There is a deeply troubling case out of New Hampshire where attorney Lisa Biron has been convicted on all eight counts of transportation of a minor with intent to commit criminal sexual activity, sexual exploitation of children and possession of child pornography. The jury took less than two hours to convict in a case with strong evidence and highly disturbing facts. Biron has been identified as an attorney with an anti-Gay Christian group.
Videos taken by a cellphone show Biron and the 14-year-old victim engaged in sexual activity in Biron’s home. Later videos show 14-year-old victim engaged in sexual activity at a Canadian hotel. Biron took the teen to Niagara Falls over the 2012 Memorial Day weekend to meet 19-year-old Canadian, Kevin Watson, who met the teen online. They allegedly smoked marijuana, drank alcohol and had sex. Witnesses said that Biron also arranged multiple party sex with herself and the young girl at her home and that she actively filmed and directed some of the sex.
Brandon Ore, 18, testified Biron took video of the young girl having sex and wanted him to have sex with the young girl on the couch of her living room. He later moved in with Biron.
Notably, he went to the police but when he told Biron, he testified that she drove him back to the police station to recant his statement and accept a misdemeanor charge for a false report.
It is a perfectly horrible record of debauchery and abuse. It is hard to imagine why Biron thought it could remain hidden if these allegations are true — and a jury clearly found the allegations to be obviously true.
The least that she could hope for in a sentence would be 25 years.
Source: Union Leader
@Artie: Jesus laid his life down.
No he didn’t, not in any sense that matters. If I, as an atheist, lay my life down, I cease to exist forever. The character Jesus in your fiction did not make any such sacrifice, he rose in full body three days later, fully conscious and active. He gave up a three day weekend, then proceeded to live in luxury in his father’s palace forever, right? Except for a relatively short contract follow-up gig to return and rule the Earth, I think. No real sacrifice, I don’t think.
Artie says: The false gods did not do that. They could not say that. That is because non of them did that.
You are just factually wrong, a dozen of them did that. Read some non-fiction once in a while.
Artie says: Jesus to me is seen in Yoda.
Yoda fights with a light saber and is willing to kill.
The rest is just your fevered ramblings, and all contradictory foolishness. Good luck, poor Artie.
You better know scripture before you cross swords with me.
Yes he did. He said father into thine hands I commit my spirit, and then he died. Luke 23:46 :And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. Jesus in spirit is in people suffering until this day.
◄ Matthew 25:40 ►King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Me is referring to Jesus.
Why I see Jesus in Yoda is because Yoda is child like at heart. He has no maliciousness in him . He is not froward at all. He is also not an accuser.
@Artie: I do not believe Jesus existed, actually, I think Jesus is a myth. There is no Roman record of Jesus, despite the fact that Roman records of legal actions against criminals at the same time include such trivia as fist fights and purse snatching. The earliest portrayals of Jesus are artistically identical to Dionysus, as a youthful, fit, naked greek God: Like Jesus a god of epiphany, Like Jesus a god with a mortal mother, Like Jesus killed and then reborn.
I highly recommend the freshman course on Mythologies, it is an elective I took in my first semester and highly entertaining, with a good story-telling teacher.
Of course, in the fiction Jesus is supernatural and can have mountains throw themselves into the sea at his command, kill trees with a touch, raise the dead with a word. He walks on water (that isn’t frozen!). Why would Jesus need a gun? He is more powerful than Yoda!
That would explain why, In the fiction, Jesus also preaches pacifism: Pacifism and turning the other cheek are pretty easy when you cannot actually be harmed, when you can heal even the most grievous of injuries they become minor irritations, given his other powers the character Jesus could presumably choose whether or not to feel pain at all. Even in his crucifixion the character Jesus would not plausibly have been worried about death, and in the story Jesus continued his consciousness.
A modern analogy would be to think of Jesus as God’s avatar in a video game; just like our avatars in our video games, injuries are not really felt and even avatar-fatal events can be laughed off as just another “life” lost.
Jesus is just another character in another fiction, and like all fictions the story is engineered to have any outcome the author desires. The stories in the BIble are reworked verbal fictions from hundreds and thousands of years B.C., in fact by some counts of mythology experts, about a dozen mythological saviors, all born on December 25th and crucified, preceded the Jesus character; the “greatest story ever told” was being told for two thousand years before it was recycled into the Jesus myth.
You have confused the real world with a fiction. That is foolish, Artie. Perhaps next you will aspire to become a Jedi Knight, or a Vulcan.
The Character of Jesus, and what Jesus did is not what Dionysus, did. All of the other gods were merciless. The were egocentric engaging in war. Jesus had no part in any of that. Be against war, show mercy. Judging yourself, have Jesus in you looking out of you. The beliefs in those false gods had people thinking gods over there us over here. You are looking at outward appearances with the nude statues. Jesus has a soul that can never die. Only the flesh, and blood body of Jesus died. Jesus would not use a Gun. A gun is foolishness to him. A Sword back then is like a gun is to us today, yet Jesus refused to use it. Jesus laid his life down. The false gods did not do that. They could not say that. That is because non of them did that. Those false gods are one being Satan with many names. Jesus to me is seen in Yoda. Peaceful pacifists will be in his kingdom. Would his kingdom be peaceful without them? Jesus was flesh, and blood when he gave the turning the other cheek teaching. Jesus in you feels what you feel. With all of the accusations Jesus got from the religious people he could not see what was going to be the outcome until he found out that the devil himself could not put Jesus in his jail. He found no fault in him. More than an avatar. Jesus was a shell for God to be that had blood in it. That shell is the same image Moses and Abraham saw.
@Artie: Yes, what you said is foolish, and no, I am not kidding, and to use a weapon to kill is not automatically foolish, it may well be the best use of the weapon to end a life. Even if you think life is automatically precious (and I do not), ending the life of a killer may preserve more life than it costs.
Wisdom is NOT better than weapons of war, they aren’t comparable entities. If I am being attacked by people that want to kill me and turn my daughter into a sex slave, I will take a weapon of war over “wisdom” in a heartbeat. Wisdom and weapons of war are tools to be applied to different problems, they each have their place. That is not foolish.
You say, God has the ultimate of power.
If God has the ultimate power, he doesn’t use it, and that makes him evil. I can show you literally a thousand circumstances in which God has let good Christian girls, 12 and under, be captured and tortured and raped to death. God did not answer the prayers of those girls, their parents, their siblings or their neighbors in church. If God could have saved them or spared them pain and did not, then God is evil incarnate.
If God let Satan have them, then either God cannot thwart Satan or God can and chose not to. If God gave us “free will” and does not interfere even in cases such as this, then prayer is pointless, If God will stand by and watch an eight year old be cut apart alive and screaming, then believing in the power of prayer is particularly stupid.
You say, A gun is the devils power destroying what God made.
I see, then the Devil can thwart God’s will? The Devil is more powerful than God? Or does the Devil destroy what God has made with God’s permission? That is the conclusion to be made if God knows what the Devil is doing, and is all powerful and could have stopped him but did not: Apparently God WANTS the Devil to kill off the devout and faithful, which means God is in collusion with the Devil and just as guilty as the Devil, and you worship a ruthless murdering child rapist.
If using a weapon to kill a human is not foolish don’t you think Jesus would have given us an example the lack of foolishness in using one? Did the perfect Jesus show us that using a weapon is not foolishness? Did one of his disciples slicing off the ear of the servant of the high prieast show wisdom or foolishness? You tell me. Toy with it toy with your soul.
Gentlemen,
“Guinness original performance and Oldman’s recent performances were different it’s true, but both true to my image of Smiley.”
I agree wholeheartedly though, truth be told, I preferred Oldman’s interpretation.
I don’t know about you all, but the character, Smiley, grows on the viewer as the book/movie progresses … so much so that, like good Mexican food, one doesn’t fully appreciate him until after the book is finished and one has had a chance to sit and think about it. Just as one is fuller an hour after eating good Mexican cuisine than one was at the immediate conclusion of the meal.
I envy Gene the 300 level class … what a joy that would have been. There are several institutions of higher learning where I live. I’m going to start checking their class offerings … perhaps I’ll find one to audit.
Nick S, there ARE no videos of it; it was all “LIVE”!
I’m 66 now and my kid’s 35. Maybe we could still do it, I don’t know. We saw Joe Cocker live once (my kid took me) and he figured out what Cocker was doing with his hands — he was kind of playing an instrument with his fingers while he sang! Crazy talent!
If you see my “Belushi doing Cocker,” that’s tame compared to my “Pedophile Humdu” rant. Actually, I’m funny when I get furious; my rants used to be to die for, now I’m not sure they’re still up to par (most of the time I type in rage nowadays rather than doing a stand-up rant).
I pray for her soul. May she join a congregation and get with God. Pleasures of the flesh are not worth the hassle with the law and prayer is the only way she can redeem herself. Or, she can move to Amsterdam and buy some sex.
Just judging by the mugshot, if you even put her in the door way of an open room at Days Inn on any given night at that Inn, with a sign on her chest that said free sex, there would be few takers. What humans need is a society that will let them pay for sex. The Amsterdam experiment has been working well for hundreds of years. That construct will upset the spouses who want to keep the other half pure. The whole prohibition against free love starts with the preachers who want to fleece the flock. They wont have congregations unless they put the fear of God or dog into the chumps who show up on Sunday and put the money in the plate. Instead of outlawing pay for sex we should outlaw religion. That way a human can hump somebody’s leg without going to jail if the leg is not that of the opposite sex, willing, and above the age of 18. As I said before, we dogs dont live under all of these muslim like excuses for civilized conduct that you humanoids live under.
Mike,
I should stipulate that my preference for Oldman is in no way a slam on on the late Sir Alec Guiness’ performance. It was excellent.
That photo indicates an ugly encounter of the third kind. Or is it “close encounter”? None dare call her a dog.
Gene,
Maybe I am related to the NYT film critic! 🙂
I saw that film and was not too impressed with it, but Oldman was good in it.
Blouise,
Thanks. Interesting review and I totally agree with the analysis up until the end. The film is a much simplified version of the le Carré plot. But when the reviewer says, “Except for intelligence professionals and le Carré aficionados, the film version is almost incomprehensible.”
I think the film is quite accessible for someone who has never read a le Carré novel and knows little about intelligence work, although I do agree with the next sentence: “New York Times film critic Terrence Rafferty wrote of le Carré that it was ‘as if he determined to make [his novels] movie-proof.'” This is a common criticism of le Carré’s work and a valid one. His novels are usually far too intricate and filled with interior monologues to put everything on the screen.
The last of the review though reads like sour grapes because le Carré is notoriously anti-American vis a vis our intelligence community and their techniques: “The Center for the Study of Intelligence offers a lecture to new CIA hires and others on the portrayal of CIA and the intelligence profession in popular culture. We don’t believe the film version of Tinker, Tailor will make the cut for inclusion in the session.”
All in all though, the review was certainly written by someone quite familiar with the source materials. As am I. I’ve read every book he’s ever written and even took a 300 (if memory serves) level course on his writing in college. It was a very lively class too. I had the good fortune to take it at the while the Berlin Wall was coming down. Lots of extra current events materials made it into the classroom. Great instructor.
In regards to the film (which I just watched again earlier tonight), the scene you were quoting is probably my favorite scene in the whole movie and a fine example of why Gary Oldman is one of the best actors working today. Of all the versions of “Tinker, Tailor” I’ve seen, I think his George Smiley is hands down the best portrayal.
Gene,
It was a wonderful book.
Here’s an interesting review of the latest film adaptation … enjoy
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol.-56-no.-3/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-the-movie.html
Like Gene I’ve read everything Le Carre has written, but have not taken coursework :). “Tinker, Tailor……” was his best, but his other books were quite close. The PBS series starring Alec Guinness as Smiley was a masterpiece, so I was surprised when my wife and I watched the recent Oldman film and really liked it. It would seem an impossible task to accomplish in a two hour film, but it did the job for us. My wife wasn’t familiar with the book, nor the PBS series so we had to stop the DVR now and then for me to fill her in on certain details. Yet this didn’t occur that often and she enjoyed the film. I think that the film though, was far more enjoyable for those familiar with the book and that was simply because any book of size is hard to translate into a single film. The most successful attempt of this is “The Godfather” and that is one of the greatest films of all times.Guinness original performance and Oldman’s recent performances were different it’s true, but both true to my image of Smiley. Great actors bring their own interpretive skills to their roles and these two are exceptionally great actors. Since I last read the book more than 30 years ago, the recent film has re-whetted my appetite to again read the entire Smiley series.
Thank dog I am a dog. People say apCray about me humpin male humanoids’ legs but they would not think of prosecution. Humping legs is just practice. Practice makes one perfect when it comes to the quicky with Vicky the poodle. No pun intended. All this focus in humanoid behavior about sex, drugs and rock in roll.. Sit back and eat a dog biscuit once in a while and smell the roses. For you humanoids I suggest that you adopt the Amsterdam program of pay for lay and get over this love at first bite thing. Or is it sight?
tony c:
you sure are judgmental, dont you know that aint X-ian?
artiewhitefox:
judge people is the only way to go, people who dont want to be judged are most likely scumbags.
I always say, when a person starts telling you how Christian they are, hold on to your wallet and your arse; you are going to get a phuking one way or another.
@artie: This is do not condemn least ye be condemned for the same things.
Blah blah blah. I condemn people for things that:
a) I do not think I would ever do, and
b) If I am wrong and ever DO execute such acts, I believe that now, while I am sane, I SHOULD be condemned.
My morals are not suddenly relaxed when judging my own actions. I do not take actions I would condemn in another, and I do not condemn others for doing what I would do.
Malisha, I would pay for those videos of you and the kid. You must be able to “give it up” if you can do that bit. And, YES, the “Luck o’ the Irish” is classic.
Pork em if ya gottem.
Blouise,
“That’s how I know he can be defeated.”
Nick Spinelli: My MAN! I loved that Joe Cocker skit so much that when my kid was eight years old, I used to do “John Belushi doing Joe Cocker” as a comedy routine at parties and then my kid used to do, “My mom doing John Belushi doing Joe Cocker” as a chaser and people wanted to sue us for giving them sore muscles from laughing. That’s my second favorite skit of all time. (First Favorite was John Belushi’s “Luck of the Irish”)
@artie: Then I think you have very foolishly redefined the word “power” in order to make yourself feel better, at the expense of living in the real world. If you ever face a loaded gun, I assure you that if you have a normally functioning amygdala, it will inform you of the true definition of “power.”
What I said foolish? You have to be kidding? To use a weapon to kill is foolish. Wisdom is better than weapons of war. You call that foolish? The killer has a dead soul already. It is the opposite to what you think. God has the ultimate of power. He could have used it to get revenge on all of the sinners on this Planet. Real power created life having mercy on all of us.
Are you familuar with this verse? funny people don’t talk about it. To have no wisdom is to be foolish being an active sinner.
Ecclesiastes 9:18 :King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
I tell the truth. A gun is the devils power destroying what God made. I have. It did not change what I just told you.