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Civil Liberties

MyOwnPeace

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4. How absurd is this?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2018, 02:29 PM

Oct 2018

A person cannot open the web page for a Brewpub without confirming that the viewer is 18, but it is OK for a 5-year old to sign away her rights?

My GAWD, what have we become?

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Our government decides that a 5-year-old child can give informed consent to waive her rights. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2018 OP

No words. -nt CrispyQ Oct 2018 #1

How has our country become this? dawg day Oct 2018 #2

The grotesqueness of the vile men who actually perform these actions cannot... Guilded Lilly Oct 2018 #3

How absurd is this? MyOwnPeace Oct 2018 #4