Saturday, January 30, 2010

"Child Porn" Sexting and Compound Stupidity

I recently commented on the subject of alleged child porn sexting, noting that when I was twelve or so I would’ve been under arrest if the prevailing winds of stupidity to which Americans are currently subjected had been in effect in the late 1960s and 1970s.  One of my posts on the subject, dealing with events in Pennsylvania, is titled Arrested for “Playing Doctor” in the 21st Century. Another was titled Is Child Porn Hysteria Rising, Again?

I return to the subject this morning, after reading the following.

A pair of Indiana middle school students are the latest minors to face felony charges for allegedly “sexting” naked photos to each other. The students--a 13-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy--were charged in connection with an incident last week at Ben Franklin Middle School in Valparaiso. The students are each facing felony child exploitation and possession of child pornography charges, according to the below police report. The case against the minors began last week when the girl had her cell phone confiscated after it rang during class. Crying, she told a teacher that “a 6th grade boy had sent her a dirty picture and she was going to get into trouble.” A subsequent investigation determined that the boy had sent her a photo of his “exposed genitals” and that she had responded by texting him a shot of her “exposed body and breasts.” The girl, the report notes, showed the explicit photo of the boy to a friend of hers, a seventh grade student at a local Catholic school. After conferring with prosecutors, the juveniles were charged with the two felony counts.

If you go and read the actual Valparaiso Police Department arrest report for this case, which is linked courtesty of The Smoking Gun, you will be able to grasp the compound stupidity; operating on the same principle as compound interest; in action here, ie compound stupidity arises when stupidty is added to the initial stupidity, so that from that moment on, the stupidity that has been added also itself earns stupidty.

First, the do gooders who promulgated such a law, allowing it to be wielded against 12 year old kids, are stupid.  The teacher involved in turning the kids in compounds the stupidity, and the teacher’s stupidity is compounded by the principal of the school the kids are attending, whose stupidity is compounded by the Valparaiso Police Department until the amount of stupidity is so vast and all encompassing that reason is repelled as if by a force field of stupidity so powerful, individuals simply are benumbed and rendered stupid themselves.

How much more stupid will America become?

Via a post at Weird Universe titled How To Destroy The Lives Of Children.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/30 at 09:35 AM
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