Comment Re:"minor-attracted adults" (Score 1) 721
First, where did you get the idea people won't let me near their sons? My biggest problem is quite the opposite. I have too many parents wanting me to take their sons under my wing. I have to choose those I feel most able to help without upsetting the families of those I turn away. I just don't have the time or spare cash to help them all.
Second, where did you get the idea that Fox News is the limit of Murdoch's influence? Perhaps you might like to visit newscorp's website and see just how many outlets for news and current affairs that company does operate. Then you might like to check the share registers and see just how much cross shareholdings Murdoch and Conrad Black have in each other's companies. You'll have to dig, though. They try not to make it too obvious. Oh, and in the all important demographic that includes young parents, Fox News is the highest rated news network in the USA.
I'll bet you aren't even aware that apart from academic circles, the word paedophile (pedophile) wasn't even known until the Murdoch Press began plastering it all over their front pages.
As for your comment that parents don't want their kids sexually abused, that is totally laughable in the light of official statistics in your own country that show that more than 50% of kids who are sexually abused are abused by their own parent and when it comes to all forms of child abuse, the number goes up to 90%. Only in the US do kids as young as 9 get tried as an adult and stuck on a sex offender's register for life for playing "doctor" with the kid next door. In civilised countries this kind of bullshit doesn't happen.
A little example of the delusion you idiots suffer under. In the USA, the chances of your child drowning in a backyard swimming pool is about 1 in 2000, the chances of you running over your own child in the driveway, 1 in 1000, the chances of your child being abducted and raped by a stranger, 1 in 1,000,000. 93% of all child sexual abuse is carried out by a family member or close, long time family friend. I could supply links to that data, but I'm not going to. Do your own research. I suggest you start with the FBI's website.
Another common claim made by people who love to scream about stranger danger is that paedophiles can't be cured and will keep on raping kids ad infinitum unless they are kept locked up indefinitely. According to the FBI, sex offenders generally have the lowest recidivism rate of any classification of criminal at just 13% and child sex offenders as a sub-group come in at 7%. Of course, the screamers make a big issue of the fact that 7% also happens to be the proportion of child sexual abuse that can actually be attributed to paedophiles. They conveniently overlook the fact that most of those re-offenders are part of the 93% non-paedophile offenders who are reunited with the child upon their release from prison and simply pick up where they left off.
If you really want to debate the subject of paedophilia with me, I recommend you do some actual research first, instead of just parroting that which you hear on the nightly news or Dateline, because that's all your trumpeted "context" is. Your love of grabbing "sound bites" out of context is typical of gutter journalists and politicians, not those in any way interested in serious debate. My posts, when taken as a whole make the context very clear.
Second, where did you get the idea that Fox News is the limit of Murdoch's influence? Perhaps you might like to visit newscorp's website and see just how many outlets for news and current affairs that company does operate. Then you might like to check the share registers and see just how much cross shareholdings Murdoch and Conrad Black have in each other's companies. You'll have to dig, though. They try not to make it too obvious. Oh, and in the all important demographic that includes young parents, Fox News is the highest rated news network in the USA.
I'll bet you aren't even aware that apart from academic circles, the word paedophile (pedophile) wasn't even known until the Murdoch Press began plastering it all over their front pages.
As for your comment that parents don't want their kids sexually abused, that is totally laughable in the light of official statistics in your own country that show that more than 50% of kids who are sexually abused are abused by their own parent and when it comes to all forms of child abuse, the number goes up to 90%. Only in the US do kids as young as 9 get tried as an adult and stuck on a sex offender's register for life for playing "doctor" with the kid next door. In civilised countries this kind of bullshit doesn't happen.
A little example of the delusion you idiots suffer under. In the USA, the chances of your child drowning in a backyard swimming pool is about 1 in 2000, the chances of you running over your own child in the driveway, 1 in 1000, the chances of your child being abducted and raped by a stranger, 1 in 1,000,000. 93% of all child sexual abuse is carried out by a family member or close, long time family friend. I could supply links to that data, but I'm not going to. Do your own research. I suggest you start with the FBI's website.
Another common claim made by people who love to scream about stranger danger is that paedophiles can't be cured and will keep on raping kids ad infinitum unless they are kept locked up indefinitely. According to the FBI, sex offenders generally have the lowest recidivism rate of any classification of criminal at just 13% and child sex offenders as a sub-group come in at 7%. Of course, the screamers make a big issue of the fact that 7% also happens to be the proportion of child sexual abuse that can actually be attributed to paedophiles. They conveniently overlook the fact that most of those re-offenders are part of the 93% non-paedophile offenders who are reunited with the child upon their release from prison and simply pick up where they left off.
If you really want to debate the subject of paedophilia with me, I recommend you do some actual research first, instead of just parroting that which you hear on the nightly news or Dateline, because that's all your trumpeted "context" is. Your love of grabbing "sound bites" out of context is typical of gutter journalists and politicians, not those in any way interested in serious debate. My posts, when taken as a whole make the context very clear.
