{"id":4162,"date":"2007-01-28T04:19:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T11:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/01\/28\/genarlow-wilson\/"},"modified":"2007-01-28T04:19:26","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T11:19:26","slug":"genarlow-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/28\/genarlow-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Genarlow Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tMark Cuban is thumping the drum on the Genarlow Wilson case, a gross miscarriage of justice in Georgia:<\/a><\/p>\n

\nFor those who don’t know. Genarlow Wilson was sentenced to 10 years in jail for doing something every 17 year old I knew, including me, tried to do. He is two years into this nightmare that only makes the State of Georgia a posterchild for mistrust in government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a fine example of legislating morality, blind punishment, and the oppression of mankind’s most basic instincts. The way to help is to contribute to a Georgia fathers’ rights or men’s rights organization<\/a> because they’re the only ones working to reform the laws that Genarlow was prosecuted under. Read the ESPN story here<\/a> and the New York Times story<\/a> here. <\/p>\n

Genarlow Wilson may not be a model citizen in the Disneyland sense, but his failings are perfectly normal for a teenaged boy, and considerably less significant than those of Pastor Ted Haggard or Congressman Mark Foley. Neither of them is behind bars and Genarlow shouldn’t be either.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Cuban is thumping the drum on the Genarlow Wilson case, a gross miscarriage of justice in Georgia: For those who don’t know. Genarlow Wilson was sentenced to 10 years in jail for doing something every 17 year old I knew, including me, tried to do. He is two years into this nightmare that only … Continue reading “Genarlow Wilson”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-158","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}