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    whatamigonnadowithagunrackGabrielle Bluestone
    3/05/14 11:27pm

    That video...Jesus Christ...

    It took the election process to bring him down? He's motherfucking disgusting.

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      MisterMcGibbletswhatamigonnadowithagunrack
      3/05/14 11:45pm

      It seemed like he was psyched for the opportunity to do it. Like he'd been eagerly waiting for 15 years till he got an excuse and she was big enough (in his mind) to take it. Towards the end, he sounded proud of himself.

      "I never got to get my lick in on her." GOT TO. It wasn't the punishment that mattered, it was that HE "got to" administer it.

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      Hyzenthlaywhatamigonnadowithagunrack
      3/05/14 11:53pm

      This is Texas, remember. Somehow all that fetus worship doesn't translate into giving half a shit about actual children. I bet you he ain't even half near the worst apple in that bushel basket of judges.

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    That DudeGabrielle Bluestone
    3/06/14 1:41am

    Before we label this judge some sort of horrible person, keep in mind his daughter repeatedly had been caught stealing hacked games . She knew the consequences, but thought it would be "OK" to commit theft on the family AOL Dial-Up account, and download a bunch of pirated software. What if one day everybody just decided it was "OK" to download Elf Bowling?

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      ravingrabbid3That Dude
      3/06/14 2:38am

      Before you spoke up in support for the judge, you should've considered his daughter has Cerebral Palsy. He's beating on a child who experiences sever muscle pains, imagine how that must feel. Every time you are hit, your muscles cramp up making you want to scream in torment. You feel more empathy for video game developers, than a child who has gone through hell? Maybe you need to get some help, you seem to be unable to experience empathy properly.

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      TravelheadThat Dude
      3/06/14 2:39am

      I know right. What if everyone downloaded music illegally. The world would collapse.

      No, I've come to see the light. This great man is disciplining the future generation to follow in his great example. I just can't wait to feel the sweet tip of his belt on my rebellious backside.

      Sarcasm aside: I would feel very little sadness if I watched this 'judge' drown in hot asphalt.

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    blue-haired_lawyerGabrielle Bluestone
    3/05/14 11:03pm

    Does that mean his Republican primary opponent was to the right of him?

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      Attack of the Wibblesblue-haired_lawyer
      3/05/14 11:29pm

      This is the state of Texass where Tea Party probably considered moderate, so someone who's the right wing being defeated by someone even more right wing just makes my head hurt.

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      A_countAttack of the Wibbles
      3/06/14 2:25am

      The Tea Party is still considered by some moderate republicans to be far right, there is a plausible chance some of them may vote for Wendy.

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    MisterMcGibbletsGabrielle Bluestone
    3/05/14 11:39pm

    So, I just saw that for the first time. Can anyone offer the short version of why he's not in jail?

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      Bluestar2k9MisterMcGibblets
      3/05/14 11:49pm

      Money, power, friends in slightly higher places, white male privilege? Since she uploaded it far after the crime took place, there may not be sufficient remaining evidence, or maybe a statue of limitations, on charging his dumb ass.

      That more or less sums it up as best I understand it.

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      GregSamsaMisterMcGibblets
      3/05/14 11:56pm

      Texas.

      tl;dr: TX.

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    meeting people is easyGabrielle Bluestone
    3/05/14 11:11pm

    This video still haunts me.

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      carlaspadeaspademeeting people is easy
      3/05/14 11:32pm

      Me too.

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      monopolyonstupiditymeeting people is easy
      3/05/14 11:48pm

      I just watched it but what a fucking disgrace for a parent. Reading some of the comments on the related article attached to this one make me question the sanity of some of the commentators on here. In our liberal cities (not to make this a political issue but I mean liberal in every sense of the word) talking about this kind of thing just exiles you from most conversations with the more rational and intelligent members of the community.

      This asshole lost his job? Good.

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    Escobar5000Gabrielle Bluestone
    3/05/14 11:15pm

    Next up, Judge Jean Boyd please.

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      Attack of the WibblesEscobar5000
      3/05/14 11:28pm

      Remember this is the state of Texass we are talking about

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      zerokeiEscobar5000
      3/05/14 11:46pm

      She said she'd be retiring next term anyway. Which doesn't help the case in the slightest, sadly.

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    LaZodiacGabrielle Bluestone
    3/05/14 11:14pm

    So...is the daughter safe?

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      SweetCaroline12LaZodiac
      3/06/14 12:16am

      Yes. The video is from 2004 when the daughter was 16, but she didn't release it until 2011 when she was about 23. She stated that she waited to release it until she was safe from him. Also probably because YouTube didn't exist yet.

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      A_countLaZodiac
      3/06/14 1:22am

      Yes.

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    PandarianBrewMasterGabrielle Bluestone
    3/06/14 1:53am

    I saw the video and I regret it. Brought back a lot of shitty moments in my life. I find relief reading the comments of how fucked up and wrong is that, because that's not how most families interact.

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      ravingrabbid3PandarianBrewMaster
      3/06/14 3:01am

      I can't even watch the video, I'm already pretty angry & upset that people are defending a monster who gets off torturing his disabled daughter. I have Asperger's Syndrome, I know from first hand experience having my cries for help ignored in high school how easy it is for someone with a mental disability to inhabit a sense of learned helplessness.

      Everyone should be glad this poor girl didn't lose all touch with reality, or develop multiple personalities. Both are extreme dissociative responses to abuse, a reaction to being unable to get away from abuse, all too common for those with mental disabilities. People with mental disabilities tend to have their problems ignored, and attributed to "acting out" or "attention seeking". After begging and pleading for help, they are dismissed. They stop asking, they retreat away from a world that ignores their pain and suffering. Many people with mental disabilities are forced to retreat into their own world to keep their sanity, and then mocked by cruel people for doing that.

      They quickly learn no matter what they do it's never going to be right. This creates for many disabled people, including myself, a phobia of being wrong. Being wrong for us has equaled pain for so many times in our lives, we cannot separate the two from each other. We're talking about a girl who has endured muscle cramps and spasms, and having people act as if it's reasonable to beat that person with a belt. It's not the same as doing this to a person without a mental disability. People with mental disabilities tend to have more sensitive sensory symptoms. Being hit to us is like being burned with hot pokers for a neurotypical person. We learn screaming help me, and stop does nothing at an early age from school and being punished for being the victims of bullies. I honestly have forgotten how to have the instinct to cry for help, because I've been taught it does nothing so many times. This is what children of abuse learn, asking for help means suffering, pleading for them to stop makes it worse. We exist in a constant hypervigilant state, wondering when the next attack will come.

      I don't know how else to convey to you just how horrible what this judge did was. It's horrible enough when it happens to a neurotypical child. To a child with a disability, you are unlikely to have a place you can run to or hide. Unable to know how to navigate the world well enough to run outside and get help. It's beating on a helpless individual who has no ability to stop the pain. This is how you traumatize a mentally disabled person into losing their mind and being unable to return to reality. They have no way out, so they escape into their mind.

      I had dissociated so much in high school to get away from the abuse from teachers for not being able to do my work due to a handwriting disability, or to stay awake after hours of homework and having to get up at dawn, I didn't realize I was doing it anymore. How anyone can suggest this teaches a person with a mental disability anything other than how to fear for their life and safety, I'll never know. It got so bad for me even the thought that I might be punished caused me to run away in fear and terror. I was only emotionally abused, and it affected me to that degree. From what I've read about Cerebral Palsy people with it have a hard time walking let alone running with it. So now we have a girl who cannot run, who is helpless being beaten by a madman.

      How could anyone suggest that is moral at all? Yes this has triggered me, because I know that feeling of helpless. I know what it's like to have sound sensitivity, and have a teacher keep hitting a desk loudly with a ruler, causing me enough pain to feel like I was going to pass out while he was telling me I need to stay awake. People don't see that as physical assault, because it doesn't affect neurotypical people the way it does mentally disabled people. Imagine a lifetime of being hurt and people telling you it can't be that bad because it doesn't hurt them. This is the legacy many people with mental disabilities live with, as does the judge's daughter.

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      athingwithfeathersravingrabbid3
      3/08/14 5:16am

      I cannot believe anyone would do this to a person with CP. What a monster.

      Thank you for sharing. "Normals" do not grasp what abuse does or what it is like to never feel safe.

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    TennoGabrielle Bluestone
    3/05/14 11:01pm

    You can't beat justice — I wonder how hard the irony will hit him?

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      WFROSETenno
      3/05/14 11:07pm

      I heard he got thoroughly whipped in that race. I guess his past really smacked him in the backside

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      OrandoTenno
      3/05/14 11:35pm

      Correct. The Republican challenger who defeated him, in fact, killed all his female children by exposing them on a rock in the middle of winter storms when they were less than a year old and unbaptized.

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    TravelheadGabrielle Bluestone
    3/06/14 2:43am

    Can someone explain to me why you think physical punishment 'works' for children? All I see it doing is encouraging the idea that you can get what you want with violence, and sowing the seeds of depression and serious mental issues.

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      waitingforspringTravelhead
      3/06/14 8:01am

      I was regularly beaten throughout my childhood. As a result, I never hit or threatened to hit my kid. The damage would be too great and I didn't want her to look at me the way that I looked at my parents. Physical punishment is not the answer.

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      Myxomatosis waitingforspring
      3/07/14 10:16am

      I saw this and was totally waiting for the "I got hit as a kid and I turned out fine"

      So, thanks for not going there. I'm sorry about what happened to you.

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