December 16, 2010
**TRIGGER WARNING**
starhen:

Front page of the Chicago Tribune website, illustrating just how seriously we [our law/judicial systems] take crimes against women and girls.  And yet the same argument about “smear campaigns” and “discrediting” continue to bubble up from the swamp to justify dismissal.
[Relevant stories circled: “teenager who killed herself a week after accusing a University of Notre Dame football player of sexually attacking her suggest that the campus police conducted a superficial investigation of their daughter’s allegations.”; “First one girl, then another: Light punishment and lack of treatment allow a repeat offender to stay on the streets as his behavior escalate”; “WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange to be freed”]

**TRIGGER WARNING**

starhen:

Front page of the Chicago Tribune website, illustrating just how seriously we [our law/judicial systems] take crimes against women and girls.  And yet the same argument about “smear campaigns” and “discrediting” continue to bubble up from the swamp to justify dismissal.

[Relevant stories circled: “teenager who killed herself a week after accusing a University of Notre Dame football player of sexually attacking her suggest that the campus police conducted a superficial investigation of their daughter’s allegations.”; “First one girl, then another: Light punishment and lack of treatment allow a repeat offender to stay on the streets as his behavior escalate”; “WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange to be freed”]

(via thecranium)

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    Except, Julian Assange isn’t “freed” he is released on bail. He has to where an electronic tag, report to police daily,...
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    I really want to cry right now. This is horrible.
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