tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post701456873145316245..comments2024-02-24T00:37:43.087-05:00Comments on The Other McCain: Texas release El Dorado reportRobert Stacy McCainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03084541621503669804noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-43338605714302258532009-04-23T11:05:00.000-04:002009-04-23T11:05:00.000-04:00Mr. McCain:
I'm a regular Mahablog reader who has...Mr. McCain:<br /><br />I'm a regular Mahablog reader who has come here from the link in question - I feel you have been misrepresented and mistreated here. Here is the comment I have left at the Mahablog:<br /><br />---<br />*blinks* Something’s not right here… I can’t match what you’ve written here with what’s written on the links. I declare shenanigans!<br /><br />The first post you link to discusses how Texas doesn’t care about underage pregnancy, only underage marriage - which doesn’t seem a wildly unfair assertion in the context in which it’s raised.<br /><br />The second post is clearly dripping with indignant sarcasm. This is someone who doesn’t believe in sex before marriage, horrified at the idea of emergency contraception which he believes encourages disrespectful relationships towards women.<br /><br />I can’t say I have many political views in common with R.S. McCain, but my quick glance here suggests you have wildly misrepresented him. Personally, I think you owe him an apology, but I doubt that’s on the cards here.<br /><br />I very much enjoy your blog, but some days you seem to fly off the handle just as badly as the “wingnuts” do…<br />---<br /><br />I'm quite certain you and I have wildly different political views, but it seems to me that you have been treated unfairly here.<br /><br />I don't see your post as defending rape at all and while I can see why someone would take that reading away, I feel confident they have not properly understood your position here.<br /><br />I have very conflicted feelings about the El Dorado FLDS compound raid - this is not as clear cut an incident as anyone wants to represent, although in US politics I'm afraid both the conservatives and the liberals are so entrenched in their positions that communication has become effectively impossible. There are serious issues to be addressed here, and they won't be solved by witch hunts and scapegoating, which seems to be fast becoming the substitute for justice in the States.<br /><br />I would advise you to be careful how you present your viewpoint on issues such as this, however, as the risk of being misunderstood is exceptionally high. <br /><br />Best wishes,<br /><br />Chris.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07550565723765898399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-75971933031424825492009-04-23T10:08:00.000-04:002009-04-23T10:08:00.000-04:00"As to my own argument -- that Texas child-welfare..."As to my own argument -- that Texas child-welfare officials overreacted by seizing all 432 children at the El Dorado compound -- this gets twisted by Mahablog into "an apology for sexual exploitation and forced marriage of girls as young as 12.""<br /><br />Actually, it was your own statement equating 15 year old girls getting pregnant with forced marriage and rape ("if Texas officials are going to launch a paramilitary raid every time a 15-year-old girl gets pregnant, they're going to need to hire some more SWAT police.") that made me think that you're a forced marriage and rape apologist.<br /><br />One involves voluntary sex, the other involves force. One is sex, the other is rape. <br /><br />See the difference?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-23657388169696299692009-01-15T14:58:00.000-05:002009-01-15T14:58:00.000-05:00So, in your opinion, what percentage of the childr...So, in your opinion, what percentage of the children would have to be rape victims for the raid to be justified?<BR/><BR/>This is rape apologism for sure. You are a douchebag.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05378642984980364026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-63481204967019020662009-01-15T09:21:00.000-05:002009-01-15T09:21:00.000-05:00Your accusations of "willful misreading" of your b...Your accusations of "willful misreading" of your blog ring rather hollow. You wrote: <BR/><BR/><EM>The crime that justified this raid in the minds of CPS officials obviously wasn't that teenage girls were having sex or having babies -- that happens every day in Texas -- but that they were "married."</EM><BR/><BR/>I think the accusation that grown me were having sex with under-age girls as young as 12 was the motivation, don't you? The problem wasn't that "girls were having sex" it was that men were raping them.<BR/><BR/>If you think that your piece reads as if the main point was<BR/><BR/><EM>that Texas child-welfare officials overreacted by seizing all 432 children at the El Dorado compound</EM> <BR/><BR/>I'm afraid you're sadly mistaken.<BR/><BR/>It's hard to read a comment like <BR/><BR/><EM>if Texas officials are going to launch a paramilitary raid every time a 15-year-old girl gets pregnant</EM><BR/><BR/>without seeing it as an apologetic. You seem to be implying that cult-members having sex with 12-year-olds is <EM>exactly the same</EM> as your average 15-year-old Texan girl getting herself knocked up. But maybe you could explain how that's not what you meant at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-5914336105462764242008-12-27T23:14:00.000-05:002008-12-27T23:14:00.000-05:00so your not ok with the patriot act, wiretapping p...so your not ok with the patriot act, wiretapping pretty much everyone and gitto? or are you only upset about abuse of power if the person doing is not a republican.<BR/>BTW, it sure seems like a lot of you conservatives go on and on about immorality and then wind up dead in a wet suit with a dildo up your ass. I am just sayin thats all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-54622960696967104622008-12-27T18:37:00.000-05:002008-12-27T18:37:00.000-05:00It's called Right Wing Little Dick Syndrome. It's...It's called Right Wing Little Dick Syndrome. It's real. It exists.Driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14483403354004651524noreply@blogger.com