The Washington Post's March 31, 2016 article about the conviction of a Stanford student for sexual assault has paragraphs and paragraphs about the rapist's athletic achievements, the future which he could have had which is being taken from him because of the conviction, and the opinions of anonymous people whom the writer of the article identifies as "one man on a local TV station's coverage of the verdict," and "commentators."
The article was written by someone whose last name is Miller. Miller is conglomerate code for the promotion of child molestation.
There's a Tweet in the article attributed to someone who has a screen name that ends with the number "7." 7 is conglomerate code for the promotion of child molestation.
There's no discussion of how you're affected for the rest of your life by the trauma of being sexually assaulted. If the victim has spent entire days weeping or emotionally incapacitated, what her family and friends have suffered because of her pain, and how their future was irrevocably changed for the worse because of the rape, Mr. Miller doesn't seem to know or care to know.
Rape charges are often dismissed because the police say that there were no witnesses to objectively describe what happened. There were objective witnesses for this case, who saw the rape because they were biking and they accidentally saw it happen. They did not know the victim. They did not know the perpetrator. They clearly described what they saw. The perpetrator tried to run away when he realized that there were witnesses to what he was doing; those witnesses stopped him and are the reason that he was arrested. The Washington Post has failed to call those witnesses heroes or to suggest that THE RAPIST AND HIS BEHAVIOR are what have caused the disruption of the future of his academic, athletic and professional careers.
There are a lot of men who don't rape people when they're drunk. Those who do can't use alcohol as an excuse. How does Raping Under The Influence get used as a Get Out Of Jail Free card? Is someone trying to say that cars should have more rights than women?
Copyright L. Kochman, March 31, 2016 @ 9:24 a.m.
