it is very strange... the entire time the team captians have stated that in the end the evidence will vindicate them. and there's been no reports of anyone caving and turning in other teammates as of yet... and it's been a month. i've never been on a team in my life where every single player gets along... so you would think in almost a month someone would have ratted someone out, if only out of dislike for the person. but that hasn't happened.
it's very strange, and it seems to be a lot more complicated than what the original story stated. and something about that e-mail just doesn't sit right with me... the kid would have to be one sick sadistic fuck to have sent an e-mail like that out half an hour after being involved in a rape.
i'm very interested to see the results of the DNA testing now...
another question/comment, sort of on topic but sort of not...
i'm not pointing this at anyone in particular on this board, but more so to the overall feelings of the public at large...
kobe bryant and duke lacrosse... when the kobe story broke the overwellming feeling in the media and public opinion was that he was being railroaded by a promiscuous teenager looking to make a quick buck... even though there was DNA evidence linking kobe to the crime, the girl was well off, and kobe has been shown to be an absolute egomaniac, and rape is a crime of power/ego, not sex...
and then the same media and same public have already convicted the members of the duke lacrosse team, without any DNA evidence yet to be presented, and the victim is a poor stripper.
now i know full well that anyone can be raped, regardless of class, race, sexual promiscuity (sp?), etc. etc. but i just find it strange and maybe a little sad that, with more evidence present, people completely wrote off the kobe rape with the bullshit, sexual based "he's a superstar he can get anyone he wants why would he need to rape anyone" yet have completely jumped all over the duke lacrosse team while the evidence has still yet to be fully collected.
but then again everyone thought mike tyson was guilty immediately, even though his fame was double that of kobe's, just because mike has been known to be a bit of a looney.
i know it will be tough and damned near impossible to do... but i would really like it if rape cases would be kept out of the public eye until all of the police investigation can be fully completed... so that we don't allow the court of public opinion to sway the decision either way before it's even brought to trial. maybe then we can finally get a fair trial for both the victim and the alleged attacker.
perhaps some legislation needs to be passed with stricter penalties for those who leak information on rape cases to the press... jail time, large fines... that way victims can feel more comfortable coming forward, while at the same time we don't rip a person to shreds who may, in fact, be innocent. i dunno.
it's very strange, and it seems to be a lot more complicated than what the original story stated. and something about that e-mail just doesn't sit right with me... the kid would have to be one sick sadistic fuck to have sent an e-mail like that out half an hour after being involved in a rape.
i'm very interested to see the results of the DNA testing now...
another question/comment, sort of on topic but sort of not...
i'm not pointing this at anyone in particular on this board, but more so to the overall feelings of the public at large...
kobe bryant and duke lacrosse... when the kobe story broke the overwellming feeling in the media and public opinion was that he was being railroaded by a promiscuous teenager looking to make a quick buck... even though there was DNA evidence linking kobe to the crime, the girl was well off, and kobe has been shown to be an absolute egomaniac, and rape is a crime of power/ego, not sex...
and then the same media and same public have already convicted the members of the duke lacrosse team, without any DNA evidence yet to be presented, and the victim is a poor stripper.
now i know full well that anyone can be raped, regardless of class, race, sexual promiscuity (sp?), etc. etc. but i just find it strange and maybe a little sad that, with more evidence present, people completely wrote off the kobe rape with the bullshit, sexual based "he's a superstar he can get anyone he wants why would he need to rape anyone" yet have completely jumped all over the duke lacrosse team while the evidence has still yet to be fully collected.
but then again everyone thought mike tyson was guilty immediately, even though his fame was double that of kobe's, just because mike has been known to be a bit of a looney.
i know it will be tough and damned near impossible to do... but i would really like it if rape cases would be kept out of the public eye until all of the police investigation can be fully completed... so that we don't allow the court of public opinion to sway the decision either way before it's even brought to trial. maybe then we can finally get a fair trial for both the victim and the alleged attacker.
perhaps some legislation needs to be passed with stricter penalties for those who leak information on rape cases to the press... jail time, large fines... that way victims can feel more comfortable coming forward, while at the same time we don't rip a person to shreds who may, in fact, be innocent. i dunno.