Rape: Rolling Stone, Universities, Cosby, Ghomeshi ... and restraint.

Rampant rampaging rapists run wild on campus:
From Wikipedia:

"A Rape on Campus," alleged a macabre gang rape by members of Phi Kappa Psi at the University of Virginia. In the aftermath, the University suspended all fraternities, and university president Teresa Sullivan declared "the whole [fraternity] culture is sick." In a nationally published op-ed a law student at the University called for fraternities to be treated as "criminal street gangs" subject to asset forfeiture.

Richard Bradley, editor in chief of Worth magazine, was the first mainstream journalist to question the Rolling Stone article After an interview Erdely gave to Slate, in which she appeared to offer evasive responses about the way in which she investigated the piece, some commentators escalated questioning the veracity of the story. It was later revealed Erdely had not interviewed any of the men accused of the rape.

Fraternity officials noted a number of discrepancies with the story, including that there was no party held on the night of the alleged rape, as the accuser had claimed, that the "ringleader" of the rape named in the story was not a member of the fraternity, and that details about the layout of the fraternity house provide by the accuser were wrong. Fraternity officials also noted that, prior to the Rolling Stone story, there had never been a criminal investigation or allegation of sexual assault against an undergraduate member of the chapter.

Washington Post reporters who later interviewed the accuser at the center of Erdely's story said that she had felt "manipulated" by Erdely.

Its bad enough that the general populace seems to have been ready to jump on the bandwagon, but university officials are supposed to have more restraint and intelligence to lead the lynch mob.

Seems to be the same way with the Navy. As "The Brass" take away Bill Cosby's honorary rank of Chief Petty Officer, the rank and file focus on the fact that he has never been indicted, tried or convicted and should be left alone. Or, as one sailor put it, The Secretary of the Navy took an oath to defend the Constitution, not to abide by it.

Hail. Well met, fair countryman!

Two nineteen year old German girls decided to obtain Gap Year visas allowing them to explore New Zealand. Unlike tourist visas, Gap Year visas allow a visitor to make money working at odd jobs so as to more fully explore the New Zealand culture for a longer period of time.

While many youths decide to explore nightlife and wineries, the two German trekers simply hiked large swaths of New Zealand. During one trip they met a fellow German, a middle aged man who was foreman of a milking crew at a New Zealand ranch.

During informal discussions of the two girls intended destinations the crew foreman revealed that he owned a sailboat and could sail the girls to their next destination. The trusting, youthful young ladies assented and soon set sail on an extremely hazardous voyage in what is considered to be the most dangerous body of water in New Zealand. Moreover the winds at the time they departed were clearly from the wrong direction. It is doubtful the Captain notified his two passengers of the inadequacies of his boat and its equipment. Likely undisclosed was the fact that although the Captain had owned the boat for over a year he had very little training or experience in sailing and that his sailing style was described as "uninfluenced by any advice he had been given".

ON EDIT: Anniversary.

Gee, its been my experience that young nineteen year old German girls wearing pleasantly revealing hiking outfits tend to very easily get their photographs into the newspaper, yet for some reason only the "missing" Captain, not either of his "missing" passengers appear in the papers. And if any wonders about that status of "missing" lets just say that the police seem to know just as well as the Coroner knows that their bread is buttered by the Travel Industry. So the travel statistics reflect a good deal of political correctness to them. Until the bodies are actually found, there will be no Coronal Inquiry therefore there can be no finding of criminally negligent homicide. Indeed, until a body turns up the police consider the pretty young girls to be merely "missing" and therefore not dead. Have to pretty up the statistics for the Tourist Industry.

Operation Yew Tree. A waste of time, money and lives.

A return. Not claimed to be a triumphal return, but a return never the less.

We re-invigor the publication of Fleastiff's blog with a summary of Operation YewTree, a London Metropolitan Police task force that targeted mainly elderly males who had a history of being prominent in the public eye.

Many of the men were held on police bail for long terms and then informed they would not be charged yet many men were held on police bail as the police sought out possible accusers for events alleged to have taken several decades ago.

Ofcourse it is difficult to defend oneself against a sexual molestation charge particularly when UK law allows victims of these "historic" sex offenses to file claims for damages and to talk to the media in order to bolster their cases and in order to receive further compensation claims.

At trial little credible evidence was admited and the unsequestered jury heard a great deal of publicity about Jimmy Saville's victims.

Earlier, when Operation Yew Tree had snared a man who after a year had been convicted of a fifteen second breast-groping incident it was suggested that if the MET is going to jail celebrities who've groped a woman's breast, the UK had better build much larger prisons.

Taking the Law into Your Own Hands...

Josephine County Commissioner Keith Heck said residents of the county that opposed the tax levy need to realize there is no fat to cut.

Heck said though he supports neighborhood watch groups, the rise of increasingly “aggressive” community watch groups make him worried the situation could escalate to violence. Watch groups have been under increasing scrutiny nationally ever since the George Zimmerman case in Florida.

Heck said the only real solution is for the county citizens to approve more funds.

"There is this little shimmer out there of some giant Santa that is going to come and drop all this money on us because we are well-meaning folks,” he said. “The sleigh is broken, the deer are dead, it’s not going to happen. We have to figure out how we are going to solve this problem.”
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/28/citizens-take-law-into-own-hands-after-cash-strapped-ore-county-guts-sheriff/?intcmp=obnetwork
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Its quite simple. Rural Josephine County has very little land subject to taxation and is not going to over-tax its residents to support overly paid police or other bloated organizations. For a long time local residents were the only law that existed in Oregon Territory and the local residents are perfectly willing to return to the days of local law enforcement, citizen posses and direct and immediately effective action having learned that such a situation is preferable to excessive taxation by authorities consisting largely of government employees.

These scare tactics often work: Our TV news programs follow a policy of "If it bleeds, it leads" making everyone think crime rates are high instead of extremely low due largely to the availability of cheap abortions. Then the voters believing the lies of the police and the media vote higher and higher taxes that gets them nothing but bloated bureaucrats proposing endlessly more costly programs such as Red Light Cameras that raise revenue and increase accidents or pervert printouts that save no children but increase the public burden immensely. DARE programs pay cops 80K a year to go around to schools and stare at teenage girls breasts, then the police make speeches about needing more officers.

Or we get laws about Driving while Texting which INCREASE risk because violators have to go to extreme measures to hide their telephones from passing cops and passing tattle talers.

Well, Josephine County, Oregon has opted to have quality of life the most important factor and that means freedom from taxation to support bloated bureaucrats fighting imaginary problems. Their sheriff's office is now open M-F from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Prisoners will not be kept at the local jail, judges must use community centered punishment rather than give some local jail staff a reason to exist. Fires are handled by volunteers, SAR missions are volunteers. And if to keep a rural and tax-free lifestyle necktie parties become a necessity, those will be handled by volunteers also.

Jail for overdue library books.

Texas, in keeping with its punish everyone to the max philosophy jailed a man who kept a GED study book that was over due by three years. Of course putting someone in jail who has tried to better themselves does seem foolish.

Wealthy Mercer Island in Washington does not even have an anti-theft protection system but is the lowest in lost materials in the King County System.

Yep. Its started. And it will persist!!

Even though Ryan Ferguson is finally a free man its still a litany of guilt. "We won't re-try him" rather than "He is obviously innocent". And now the former police chief going on record as approving of prosecutor Kane and believing that Erickson and Ferguson were properly arrested, properly interrogated and are the actual perpetrators.

Cops just can't give up or admit they were wrong. They want to win at any cost.

Baby Hope

None of the seven people living in that Queens, NY apartment stepped forward to report the little girl's disappearance, so perhaps the "hope" was more in the eyes of the media. Even minority children from slum areas when killed at very young ages are never described in the media as likely to have grown up to become a drug addict or violent criminal.

Now it looks like some pervert and murderer will get free food and free medical care for the rest of his life.

When will the taxpayers be the ones who have any hope?