Filthy, perverted child molesters should not be celebrated at Christmas

I must say Brian, you drive a hard bargain. But, it seems as if you are not seeing the point, not only behind all of your sources, but also behind the mentality of Santa Claus and Christmas. =========================== Refutation =========================== Refutation 1: "With many thanks to Bellum Quod Pacis (which any voters from ancient Rome will know means "war and peace") for accepting this debate, I should like to offer the following response:" FINALLY!!! Someone finally got what my name meant. +1 to brian. Refutation 2: "My opponent seemed to doubt my assertion that Santa Claus and his associates are sexual predators and a danger to little kiddies. I know this revelation might come as a disappointment and a shock to him but, unfortunately, it's true. However, he need not take my word for it, he can ask the US Postal Service who had to launch "Operation Santa" to intercept all mail addressed to "Santa Claus, North Pole" because they didn't want letters from innocent little children to end up the hands of a beardy old kiddy-fiddler. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk......]" The evidence says clealry, the programme was stopped due to the intervention of sex offenders, but when reading the article, we see this: "The US Postal Service is cancelling its 55-year-old programme to answer letters addressed to "Santa Claus, North Pole" after it was infiltrated last year by a sex offender. A post office spokesman said that the children's letters, which are piling up in Alaska, might be recycled as waste instead." Exactly. The reason why it was stopped, is because it was intercepted by a sex offender! NOT Santa Claus. Nowhere in the article does it state that Santa Claus was the paedophile. Therefore, we KNOW Santa Claus is not a sex offender/rapist and that point is moot for you. Refutation 3: "In addition to that, here is photographic evidence of Santa whispering: "Have you ever seen a grown man naked, sweetie-pie" to a little girl: [http://upload.wikimedia.org......]" This is merely a photograph of Santa whispering something in a little girl's ear. Last time I checked, photos did not have audio. There is no proof behind your statement, it should be disregarded. Refutation 4: "And here is a picture of Santa with a child who replied "No" when he asked her "Have you been a good little girl, my lovely?" [http://bumpaddler.com......] I must say, you might have had a lot of people who changed their minds on this photo. But, she is clearly an adult in this photo, therefore, he would be an everyday rapist, and not a child molester, as your resolution specifies. Refutation 5: "He said that only English and Australian people left sherry and mince pies left out for Santa. Well, let's look at this shall we? Here is an actual picture of a real life house in England on Christmas Eve last year: http://cache2.asset-cache.net...... And here is an actual picture of a real life house in America on Christmas Eve last year: http://comps.fotosearch.com...... You will notice that whilst the English folks left sherry out and the Americans did, indeed, leave milk out instead, crucially, both families left mince pies out. With this being the case I think that my opponent and I should share the points on this one. Moving on to the behaviour of shopping mall Santa's I did a Google search of my own using the keywords: "Santa"; "Claus"; "dirty"; "paedophile" and "scumbag" and the search engine came back with hundreds of thousands of links. Amongst them was this one: http://www.thesun.co.uk...... This illustrates just one of many cases where Santa impersonators have been locked up for molesting children. Here is a picture of another Santa copycat being led away after being caught touching up a little girl: http://backspin.typepad.com...; Wow. Well first I must say, wow. Second, All of your sources have nothing to do with your arguemtn or even your resolution for that matter. First you point out that some people put sherry out for christmas, instead of milk and cookies. But, drinking has nothing to do with child molesting or raping, point is disqualified. Next, there is no proof in that photo that there was a nudist camp on the other side. First, children aren't allowed in nudist camps. Second, what does spying on a nudist camp full of adults, have to do with child molesting? Nothing. Again, point is disqualified. Next, you describe Santa as dressing up as a catholic priest to rape choirboys, this is false. Santa Claus does not look like the man pictured in your photo, he looks like this [http://upload.wikimedia.org...] Notice the full beard. So your evidence is false as well. Now to address your terrorist point, that picture is explicity Osama Bin Laden, [http://en.wikipedia.org...] and clearly not Santa Claus. Refutation 6: "So, in the light of all the evidence I have provided, we must surely conclude that my opponent is wrong to argue that filthy, perverted child molesters should be celebrated at Christmas." You have failed to provide credible and sufficient evidence as to why Santa Claus is anywhere near related to a child molester, and yo uhave failed to also sho how Christmas CELEBRATES child molesters, when in fact Christmas celebrates "The birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth" (First sentence [http://en.wikipedia.org...]). I thank my opponent for this extremely funny debate. Again, please vote CON becuase my opponent has failed to explain why child molesters are celebrated at Christmas and also because, I have proven that Santa and Christmas have nothing to do with child molesting/groping/raping/gaping/touching/feeling/fondling/fiddling. Thank you.