UllrsIshtar
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ORIGINAL: Danemora Yes, I do actually think you are stupid if you didnt smell LEO trap all over the shit that took you down. Fuck, man...all that was missing was Chris Hansen showing up at your door along with the FBI! So you going down in the blaze you went down in was due to incredible stupidity on your part. If you don't like hearing that, it's not my problem. It's called freedom of speech after all, right? This goes right back to what I was saying. How many of us would have stayed on the line once a child was mentioned? Who would have said, "I'll think about it"? Who wouldn't have reported it to the authorities after hanging up? How many of us would be at a BDSM club so wasted that someone has to take the whip away from you? He puts himself into these situations and then blames everyone else. And....I guess everyone who thinks he's an idiot for doing so, isn't really into BDSM....because ya know...he's such a good judge of situations... I totally agree with you that a sensible, ethical person would have reported anybody seeking to do such a thing to minors... But playing devil's advocate for a second... He's not in a profession where he has a mandatory duty to report, and in CA one is not required legally to report crimes (or potential crimes). As such, when it comes to the sting set up for him, he wasn't actually obligated to report anything. Should he have done so as a decent human being? Fuck yes. Was he legally required to do so? Nope. Which leaves the fact that he was forced into a plea bargain over a crime he did not commit, because the DA knew that in a trial the 'technicality' of him not actually having committed a crime wouldn't matter, because of the shock value of what he did do with Robyn, and because he just has a nasty (as is clear on this thread) personality. I'm personally rather offended that the government would force jail time and sex offender registration when they couldn't actually prove criminal behavior, just because they find something a citizen does distasteful. He didn't bite on the sting. Not even when offered 20 million dollars. Which is all that should matter from a legal point of view, considering that legally he didn't have an obligation to report. We might find it morally reprehensible that he didn't report it, but once we start throwing people in jail just because some people find their -legal- behavior morally reprehensible, we can throw the entire country in jail, because everybody does something which somebody else, somewhere considers morally reprehensible... which is exactly why we have laws to define what is and isn't okay.
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I can be your whore I am the dirt you created I am your sinner And your whore But let me tell you something baby You love me for everything you hate me for
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