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...young children don ' t remember that the PG-13 marker was invented in response to an outcry from parents after 1984' s " Gremlins " and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom " received PG rather than R ratings. The latter film features a scene in which the villain removes a victim' s beating heart, and "Gremlins " churned its pint size villains in blenders. So Johnny' s mom and I talked about the extraordinary imagination of children and the difficulty of those same imaginations to turn off disturbing images when they get tired. I suggested that Johnny...
...main responsibilities of these task forces would be to improve victim identification by law enforcement officials and the general public, increase the number of prosecutions for sex trafficking by ensuring victims would testify and by coordinating state and federal prosecution efforts, and increasing public awareness about sex trafficking, Itoh said...
...safe nation, but, likewise, a nation that has complete security is one with no privacy. It is in the best interest of the country to maintain some degree of privacy amongst its citizens. According to the Bush administration, the Patriot Act has been crucial in protecting Americans from falling victim to terrorist attacks. President Bush says that the legislation has been vital in detecting terrorist cells and squelching plots of attack. And to be fair, the new legislation is not without its bright spots. Those subpoenaed under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, for example, for library, medical, and computer records...
...last year. Brent Owens, the director of several films on prostitution for HBO including "Pimps Up, Ho's Down," says he makes such films to "shed light on a subculture"and is "not condoning it or glorifying it." Nonetheless, Las Vegas vice detective Aaron Stanton says that every juvenile victim he has interviewed in sex trafficking cases in the past five years has seen one of the films that pimps are using to teach minors the rules: never to look at another pimp, always walk behind a pimp, and always get the money up front from customers...
...amazing that the victim was the one who apologized, while the shooter said, "It's one of the worst days of my life." Couldn't Cheney have apologized for shooting his friend without making the statement all about himself...