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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: bijou on December 23, 2010, 04:42:08 PM
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Good News (Non-Sarcastically, I Mean): Obama Appointee With Special Fondness For Sexual-Sadist Serial Killers Fails To Secure Promotion to Court of Appeals
Confirmed
DrewM alerted me to this.
You may remember this awful character.
In a series of cases involving defendants found guilty of child pornography, rape and sexual assault cases, Chatigny used the process of downward departure to reduce their sentences.
Chatigny's theory was that sexual sadism was a mental defect and therefore a mitigating, if not entirely exonerating, factor in sentencing. Which is true in its premise and utterly false in its conclusion: Yes, almost all serial killers, serial rapists, sexual predators, etc., do in fact have some kind of very bad chemicals in their head that causes them to channel all the energy human beings usually devote to sexual/romantic positioning and pursuit into targeting, stalking, capturing, torturing and killing people (especially women and children); that is, they're so evil they've conflated torture and murder with sexual release. Yes, that means they do suffer some compulsions the average person just doesn't.
But the conclusion? That they therefore should be given a limited (or even full!) pass for their crimes, which are spectacular in their evil horror? What? ... Although we frequently get on the GOP for selling us out (quite properly), we can also note the times they get something right. I have to quote this guy again:
as a result of unprecedented Republican political gamesmanship, President Obama ends the first half of his first term with a smaller percentage of his nominees confirmed than any previous president.
If that were any briefer I would put that on a pro-GOP bumper sticker. ...
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