I'm happy as anyone else that this O'Keefe was arrested, but could we cut out the prison rape jokes?

[JVS]

It's highly inappropriate and offensive. The constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishment, yet our penal system turns a blind eye to the cruelty between prisoners and that's no accident.

[bluestateguy]

1. Right

Limit those jokes to private conversation.

[JVS]

2. Limit those jokes to people who don't believe in human rights.

Because for those who do, they're not amusing.

[safeinOhio]

4. Ok, if we can still make

consensual prison sex jokes?

[bluestateguy]

21. I do not condone prison rape jokes about O'Keefe*

*Notice that I didn't say I would condemn them either.

[JVS]

25. How do you feel about racist jokes about Michael Steele?

It's not about the target of the joke, it's about the material that you're making a joke out of.

[gateley]

3. Good point - and I don't think it's just between prisoners. I think some of those in

charge in the prisons are probably guilty of some cruel and unusual punishment, too.

[Electric Monk]

5. Is it ok to hope he slips on a banana peel after he serves his sentence?

I think that'd be pretty funny, especially if someone caught it on their cell phone cam.

[jgraz]

10. You want to see a 75-year-old man slip on a banana peel?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. If it's O'Keefe -- yes, I do. -nt

[Warpy]

6. I want to see this little prick and his friends off the street

for years. I want them to follow the money and disband the organizations that have been funding him under the RICO act. I want the old men pulling his strings to join him in prison. Preferably, I'd like the whole thing followed up by DHS and treated like all other threats to this country.

I don't want to see this kid raped. What he did should put him away. It shouldn't get him tortured or physically destroyed.

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

13. after prison he can have a talk show "just like G Gorden Liddy"

or was it Libby ?

[JVS]

15. It was Liddy. Maybe we should nickname this whippersnapper Itty Bitty Liddy

[shireen]

7. +1

it's disturbing to hear it on crime dramas too, in the form of threats when some witness does not talk. You'd think the writers would know better.

[Arctic Dave]

8. He wants to rape people in prison too? He is an animal.

[David Zephyr]

9. Thanks. Sadly, this has been stated here since the beginning of the DU and yet it is still needed.

Thanks, JVS.

[emilyg]

11. Thank you.

[Jennicut]

14. Yeah, it is stupid. He needs to be punished by jail time but no one needs to be

or deserves to be raped.

[Vinnie From Indy]

16. K & R

One would hope these people would take just a fraction of second to realize that by diminishing the barbarity of rape in prison with these types of jokes they might just be making it more likely that they or someone they know will someday be assaulted in prison or jail. Plenty of young kids busted for marijuana or non-violent offenses are targeted by predators in prison/jail. In fact, there are also some innocent people in prison that become victims because society in general has this light-hearted attitude about rape in prison.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

17. As long as I can eat their flesh to gain their powers.

[johnfunk]

18. No. O'Keefe mocked human trafficking. He deserves to be the butt of prison rape jokes

And it's not that I don't understand your position. I just refuse to apply political correctness to scumbags with no sense of decency. It's that Cosmic Lazy Susan of Karma: what goes around, comes around.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

19. !

:thumbsup:

[JVS]

23. The issue of whether such jokes are appropriate or not has nothing to do with O'Keefe...

it has to do with people getting raped.

[Touchdown]

20. This guy paints flowers that look like vaginas and he's not going to get punked?

HoKay!

[johnfunk]

22. Georgia O'Keefe vs. Louisiana O'Keefe: The Vagina Dialogues?

Just askin'...

[Skittles]

27. STOP IT!

:rofl:

[Donnachaidh]

24. can we do finger puppet theatre instead? n/t

[Skittles]

26. I AGREE