Yet another noble savage "honor student"

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According to neocon provocateur "Jack Bauer", the justice system in the
South is rigged in order to prove that each state has PC credentials. This
case puts that contention to rest, at least where the

Below is a mild version of the events. "Never-in-trouble" "student-athelete"
Genarlow Wilson and his homies gave alcohol and drugs to two girls,
detained one of them against her will, had sex with them, and then paid
the consequences. Now, the national media from the NYT to NPR to ESPN,
fine Episcopalians that they are, are clamoring in support of Genarlow's lawyer
BJ Bernstein as she grandstands at the Georgia capitol. Never mind that
Genarlow's intention, once he finished with the underage girls, was to display
the video of his conquest to all his other upstanding friends. Now he's just
a good kid who made a simple mistake. The white liberals that have joined
Al Sharpton and other career race hustlers in supporting special legislation for
Genarlow are ignoring that if this is granted over 1,300 child molesters in Georgia
may be helped to go free. Only if their own daughters are victims of a Mandingo
assault will they realize their mistake, and perhaps not even then.

White liberals- and Oprah- got another black rapist in Georgia, Marcus Dixon,
out of trouble after he raped a young white girl. The race card was played,
and noble savage Dixon went on to play college football.

These heroes might want to make sure that when the media pressure finally
results in gaining them their freedom, they don't stop until hitting a far-distant
state line. In more rational days, this type of dog and pony show wouldn't
have been necessary, and Wilson and Dixon would have met the same justice
granted Ms. Bernstein's co-religionist, Leo Frank- that is, justice at the end
of a rope.

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Sunday, February 18, 2007

GENARLOW WILSON & SB 37: WHO IS THE VICTIM?
Sen. Eric Johnson

Genarlow Wilson was charged with rape, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, aggravated sodomy and aggravated child molestation. He and five buddies videotaped their “party” with two young girls – one of who was 17 and another who was 15.

Mr. Wilson engaged in intercourse with the 17-year old even after she was “semi-conscious” from alcohol and drugs. In fact, Mr. Wilson is abusive while having sex with the passed out girl – a fact ignored by the media, but witnessed by the jury – and encouraged the others to join him. And five of the six received oral sex from the minor. This is against the law in Georgia because a minor is not deemed capable of consenting to such an act. This was not two star-crossed lovers on a date!

Five of the six men pled guilty to the lesser charge of child molestation. They will serve three to six years. Mr. Wilson decided to fight – and he was convicted by a unanimous jury of his peers of aggravated child molestation. (They could have found him “not guilty” and didn’t.) Between conviction and sentencing, he was again offered the plea bargain instead of the mandatory 10 year sentence. He refused and accepted the sentence. That offer, by the way, is still available today. He can go before the judge any time and request a retrial and receive the lesser sentence. He and his lawyer appear to prefer martyrdom to the five additional years in prison. The Georgia Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court have upheld the conviction. They now have a publicist and a web site and are raising money for his defense (even though the case is over).

Last year, Georgia passed a very strict new sexual predator law. Within the new law was flexibility for prosecutors for consensual sex between a 15 and 17 year old. However, I don’t believe the legislature anticipated permitting leniency for six young men with 40 prior arrests among them enjoying a semi-conscious teenager and a minor girl.

But the issue before the Georgia General Assembly today is SB 37. The bill would allow defense attorneys to petition judges to re-open every case of a convicted sex offender who engaged in sodomy, child molestation, aggravated child molestation, or enticed a child for indecent purposes if the convicted sex offender and their minor victim were less than four years apart. The victims involved could be as young as 13. I strongly oppose any legislative effort to require the courts to revisit over 1100 cases like Wilson’s. They violated the law. Police arrested them. District attorneys chose to prosecute them. Grand juries decided to indict them. Juries convicted them (when they could have found them “not guilty”). Each of those convictions left a scarred victim – a minor child. The legislature should not second guess the process. We did not listen to the testimony or see the evidence. I hate to think of the emotional burden on thousands of victims, the cost to the taxpayers, and the delay in justice to pending court cases if this bill were to pass.

People seem to forget that two teenage girls, including a minor, are the victims. The 17 year old girl accused the young men of rape. She has never recanted. Sex with a semi-conscious female who cannot grant consent is rape. A minor cannot give consent. I stand with the girls. Genarlow Wilson is NOT the victim. The two girls in a hotel room with 6 stoned adults are the victims.

I also stand with future possible victims of politically correct apologists who want to turn loose convicted sexual predators. There is very real danger involved. One of Mr. Wilson’s buddies in the hotel room, while awaiting trial, impregnated a 12 year old and has been convicted of statutory rape.

Usually, society complains about sentences that are perceived as too soft. Granted, this sentence was harsh. But it was MANDATORY under the law. Life comes with accountability for our decisions. Genarlow Wilson could have selected different friends to hang with. Between them, they had more than 40 prior arrests. He could have joined millions of law-abiding teens all over the country enjoying New Years’ Eve without alcohol, drugs and sex. He could have left the hotel when “the fun” started. Or Genarlow could have joined one of the young men and refused the sexual opportunities. He didn’t. He made a choice. Now his life has changed forever. That is very sad. I hope other young men and girls will learn from this tragedy and avoid his errors.


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And on a related note:

Black footballers charged with gang-rape of intoxicated 12-year-old White girl

Chris CollinsIn May 2004, Chris Collins (Christopher Edward Collins, Jr) and another (black) man were arrested and charged with sexually assaulting an intoxicated 12-year-old girl at a hotel in Texarkana, Tex., during an after-prom party. Two other men were charged in December 2005. Collins pleaded not guilty in March, after being indicted by a grand jury in December 2004. The case has created controversy in Texarkana, a small city of 35,000 on the Arkansas border. Collins and the three other men are black and the girl is white; some black residents have questioned whether the case has racial overtones. Collins confessed to the police that he had sex with the girl. The girl said she did not consent

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