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Cake day: February 6th, 2025

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  • I first overheard people talking about this as a kid regarding speeding tickets of all things. Given the gravity of their effect on your license demerits and resulting escalating increases in insurance rates, I was given the impression that it’s essential to show up to court and at least take a swing at contesting fines/charges. In keeping with the baseball analogy, it’s sometimes enough just to bunt, i.e. show up and hold the bat, as officers are frequently scheduled on duty when whatever applicable hearing is held. Apparently it’s enough simply to show up, given that they’ve fucked off to do something ‘more important’ instead of arranging the morning/afternoon away with their CO’s ahead of time. For more serious charges, the lesson applies doubly, the pricks will go out of their way to derail your entire life for spite. Always fight it, always, always, always. The stakes are just too high to plead out.

    To add insult to injury, they frequently deliberately waste the court’s time as a tactic to overtax the defendant’s financial resources. Making shit up serves to apply additional restrictions, bail, and possibly house arrest, assuming that the person targeted isn’t broke and has their life ruined by sitting in lockup until the first hearing (fewer and fewer people have the resources to accommodate housing expenses, let alone all of their other personal/financial obligations in the meantime, and wind up unemployed & homeless). Fabricating spurious charges has been a weapon used by police and the courts for aeons, if the pigs in L.A. weren’t still pulling this shit, I’d be shocked.













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    Not everyone, no. The victim’s pain and tribulation in years following is at the root of why so many people despise rapists, especially child rapists. It’s the absolute worst thing among the laundry list of crimes committed against minors every year, just short of murder. The incident(s) in question, and the fallout are a phenomenon widely recognized for the long-lasting damage done to them and their families, both present and future. Aside from the actual psychological impact of the crime, there’s the very well recognized classically-embedded realization that when someone too small/sexually immature is coerced into/forced to have sex, the act itself, and the pregnancy which follows can be virtual death sentences. Any grown woman who’s given birth to a 9-10+ lbs. baby/twins/triplets/quadruplets can tell you, it’s exhausting and excruciating if not downright hazardous in the wrong circumstances - those found in a pregnant Mother-to-be who’s shorter than 5’ and weighing less than 100 lbs., as nearly all minor girls are.

    People do realize IMO, that’s the heart of the issue. That’s the source of the outrage beyond rich assholes taking advantage of, and injuring young girls.

    *spoilered for possibly distressing content, sensitive readers’ discretion advised