More liberal insanity: In Hawaii, it is illegal for a parent to not drive their child home from school! (regular, Brown)

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by NJBest

You're a liberal calling out liberal insanity. That is liberal on liberal hate.

Harrier is not a liberal.

[HyperionGap]

He's a right wing nutjob. Aka "nutter."

Anyone that refers to himself in the third person is a full on whacko.

[FKD19124]

And maybe if the judges didn't order all the crazies and pedophiles out into the streets 20 years ago, we would not have a problem.

Originally Posted by Harrier

A man in Hawaii has been sentenced to one year probation and now has a criminal record because his son walked one mile from school to his home.

The judge claimed that this was child endangerment because a pedophile might pick up the boy.



Well golly gee - Harrier walked to and from school in K-12 and often it was much longer than a mile!

His parents are apparently criminals!

If the judge really wants to make the children safe from pedophiles, maybe they shouldn't be allowed in the state of Hawaii.

Father Gets Probation For Making Son Walk Home From School

[hothulamaui]

Originally Posted by Harrier

Once again, where in the article do you find anything about the kid crying when the father drove off.

That was the assertion made by the poster to whom Harrier was responding.



The child's welfare was not endangered in any manner.

This is yet another case of liberals meddling in the lives of families and controlling what people can do.

you don't bother to read the links? from the article.

Someone had spotted the boy crying, picked him up and called the police.

from the other article

Turns out, a bystander saw him crying, brought him back to the school and called police.

reading is fundamental H.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by Harrier

She is a judge in Hawaii.

In other words, despite your baseless allegation, there's nothing stated about her political affiliation, eh?

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by FKD19124

And maybe if the judges didn't order all the crazies and pedophiles out into the streets 20 years ago, we would not have a problem.

Another good reason to get rid of liberal judges.

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by burdell

In other words, despite your baseless allegation, there's nothing stated about her political affiliation, eh?

The actions of the prosecutors and the judge speak for themselves.

Harrier can cut the judge some slack - once the man pled nolo contendere, she was obligated to accept his plea and resolve the case.

However, she could have thrown the case out at the beginning before the plea bargaining phase, and the prosecutors should have never brought the child endangerment charges in the first place.

The relevant law is so vague that it is impossible to not have a subjective interpretation, and charging a father with child endangerment when all he did was ask his son to spend some time alone to think about what he had done, and the kid was unhurt, is the type of government meddling with a family and parental authority that liberals are known for.

Hawaii is a blue state.

Harrier's conclusion remains valid.

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by hothulamaui

you don't bother to read the links? from the article.

Someone had spotted the boy crying, picked him up and called the police.

from the other article

Turns out, a bystander saw him crying, brought him back to the school and called police.

reading is fundamental H.

You don't bother to read threads.

Harrier was responding to a poster who falsely claimed that the boy was crying when the father drove off.

Originally Posted by katzpaw

Kicking your 8 year old out of the car, then driving off and leaving him crying at the side of the highway is now "allowing him to walk home"?

The article does not state that, which means that the poster in question was writing fiction.

Reading is fundamental hothulamaui.

You might want to try it - instead of calling the kettle black.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Harrier

A man in Hawaii has been sentenced to one year probation and now has a criminal record because his son walked one mile from school to his home.

The judge claimed that this was child endangerment because a pedophile might pick up the boy.



Well golly gee - Harrier walked to and from school in K-12 and often it was much longer than a mile!

His parents are apparently criminals!

If the judge really wants to make the children safe from pedophiles, maybe they shouldn't be allowed in the state of Hawaii.

Father Gets Probation For Making Son Walk Home From School

I was going to post the same thing after reading it yesterday, but I got sidetracked. I can't believe any judge would have made such a decision. We are not talking about punishing a child by making him walk 10 miles, we are talking about the distance many of walked everyday when we were kids. I went to a high school outside our district so no busing was available to us. There were about 1/2 dozen of us who did the same thing, and we all walked 90% of the time. This was before families had 2 cars, so we couldn't depend on mommy to drive us and certainly kids didn't have their own cars. Heck it kept us in better physical condition than many kids today. When in the heck are we going to stop coddling our kids? We wonder why they think the world revolves around them and it is becoming an instant gratification society?

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by EmeraldCityWanderer

So when a woman left her kids in the car someone needed to watch them, and bystanders were conscripted to watch and should have kept their mouths shut.



When an 8 year old kid is left alone on a deserted road without anyone to watch him...IT'S LIBERAL INSANITY! When no one there has their political views identified. I guess to some people the rule of law is liberal no matter what.

Walking a mile home is not a big deal. He should have kept his eyes on his kid though on a road with no one about. That's bad parenting plain and simple.

Call it bad parenting, that is your opinion, there are a lot of things that are bad parenting in most of our minds, but that does not make someone a criminal, and does not justify a year's probation.