January 1999 Cover
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By
Dawn Ivory
Rarely does Dawn have a kind word for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, prone, as they are, to persecuting political dissidents rather than prosecuting real
crime. So it seems only fair to recognize whatever flickers of integrity G-men do show.
Special Agent Ken Lanning, a 25-year FBI veteran on the Missing and Exploited Children's Task Force, recently told
The Infinite Mind, "when you have
somebody as an offender, not as a victim-- when some 14- or 15-year-old goes out and shoots up people at a school or something like that... we want that individual tried as
an adult and held accountable for their behavior. Well, if 14-year-olds are accountable for their behavior, then can they consent to have sex with an adult? ... And how
much weight do we give to their consent? And I think these are issues that our society needs to be thinking about and-- ... talking about."
Alas, Ken's calls for rational discourse are likely to lead to his dismissal, so lunatic are the times.
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