balls to do these murders. I might as well ask you, have you murdered any child molesters? Do you plan to? If not, what's stopping you? You said you don't care who does it. That would mean you are a candidate for the job. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I hope you don't have kids. Would it be a fair tradeoff to leave your kids to be raised without you, just to save a kid from an act of molestation? (Think about the fact that much molestation is repeat molestation, and realize that you might be leaving your kids for good just to stop an act that had been perpetrated on the kid dozens of times before.) Just because you felt such outrage that you couldn't control? Let's not confuse the issue any more than it has been already. We are not talking about anyone interrupting a child rape. Rape, by the way, in most places meets the standard for applying deadly physical force to stop its commission. We are talking about a prison inmate who murdered a man whose crime he did not witness. How many people who have spoken here of the idea that the priest should be murdered would do his murder themselves -- NOT when happening on the molestation in flagrante delicto, but months or years after the fact, once the molester is released from prison? That's what we're talking about. You ought to compare apples to apples. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I just read this little article in the Parade magazine that comes with the newspaper: Okay, now... What the FUCK?! How could that ridiculous, idiotic name Bono gave his son not win a "wierdest name" competition? WTF is wrong with the brains of these Brits?! "APPLE" is weirder than fuckin' "ELIJAH BOB PATRICIUS GUGGI Q."?!?! And this is a dude who thinks people should listen to his ideas about economic and social issues?! Did he really name a son Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q.?? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yeah, well, I'd like to know just what percentage of murderers get life in solitary confinement as their sentence. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"