| The Ghost of RubangB said: Oh, and now that this thread is back, I think it's a good place for this article: Palin's town used to bill victims for rape kits at USA Today Summary: In 2000, Alaska passed a statewide ban on the practice of making rape victims pay for their own forensic medical examinations. They did this because Wasila, a small town with a mayor Sarah Palin, was the only town in the state that did this. If you were raped in Wasila while Palin was mayor, and you wanted to find out who did it through DNA evidence, you had to pay a lot of money. Here's a quote, and my favorite part, the last few paragraphs: In 2000, there were 497 rapes reported in Alaska, FBI statistics show. That's a rate of 79.3 per 100,000 residents, the highest in the nation. Nationally, victims' advocates have for years reported scattered instances of rape victims being required to pay for their forensic tests, says Ilse Knecht of the National Center for Victims of Crime in Washington. Those complaints have subsided somewhat after Congress in 2005 passed a law requiring states to provide rape exams free of charge or reimburse victims for the costs, says Knecht, whose group supported the provision. "The reason we passed the legislation was that we saw it was prevalent enough to be a pretty considerable problem," Knecht says. "There are no other victims of crime that end up being billed for evidence collection." The Senate version of the legislation that included the rape-exam provision was sponsored by Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, the Democratic vice presidential nominee. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was one of 58 co-sponsors; Republican presidential nominee John McCain was not. Rubang's take: More evidence that Joe Biden is the best candidate for feminists and Palin is the worst. Compare his Violence Against Women Act to her "stop whining and work harder" mentality. |
Wow........that's just plain fucked up. Way to put another road block in the way of women reporting rape in a system that already makes it embarassing and burdensome enough for them to make the accusations in the first place.
I worked in a criminal attorney's office and know from personal experience that a lot of rapes never even get reported.
But obviously because Palin is a woman she is the right choice for women, or at least that is what some people would like us to believe.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
