"If a woman wears sexually suggestive clothing around a man is that not also sexual assault? Men are visually stimulated and unwanted stimulation should meet the basic definition of assault. I am not condoning bad behavior by men but women need to understand that by walking around in their little sister’s skirt they are guilty of indecent visual assault on a man’s imagination which does cause mental anguish and torment especially on men who really are trying to live in harmony and respect toward women; something made more difficult when every ripple and curve are exposed to the men around you. Something to think about."
“We are just discussing what should be obvious,” Gallups said. “The science supports us in it.”
Gawddamn idiot.
You know what's classic about this moronic bit? This statement:“We are just discussing what should be obvious,” Gallups said. “The science supports us in it.”
Really?
Science is your worst friend Christian soldier. It has definitively proven your beliefs are nonsense. Don't lend it any credibility.
And now you refer to it to make your case? Not only that... it's meek science at best- hardly anything that lends itself towards explaining why some guys get boners leering at some woman's legs or cleavage. This is more a case of discipline or self control- which good and pure Christians are supposed to have in abundance. It's only the heathens that have a problem popping stiffies when a good looking female crosses their line of vision.
"If a woman wears sexually suggestive clothing around a man is that not also sexual assault? Men are visually stimulated and unwanted stimulation should meet the basic definition of assault. I am not condoning bad behavior by men but women need to understand that by walking around in their little sister’s skirt they are guilty of indecent visual assault on a man’s imagination which does cause mental anguish and torment especially on men who really are trying to live in harmony and respect toward women; something made more difficult when every ripple and curve are exposed to the men around you. Something to think about."
“We are just discussing what should be obvious,” Gallups said. “The science supports us in it.”
Gawddamn idiot.
You know what's classic about this moronic bit? This statement:“We are just discussing what should be obvious,” Gallups said. “The science supports us in it.”
Really?
Science is your worst friend Christian soldier. It has definitively proven your beliefs are nonsense. Don't lend it any credibility.
And now you refer to it to make your case? Not only that... it's meek science at best- hardly anything that lends itself towards explaining why some guys get boners leering at some woman's legs or cleavage. This is more a case of discipline or self control- which good and pure Christians are supposed to have in abundance. It's only the heathens that have a problem popping stiffies when a good looking female crosses their line of vision.
Gawddamn idiot.
This is way more common than you think. There are many a man that believes this.
I had a buddy that was deeply religious and when we went to a gas station to get gas there were two young gals most likely 15 or so and they had short shorts on. Well he lost his mind. he says "and you wonder why woman get raped?!?"
I explained to him that how someone is dressed is not consent and rape is NOT ok.
"If a woman wears sexually suggestive clothing around a man is that not also sexual assault? Men are visually stimulated and unwanted stimulation should meet the basic definition of assault. I am not condoning bad behavior by men but women need to understand that by walking around in their little sister’s skirt they are guilty of indecent visual assault on a man’s imagination which does cause mental anguish and torment especially on men who really are trying to live in harmony and respect toward women; something made more difficult when every ripple and curve are exposed to the men around you. Something to think about."
“We are just discussing what should be obvious,” Gallups said. “The science supports us in it.”
Gawddamn idiot.
You know what's classic about this moronic bit? This statement:“We are just discussing what should be obvious,” Gallups said. “The science supports us in it.”
Really?
Science is your worst friend Christian soldier. It has definitively proven your beliefs are nonsense. Don't lend it any credibility.
And now you refer to it to make your case? Not only that... it's meek science at best- hardly anything that lends itself towards explaining why some guys get boners leering at some woman's legs or cleavage. This is more a case of discipline or self control- which good and pure Christians are supposed to have in abundance. It's only the heathens that have a problem popping stiffies when a good looking female crosses their line of vision.
Gawddamn idiot.
This is way more common than you think. There are many a man that believes this.
I had a buddy that was deeply religious and when we went to a gas station to get gas there were two young gals most likely 15 or so and they had short shorts on. Well he lost his mind. he says "and you wonder why woman get raped?!?"
I explained to him that how someone is dressed is not consent and rape is NOT ok.
Other moral conversations followed that...
Absolutely asinine thinking.
The worst part? Most of these people are so brainwashed you can't even begin to have them understand the error in their way of thinking.
Faulty programming.
"My brain's a good brain!"
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I’m a little late, please forgive me as I have been traveling outside of my home country, but has Hillary Clinton and the DNC returned all donations that this rapist has sent?
Been away for over a month, are people still praying for impeachment?
Pray? I don’t pray. Just patiently waiting for Mueller’s investigation to run its course. Seems we’ll have some action on Monday and all of next week to discuss. The beginnings of an end.
Been away for over a month, are people still praying for impeachment?
Pray? I don’t pray. Just patiently waiting for Mueller’s investigation to run its course. Seems we’ll have some action on Monday and all of next week to discuss. The beginnings of an end.
I see quoting still is great.
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Been away for over a month, are people still praying for impeachment?
Pray? I don’t pray. Just patiently waiting for Mueller’s investigation to run its course. Seems we’ll have some action on Monday and all of next week to discuss. The beginnings of an end.
Been away for over a month, are people still praying for impeachment?
Pray? I don’t pray. Just patiently waiting for Mueller’s investigation to run its course. Seems we’ll have some action on Monday and all of next week to discuss. The beginnings of an end.
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1 woman's story of rape convinced all Weinstein trial jurors
By ANDREW DALTON
15 mins ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Most of the jurors at Harvey Weinstein's Los Angeles trial were ready to convict him of crimes related to three of the four women he was charged with raping or sexually assaulting.
Yet after weeks of deliberation the eight men and four women voted unanimously to convict him of crimes against only one: a Russian-born model and actor known as Jane Doe 1. She lived in Rome and was visiting California for a film festival at age 34 in 2013, when she said the now-disgraced film mogul appeared uninvited at her Los Angeles hotel room door in the middle of the night.
The jurors were released from service and allowed to talk publicly after more than two months Tuesday, when they could not reach a unanimous decision on two aggravating factors that might have made for a higher sentence. Their deliberations took nine days spanning more than two weeks, but those who spoke to reporters said the talks were never contentious.
Weinstein was found guilty of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault against Jane Doe 1. He now faces up to 18 years in prison in California to go with a 23-year sentence for a rape and sexual assault conviction in New York.
Jurors said that Jane Doe 1's composure, and the fact that she did not contact Weinstein after he raped her, allowed the divided group to reach consensus on her accusations.
“I thought Jane Doe 1 was very convincing in her story,” said one juror, a 62-year-old man who works in banking and only provided his first name, Michael, because he sought to maintain privacy amid the publicity surrounding the case.
The physical and technical evidence surrounding Jane Doe 1 was some of the thinnest at the trial, but jurors were told that under the law, if they found an accuser's story credible, that alone could be enough to convict.
They acquitted Weinstein on a count of sexual battery against a massage therapist. They were deadlocked, with 10 of 12 voting for guilt, on a count of sexual battery against model Lauren Young; and voting 8-4 in favor of conviction on rape and sexual assault counts involving Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The Associated Press does not name people who have said they were sexually abused, unless they come forward publicly or have given consent through their attorneys, as Young and Siebel Newsom have.
Jane Doe 1 only one among them who had no further direct dealings with Weinstein or his representatives after the incident. She testified she had barely known who he was, having been introduced only briefly at the film festival, and wanted nothing from him. Others, including Siebel Newsom, had friendly email exchanges with Weinstein or sought out future meetings after their incidents, a point the defense pounded in their cross-examinations and closing arguments.
That resonated with some jurors.
Michael said he voted to convict on the Jane Doe 1 counts, but reluctantly voted to acquit on the counts involving Siebel Newsom. The difference, he said, was the women's "subsequent action.”
“In a 2 ½ year period she had sent Mr. Weinstein over 35 emails,” he said of Siebel Newsom. “She wanted access to Harvey Weinstein. It sounded like she wanted access to a lot of his resources. It raised a reasonable doubt in my mind."
Weinstein has repeatedly denied engaging in any non-consensual sex. His lawyers called some of the encounters in the charges consensual and others flat-out fabricated, including the story told by Jane Doe 1. They pointed out that prosecutors had not even produced independent evidence to place Weinstein at her hotel.
“Jane Doe 1 is lying. Period,” Weinstein lawyer Alan Jackson said in his closing argument.
One juror suggested that the broad statement was undermined by defense arguments that engaged with the details of Jane Doe 1's account.
“I think Jackson’s last comment where Harvey just wasn’t there, hurt him,” said the juror, Arnold Esqueda, who works as director of security for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. “They were defending all these things, and then they just say he’s not there. Well they should have just said he’s not there.”
He said he and other jurors made that point to a “very old school” man on the jury who who “decided that he was going vote guilty on that one. He stayed pretty much not guilty on the rest.”
While tearful at times, Jane Doe 1's testimony was restrained and straightforward in comparison to some that followed. She spoke slowly with a Russian accent, and made nearly no use of a translator on hand.
Esqueda said the intensely emotional testimony of Siebel Newsom, who was screaming through tears at times during her testimony, might have been too much for some fellow jurors. The panel was divided 6-6 on the counts involving her when he suggested getting a read-back of her testimony from the court reporter.
“She had a little drama,” Esqueda said. “So I suggested let’s re-read it, and I think after we read it it switched a couple of people in her favor, without the drama.”
Changes over time in the massage therapist's story helped lead jurors to acquit on that count, Michael said.
Judge Lisa Lench tentatively scheduled Weinstein's sentencing for Jan. 9 after his attorneys asked that it be done promptly.
But Lench said it might not happen so quickly given the issues surrounding the case, including prosecutors' pending decision on whether or not to retry the deadlocked counts.
“We'll need to consult the victims first and foremost,” Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson said.
He asked the judge if other Weinstein accusers, including some who testified against him at trial but were not part of the charges, and the women whose counts were deadlocked, might give victim impact statements at the sentencing.
Lench promptly rejected the idea.
“I’m not going to make this an open forum on all of the allegations that were presented in this trial," she said.
“So it'll just be Jane Doe 1 then," Thompson replied.
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NY high courts ruled that Weinstein did not get a fair trial.... So
They have to do it again.
Because too many victims came forward tainting the verdict. what the fuck are our courts doing these days? We have lost all common sense in this country.
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Gawddamn idiot.
You know what's classic about this moronic bit? This statement: “We are just discussing what should be obvious,” Gallups said. “The science supports us in it.”
Really?
Science is your worst friend Christian soldier. It has definitively proven your beliefs are nonsense. Don't lend it any credibility.
And now you refer to it to make your case? Not only that... it's meek science at best- hardly anything that lends itself towards explaining why some guys get boners leering at some woman's legs or cleavage. This is more a case of discipline or self control- which good and pure Christians are supposed to have in abundance. It's only the heathens that have a problem popping stiffies when a good looking female crosses their line of vision.
Gawddamn idiot.
I had a buddy that was deeply religious and when we went to a gas station to get gas there were two young gals most likely 15 or so and they had short shorts on. Well he lost his mind. he says "and you wonder why woman get raped?!?"
I explained to him that how someone is dressed is not consent and rape is NOT ok.
Other moral conversations followed that...
Absolutely asinine thinking.
The worst part? Most of these people are so brainwashed you can't even begin to have them understand the error in their way of thinking.
Faulty programming.
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God/Government.
Tomato/tomahto.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-new-york-police.html
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another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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Harvey Weinstein was convicted of third-degree rape and forcible sexual assault of two women and sentenced to 23 years in prison
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Most of the jurors at Harvey Weinstein's Los Angeles trial were ready to convict him of crimes related to three of the four women he was charged with raping or sexually assaulting.
Yet after weeks of deliberation the eight men and four women voted unanimously to convict him of crimes against only one: a Russian-born model and actor known as Jane Doe 1. She lived in Rome and was visiting California for a film festival at age 34 in 2013, when she said the now-disgraced film mogul appeared uninvited at her Los Angeles hotel room door in the middle of the night.
The jurors were released from service and allowed to talk publicly after more than two months Tuesday, when they could not reach a unanimous decision on two aggravating factors that might have made for a higher sentence. Their deliberations took nine days spanning more than two weeks, but those who spoke to reporters said the talks were never contentious.
Weinstein was found guilty of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault against Jane Doe 1. He now faces up to 18 years in prison in California to go with a 23-year sentence for a rape and sexual assault conviction in New York.
Jurors said that Jane Doe 1's composure, and the fact that she did not contact Weinstein after he raped her, allowed the divided group to reach consensus on her accusations.
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“I thought Jane Doe 1 was very convincing in her story,” said one juror, a 62-year-old man who works in banking and only provided his first name, Michael, because he sought to maintain privacy amid the publicity surrounding the case.
The physical and technical evidence surrounding Jane Doe 1 was some of the thinnest at the trial, but jurors were told that under the law, if they found an accuser's story credible, that alone could be enough to convict.
They acquitted Weinstein on a count of sexual battery against a massage therapist. They were deadlocked, with 10 of 12 voting for guilt, on a count of sexual battery against model Lauren Young; and voting 8-4 in favor of conviction on rape and sexual assault counts involving Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The Associated Press does not name people who have said they were sexually abused, unless they come forward publicly or have given consent through their attorneys, as Young and Siebel Newsom have.
Jane Doe 1 only one among them who had no further direct dealings with Weinstein or his representatives after the incident. She testified she had barely known who he was, having been introduced only briefly at the film festival, and wanted nothing from him. Others, including Siebel Newsom, had friendly email exchanges with Weinstein or sought out future meetings after their incidents, a point the defense pounded in their cross-examinations and closing arguments.
That resonated with some jurors.
Michael said he voted to convict on the Jane Doe 1 counts, but reluctantly voted to acquit on the counts involving Siebel Newsom. The difference, he said, was the women's "subsequent action.”
“In a 2 ½ year period she had sent Mr. Weinstein over 35 emails,” he said of Siebel Newsom. “She wanted access to Harvey Weinstein. It sounded like she wanted access to a lot of his resources. It raised a reasonable doubt in my mind."
Weinstein has repeatedly denied engaging in any non-consensual sex. His lawyers called some of the encounters in the charges consensual and others flat-out fabricated, including the story told by Jane Doe 1. They pointed out that prosecutors had not even produced independent evidence to place Weinstein at her hotel.
“Jane Doe 1 is lying. Period,” Weinstein lawyer Alan Jackson said in his closing argument.
One juror suggested that the broad statement was undermined by defense arguments that engaged with the details of Jane Doe 1's account.
“I think Jackson’s last comment where Harvey just wasn’t there, hurt him,” said the juror, Arnold Esqueda, who works as director of security for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. “They were defending all these things, and then they just say he’s not there. Well they should have just said he’s not there.”
He said he and other jurors made that point to a “very old school” man on the jury who who “decided that he was going vote guilty on that one. He stayed pretty much not guilty on the rest.”
While tearful at times, Jane Doe 1's testimony was restrained and straightforward in comparison to some that followed. She spoke slowly with a Russian accent, and made nearly no use of a translator on hand.
Esqueda said the intensely emotional testimony of Siebel Newsom, who was screaming through tears at times during her testimony, might have been too much for some fellow jurors. The panel was divided 6-6 on the counts involving her when he suggested getting a read-back of her testimony from the court reporter.
“She had a little drama,” Esqueda said. “So I suggested let’s re-read it, and I think after we read it it switched a couple of people in her favor, without the drama.”
Changes over time in the massage therapist's story helped lead jurors to acquit on that count, Michael said.
Judge Lisa Lench tentatively scheduled Weinstein's sentencing for Jan. 9 after his attorneys asked that it be done promptly.
But Lench said it might not happen so quickly given the issues surrounding the case, including prosecutors' pending decision on whether or not to retry the deadlocked counts.
“We'll need to consult the victims first and foremost,” Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson said.
He asked the judge if other Weinstein accusers, including some who testified against him at trial but were not part of the charges, and the women whose counts were deadlocked, might give victim impact statements at the sentencing.
Lench promptly rejected the idea.
“I’m not going to make this an open forum on all of the allegations that were presented in this trial," she said.
“So it'll just be Jane Doe 1 then," Thompson replied.
___
Follow AP Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/andyjamesdalton
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For more on the Harvey Weinstein trial, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/harvey-weinstein
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you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
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another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
So
They have to do it again.