Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Todd Akin Really Needs to Hire This Woman as a Senior Campaign Staffer

After being convicted by a jury earlier this summer of sexual abuse for groping a woman in a bar, ex-DPS Officer Robb Gary Evans walked out of a Coconino County Superior Courtroom on Wednesday morning having been sentenced to two years of probation.

Evans received credit for the four days of jail time he served in Coconino County jail.

Prosecutors contended that he drank eight beers and then drove himself to the Green Room, where he flashed his badge in an attempt to get into a concert for free. While inside, he walked up behind the victim, who was a friend of a friend, put his hand up her skirt and then ran his fingers across her genitals.
He got off light because, in part, the judge said it was the victim's fault that the victim was in a bar where shit like that can happen.
The judge sentencing Evans, Coconino County Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Hatch, said she hoped both the defendant and the victim would take lessons away from the case.

Bad things can happen in bars, Hatch told the victim, adding that other people might be more intoxicated than she was.

"If you wouldn't have been there that night, none of this would have happened to you," Hatch said.

"I hope you look at what you've been through and try to take something positive out of it," Hatch said to the victim in court. "You learned a lesson about friendship and you learned a lesson about vulnerability."
After a bit of public outrage, the judge tried to walk back her comments with a typical non-apologetic apology:
“I apologize to the victim for any additional anguish my comments may have caused,” the judge wrote in her statement.
Bullshit.


5 comments:

Unknown said...

Unfortunately, real victims lose credibility because of the yapping of fake victims. Predators know this and take full advantage of it. (It doesn't help that false accusers rarely face any consequences.)

beadnik said...

May I copy and paste the rape analogy image to my facebook page? I would gladly refer back to your blog or whatever, but I'd love to put that one out there. Hadn't seen it before. I was a rape crisis advocate for several years and yes, Suz, there are definitely occasions where the veracity of the victim is questionable, but in my experience they were few and far between. More common is under or no reporting of attacks because women are so shamed by society and afraid of repercussions from the agressor, from society, family, you name it.

Comrade Misfit said...

It's not original to me, I have no idea who did it. Apparently it is a rather old analogy and I have not been able to, with ten minutes' worth of exhaustive research and link-following, determine who first wrote it.

So steal away!

Comrade Misfit said...

And I have no idea where Dundritch street is. Or if it even exists.

beadnik said...

snort! thanks!