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LFRAgain
Zenny11,
Complete and utter horse-poop, not only from a legal standpoint, but also from a logical one. You’re wrong. Period.
No, not always, and no, not always that question. Furthermore, this particular question has no basis in law and is used rather to sow seeds of doubt in the judge and potential jurors. As defense attorneys are wont (and paid) to do. To present “implied consent” as a legally accepted litmus test for determining rape is disingenuous on your part. In fact, numerous legal jurisdictions, including a high court in Canada, have dispensed outright with “implied consent” as a defense for rape, for obvious reasons, the most glaring being the patently outrageous implied rape justification of “Look at how she was dressed.” Well, perhaps more obviously ridiculous to some than others.
Yes, you did lay blame by bringing these various “facts” to the table in the first place, facts garnered, it bears mentioning, from a single website run by a survivalist hawking self-defense training and products. Yes, that is precisely what the site is.
This isn’t a discussion about how this woman might have avoided being raped. It’s a discussion about whether or not a rape occurred.
But you’re approaching the subject as if it’s about how to avoid credit card fraud, and it’s not.
Does this mean discussing deterrence is off limits? Of course not. But in the context of your numerous posts on the subject, you seem almost insistent on using a “deterrence” to convincing everyone that this woman somehow bears some of the blame for being sexually assaulted by not being a, what? self-defense trained survivalist.
Yeah, we get that already. And knowing that distinction while one is being sexually assaulted helps the victim how exactly?
Regardless of what a woman wears, what time of the night she chooses to socialize, or what her motivations may be for deciding to speak to a male acquaintance one-on-one, there’s no rationalization, justification, reason, or place for rape of any sort in any society.
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LFRAgain
Zenny11,
Dude. So if I piss you off, that justifies you raping me? Are you seriously tring to peddle this garbage? Unfreakingbelievable.
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LFRAgain
The facts thus far:
1) The woman went to the apartment to meet ONE man who claimed he had something to talk with her about. None of the men charged dispute this point.
2) When she arrived, she discovered there were THREE men in the apartment. Any assumptions about how soon she knew there were three men there or what size the apartment are just that: assumptions.
3) One of the accused has already admitted that coercion was involved.
In a nutshell, we’ve already had:
“ . . . She waited 14 days . . . oops. err . . . five days to report the rape. What does she expect?”
“ . . . If she didn’t resisting, what does she expect?”
“ . . . Look at the time of night she was out. What did she expect?”
“ . . . She was going to a man’s apartment. What did she expect?”
The only thing missing from the majority of posts here defending these sad excuses for men is the time-honored, "Look at how she was dressed. She was asking for it."
Truly, truly pathetic the degree of creative acrobatics going on here to pin this on the woman who was assaulted.
Maybe someone here can roll out old LDP asshat Seiji Ota, who informs us that, "Gang rape shows the people who do it are still vigorous, and that is OK. I think that might make them close to normal."
To those here who seem bent on making the woman in this crime the criminal, when - - not "if," but when, based on the statistical likelihood of rape - - someone close to you is raped, I'm certain many of you will be whistling a far different tune.
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LFRAgain
islandview,
There is nothing mysterious or suggestive about the use of the word "alleged" in the article. It's standard practice to used the word in any sort of crime report in which a conviction has not yet been reached, based on the principle of "innocent until proven guilty."
Since this alleged crime has not yet made it to a courtroom, it remains simply an accusation that police investigators most prove or disprove.
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LFRAgain
What? Do you seriously expect anyone to believe your rationale placing the likelihood of a 20-year-old woman being gang raped by three men on equally footing with the possibility that she sought out sex with three men simultaneously? Good luck with that.
Other than the obvious elephant in the room, namely that the scenarios depicted in adult videos aren’t real - - a point that has conspicuously escaped the attention of more one poster on this thread - - there is no way on earth a woman seeking out a foursome is in any way as common as a woman being gang raped.
I don’t know who you associate with, but I can assure you they aren’t the norm.
Whether or not this woman was raped with have to be determined based on the evidence, but to practically dismiss her claims outright based on what quite honestly is a very warped perception of the world is indefensible.
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LFRAgain
jonobugs,
I think that's about as close to the truth as anyone's come so far
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LFRAgain
While Prime Minister from 1941 to 1944, Tojo held the position of Army Minister from 1941-1944, Home Minister from 1941–1942, Foreign Minister in 1942, Education Minister in 1943, and Commerce Minister in 1943. And in order to secure greater power in the face of dwindling support due to repeated military setbacks, he appointed himself Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff.
Not exactly the résumé of a man with little or no influence.
Methinks you need to reexamine the meaning of "power" and how it's wielded.
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LFRAgain
Zardoz rocked!
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LFRAgain
Molenir,
I agree with this 100%. Well said.
Posted in: Pressure builds on Florida pastor who wants to burn Quran on Sept 11
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LFRAgain
Manfromamaerica,
Make you a deal. You stop posting asinine statements, and I'll stop pointing them out. What do you think?
Posted in: Pressure builds on Florida pastor who wants to burn Quran on Sept 11
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LFRAgain
sailwind,
To bring you up to speed, if we had to characterize this discussion as one between Conservatives and Liberals, it's actually been Conservatives who have been presenting Constitutional arguments to support this guy's right to burn the Quran.
Liberals, if we have to labeled as such, have been not been toting out the Constitution at all, nor have we been making any claim that the guy should be forcibly stopped. Rather, the resounding message has been that Terry Jones is a moron of the highest order and that what he plans needlessly endangers lives.
If I had to distill my stance on rights into one sentence, I'd say that with enjoying one's rights comes an equal dose of the responsible exercise thereof. Freedom solely for the sake of freedom, without responsible and mature restraint where called for, isn’t liberty. It’s anarchy. Terry Jones isn’t behaving responsibly.
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LFRAgain
Huh? Could you walk us through this logic slowly, please?
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LFRAgain
Romeo,
And as I pointed out in my response to your post, the hypocrisy and facade of Constitution-inspired tolerance if positions were reversed are often just that -- double-standards and smokescreen.
I don't disagree with you; Pastor Jones has a right to make an ass of himself within the boundaries of the law. But I don't believe for a second that many Conservatives would be as willing to extend the same sudden hand of "It's your right" to anyone burning revered symbols of Christianity.
Posted in: Pressure builds on Florida pastor who wants to burn Quran on Sept 11
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LFRAgain
Umm, no. The Nazis didn't behead their victims.
Moderator: Readers, no more references to Nazis, please.
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LFRAgain
RomeoRamenII,
You know, I'd applaud you for this highly enlightened perspective, except I know -- as do most posters here -- that if it were a Muslim cleric in Florida organizing, say, an International Bible-burning Day, or, say, an International American Flag-Burning Day, the political demographic you choose to champion on a regular basis would be the first to dust off their pitchforks and shriek to anyone within earshot that the guy A) should be deported, B) should be arrested under some arcane provision of the Patriot Act, and/or C) deserves any sort of violent retribution that comes his way.
Yes, Pastor Dimwit Jones has every legal right to burn the Quran. But it doesn’t make him any less of an asshat for doing it. And no amount of legal protection can save him from the sheer stupidity dripping off of every word he mutters to the media. The saving grace in all of this is that he’s almost going out of his way to let the world know that he's a not only denser than a platinum brick, but also a bit of a loon.
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LFRAgain
Himajin,
Well said. This Trenton Truitt twit lost credibility with his liberally applied disdain for anyone who would stay in Japan for any extended period of time.
But the cincher is when the article boiled down to little more than a spoiled brat pouting because his boss told him to present himself more professionally.
Boo frackin' hoo, Trenty. Newsflash: Most Japanese bosses would have told the very same thing.
Either man up, Mr. Truitt, and take a place at the grown-up table with a modicum of self-respect intact, or go crying back to home and ply your frosted highlights to a more appreciative crowd.
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LFRAgain
Subtitles all the way.
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LFRAgain
Beside the obvious absurdity of this statement, one of the primary reasons "Memiors" director Rob Marshall chose not to use Japanese actresses in leading roles was because, as was pointed out in the article, there just aren't many Japanese acresses up to the task. By any measure, acting in most Japanese television and film is abysmally amateurish and uncompelling. Which is to be expected when you consider the dredge that is constantly passed off as screenplays here in Japan.
Apparently you stopped reading at the second paragraph of a 30-paragraph article. This isn't an article about "Memoirs" at all. It's about an actress and the reasons why she does or doesn't choose certain roles in the industry.
Nowhere in the article was this stated or even implied.
But the general consensus (among most posters here, at least) seems to be that she's an intelligent and thoughtful step above the vapid "talento" that litter the Japanese entertainment industry landscape. This isn't to say that more actors in Japan aren't capable of being intelligent and thoughtful . But rather that they don't, choosing instead to cling to the minimal demands of a career and public that judges them infinitely more on their cuteness or "kakkoi" quotient than on any real acting ability. It's a stark contrast to the widely respected Japanese cinema of the 1950s.
Excellent article.
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LFRAgain
Not in Japan. The average salary for a teacher in Japan hovers at around 6 million yen (US$69,000) per year, including bonuses. A 44-year-old would be mid-career, putting him or her very close to that figure, so I can't imagine money being the real impetus for trying to lift this woman's wallet. A thrill crime? Kleptomania?
In any case, he's obviously not too bright.
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LFRAgain
Amen.
Blogs are not true journalism and they aren't reliable by any stretch.
They're simply the musings of people with a lot of free time on their hands.
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