The Velvet StraitJacket

I get the need to protect children from the media. In most cases, it’s a really great idea. We don’t want the little heathens to get the idea that if they want to be famous all they have to do it is get pregnant as a teen or commit some crime and get their name and/or face splashed all over media-dom. We have enough Kardashians and Hiltons and even that 17-year old year old who seems to only know how to pout and pose, but I think we’ve, or more specifically CNN, has just taken this practice of protecting children from their selves and their desperation for fame a wee bit to far…..

See if you can spot the problem with this story from CNN.Com

Police in California seek boy, 14, in sexual assaults

(CNN) — Police in Oakland, California, are asking the public for its help in finding a 14-year-old boy wanted in connection with two sexual assaults.

The teen is suspected of attacking two 28-year-old women, in separate incidents on January 6 and January 12.

In the first case, the teen approached the woman while she was walking, pretended to have a firearm and demanded her wallet, before forcing her to an isolated area where he sexually assaulted her, police said.

In the second case, he approached the woman on a bicycle, again pretended to have a firearm and demanded the woman’s purse, before forcing her to an isolated area and sexually assaulted her, they said.

The teen, whom CNN is not identifying because of his age, should be considered armed and dangerous, police said.

That’s right, police are looking for this rapist that CNN isn’t identifying..

“Be on the look-out for this criminal, he is armed and dangerous..really, stay away from him, he will hurt you!”

“Who is it?”

“Can’t tell you that, just be on the lookout for him”

“ummm, ok… here’s your sign”

Nice work CNN.. I would love to see this on Anderson Cooper’s ‘Ridiculist’, but somehow I don’t think he’s going to go up against the mother-company like that.

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Is this the country the tea-bag party wants?

Arizona’s bill orders immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and requires police to question people if there’s reason to suspect they’re in the United States illegally. It also targets those who hire illegal immigrant day laborers or knowingly transport them

Taking your country back is turning it into a country where we have to carry our ‘papers’? Holy shit! Health Care makes us communist but copying something that was ‘normal’ on the other side of the Berlin wall  is just good policy? Are you kidding me? This is less government? Allowing law enforcement, at their discretion, to pull over the ‘dark skinned’ people and ask them for their papers that are now mandatory for them to carry? That’s the idea behind ‘less government’? No wonder these people love George Bush. Not only do they want entitlements just for them, but they want to live in a police state where the government can tap your phones,read  your emails,search your homes without warrants,hold you without legal representation and now stop you just to force you to produce your ‘papers’ at their leisure .  Oh an tell you what you can and can’t do in the privacy of your own bedroom AND doctor’s office. But Oh my God, let people pay for their own healthcare in an affordable way and well.. this country is just getting away from the ideals of the Forefathers and we need to get our country back!

On the heels of the Arizona initiative, Hethmon said he has been approached by lawmakers from four other states who have asked for advice on how they can do the same thing where they live. He declined to identify the states, citing attorney-client privilege

4 other states want to do this?

I’ll ask it again, what country is it exactly that these people want to live in? Because it sure isn’t the one with a greeter who says to all who enter.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
‘ With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

“Show me your papers.”

This is insanity people. This is NOT American. I don’t care how much you hate immigrants, killing  your country to try stop the unstoppable is ludicrous.. and I don’t mean the rapper.

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