Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Zero Tolerance for.... Whatever!

It's not just libertarians who've been drawing heavily on the world's humbug reserves post-Wikileaks. Consider the position of the mainstream left: they're outraged that their new hero is being investigated for sexual assault on nothing more than the testimony of a couple of alleged victims?

And?

Hey, this is one more than PC Plod normally needs to start an investigation. Plenty of men have been bought to trial on less evidence and with far less tin-foil related reasons to suspect the credibility of the witnesses. Indeed, the left has spent years chipping away at the rights of the defence to raise issues like this in rape cases.

If the accussed in this case was an accountant from Leeds, the left would be busy right about now explaining how women don't lie about rape.

3 comments:

JuliaM said...

"... the left would be busy right about now explaining how women don't lie about rape."

Plenty of people have been doing just that on Twitter, whenever the view is expressed that maybe this isn't as simple as it appears...

Ross said...

The hardcore femiloons are sticking ot their principles on this, but many of their previous fellow travellers are doing a 180 degree U-turn. There's been a big slap fight over this at left wing sites like "Liberal Conspiracy".

Rob said...

The irrational belief that women never lie about rape vs the irrational belief that it's a vast right-wing conspiracy. Kaboom!