Some good stuff today…
Why we should protect those accused of rape
http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/07/27/dsk_kobe_assange_flatley/index.html
Initially the article sounds outlandish, but it makes a very good point. Very analogous to the loosy-goosy way people wind up on sexual predator lists (I read one where a 17 year old teenager accused of statutory rape (but no one every claimed was non-consensual) was permanently put on a list of pedophiles because the girl was one year younger than he and thus a minor). As I complain in my American Injustice writeups:
http://sol-system.com/koxenrider/bok/AmericanInjusticeSystem1.html
http://sol-system.com/koxenrider/bok/AmericanInjusticeSystem2.html
the rights of the victim and accused-who-are-guilty are well cared for, but the rights of the accused-innocent are completely ignored.
Just like free speech: if you are not prepared to defend to the death the right of someone to spout words so ugly they make your blood boil, you are nothing but a poseur (paraphrased from a great line in the movie “The American President”).
