I fail to see how the Amish church ‘allowed it to happen’ when the family, by their own account, ceased to be members in 2003 and their daughter was given to Kaplan in 2012. I would also point out that arranged marriages and the marriage of underage girls to older men are not Amish traditions. Amish women typically…

Yeah. You need friction to cause rope burn (I’ve suffered enought of it to know). A rope being released from tension might leave a bruise, but that’s it. These people aren’t just racist, greedy assholes trying to protect themselves from a lawsuit, they’re also really incompetent at first aid and rope safety.

only a rapist would think like that—that by getting drunk all she was doing was offering up an opportunity to any passing dude capable of raping an unconscious woman (like you—because you saw it as an opportunity too, and proved that by making this comment). at least you know yourself, right? cool. you should go look…

That’s exactly what youre doing.

Even here, where guilt is beyond a shadow of doubt, I ask that the sentence be life imprisonment. I am no murderer, no matter how justified the state may think it is, and I want nobody killing anyone in my name, under the guise of “the people.”

I won’t cry over him but I also think we shouldn’t let the state decide who lives. Especially since we’ve proved we can’t apply it fairly.

His arteries are clogged with patriotism.

“Hillary Clinton (who is imperfect and corruptible but an competent and experienced center-left public servant)...”

As soon as a woman has a drop of alcohol in her blood, she becomes an unreliable witness. As soon as a man has a drop of alcohol in his blood, he becomes “not fully in control of himself” and therefore excusable for anything. It’s magic.