In a staggering statement made by Juskwitch, it was revealed that the case against Webber is proceeding despite the fact that Webber has already been acquitted by a civil court of the same charges. In civil court, the burden of proof, the preponderance of evidence, is significantly lower than that of criminal courts in Maine, which is proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Criminal courts now routinely manufacture excuses for female murderers when the victims are men. Effectively, this is the implicit legalization of murder when the killer is female and the victim male.
Starting tomorrow morning, Wednesday, May 11th, at 9:30am, members of a delegation from Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (S.A.V.E.) and family members of the falsely accused in this case, Vladek Filler, will be hand delivering copies of the petition to state officials and making a plea on behalf of Filler, and for an investigation of Kellett leading to her disbarment.
So if you come here to voice your objections to these articles, but insist on relying on the false premise that we are advocating rape tolerance, or absolving the rapist of responsibility for his or her crime, then you will be summarily removed and banned.
In truth, the practice of women dressing in “sluttish” attire outside the context of parades through Toronto’s downtown, is purposeful. A woman dressing in a deliberately sexually provocative style is flaunting her sexual power over men. She is saying, in a language older than any spoken or written:
“I am an object of sexual desire, and I am a person of protected status”
While it is a terrible thing for a young woman to see her rapist escape without punishment, it is an even more terrible thing to hold a young man responsible for a rape he didn’t commit. The chances of the school making a mistake and doing exactly that — holding a young man responsible for a rape he didn’t commit — have just skyrocketed with the Education Department’s April 4 directive.
In the United States and Canada, violent crime has been steadily diminishing for the last 30 years. In 1980, in the United States, there were 49.5 instances of violent criminal victimization, not including murder, per 100,000 people per year.
Nowhere is there more of a gap between common understanding and documented realities than in what happens when marriages, civil partnerships or even transient romantic couplings devolve into physical violence.
People sometimes like to make things complicated, and I sometimes find that their motive in avoiding simplicity is to avoid realizing, or thinking about, something which they find mentally indigestible. Consider, for example, the matter of rape. Rape is a complicated subject, and yet . . . in certain connections it is very simple. I would like …
And despite their meager incomes, the state is collecting their tax dollars and spending part of it to keep convincing them their poverty and discontent is a function of patriarchal sexism.
