Letters to the Editor
fetboy
Published Letters: 1236 Editor's Choice: 22
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That's some scary SH*T!!!
[Read the article: Flight suits]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Basically, the more private property there is, the more restricted our constitutional rights are because they don't apply on private property."
You have got to be f*cking kidding me? That's some scary SH*T. Now I see the motive behind those that want to privatize everything!!!
Thanks for enlightening me on that one, Franklin.
At first I was suspect of you, now I want to buy you (or at least a diet soda).
You also made me a full supporter of the "common carrier" concept. I have nothing against privatization of non-life sustaining services (such as carrier services, amusement parks, vacation resorts, and eating establishments, because I want to be a private business owner as well), but not at the expense of mine or anybody else's constitutional rights.
By life sustaining services I mean, breathing air, drinking water, fire departments, police security, health care, public education, and public infrastructure. Just imagine how those services would be if we lost our constitutional rights regarding those services?
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Correction in my comment to Franklin
[Read the article: Flight suits]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry Franklin, I meant to say buy you a beer (or at least a diet soda), but I wouldn't hesitate to buy your services as a lawyer either.;)
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Community
[Read the article: Fearful fathers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As I have become more and more involved in my local community and Buddhist temple, thanks in no small part to my wife, I have become less and less afraid of being called, or seen as, creepy. People see that I am a decent man, so they accept that I am decent man, and thus they have no problem with me at the playground or with my daughter on my shoulders.
However, before I got married, I thought that would be the opposite case, as most of the worse child molestation offenders are quite often men who were very much involved in their communities, and the guys who kept to themselves are almost always harmless. The truth of the matter is we don't know who is, and who isn't, a potential sex offender, but why let that make us live in fear all of the time?
I am not going to live in fear. I know that I am not a child molester, and I am never going to be one, and I love my community, so I am going to be involved in it. If someone throws a false accusation at me, I'll just fight it and not worry about it, because I have faith that enough people know who I am, and evidence doesn't lie. We can't predict the future, but if we know that we are incapable of doing evil deeds, then we need not walk in fear of those that might bear false witness against us.
BTW BillyFla, In my community there is a 25 year old out-of-the-closet gay hair stylist who is great at cutting young children's hair. He is very patient, and he works well with kids, so I have no problem leaving either of my kids alone with him. In fact the fact that he is out-of-the-closet made me more comfortable about him, because I know he feels he has nothing to hide and that he has no reason to be ashamed of his sexual orientation, because there is nothing illegal about it. Like the overwhelming majority of gay men, he is not a pedophile.
Growing up in Northern California, most of the teachers I had that I connected better with in elementary school, middle school, and High School were openly gay, and not one of them ever tried to molest me or anyone else that I am aware of.
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Best advice yet
[Read the article: Fearful fathers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Adults with any sense at all should never flirt with teenagers -- no matter how cool with it the teen may seem."
That was the best advice yet, and to all adults (both men and women), you know very well if you are flirting. Never try to be cute with a kid/teen, never tell sexual jokes to a kid/teen, and never seek a kid's/teen's social approval. You are the boss, the guardian, the instructor, or authority figure, not a kid's playmate. No, I'm not saying you can't play with your kids, I play with mine all the time, but you as an adult know what the different is between playing with kids and being a kid's playmate. And you know that adults and kids have boundaries that neither can cross.
I have something to add to AKA Smith's comment; in the unlikely case that a kid under the age of 12 is lying about sex or molestation, yes it does happen occasionally, almost always their lie is so off-the-wall and impossible that all reasonable minded adults know it is a lie. Kid's under the age of 12 are rarely vindictive (that trait comes later in life), and if their sexual accusation makes sense, then it is almost always true.