Once when I was 14 years old and in my freshman year of high school, I was sitting on the bleachers in gym class and a group of boys the same age as me sitting behind me were talking raunchy with one another. The middle school from which I had transferred upon being promoted from the eighth grade to the ninth grade had a really bad problem with bullying. A friend and a classmate of mine had told me that high school was not going to be as rough as middle school was. In any event, I tried to avoid consorting with these boys who were sitting behind me in gym class, because I did not like their demeanor.
One of the boys was badmouthing another male student, and he commented that this same student could not even rape a 4-year-old girl. I then thought, “Why would anybody our age want to rape a 4-year-old girl?” The conversation that was taking place behind me on the bleachers was all so creepy and unsettling to hear.
Nowadays there is greater awareness among Americans regarding the problem with teenage male minors sexually molesting and raping small children than there was in years past despite that our criminal justice system and our court system have continued to go way too easy on underage adolescent boys for sex crimes in general. Dr. Phil even had a couple appear on his television show who expressed their concern that their 15-year-old son was on a destructive pathway to becoming a pedophile. Here is the clip from that same show in the YouTube video below.
Parents Express Their Concern To Dr. Phil McGraw Over Their 15-Year-Old Son’s Sexually Predatory Behavior Toward Small Children
At the same time, pedophile-panic paranoia has been running rampant in our nation. Recently an 18-year-old YouTuber named Tori Assise slandered a man in one of her videos by accusing him of being a pedophile inasmuch as he had merely invaded her space as described in Jason B Truth’s article titled “Eighteen-Year-Old Women Are Not Little Girls.” Somehow I don’t think that pedophiles make it a habit to gravitate toward women who are above the legal age of majority as Ms. Assise is.
Now, I wouldn’t go as far as accusing Ms. Assise of being a femi-Nazi extremist in the same manner that I accused Marielle Devereaux of being one in my article titled “Say NO To Pedophile-Panic Propaganda!”, but I would still have to say that she is not far off from becoming one in the near future if she continues to hang on to that same perspective of hers regarding her recent ordeal with what appeared to be an obsessive older male fan of hers. She should have known better than to engage in mendacious pedo-shaming in the way she did in her above-described video. My article titled “What Is Mendacious Pedo-Shaming?” describes this same type of wrongdoing in detail.
1. Recent California Legislation Stirred Up Massive Controversy Throughout The United States Of America
If you read my article titled “Should Statutory Rape Be A Strict-Liability Offense?”, you may remember that I mentioned about an article titled “CA Democrats Author Bill To Protect Sex Offenders Who Lure Minors” by Katy Grimes. Therein Ms. Grimes described a bill that was awaiting a signature from California Governor Gavin Newsom at the time that would grant judges in criminal courts in their state jurisdiction the discretion to determine whether or not someone who violated the California statutory age of consent should go on that state’s sex-offender registry if the age difference between the alleged perpetrator and the alleged victim was fewer than 10 years.
It is California Senate Bill 145. Their senate had already passed the bill; and the Governor of that state jurisdiction signed it into law very recently, which I’m glad he did. There is an article titled “Newsom signs bill intended to end discrimination against LGBTQ people in sex crime convictions” in the Los Angeles Times that explains why Governor Newsom decided to sign this bill into law.
Ms. Grimes had written her article titled “CA Democrats Author Bill To Protect Sex Offenders Who Lure Minors” somewhat poorly, because she failed to inform her readers that this same bill did not involve anyone younger than 14 years of age. Like so many other people in the comments section for that article who were just as anti-pedophile as I am, I had become concerned that this bill would grant predatory teenage boys sexual access to prepubescent children. A recent article titled “Fact check: New California sex offender law does not legalize pedophilia” by Andrew Sheeler clarified that this bill only served the purpose to expand upon a 1944 law that was already in effect, so that members of the LGBTQ community would not be treated disparately in the eyes of the law.
Nevertheless, Ms. Grimes’s article attracted many angry people in its comments section that can be best described as an echo chamber that encouraged a mob mentality. A Randy therein posted:
If I caught some 18 year old S.O.B. with my 16 year old daughter he would not live long enough to face any charges! Period!
Okay, Randy. I’m sure that Todd Palin felt the same way about Levi Johnston after he found out that he had raped his daughter, Bristol Palin, while she was inebriated and unconscious back when she was in high school. Never mind that Levi was only four months older than Bristol when he committed this same reprehensible act.
Also, I would not doubt that Mr. Palin might have just gone ahead and decided to act on his feelings of rage in that regard if he had found out about the rape when Sarah Palin was still the Governor of Alaska. Then Sarah Palin could have given him a full gubernatorial pardon so that he would be spared the indignities of prison. However, California Senate Bill 145 doesn’t really have anything to do with that scenario.
There was also a whole mob of angry parents in the comments section of Ms. Grimes’s above-described article who ranted and raved about how wrong it was for high-school-age adolescents to have significantly older others who may have been close to 10 years their senior, and they whined that they believed that California Senate Bill 145 would have acted as sort of a Romeo-and-Juliet provision to their statutory-rape laws for those same types of scenarios. However, Andrew Sheeler’s above-described article clarified that that was not the case at all. His article explained that this same bill was only seeking to give LGBTQ adults the same treatment from the law as heterosexual adults whenever they crossed over the forbidden line that divides them from underage adolescents in terms of legal sexual activity.
Whenever anyone in the comments section of Ms. Grimes’s above-described article disagreed with the angry mob of parents, they received responses from them such as, “You must be a pedophile” or “Do you have kids? Thought so.” None of these parents likely have the medical credentials they need to diagnose anyone as being a pedophile; and if they did, they would not be allowed to do so in an online comments section but rather in a formal therapy setting. Moreover, I never see parents like these running to elected officials to demand that they change the tax laws so that childless taxpayers would not have to pay taxes into funding the public school system, but they always manage to bring up the argument on whether or not someone has kids every time anyone disagrees with them on juvenile-justice-related issues. In that sense, they absolutely love double standards.
Nevertheless, San Francisco State Senator Scott Wiener, the legislator who wrote the bill, has received numerous death threats. Opponents of this same bill in the California legislature like Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez are trying to make themselves look like heroes for disparaging not only this bill but also the people who support it. Hmm. Assemblywoman Gonzalez? Are you sure that your last name didn’t used to be BOBBITT?
Assemblywoman Gonzalez has stated:
I cannot in my mind, as a mother, understand how sex between a 24-year-old and a 14-year-old could ever be consensual. How it could ever not be a registerable offense?
I challenge everybody: Give me a situation where a 24-year-old had sex with a 14-year-old, any kind of sex, and it wasn’t predatory.
Oh, get off your moral high horse, Assemblywoman Gonzalez! Your state jurisdiction has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the nation. Therefore, the authorities there are usually reluctant to prosecute a man in his mid-twenties for having sexual intercourse with a high-school girl or even a middle-school girl after that same girl becomes pregnant with that man’s baby. An attorney had even told the parents of a 25-year-old California man so, after they had explained to her in a public forum that he had gotten a 15-year-old pregnant. I describe this same incident in my article titled “Corey Feldman Is Not Morally Superior To Social-Media Influencer Tony Lopez.”
Perhaps, Assemblywoman Gonzalez, you don’t understand how sex between a 24-year-old and a 14-year-old could ever be consensual, because you don’t take the time to understand. I can give you a multitude of situations where a 24-year-old had sex with a 14-year-old that was not predatory.
When my mother and I were vacationing in Petersburg, Virginia so many years ago, we met a 25-year-old woman named Starr. She later told us that she had gotten pregnant at the age of fourteen, and she had a baby girl at the age of fifteen. The father of her baby was 24 years old at the time that she found out that she was pregnant, but her parents were decent enough to allow for her to marry him and keep both the police and the court system out of the picture. Sending him to prison and forcing him to live on the sex-offender registry for all eternity would not have benefited Starr or the daughter that she and this young man had procreated in any manner despite what Assemblywoman Gonzalez may believe. Part E of my article titled “The Great American Controversy Over Underage Marriage” provides you with the details about it.
Now, I could tell Assemblywoman Gonzalez that there are so many deadbeat teenage fathers in our nation that she should be more concerned about them coming into contact with a 14-year-old girl than a 24-year-old man doing so. I could tell her that she should be thinking more about encouraging the proper elected officials to pass laws that would draft deadbeat teenage fathers into the military rather than laws that would demonize 20-something-year-old men every time that they stepped up to the plate and married their pregnant 13-, 14- or 15-year-old girlfriend.
I could tell Assemblywoman Gonzalez that because of narrow-minded people like her in positions of authority and power, it is a good thing that California kept it legal for adolescents to wed before the age of eighteen after the Fraidy-Reiss tornado plowed through Sacramento and sought to stir up trouble as described in my article titled “California Proceeds With Caution Regarding Underage Marriage Bill.” I could tell Assemblywoman Gonzalez that she needs to work on reforming the inheritance laws in her state jurisdiction if she is really concerned about the well-being of minors to bring our nation one step closer to saving children who have suffered abuse and incest at the hands of their parents or other elders, from an adulthood of poverty and homelessness.
I could tell Assemblywoman Gonzalez that nations that have lower statutory ages of consent than the United States of America tend to have lower teenage pregnancy rates than the rest of the world. I could tell her that Austria, Italy and Bulgaria all three have statutory ages of consent of 14 years old, and they get along perfectly fine. Also, I could tell her that I would not doubt that 14-year-old girls in those three nations have had romantic relationships with 24-year-old men that may have involved sexual intimacy, and these girls did not ultimately feel like rape victims.
I could tell Assemblywoman Gonzalez that there are still state jurisdictions in our nation where underage boys can bring statutory-rape charges against adult women whom they have forcibly raped. I can tell her that there are still state jurisdictions in our nation where teenage girls can be prosecuted for contempt of court merely for refusing to testify against their older adult boyfriends as a victim witness in a frivolous and malicious statutory-rape case against them.
I could tell Assemblywoman Gonzalez a whole myriad of information that I have included in previous articles of mine regarding this issue here on the Hive blockchain. However, I think that what lawmakers like her really need to know about is the dark, disgusting, and tragic side to the statutory-rape laws throughout our nation that seldom ever gets discussed in a public forum.
2. Statutory-Rape Laws Are Being Misused To Destroy People’s Lives
In my article titled “Should Statutory Rape Be A Strict-Liability Offense?”, I embedded a YouTube video containing a news clip about Alisha Dean, who was a 13-year-old girl back in 2008 who tricked adult men into going to bed with her and then got them into trouble with the law for doing so because of her age. Unfortunately, Alisha Dean is not unique. There are many other Alisha Deans out there who unleash misery on those who make the mistake of falling for their shenanigans.
Nearly a decade ago I stumbled across a discussion thread containing complaints from individuals against whom teenage girls and their families had misused the statutory-rape laws to ruin their lives as well as the lives of their loved ones. The website that contained this discussion thread belonged to a law firm called The Premier Defense Group that specialized in defending people who had been charged with sex crimes.
The discussion thread pertained to an article titled “Who is the Sexual Predator – The Accused or the Lying Teen?” Several months ago I tried to pull that discussion thread back up along with the article in my computer bookmarks, but The Premier Defense Group had already removed it from their website. Luckily, I was able to find a copy of that same discussion thread along with its article titled “Who is the Sexual Predator – The Accused or the Lying Teen?” elsewhere on the Internet recently.
Now, please don’t laugh when I tell you that I took part in that discussion thread under the username of “Billy Jay,” especially whenever you come across my posts therein. No, I’ve never been convicted or even arrested for a sexual offense; but I just had to put my two cents into that same discussion, as so much important things were said and so much important information was exchanged between individuals who had fallen victim to an upside-down criminal justice system and court system because of Draconian and faulty statutory-rape laws and the likes.
One comment that really caught my eye was from a gentleman who went by the username of “Was Not Was.” Therein he posted:
This is typical of life in nazi america, and it continues to get worse. Attitudes were very different until about a dozen years ago, and then the hysteria started as a national epidemic disease. The only real solution is to escape from this tyranny. My own solution is to finish my training in one of the few fields that have a high growth rate in the job market, and I will be looking at other countries that have growing economies. I want to get out of this nazi dictatorship before the government closes the borders, as most tyrannies have done in the past and present. When the U.S. dollar loses it status as the world’s reserve currency (as is happening now), the U.S. economy will plunge into a depression (this won’t have as big an effect on the rest of the world since they won’t be as dependent on the U.S. dollar), and that will be when the government will attempt to prevent the exodus of wealth and talent. If necessary, I’ll even renounce my U.S. citizenship, since our “wonderful” government tends to like to follow it’s citizens around the world trying to catch them doing legal activities that they can call a “crime”. The american people are increasingly monstrous sociopaths, who will destroy the lives of others on a whim, and for their own egos. I’m disgusted with this country, and would much rather be able to observe it from a distance, and laugh at how pathetically insane most of the population is. You may find my attitude and approach extreme, but I assure you, people like me will become a growing trend.
I responded to this gentleman a year after he had posted this same comment of his therein. Therein I posted:
It’s interesting that you should mention that. I once read an article that this book that the U.S. State Department publishes annually with the names of individuals who have renounced their U.S. citizenship gets thicker and thicker every year. Perhaps this is a wake-up call to all of these self-proclaimed American patriots who believe our government and criminal justice system can do no wrong.
Two years later I added another response to his comment. Therein I posted:
Also, would you believe that the U.S. Department of State charges a $2,300 administrative fee to anyone who applies to renounce their American citizenship? In 2014 alone, there were close to 3000 people who applied to expatriate permanently from the U.S., and now there is a 6-month waiting period to do so. You speak the words of wisdom, dude.
What is really scary is that much of what “Was Not Was” stated in his post above has come true since then. I certainly hope that he made it to wherever it was he had planned on immigrating. If he was smart, which he seemed to be so, he probably took a one-way flight to New Zealand and never looked back, when he still had the chance.
I do briefly elaborate on how this entire expatriation process works in Part 2 of my article titled “President Trump Should Veto Immigration Bill Regarding Underage Marriage.” If you want to know more about it, feel free to read that same article of mine. Last time that I checked, over 6,000 people had expatriated from the United States of America and had renounced their United States citizenship within one year. My prediction is that such a number is only going to continue to increase because of the way that our sex laws are throughout our nation.
Punkrockylives posted a comment therein in which he or she claimed that he or she was going to write his or her first book about the problem with sexually promiscuous minors taking wrongful advantage of the statutory-rape laws in this nation. Well, let’s just say that I was glad to read that same comment, because the more people who write about this subject matter, the more public awareness there will be regarding it; and maybe our lawmakers will finally have no other choice but to wake up and smell the coffee; and then legislation will be passed to reform these same laws.
The biggest complaint that circulated throughout this discussion thread was how loved ones of the commenters had suffered all forms of brutality, including sexual violence, after they had to begin serving time behind bars for a crime they didn’t commit, because some 15-, 14- or even 13-year-old nymphet decided to make a false accusation against them in the form of a phony baloney story about how she was seduced and felt devastated from a sexual encounter that never even happened. Americans who are addicted to watching reruns of “To Catch A Predator” on YouTube are clueless on what the real world of teenage sexuality is like. They don’t want to believe that anything else exists outside their Puritanical bubble other than what they’ve allowed themselves to be brainwashed into believing.
Overly ambitious online “predator” catchers know that these idiots exist everywhere here in our nation. Therefore, they set out to drum up business for themselves by conducting online sex-sting operations and posting their “catches” on YouTube and elsewhere on social media. They have Patreon accounts and the likes that receive generous donations from brain-dead individuals who buy into all of their pedophile-panic propaganda. For them, it’s all about the money rather than the truth.
For that reason, intelligent lawmakers like San Francisco State Senator Wiener are out there, trying to fix the damage that these societal fundamentalists and social-justice warriors have inflicted upon our society. And no. I want nobody to be making jokes and be asking whether Scott Wiener is any relation to Anthony Weiner. The two men likely don’t even know each other and will never meet each other in their respective lifetimes. Their respective last names aren’t even spelled the same way. Let’s keep it real.
The fact that both the California Police Chiefs Association and the California District Attorneys Association support California Senate Bill 145 shows that much thought and thorough research have been put into this same piece of legislation. Otherwise, two law-enforcement organizations would not have had anything to do with it at all. If all of these hotheads who oppose this bill, which is now a law, just took the time to get all their facts straight instead of responding to it with knee-jerk reactions, they would likely see that this same bill serves a good purpose.
Unfortunately, all the self-proclaimed child advocates and all the self-appointed pedo-experts continue to believe that this bill was somehow a get-out-of-jail-free card for pedophiles. If I were in Governor Gavin Newsom’s shoes, I would be mandating that all of these same narrow-minded people be required to look up the actual definition of pedophilia in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (“DSM-5”) so that they could realize that adolescents above the age of fourteen have nothing to do with that paraphilia in a victim-related sense.
I’ve seen Bill Maher interview Governor Newsom on his HBO series Real Time With Bill Maher on various occasions, and after having done so, I have to admit that I may not be a big fan of Governor Newsom. However, if Governor Newsom is brave enough to stand up against all of these self-proclaimed child advocates and self-appointed pedo-experts and he is sensible enough not to coddle them, then he has my vote of confidence.
3. My Conclusion To This Topic
As someone who is just as anti-pedophile as the most of you are, I can understand why society wants to pass laws that will protect children from sexual predators. However, let’s stop fooling ourselves into believing that sexually active teenagers and sexually promiscuous teenagers are no different from innocent little souls who are still in the crayons-and-playground phase of their life. Overly Draconian and faulty statutory-rape laws and the likes are a recipe for oppression and wrongful imprisonment.
San Francisco State Senator Scott Wiener wrote California Senate Bill 145 to put a stop to discrimination based upon sexual orientation that existed within a statute that had been on the law books since 1944. The law had specified that if a perpetrator of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor over the age of fourteen was fewer than ten years older than his or her alleged victim in cases of vaginal sexual intercourse, then a judge had the discretion to allow for a defendant in a criminal case of that nature to avoid the indignities of the sex-offender registry there in California. California State Senator Wiener’s bill set out to include other forms of sexual intercourse within that same law to prevent both the criminal justice system and the court system from treating members of the LGBTQ community disparately there in California. It was not a get-out-of-jail-free card nor was it a Romeo-and-Juliet provision in that state jurisdiction’s statutory-rape laws.
Governor Gavin Newsom made a wise choice in signing this same bill into law recently. He may have to confront opposition and antagonism from droves of self-proclaimed child advocates and self-appointed pedo-experts who continue to live inside their Puritanical bubble. However, he will still proudly be able to say that he did not allow for these people to absorb him into their make-believe world of age-appropriate perfection, and, in my humble opinion, that form of bravery is what true leadership is all about.
May California Senate Bill 145 be the first step of many that both the California state legislature and the Governor of California take to reform the Draconian and faulty statutory-rape laws and the likes that have turned our nation into a tyranny. We cannot truly protect children from harm if we have statutes on our law books that make a mockery out of our criminal justice system and our court system, and California Senate Bill 145 recognized that same problem right off the bat. Hopefully, now that it has been signed into law, it will ignite a legislative trend throughout our nation so that we can see an end to all the madness and misery that Draconian and faulty statutory-rape laws have caused in their present form.
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