The cool and slick get away with anythng!

[Jason76]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-nugents-jailbait-problem_b_4840060


Well, even though I agree with a lot Ted Nugent says - and surely the author of this article is a strongly biased liberal who hates hillbillies, I have to admit the article is making a good point. Nonetheless, this situation happens as much on the left!

Well, I can say that so many people hide behind good socialization skills, identity politics - of whatever flavor - to get away with murder!

Imagine for a moment that Ted Nugent is not widely known as king of the inbred. Imagine, instead, that he is an attorney in Manhattan. Or Bono. Or that, instead of Courtney Love, he was accused of receiving oral sex from a 12-year-old boy. And then recording a song about how he’s really into that. After adopting a 17-year-old so he could have sex with her.

Would governors and congressmen hit the campaign trail with that guy? Would they send their children to his “Kamp for Kids” — and professional snipers? What would they say about almost any other man? They wouldn’t call him a creep or a redneck. They’d call him a pedophile.

Instead, Nugent is embraced as some sort of down-home firebrand. He’s a redneck rock star; sex with kids is just part of the package! Sarah Palin says that if a candidate “is good enough for Ted Nugent, he is good enough for me!” Congressmen invite him to the State of the Union. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is attacked (in a fairly convoluted way) for associating with Ronan Farrow.

 

[Lamb]

People with money seem to be able to buy off the influential so they don't have to pay the consequences of their actions. I hadn't heard about the 12 year old boy but as for the young girl, she was his girlfriend first from what I read and not some random girl he adopted just to have sex. Some states allow girls at a young age to have sex without it being statutory rape and others have a higher age number.

 

[Albion]

It is one of the lowest forms of journalistic dishonesty to start off a smear by saying ”Imagine, if you will….”

Ted Nugent is not a redneck, by the way. But that doesn't matter to the likes of Huffpost.

 

[tango]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-nugents-jailbait-problem_b_4840060


Well, even though I agree with a lot Ted Nugent says - and surely the author of this article is a strongly biased liberal who hates hillbillies, I have to admit the article is making a good point. Nonetheless, this situation happens as much on the left!

Well, I can say that so many people hide behind good socialization skills, identity politics - of whatever flavor - to get away with murder!

If you're well connected the rules don't apply to the same extent. It's nothing new.

In the early 1980s Grandmaster Melle Mel wrote a song called "White Lines" that included the refrain "A street kid gets arrested, gonna do some time, he'll be out three years from now just to commit more crime. A businessman is caught, with 24 kilos, he's out on bail and outta jail and that's the way it goes".

With the best will in the world, if you can afford to give law enforcement people more than they make in a year as a one-time cash payment in a brown envelope the chances are you're going to find at least some who are willing to break the rules for you. If you're trying to get by, maybe falling a bit behind on your mortgage, and someone offers you enough cash to put your kid through college and catch up with your debts, it's easy to see why people would be tempted.

 

[Albion]

Not quite the same topic, but...

I do feel that the meeting bail process is out of whack and that this is at least partially the reason why so many poorer people are sitting in jails.

 

[Jason76]

If you're well connected the rules don't apply to the same extent. It's nothing new.

In the early 1980s Grandmaster Melle Mel wrote a song called "White Lines" that included the refrain "A street kid gets arrested, gonna do some time, he'll be out three years from now just to commit more crime. A businessman is caught, with 24 kilos, he's out on bail and outta jail and that's the way it goes".

With the best will in the world, if you can afford to give law enforcement people more than they make in a year as a one-time cash payment in a brown envelope the chances are you're going to find at least some who are willing to break the rules for you. If you're trying to get by, maybe falling a bit behind on your mortgage, and someone offers you enough cash to put your kid through college and catch up with your debts, it's easy to see why people would be tempted.

In that case, why can't conservatives understand Black Lives Matter? :disgonbegood:

 

[tango]

In that case, why can't conservatives understand Black Lives Matter? :disgonbegood:

What has BLM got to do with anything?