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Subscribe to commentsAllen JonesAug 11th 2008 12:18PM
This sick behavior is what happens when Atheism and Secular Humanism are taught in our public schools and practiced as a lifestyle.
http://www.evolutionfacts.blogspot.com
B LAug 11th 2008 1:13PM
WTF Allen?how does this have anything to do with atheism? you must seriouly be an idiot if you think that. Atheism has nothing to do with perversion! if you want perversion, take a look at all the kiddie touching priests of religion!
CarneyAug 11th 2008 2:34PM
"where he'll be the one watched at all hours of the day and night."
Prison rape is no joke.
I don't know how our public discourse became coarsened enough so that an apparent majority seems to relish the prospect of prisoners being raped.
It's gotten so pervasive that even some public officials engage in such talk, potentially making it an 8th amendment violation. That is, if it is evident that the government is deliberately causing prisoners to be raped as a consciously chosen policy of punishment (rather than letting it happen as a result of under-staffing, over-crowding, or unwillingness to exert the harsh crackdown necessary to impose absolute order inside prisons), that's a pretty clear constitutional violation.
And I'm just as infuriated by spurious 8th amendment claims as anyone else ("I'm too fat to die", "Nutri-loaf is a violation of human rights", etc.)
roseAug 11th 2008 7:37PM
Most of these comments on here and have nothing to do with the actaul article. Atheisim and prison rape are not what is being discussed. This man chose to spy on woman without their knowledge and deserves to be locked up for as long as possible and to "be watched at all hours of the day and night" does not mean prison rape, this does happen in prison, but I believe the writer is saying that in prison you have no privacy.Im glad he confessed and my heart and best thoughts for recovery go to the women affected by this.
TerriAug 13th 2008 12:22AM
CARNEY: I ABSOLUTELY AGREE. I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT PRISON RAPE JOKES WERE NOT FUNNY. ANY TIME A PERSON IS HURT IN ANYWAY IT IS NOT FUNNY. (EVEN A CRIMINAL) SOME PEOPLE DO NOT SEEM TO GRASP THIS THROUGH. THERE ARE A LOT OF COLD HEARTED PEOPLE LACKING EMPATHY AND COMPASSION. WE SEEM TO LIVE IN AN "ANYTHING GOES" SOCIETY WHERE EVERYTHING, I MEAN EVERYTHING IS UP FOR LAUGHS. THIS IS AGAINST EVERYTHING OUR LORD JESUS TAUGHT. I FEEL SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE, BUT PEOPLE HARDLY CARE ABOUT THEIR NEIGHBORS, MUCH LESS CRIMINALS. CRIMINALS WILL ALWAYS BE LAST ON THE LIST, EVEN UNDER ANIMALS. MAYBE IF PEOPLE LOOKED AT IT LIKE AN INVESTMENT IN SOCIETY, HOW PRISONERS ARE TREATED, THEN THERE MIGHT BE CHANGE. AS FOR THE MAN WITH THE CAMARAS, I FEEL HE MUST BE PUNISHED FOR A LONG TIME. (WITHOUT BEING ASSAULTED) FOR WHAT HE DID TO THOSE POOR WOMEN.
XSemperIdem5Aug 19th 2008 5:46PM
This is why I fix my computer myself.
Paranoid people should just put a post-it on the camera lens...just to be safe.