Links For Brains: 4/3/2009

- Mother who allowed a cult to starve her son to death and pack his body into a suitcase pleads guilty; plea agreement includes clause that absolves her of responsibility when if god resurrects him. (In the event of zombie baby, Bigfoot will be charged.)
-  Despite conspiracy nut claims to the contrary, proposed national service system doesn’t force people to stop attending church. (Attention psychiatrists; please consider adding Institutional Persecution Fantasy to DSM-V.)
- The Ten Commandments are fundamentally sectarian, and not actually that important to American law.  (Especially since covetousness is inherent to capitalism.)
- Bush administration FDA ignored science, abused approval process to serve religious ideals when it refused over-the-counter distribution of Plan B contraceptive. (Because you’re all whores, and the only way to stop you being whores is to give you babies to raise.)


Discussion (5)¬

  1. wapy says:

    - I surely don’t recognize this world anymore… I’ve heard of many things, but I certainly never heard that if I killed someone, the charge your be taken away as soon as that person comes back to life. Oh, of course, I’m sure it is on the Law as well… But then again, even IF it was possible for the kid to come back, I am sure she should be charged anyway for what she did >_>

    However…
    - I am trying to understand what’s going on on part two.

    - Another nice proff that most of the religions we know come from stuff ‘lost in translation’. :3

    – About the pill… Sheez, some girls really need it, others should learn what it really is and the mess it does to the body and all of them should take precautions before doing something.

    • Prosecutors have a lot of options when they’re making plea deals with suspects. There isn’t a law that specifically forgives a murderer if the victim is resurrected. Since it’s so unlikely, the prosecutor could make a promise to withdraw the charges if the resurrection actually happened.

      • wapy says:

        I don’t know about the others, but if I was killed and ressurected, I would still want someone to be charged for my death O.O

        • That was my first thought. Even if he comes back to life, she still helped to starve him to death. She should pay for that, even if he somehow isn’t dead anymore.

          • wapy says:

            My thoughts exaclty. Even when someone tries to murder other person and is not able to acomplish it, it’s still charged for that. Someone’s life was threatened, having that one survived or not.