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Monday, January 26, 2004

BET.com: Did Marcus Dixon's punishment fit the crime?

A very interesting forum (again!)... I think I made some points that hadn't really been made (not particularly surprising, since I am a radical--I mean, what percentage of Americans do you figure go around espousing the idea that statuatory rape laws are an indication of the fact that people under 18 are denied basic civil rights in this country?!). ;)

What I think Jan 26 2004 10:56:53PM
posted by: moonlet

Greetings to all.

Here is what I think:

-> I think that Marcus' size, the fact that the girl had some vaginal bruising (hello folks, if a small woman chooses to loose her virginity to a large man, it's probably going to result in some vaginal bruising--duh!), the fact that he had turned 18, and the fact that she had not yet turned 16 are all irrelevant to the case in terms of how it should have been tried in a just world. The relevant facts are simple: a) the sex was consentual; and b) they were both students in high school, thus peers; therefore, no crime of any kind was committed by Marcus.

-> I think that the only reason the case came to trial in the first place is because of racism.

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10 years in prison for consentual sex—only in America (*and other fundamentalist theocracies)

A Plea for Justice — We the Undersigned, Oppose the Wrongful Conviction of Marcus Dixon

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http://www.act4justice.com/

http://www.helpmarcus.com/

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Check out this visitor to my blog...

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Hopefully just a UU who happens to work for the Federal Reserve or something! Kinda scary though. Of course I'm probably on someone's list somewhere, especially since I was harassed by some federal cops in Sacramento (after the protest back in June of last year against the WTO biotech ministerial)... (If you want to know all about who's visiting your blog or website, you can sign up at StatCounter too, but you'll have to wait until the get more servers in February...)

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P.S. George W. Bush is "a miserable failure on foreign policy and on the economy and he's got to be replaced."
George Bush Has Got to Go! *** Flush Bush! *** Anyone But Bush in 2004! *** Have you taken a good look at George W. Bush lately?