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TigerNINTails -> RE: 3some invite lands couple in jail (7/12/2007 9:01:14 PM)
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I agree that they've been using sidetrack tactics to apprehend folks of "questionable ethics" or "immoral fibre" or whatever they want to call it for a long time, and a lot of that started back in the '20's, when the 'direct approach' to the heavier crimes (then known as the alcohol prohibition, and all the organized crime tom-foolery that came along with it) wasn't practical.
However, there is a difference between getting "The Mob" on charges of tax evasion and arresting these people on an (alleged) prostitution/solicitation charge. I mean, I'd be hoping they actually had some sort of evidence, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of that substantiating the validity of this arrest.
For one, the mob was indeed evading their taxes, and that is a federal criminal act... However, I don't see the same sort of correlation in this case. From the information given, (which sure doesn't amount to much) it's very hard to definitively pin-point a criminal act, or even, for that matter, a criminal intent. That was why it seems so absurd to me.
But I agree wholeheartedly that when "johnny law" wants to nail yer ass, they'll find whatever method they can to make it happen... And to make it stick... Even if it is finding valid charges that may or may not have anything to do with what they feel is "rightful justice for the greater crimes commited"... Whatever to get whoever they feel needs to be off the streets, actually off the streets.
And there's something admirable in those methods... Just not when applied to an over zealous couple looking for a good time with a neighbor they've admired. Or so one would believe anyway, or they wouldn't have approached her about it, I'd wager. That sort of flippant law-enforcement attitude is a threat to everything every kinkster stands for... Which is the freedom to express themselves the way they feel inclined to express themselves sexually... Or in their living methods... So long as no harm is done.
In anycase... Absurd.. That's all I can really say about it, if in fact, it's a factual case. I'm also with you on that, in that I don't want to go anywhere, that isn't precisely "kink aware & tolerant". I guess that's why, though Cali is a pain in the ass to live in sometimes, there are more often than not times I'm very happy to be living here. But even here, there are trouble spots, full of ignorance that isn't easily overcome.
Peace.
TNT
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