police state.

1/28/2007 5:17:58 PM

when the jackbooted federal thugs come kick down your door in the middle of the night and shoot your wife in the head, dont you motherfuckers come crying to me.

1/28/2007 5:26:07 PM

what?




[Edited on January 28, 2007 at 5:31 PM. Reason : ]

1/28/2007 5:29:50 PM

This is the kind of thing that gets commuted/pardoned at the end of the governor's final term (when his opponents can't yell "SONNY PERDUE SUPPORTS CHILD MOLESTERS!" during his campaign).

Anyway, the article is misleading:

Quote :

"But because of an archaic Georgia law"

It's not an archaic Georgia law. If it were "archaic," this man wouldn't be sitting in jail. The legislature didn't just "forget" about it. They knew it was there. It's not like we all entered a black hole where issues of interpersonal sexuality are not of major national importance.

It's just politically impossible for the legislature in Georgia to make sensible decisions about sexual morality. The reason is that their constituency consists mainly of backwards-thinking, salt-of-the-earth yokels who sit around at the dinner table chewing overcooked meat, drinking Budweiser, and concerning themselves with everyone else's business but their own.

The Deep South apologists can wave their confederate flags all they want -- but the fact is, the south is an extremely fucked up place, and these sexual morality laws are a direct byproduct of its culture.

Just juxtapose this young man -- living, breathing, healthy, full of potential -- with Terry Schiavo. Compare their relative plights, and the reactions to them both by their local governments and by the local polity. It's practically a case study in morally bankrupt ignorance. Born and bred.

On a more positive note, at least one multi-billionaire has the right idea:

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" Personally, there is no chance I do business in the state of Georgia beyond the committment the Mavs have to play the Hawks until Genarlow is out of jail."

(Mark Cuban on his blog, http://www.blogmaverick.com/2007/01/27/genarlow-wilson/)

1/29/2007 4:43:56 AM

Tech Blogger Robert Scoble links to Mark Cuban's bit here - http://scobleizer.com/2007/01/28/thanks-to-mark-cuban-for/

Scoble's blog is the most popular blog on wordpress.com and one of the most popular tech blogs around. So add Cuban's business + sports audience to Scoble's tech audience, in addition to the main stream media coverage, and they're reaching a good amount of people

1/29/2007 10:49:01 AM

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"The Deep South apologists can wave their confederate flags all they want -- but the fact is, the south is an extremely fucked up place, and these sexual morality laws are a direct byproduct of its culture. Just juxtapose this young man -- living, breathing, healthy, full of potential -- with Terry Schiavo. Compare their relative plights, and the reactions to them both by their local governments and by the local polity. It's practically a case study in morally bankrupt ignorance. Born and bred."

I think I love you






[Edited on January 29, 2007 at 10:54 AM. Reason : ]

1/29/2007 10:52:40 AM

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"This is the kind of thing that gets commuted/pardoned at the end of the governor's final term"

You're right, except that the state of Georgia doesn't allow for pardons by the governor. They're handled by the Parole and Review Board.

1/29/2007 10:54:28 AM

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"I think I love you "

you sure you don't want to add the normal "(no homo)" to that one?

1/29/2007 11:18:45 AM

nah. i got over that whole peer-perception insecurity issue a long time ago.

1/29/2007 12:04:24 PM

Anyone who thinks Florida counts as the deep south deserves the death penalty.

1/29/2007 12:34:20 PM

most of the people who were "deeply concerned" with schiavo were from the deep south.

trent lott, bill frist being the two biggest examples I can think of.

1/29/2007 12:38:13 PM

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"Anyone who thinks Florida counts as the deep south deserves the death penalty."

well, a bit extreme.

especially when you consider

Jacksonville
Gainesville
Ocala
Pensacola
Tallahassee

..and basically everthing else north of Orlando.

plus having been to the shithole called TampaBay/Clearwater, id say theres not much else there but a bunch of rednecks hating on blacks and latinos

1/29/2007 12:45:39 PM

well as they say about Florida, the further north you go, the more south you get.
My grandparents live in the panhandle about halfway between Tallahassee an Mobile, AL, and oh yeah - it's deep south.

1/29/2007 12:57:38 PM

Is there a free Genarlow grassroots movement?

I would even put a "Free Genarlow" bumper sticker on my car, and normally, I hate political commentary type stickers on a car more than I hate liberals and neo-cons combined.

EDIT:

I donated $20... I never would have heard about this if not for TWW.
http://www.wilsonappeal.com/donate.html



[Edited on January 29, 2007 at 1:47 PM. Reason : link]

1/29/2007 1:44:07 PM

The right to get a blow job in HS is a very important right to protect.

1/29/2007 7:39:22 PM

since the girl initiated the act and they both were underage why is she not the one in prison?

1/29/2007 8:34:49 PM

brilliant.

1/29/2007 10:09:10 PM

^^^

oh yeah it's totally about high school blowjobs and not about a kid who's unjustly in fucking prison for 10 years.

1/29/2007 10:59:45 PM

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"Anyone who thinks Florida counts as the deep south deserves the death penalty."

Any state that was part of the Confederacy is part of the south, practically by definition. And it helps that they are a red state that was, no less, run by a Bush until recently.

Just because they have some pockets of civilization (as many southern states do), doesn't make them any less Southern.

1/30/2007 12:29:37 AM

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" You're right, except that the state of Georgia doesn't allow for pardons by the governor."

Well, he's screwed then. Nothing like a cold, unelected committee to let this political hot potato rot underground for eight more years.

1/30/2007 12:45:59 AM

most likely rot alone too, after the media and blogosphere forget about the story by the end of next month. Or forget about it at least until he hits the halfway point of his sentence or something and 60 minutes does another "where are they now" story, and we see a resurgence of online cries of injustice, but this time not as strong because by then he will "only" have 5 years left, and there's not anything any of us can do about it anyways....

___
oh, whoops - i see you meant the "political hot potato" will rot for 8 more years. Not the kid. but all the same....

[Edited on January 30, 2007 at 12:51 AM. Reason : .]

1/30/2007 12:50:22 AM

^

No, the kid is the political hot potato. I think the actual issue of the law is done for, after the legislature changed it.

But he's technically a child molester now and noone wants to help him. The sad fact of this situation is that there are people in this world, especially in the South, who do think he should be behind bars -- as unreal and unbelievable as that is to the rest of us.

1/30/2007 12:55:12 AM

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"The parents deserve any harassment they get."

Yeah let's see... Rather than placing blame on themselves or their daughter they used a statute that focuses bizzarely on oral sex to ruin someone's life... Yeah, they deserve more than harassement.

1/30/2007 1:25:17 AM

except that there shouldn't be any blame.

two kids hooking up is nothing to raise hell about.

If the boy was white, I just have a feeling that none of this would have happened.

1/30/2007 9:14:11 AM

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"Any state that was part of the Confederacy is part of the south, practically by definition. And it helps that they are a red state that was, no less, run by a Bush until recently."

What makes it not really a "deep-South" state isn't the state history, but the assloads of non-native southerners that live there now.

1/30/2007 11:09:54 AM

To say that Florida was a "Southern State" is crazy Florida is the only state in which you have to go north to get more southern. They are probably one of the most liberal and open minded states in the south.

1/30/2007 11:18:35 AM

^you must have never been to the panhandle.

1/30/2007 3:45:36 PM

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"but the assloads of non-native southerners that live there now."

So North Carolina isn't a southern state either, then?

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"That may not surprise North Carolina suburbanites who sometimes feel as if they live close to the last stop on the New Jersey Turnpike. A humming state economy, cheaper homes and lower local taxes lure thousands of Jerseyites each year. They're part of a broader influx. Last year, North Carolina grew by 184,000 people, roughly the size of Winston-Salem."

http://www.newsobserver.com/238/story/524278.html
("Sorry, Jersey: N.C. is 10th-biggest state")

1/31/2007 12:13:59 AM

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"(Mark Cuban on his blog, http://www.blogmaverick.com/2007/01/27/genarlow-wilson/) "

This just continues to support my theory that Mark Cuban is the greatest human being on the planet.

1/31/2007 1:20:33 PM

^^No, North Carolina is not part of the deep South.

1/31/2007 1:46:08 PM

I read this the other day

It is one of the most unfair things i have EVER heard

i feel sorry for a life ruined

1/31/2007 5:00:04 PM

How long did it take Georgia to make right with Ray Charles?

1/31/2007 5:06:14 PM

They don't serve sweet tea in a good portion of Florida. That makes them not part of the south.

1/31/2007 8:10:24 PM

would you honestly ever want a bj from that chick? thats like fucking a girl that you know has screamed rape before (as a lie, of course)... anybody who knew about it and cared about his freedom would stay the hell away...

although it WOULD be funny to get head from her once she was legal, tape it, and send it to her parents

2/1/2007 12:24:16 AM