As a lifelong Liberal I agree with you Tom I too am s**k of dumbasses in all Parties especially Mine. This is ridiculous I am not the sports fan Aggie is but this stupid culture war crap has gone too far. To have problems with an American F**g on any article is beyond stupid! I am sorry that this is going on. Being with Aggie I have learned more about southern history then I ever knew. He will fly the actual F**g of the CSA and not the BattleF**g. He has that f**g given to him by his dad before he passed away 10yrs ago. That f**g is in the Man cave h*****g proudly. He has told myself and our daughter that he has ancestors that served in the CSA and were at Gettysburg and other major battles. While we lived in PA we went to tour not only Gettysburg(a 45min drive from Harrisburg), Antietham in MD and the Civil War Museum in Harrisburg. None of my ancestors were even in the states until 1880(Italy and Poland) but my daughter's father's family had Union soldiers who fought at Gettysburg. I have no problems with southerners who are proud of their past even though they lost the war. I don't agree with tearing down monuments. I agree with Aggie that these monuments in southern cities should be moved to any number of civil war battlefield sites and not scrapped because a small group got their feelings hurt. I support recognizing civil rights for everyone black,white, brown, polkadot, Gay etc. Screaming every southern white is a r****t today is STUPID! This is a serious problem that the left of my party needs to get over. So to AllMy fellow Democrats especially the extreme left...GET OVER IT Yes the North Won and preserved the union. Yes the biggest followers that display the trad.f**g recognized as the Confederate F**g are Republicans. Many are followers of Mr Trump and the MAGA faction. They are Not R****ts. Their ancestors (most of them) rebelled not to support s***ery but State's Rights...PEOPLE Its 2024 Time to Move forward and accept what happened between 1860-1865. We need to avoid anything like this from happening again. Both liberals and conservatives need to come together.(Being with a Proud Texan and Rebel the last 6yrs has shown me that they are proud of their history and they are not r****ts.) They are not in 2024 responsible to pay all b****s r********ns(spelling??). Aggie's family as afar as he knows owned no s***es (they were too poor and were not in cotton country he told me).

Rapist who impregnated 14-year-old girl to lose his testicles as part of his sentence
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ALouisiana man who admitted to raping a girl when she was a young teenager has opted to undergo surgical castration as part of his sentence.

The case began in July 2022, when a young woman went to the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office to make a disturbing report about Glenn Sullivan Sr. of Springfield, Louisiana, about 40 miles east of Baton Rouge. According to the young woman, Sullivan "had raped her multiple times when she was just 14-years-old," said a Facebook post from the office of District Attorney Scott M. Perrilloux.

The girl had become pregnant as a result of the attacks. A DNA test of her child later confirmed that Sullivan is the father.

An investigation into the case also revealed that Sullivan, who is now 54 years old, first g***med the girl into the assaults. He then threatened her and her family with violence to keep them quiet about them, the DA's office said.

Last week, Sullivan pled guilty to four counts of second-degree rape.

Louisiana law takes the rape of a minor very seriously and imposes harsh penalties on those convicted of it. In some cases, convicted rapists in Louisiana can even be ordered to undergo chemical or surgical castration as part of their sentence.

Judge William D**es must have believed that Sullivan's case warranted castration, as he issued the order for it. However, the method of castration was left up to Sullivan. As part of his plea agreement, Sullivan chose surgery.

"I want to say I've had three people ordered to be chemically castrated, but, to my knowledge, this is the first physical castration to be ordered," said assistant District Attorney Brad Cascio.

Exactly when Sullivan will undergo the procedure is unclear. The state Department of Corrections usually oversees the chemical and surgical castration of prisoners. A DOC spokesperson declined to comment except to say that surgical castrations are "very rare."

Cascio claimed that the surgery to remove Sullivan's testicles could occur as late as the "week prior to his release." As he has also been sentenced to 50 years behind bars, Sullivan's scrotum could remain intact for another half-century.

Whether the surgery happens now or later, Cascio, Perrilloux, and others in the district attorney's office are grateful that a dangerous predator like Sullivan will never be able to harm another child. Perrilloux also expressed admiration for the courageous young woman who demanded justice for the sexual abuse against her.

"So many of these types of cases go unreported because of fear," he said. "The strength it must have taken for this young woman to tell the t***h in the face of threats and adversity is truly incredible."
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