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    Image of Vulcan Has No Moon Vulcan Has No Moon
    12/10/09

    In reply to Woman Charged With Witchcraft • Serena Williams: Athlete Of The Decade
    Law Professor Alan Young notes that witchcraft charges don't actually target witches (no shit) but those who use fake magical powers to prey on vulnerable people.

    Like the Vatican and all the Miracle Performing Saints, right?
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    Image of Babydollkas Babydollkas
    12/10/09

    In reply to Woman Charged With Witchcraft • Serena Williams: Athlete Of The Decade
    The woman wasn't charged with witchcraft.

    She was charged with "fraudulently pretending to practice witchcraft." If she actually believed that she was actually practicing witchcraft then she committed no crime.

    Witchcraft isn't illegal in Canada. Pretending to be a witch is.

    -Law Student in Toronto
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    Image of Breamworthy Breamworthy
    12/10/09

    @Babydollkas: Thank you - just came here to say the same thing.
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    Image of Babydollkas Babydollkas
    12/10/09

    In reply to Woman Charged With Witchcraft • Serena Williams: Athlete Of The Decade
    They're not charging the woman with "witchcraft", practicing witchcraft is not illegal in Canada.

    The charge is "fraudulently pretending to practice witchcraft." If she can prove that she was actually practicing witchcraft or believed herself to be practicing witchcraft then she's off the hook. It's only if you "pretend" to practice witchcraft that you run afoul of the law.

    -Law Student in Toronto
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    Katxyz promoted this comment Babydollkas was starred Babydollkas was unstarred
    Image of hughman hughman
    12/10/09

    In reply to Woman Charged With Witchcraft • Serena Williams: Athlete Of The Decade
    please stop saying "pro-life" (as in "pro-life group"). "anti-choice" is more accurate.
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    Image of boobookitteh boobookitteh
    12/10/09

    In reply to Woman Charged With Witchcraft • Serena Williams: Athlete Of The Decade
    ...the witchcraft charge doesn't so much target witches, but those who fake mystical powers and prey on vulnerable people.

    So, she's under arrest for witchcraft for not being a witch? hmm.

    In other news, WTF is an 'insane clown posse'? I'm old.
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    Image of MIXED MIXED
    12/10/09

    @boobookitteh: ICP was a dumb band with dumb lyrics. They dressed like goths and sang about violence.
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    Image of boobookitteh boobookitteh
    12/10/09

    @MIXED: Ah. Good, I didn't miss anything.
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    Image of pesematology pesematology
    12/10/09

    @MIXED: please don't insult goths like this. ICP is all about corpse paint, white-people dreadlocks, and oversized tee shirts with that silhouette of the dude with the cleaver. people get really into it, claim that the extended metaphor of life as a circus constitutes a whole religion. and drink a lot of faygo.
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    Image of sydbarrettsaves, emissary of hell sydbarrettsaves, emissary of hell
    12/10/09

    In reply to Woman Charged With Witchcraft • Serena Williams: Athlete Of The Decade
    Xanders was physically assaulted because she didn't like the Insane Clown Posse? The inanity of the teenage experience never ceases to amaze me.
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    Image of warhol's gnarwol warhol's gnarwol
    12/10/09

    @sydbarrettsaves, emissary of hell: Seriously, where I'm from you're more likely to get assaulted for listening to Insane Clown Posse than not.
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    sydbarrettsaves, emissary of hell promoted this comment warhol's gnarwol was starred warhol's gnarwol was unstarred
    Image of sydbarrettsaves, emissary of hell sydbarrettsaves, emissary of hell
    12/10/09

    @warhol's gnarwol: I know right? But seriously, this incident just accentuates the absence of logic and the brutality that characterizes adolescence.
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    Image of CaligulaSanchez CaligulaSanchez
    12/10/09

    In reply to Woman Charged With Witchcraft • Serena Williams: Athlete Of The Decade
    Impersonating someone's dead sister is terrible. It's almost grounds for some serious cruciatus-ing in my humble opinion.
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    BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) promoted this comment CaligulaSanchez was starred CaligulaSanchez was unstarred
    Image of BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
    12/10/09

    @CaligulaSanchez: It's hard to say which craft is worse - impersonating a dead sister, or not actually casting any spells.
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    Image of Flackette Goes Retro Flackette Goes Retro
    12/10/09

    In reply to Woman Charged With Witchcraft • Serena Williams: Athlete Of The Decade
    I'm with you on the fraud, but can you actually charge people with witchcraft in Canada?

    Any Canadians want to reassure me about this? I really like your country, and hope to continue doing so.
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    Image of hatepaperdoll hatepaperdoll
    12/10/09

    @Flackette Goes Retro: I'm as surprised as you are, but apparently the witchcraft charge isn't about actually saying someone is a witch, but with charging someone who has pretended to be a witch in order to defraud. The link I read said the charge has been used 38 times in the past year.
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    Image of kung fu lola kung fu lola
    12/10/09

    @Flackette Goes Retro: The next sentence clarifies that the Canadian criminal charge of "witchcraft" doesn't assume that witches with supernatural powers are real and should be prosecuted. A better name for the charge could be "charlatanism". It exists to give recourse to people who feel they have been swindled by individuals who promised something they did not deliver. Like fraud, but supernatural.
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    Image of LilyBriscoe LilyBriscoe
    12/10/09

    @Flackette Goes Retro: I'm happy to reassure you that there is no charge of witchcraft in Canada. This will reveal me to be a nerdy law student, but the charge is actually "Pretending to practise witchcraft" and it's contained within a group of offences under the heading of "False Pretences". It's basically an offence of fraud - so if you practise real witchcraft, it's okay - just don't do it fraudulently! (If anyone is curious to look it up, it's section 365 of the Canadian Criminal Code).
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    Breamworthy promoted this comment LilyBriscoe was starred LilyBriscoe was unstarred
    Image of wtfox?! wtfox?!
    12/10/09

    In reply to Woman Charged With Witchcraft • Serena Williams: Athlete Of The Decade
    She turned me into a newt!
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    Image of Michelle13 Michelle13
    12/10/09

    @wtfox?!: Well, at least you got better!
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    BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) promoted this comment Michelle13 was starred Michelle13 was unstarred
    Image of wtfox?! wtfox?!
    12/10/09

    @Michelle13: *flicks tongue out to catch a passing fly*
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    Image of spamanda spamanda
    12/10/09

    In reply to Woman Charged With Witchcraft • Serena Williams: Athlete Of The Decade
    But have they weighed her against a duck?
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    Image of MalinaMango MalinaMango
    12/10/09

    @spamanda: She turned the guy into a newt. He got better before anyone noticed, but that's enough proof.
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    spamanda promoted this comment MalinaMango was starred MalinaMango was unstarred
    Image of Norma Neufner Lady Officer Norma Neufner Lady Officer
    12/10/09

    @spamanda: We don't weigh witches against ducks in Canada.
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    Zombie Ms. Skittles promoted this comment Norma Neufner Lady Officer was starred Norma Neufner Lady Officer was unstarred
    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    12/10/09

    @Norma Neufner Lady Officer: Do you weigh them against geese? Because those are heavier than ducks. I think we need some kind of international standard here.
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    Image of Laulau Laulau
    12/10/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: It's the old Metric/English (or perhaps Canadian goose) debate. What can ya do?
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    Image of spamanda spamanda
    12/10/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: There must be some kind of conversion. I assume it involves doubling the weight and adding 32, but I could be wrong.

    #tips
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    Image of Norma Neufner Lady Officer Norma Neufner Lady Officer
    12/10/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: We used to weigh them against ducks, then in the 90's we switched over to geese, but now that custom is just considered out dated.
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    12/10/09

    In reply to Woman Charged With Witchcraft • Serena Williams: Athlete Of The Decade
    Serena Williams, athlete of the decade, combination of grit and glamour, power and grace, bringer of new fans, achiever of new levels of WTA popularity...and not pretty enough to play center court and Wimbledon this year.
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    Image of MIXED MIXED
    12/10/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: BINGO.
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    12/10/09

    In reply to Woman Charged With Witchcraft • Serena Williams: Athlete Of The Decade
    What the hell is up with ICP fans? My cousin got attacked at his school for making an anti-ICP t-shirt which he proceeded to wear to school. It turned into a bomb threat.
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    Image of quatrevingtquatre quatrevingtquatre
    12/10/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles:
    A couple weeks ago I was transferring buses near a skatepark in suburban Seattle and a group of Juggalos (ICP fans) had convened. They were without a doubt the most frightening group of people I have ever personally encountered. At one point, I started texting and one of them ran over to where I was sitting and started yelling obscenities at me and jumping up and down like a foot from where I was sitting. Luckily the Police were doing their customary "driving by the skatepark to see what those darn kids are doing" and the crowd temporarily dispersed.

    Example of their insanity:
    [www.eastvalleytribune.com]
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    Zombie Ms. Skittles promoted this comment quatrevingtquatre was starred quatrevingtquatre was unstarred
    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    12/10/09

    @quatrevingtquatre: Seriously, they're not even that good.
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    Image of yvanehtnioj yvanehtnioj
    12/10/09

    In reply to Woman Charged With Witchcraft • Serena Williams: Athlete Of The Decade
    The fact that there's an anti-witchcraft statute on the books in Toronto is challenging some of my deeply-held stereotypes about Canada. Please tell me the sentence isn't trial by fire.
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    Image of Jezebellicose/Queenjulie Jezebellicose/Queenjulie
    12/07/09

    In reply to Hard To Swallow
    "The Brooklyn mistress whose love child was targeted for death in a twisted abortion plot was in hiding Saturday, fearing for her safety."

    Wow, can we rewrite this opener with a little less slut-shaming? Let's try:

    "The Brooklyn [woman] whose [fetus] was targeted for death in a twisted abortion plot was in hiding Saturday..."

    There we go. That wasn't so hard, stupid journalist, now was it?
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    athenasadidas promoted this comment Jezebellicose/Queenjulie was starred Jezebellicose/Queenjulie was unstarred
    Image of Pennyfeather Pennyfeather
    12/07/09

    In reply to Hard To Swallow
    Meanwhile, somewhere in Vancouver, B.C., a new Lifetime movie rolls into pre-production...
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    colormeroutine promoted this comment Pennyfeather was starred Pennyfeather was unstarred
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