Random Thoughts

Genarlow Wilson
Genarlow Wilson, in case some of you don't know, is the then 17-year-old teenager convicted of having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl. At that time, the law considered it a felony and the punishment is 10 years in jail and register on the sex offenders database. Shortly after he was convicted of aggravated child abuse and sentenced, the state of Georgia changed the law and made teen-on-teen sex a misdemeanor, but did not make it retroactive. Now Mr. Wilson, by all accounts was a good student, had a football scholarship to college and made a video of this action at a party. I don't think that he should go thru life as a convicted sex-offender, it was a consenusal act. The State Attorney General, Thurbert Baker has stepped in and not allowed Wilson bail during his appeal. Mr. Baker states that in going against the established law at the time of the conviction, that would set a precedent and possibly release other, more henious offenders. Mr. Baker, can you please be more specific?

This case has been tried in Monroe and Douglas counties in the Atlanta metro area, in the far south west metro Atlanta area. Some say the problem is that Wilson is black and the oral sex giver was white. That could be a reson this case was not overturned, but Thurbert Baker is black, so there goes the race card. I think he should be let go and not have to register with the sex offenders database. He was doing what 'normal' kids today do.

My question is, what about the girl? Does she get off scotfree because she was a victim? Why haven't I heard anyone questioning why a 15-year-old girl was giving blow jobs? I think society still plays the 'sexist' card, depicting all women as victims, the less powerful sex. But I believe in some cases they are the more intelligent 'victims'. I believe that rape is a violent crime, not a sex crime and no one deserves to be raped. I believe it's used as a means to achieve something sometimes. In cases of celebrity men being acused of rape, the men should realize that they are targets and should behave themselves better, don't allow themselves to get into situations that could lead to a rape charge.

I belive that, in this case, the girl wasn't a victim, she was a participant. This case isn't necessarily a legal question, but it is a moral question and all participants, the kids, the parents and the cameraman should be dealt with. It isn't right for teenagers to have sex at that young age, and it most certainly isn't right to video tape them. Once again, I'm glad I don't have kids to deal with.

Scooter Libby
Lots has been written and lots will be written about his sentence commutation and the eventual pardon. (Come on, you know it's going to happen!) And I'm tired of hearing about Bill Clinton's pardons when he left office, that's ancient history. So Libby lied and tried to cover up the issue about revealing an undercover CIA agent. Revealing a CIA agent is treason.

So here's another take on that: Cynthia Tucker's op-ed in Sunday's AJC. If it's good for Scooter Libby, it's good for Bill Campbell AND Genarlow Wilson. Why not?

But in doing some research for this topic, I ran across this blog. Interesting ideas, well spoken, but what bothers me is some of the comments: 'Making lying a crime is nothing short of a police state.' ???

Bill O'Reilly
Interesting article about O'Reilly. Kinda makes you think, huh? Or is SHOULD make you think! It illustrates what I've been trying to say all along, O'Reilly is an OPINION columnist, not a hard news columnist. Don't go to O'Reilly or Sean Hannity or Arianna Huffington or Cynthia Tucker for hard facts, go to them for OPINIONS!