Letters to the Editor
fetboy
Published Letters: 1233 Editor's Choice: 22
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to Xanthro
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Xanthro, you are totally right.
A few years ago when my wife and I had just moved back to America, our neighbors had the annoying habit of not coming home till 3:30pm, but their kids would get off of the school bus at 3:00pm. The parents did not give their kids a key to their house (because they were too young), but did not arrange to put them into an after school care program, so the kids just stayed on their front porch till Grandma came home at 3:30pm. My wife felt sorry for the kids, and wanted to take care of them for those 30 minutes, but I told her "no," because we did not have approval from the kids guardians to take care of their kids, and if anything was to happen to their kids at our house during those 30 minutes, we would be responsible, and their parents could sue us. I told the Grandmother that my wife and I were not going to look after their kids for those 30 minute, and that if anything happen to her grand-kids, I was just going to call 911. I also told her that if she didn't find a solution to her child care problem that I was going to call child protective services the moment a situation arose that warranted it. Sure enough, about a month later, one of the kids knocked on my door, and said she was wetting her pants because she needed to use the restroom. I immediately called CPS, but I let her use my restroom, and had my wife clean her up.
I hated calling CPS, but sometime you have to alert the authorities, because taking matters into your hands will only bring a lot of trouble onto yourself.
If you find a lost child, the only thing you should do is find the authorities to take care of the lost child, and if you can't find the authorities, then pull out your cell phone and call 911 (and if you don't have a cell phone, then holler out and find someone that does).
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To AKA Smith
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have to understand that brightstar65 obviously isn't in a serious relationship (and most likely has never been in one), doesn't have kids, and is so creepy that women and kids stay away from him. So the discussion of this thread is obviously something that is way out of his league.
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paranoic
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, that's an understatement. Brightstar65's letter in the Inuit threat was so bizarre that my wife has told me not respond to it, so I won't.
At what point does salon step in, and say in the interest of public safety we need to do something about this guy.
That was the first time I had seen someone have a conversation with a constructed version of me in his head.
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to Jello5929
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you're not a pedophile, have no intention of ever molesting anyone, and know better than to ever flirt with a teenager, then you have absolutely nothing to worry about.
The whole false accusation paranoia is so overblown it's incredible. Yes, what happen to the Duke lacrosse team was terrible, and yes, a few psychiatric patients were induced to form false memories, but the victims of false accusations and false memories are far and in between. At best 1 out of 100,000 men in the US has been falsely accused, so don't worry about it.
How many men do you know who have been falsely accused of rape of child molesting?
I know of known, though I have seen several men that I was distantly acquainted with get convicted of rape and child molestation after lengthy investigations. But sadly I am certain that several rapists and child molesters get off due to poorly planned persecutions and/or technicalities in their trials all the time.
If you live in a community, and make yourself available to your community for 3 or 4 years, and prove that you are a decent man, then no one in your community is going to have any reason to believe that you might be a sexual predator, without legitimate and obvious reason.
Are you a pedophile? Do you flirt with teenagers?
Based on your comments I suspect that the answer to both questions would be an honest "no," so stop being paranoid. Believe me, women find paranoia so unbecoming on a man.
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Say What???
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Blackpaw what exactly was your point in posting the canadiancrc.com article? It was incredibly off thread, as we were discussing male paranoia regarding accusations of child molestation.
Are you trying to spread paranoia regarding young girls?
Great, just what we need, more paranoia.