Comments on: Under the Gold Dome – The U.S. Weighs in on the Death of Brooke Bennett http://www.vermonter.com/vtpress/2008/07/from-under-the-gold-dome-the-us-weighs-in-on-the-death-of-brooke-bennett/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-under-the-gold-dome-the-us-weighs-in-on-the-death-of-brooke-bennett Remembering the way life used to be! Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:58:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eddie http://www.vermonter.com/vtpress/2008/07/from-under-the-gold-dome-the-us-weighs-in-on-the-death-of-brooke-bennett/#comment-86239 Eddie Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:32:31 +0000 http://www.vermonter.com/vtpress/?p=124#comment-86239 Yeah that was a pretty heinous crime to be sure. This state has always been pretty whacked out as far as I'm concerned. I remember attending high school in Vermont and it was nothing unusual for many of the teachers to be sleeping around with 14 to 16 year old girls. Not just the men but the women teachers too. A friend of mine used to brag about hitting the sack with his female science teacher. Now, some of those teachers are even married to those under aged girls they used to tag. Pretty common thing back a couple decades ago. Everybody knew about it but it was no big deal. I wonder if it's still going on in the schools today. Yeah that was a pretty heinous crime to be sure. This state has always been pretty whacked out as far as I’m concerned.
I remember attending high school in Vermont and it was nothing unusual for many of the teachers to be sleeping around with 14 to 16 year old girls. Not just the men but the women teachers too. A friend of mine used to brag about hitting the sack with his female science teacher. Now, some of those teachers are even married to those under aged girls they used to tag.
Pretty common thing back a couple decades ago. Everybody knew about it but it was no big deal. I wonder if it’s still going on in the schools today.

]]> By: Verna Weed http://www.vermonter.com/vtpress/2008/07/from-under-the-gold-dome-the-us-weighs-in-on-the-death-of-brooke-bennett/#comment-85613 Verna Weed Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:12:19 +0000 http://www.vermonter.com/vtpress/?p=124#comment-85613 Golly,gee!! I just can't understand those folks from Chicago and New York making such nasty comments about "wonderful Vermont". I guess they just don't understand that trans-genders and gays and lesbians are more important here! Murderers and child molesters just can't be mistreated, to hell with what they have done to their victims. They are dead and gone, who cares?? As the judge said in our case, we have to look to the future of this young man. He got 10 years to life. He got out in 20,it would have been less if we hadn't gone to parole hearings. Something has to be done to light a fire under some of our legislators. I wonder how fast they would pass Jessica's Law if it were one of there kids????? Golly,gee!! I just can’t understand those folks from Chicago and New York making such nasty comments about “wonderful Vermont”. I guess they just don’t understand that trans-genders and gays and lesbians are more important here! Murderers and child molesters just can’t be mistreated, to hell with what they have done to their victims. They are dead and gone, who cares?? As the judge said in our case, we have to look to the future of this young man. He got 10 years to life. He got out in 20,it would have been less if we hadn’t gone to parole hearings. Something has to be done to light a fire under some of our legislators. I wonder how fast they would pass Jessica’s Law if it were one of there kids?????

]]> By: Vermonter http://www.vermonter.com/vtpress/2008/07/from-under-the-gold-dome-the-us-weighs-in-on-the-death-of-brooke-bennett/#comment-85600 Vermonter Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:13:37 +0000 http://www.vermonter.com/vtpress/?p=124#comment-85600 I would have to disagree with the writer from Chicago who refers to Bangkok, Thailand as a child rapist capital. Bangkok has very strict laws concerning sex with minors. The penalty is a very long term stay in a Thai prison (check out the book "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/000-Days-Survival-Bangkok-Prison/dp/0312253648/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215638733&sr=1-1" target="blank" rel="nofollow">4,000 Days: My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison</a>"), which makes American prisons look like holiday retreats. Bangkok (and many other countries including Brazil) always have a need for native speaking English teachers. Unfortunately, the jobs don't pay that well. This makes it easy for foreign perverts to infiltrate an elementary school where children are an easy target. People like John Mark Carr and other monsters. Unfortunately, he got a plane escort back to the USA when I'd rather have heard about him wasting away in a Thai prison. The stereotypical view of Thailand and Bangkok in particular is drugs and sex. If you've ever lived there, you would find that it's not a place where you would want to get caught indulging on the illegal side of either one. Anyone with half a brain and a sense of decency wouldn't have to worry about that anyway. If you are a drug addict and a pervert, the USA and Vermont in particular is a MUCH easier place to get by if you get caught. My wife is a Thai woman with a Bachelors degree from the most prestigious university in Thailand. Her friends, relatives and people I have met are the most gracious people I've come to know. Their moral values meet or exceed what I find in Vermont and the USA in general. I can tell you that many Thai people have a stereotypical view of Americans as fat, rich, pushy, drug addicted losers. From their point of view, I'm sure they consider the USA as THE capital of sex perversion and child molestation. It must be so, because it's always Americans and other Westerners who get caught in their country engaging in such acts. No wonder they're suspicious of every foreign tourist that visits their land. I don't recall hearing about many Thai perverts getting caught for such activities in the USA. I would have to disagree with the writer from Chicago who refers to Bangkok, Thailand as a child rapist capital. Bangkok has very strict laws concerning sex with minors. The penalty is a very long term stay in a Thai prison (check out the book “4,000 Days: My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison“), which makes American prisons look like holiday retreats.

Bangkok (and many other countries including Brazil) always have a need for native speaking English teachers. Unfortunately, the jobs don’t pay that well. This makes it easy for foreign perverts to infiltrate an elementary school where children are an easy target. People like John Mark Carr and other monsters.
Unfortunately, he got a plane escort back to the USA when I’d rather have heard about him wasting away in a Thai prison.

The stereotypical view of Thailand and Bangkok in particular is drugs and sex. If you’ve ever lived there, you would find that it’s not a place where you would want to get caught indulging on the illegal side of either one. Anyone with half a brain and a sense of decency wouldn’t have to worry about that anyway. If you are a drug addict and a pervert, the USA and Vermont in particular is a MUCH easier place to get by if you get caught.

My wife is a Thai woman with a Bachelors degree from the most prestigious university in Thailand. Her friends, relatives and people I have met are the most gracious people I’ve come to know. Their moral values meet or exceed what I find in Vermont and the USA in general.

I can tell you that many Thai people have a stereotypical view of Americans as fat, rich, pushy, drug addicted losers. From their point of view, I’m sure they consider the USA as THE capital of sex perversion and child molestation. It must be so, because it’s always Americans and other Westerners who get caught in their country engaging in such acts. No wonder they’re suspicious of every foreign tourist that visits their land. I don’t recall hearing about many Thai perverts getting caught for such activities in the USA.

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