Rape and politics

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Let’s make no mistakes here because whether the rape case is proven or disclaimed, the outcome is broken lives for both parties.

It takes very clever detection to prove rape, and if it is not there then there will always be an element of doubt. Either way whether real or false it breaks up marriages and ruins lives, both for the victim and the falsely accused.
Be well IAN 2411

Innocent until proven guilty is the foundation of the law. But I have noticed a very weird tendency on many occasions: If it is a really henious crime, out goes the need for proving it and people are baying for blood! Why is that?

You see it with alleged treason, alleged paedophillia, alleged terrorism.. Innocents accused of these crimes also have their lives destroyed, whether convicted or not, and the public opinion makes it worse.

In the case of paedophillia, I do not believe a real concern for the children's safety, because if so you'd be very interested in proving it. I mean, taking a child away from a happy home is as bad as having it molested, it is molestation by another means believe you me!! And often the foster homes are also abusive. So where is the logic? Finding the truth is vitally important for eveybody's sake. But nobody gives a damn, they just seem to want to ventilate their self-rightous anger which is not helpful at all.

Terrorism is the same thing. What good does it do to persecute innocent citizens, or put them in jail? If you suspend civil and democratic rights, then the actual terrorists have surely won.

As for rape that has already been discussed, but I have wondered in the cases of both Assange and Strauss-Kahn. In either case a lot of persons have expressed hateful feelings against either party seemingly simply because of the allegations, and in spite of the fact that 1) there are significant political reasons to suspect a set up and 2) in both cases there is very little in the way of evidence and a lot to speak for the fact that they may be completely innocent.

In the newest case, that of strauss-Kahn, I read a lot of comments about how this white rich bastard deserved all he got for (allegedly) raping an African woman.

If I were an African woman, I do not think I would have appreciated the implied thought that I was a born victim, or automatically helpless, simply because of being African!

As for the other, it begs the question: would it have been much better if the perpetrator had been a black, poor man raping a rich white woman? She probably deserved it for being so rich, the bitch!

Rape is rape. It is the same crime whoever commits it, and the same pain for the victim whoever that might be.

Somehow Arnold Swartzneggar also got into this, repeatedly,for having had an affair outside his marriage. Ok not rape but that will surely come, the bastard...I do not get what one has to do with the other, except for a distaste for sex and a suspicion of men in general.

Is that what lies behind this? Or is it simple envy for someone with money and power? What makes people completely disregard the rather obvious heavy political implications?

Why do people so often believe the worst about others, seemingly without a second thought?