Thursday, July 21, 2011

DSK's French accuser shaping up to be a flake and a loose cannon

See here: http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/07/21/revelations-in-frances-dsk-attempted-rape-case-get-surreal-and-really-icky/

Rape claims generally come down to credibility. When the accuser has none (and in both DSK's American and French cases, it now appears there are two incredible accusers), is it fair, under those circumstances, to allow law enforcement and the media to crucify a presumptively innocent man, as has been done here? 

Can we ever do justice for rape victims by tramping on the rights of presumptively innocent men accused of rape?  The question scarcely survives its statement.

4 comments:

Scott said...

If he is shown to be the victim again then rape accusations need to be seriously looked at because this is just getting fucking stupid .

Anonymous said...

I believe there is a phenomena that can be called "copy cat Rape accusations".
Soon after the first false rape accusations against Mr Strauss, there was another banker at another hotel falsely accused of rape.
This Copy-cat false rape phenomena should be studied, but gender-Raunch quackademics who dominate American higher education will not study this, for it may serve to "de-flate" the agitation propaganda that "Empowers" them.

AfOR said...

@anon and copy cat accusations


yes, this is a HUUUGE problem...

being accused of raping one women is damning enough, being accused of raping two is far far more than merely twice as bad (ask me how I know) more like 2 x 2 = 4 times as bad

Anonymous said...

Oh, so when she was interviewed by police at the time it "happened," she admitted it was consentual (but brutal, whatever the fuck that means). The End.

How many stupid, greedy women can one planet sustain?

Even better question: when are we going to stop pretending that eight year-old accusations aren't automatically less credible because they are so stale?