Could this be Karma?
Let me say this first and most importantly… everyone accused of the crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty and we are strongly against sexual abuse of any kind. It is important to establish that this post is not to implicate someone of a crime before they have been convicted and certainly not to celebrate the commission of an offense.
That said… some news that came out last night got my attention… Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is under investigation for sex trafficking a minor.
This is the same Matt Gaetz, who when running for office put out a television commercial announcing he plans to “fix” sex offender laws by creating longer mandatory minimum sentences (see: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/longer-prison-terms-only-works-for-politics/). This is also the same Matt Gaetz whose father, former Florida Senate President Don Gaetz, promised to make Florida “Scorched Earth for Sex Offenders” (see: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-xpm-2013-12-21-os-ed-sexual-predator-epidemic-20131220-story.html).
Isn’t that a bit fortuitous (again, not the offense but who the accused is)? We’ve always said that ‘until it happens to them or their child’ they won’t realize or care about the draconian laws they created.
If the allegations are proven and Matt Gaetz has to do time and register as a sex offender, he will become the beneficiary of all the “scorched earth” laws he and his father helped create. Could this be Karma?
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I hope it is Karma. Persons sometimes do not learn a lesson until they suffer through it.
Amen! Sometimes a COLDLY FORCE-FED DOSE OF EMPATHY is the BEST MEDICINE by far!
These might be false allegations. For example, the feds have charged former Seminole County Tax Collector Greenberg of sex trafficking AND Greenberg is also accused of sending to school officials allegations of sexual misconduct posing as an anonymous “concerned student,” detailing false allegations of sexual misconduct against his political opponent, as reported today by clickorlando.com (WCPX channel 6, Orlando).
Ironic, no? Those “Anonymous student complaints” Allegedly sent by Greenberg to his Republican primary opponents employer or what started this investigation. From what I’m reading, when the sheriff and others got hold of Greenberg’s computers, what do you think they found? Sounds like that little dirty trick backfired. Kind a like Devin Shapiro sending an anonymous letter saying that Your grandma was running a Ponzi scheme. LOL
Could Gaetz be the first member of the new registry? Or would he fall under the S.O. Registry?
If convicted, the SO registry.
To be fair, what we have all seen is the weaponization of these kinds of allegations. We see it is child custody disputes between parents, we see it in judicial appointments (ie SCOTUS Justices Kavanaugh and Thomas), we see it in our own walks of life. The unfortunate reality of our society today is that men (mostly) are all too often victims of false allegations. I didn’t want to be judged in the court of public opinion, even though several news outlets known for scandalous reporting ensured I was. So, let’s see how this plays out.
Send Gaetz a FAC New Member Welcome Packet.
Usually, where there’s smoke there’s fire.
This is the same Matt Gaetz, who’s father pulled some strings and called in some favors so that Matt could emerge relatively unscathed from a D.U.I
No amount of string pulling will allow him skate this time. Anything “sex with a minor” in America, it’s pretty much one and done. The public has been conditioned and radicalized not to shrug off any behavior of moral turpitude (sexual impropriety.).
His rather predictable “character assassination” claim along with his forthcoming apology tour and intent to “seeking out treatment” should be met with laughter.
It’s rather ironic to fall on the sword that you helped forge.
“Anything “sex with a minor” in America, it’s pretty much one and done.” Ha. We are guilty until proven innocent… OR RICH.
10 or 15 years ago, his rich father could’ve bought him a “contributing to the delinquency of a minor“ charge or something like that. I saw it happen at least once. My second set of lawyers said I could’ve done it myself if I had a better lawyer the first time. Today, probably not so much, not only because they’ve tightened up but also because this is not only a federal case but it’s a very high profile one. And after that Epstein decision in the 11th Yesterday, there aren’t going to be many get out of jail free cards given out for a while.