by Stanley W. Shura

Created on: February 23, 2011

Boy, talk about Miss Prissy Panties deciding for everyone what we and they can handle!  The notion that somebody can arbitrarily set a standard and impose by popular (read, dumbass masses) opinion some opaque and immeasurable standard (I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it), is one of the most sickeningly UNjust, flatulently boorish and downright bullying proposals this author has EVER heard!

And, the idea that a KID can be punished as a predator of KIDS is the most bassackwards, arrogant, unjust, unnecessary, vitriolic, irrational, cruel (but I'm afraid less and less unusual!) abuse of power and authority (and the best arguement that it is undeserved and YES - THEREFORE! - invalid) is likewise peeing-your-pants laughable but for the devastating consequences it can have on a most ironically too-young-to-know-better-but old-enough-to-destroy population, as well as a bone-chilling implication for the prognosis of justice and decency for America and humanity alike.

What a Catch-22!  What a disgrace!  The diminutive intellects that conceived of this legislation (or "discussion", depending on where on the red-blue continuum your state falls) have the gall to argue that, essentially, "it's for your own good, dear" that your record be permanentaly blemished, and very seriously likely your reputation, career and legal (and thus financial and social) trajectories - your LIFE - is essentially RUINED because of the age you were when you decided to make the very youthfully impulsive misjudgment to share revealing photos and depictions OF YOUR OWN BODY!

Read that again.  It's their own body!  It's their own autonomous self and will!  Funny how this bodily autonomy is a claim to moral justification in some circumstances, and convenient dismissed here.  The only thing the two have in common is a contempt and hatred for children and childhood.

This idea that one segment of the population can govern, prosecute, and punish - with blood-curtling consequences - a mutually exclusive "other" segment of the population, when those same-said claimed privileges cannot be claimed likewise by that "other" population - and because of THE defining attribute of that population (their age) - is tyranny, as observed by none other than Patrick Henry himself (and, of course, many of his peers - then and now, yours truly proudly included).

You CANNOT set rules for one set of the population that don't hold true for yourself.  You may say

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