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Date Posted: 07:49:41 01/04/12 Wed
Author: Islandgirl
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Re: Not this year
In reply to: SMH 's message, "Not this year" on 16:48:06 01/03/12 Tue

Have fun watching the Harry Potter stuff!

To give an example of what meant about the "Hawaii 5-0" episodes. . .we were watching one last week where a 16-year-old white girl from a wealthy family had become pregnant by, and run away with, a native Hawaiian man. They never said how old the man was but he seemed to be an adult (he worked full-time on her family's plantation) rather than another high school student/teenager. The girl's father wanted the man prosecuted for kidnapping statutory rape, etc. Steve McGarrett was trying to get him to take the more "enlightened" view that this was just sort of what "young people in love" do and kept saying that the *only* reason the man objected to his 16-year-old daughter becoming pregnant was because the father was a native Hawaiian.

Well. . .I don't know the exact age of the man nor the exact laws regarding statutory rape in the State of Hawaii in the 1970s but, personally, I felt the father had a very valid point! But Steve McGarret -- the "hero" of the show -- seemed a lot less interested in investigating a possible case of sexual abuse of a minor child than in promoting his "enlightend" views on sex and race.

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