Palin: "pro rape"

[Nikolokolus]

OK, I kid. I apologize for the baiting and tawdry subject line, but I thought this was a pretty interesting article.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/21/palin.rape.exams/index.html

Excerpt:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's hometown required women to pay for their own rape examinations while she was mayor, a practice her police chief fought to keep as late as 2000. <!----><!--===========IMAGE============--><!--===========/IMAGE===========--><!--===========CAPTION==========--> <!--endclickprintexclude--> Former state Rep. Eric Croft, a Democrat, sponsored a state law requiring cities to provide the examinations free of charge to victims. He said the only ongoing resistance he met was from Wasilla, where Palin was mayor from 1996 to 2002. "It was one of those things everyone could agree on except Wasilla," Croft told CNN. "We couldn't convince the chief of police to stop charging them." Alaska's Legislature in 2000 banned the practice of charging women for rape exam kits -- which experts said could cost up to $1,000 ...

(and for the record, I don't think Governor Palin is "pro rape", but it's stuff like this that makes me seriously question her fitness to hold the second highest office in the land because of one of two reasons A. She knew about it and supported her Police Chief's decision to oppose state legislation providing for "free" rape examination kits, or B. She knew nothing about it, which possibly demonstrates a serious disconnectedness from her constituency on an issue that should almost certainly be on her radar considering the size of the town, and the unusually high rape rate in Alaska.)

 

[SodaPopinski]

"[noun] [verb] Hockey Mom. Lipstick. Pitbull. Media bias. Maverick."

That oughtta keep you DIMS quiet for a while. Take that!

-Pop

 

[AgentDrazenPetrovic]

woot.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Well the position does support her paltform of cutting gov't costs.

But this one is a little extreme when it comes to cutting costs.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

And, of course, we really don't know the full extent of the story- only what's fed to us by liberals.

 

[AgentDrazenPetrovic]

When police are investigating other crimes, are there usually charges? I don't know, I've never been raped before.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

When police are investigating other crimes, are there usually charges? I don't know, I've never been raped before.

I don't think so. I had my house burglarized. They came, gathered prints, took some samples here and thre including a DNA sample from some hair they found. I never got a bill.

 

[AgentDrazenPetrovic]

I don't think so. I had my house burglarized. They came, gathered prints, took some samples here and thre including a DNA sample from some hair they found. I never got a bill.

Did they catch who did it?

 

[Denny Crane]

There's other choice selections from that same article.

During the time Palin was mayor of Wasilla, her city was not the only one in Alaska charging rape victims. Experts testified before the Legislature that in a handful of small cities across Alaska, law enforcement agencies were charging victims or their insurance "more than sporadically."

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"The bigger picture of what was going on at the time was that the state was trying to cut their own budget, and one of the things that they were doing was passing on costs to cities, and that was one of the many things that they were passing on, the cost to the city," said Patrick, who recalls enormous pressure to keep the city's budget down.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Ya know, I wonder how much of this is even true.

I wrote Snopes and asked for a review.

 

[DennisRodman]

Well I think that she should be jailed for telling people to rape others. Fuck that Bitch!

 

[maxiep]

Well I think that she should be jailed for telling people to rape others. Fuck that Bitch!

By saying "F*** that B****!", aren't you telling us to rape her?

 

[Nikolokolus]

By saying "F*** that B****!", aren't you telling us to rape her?

hmmm ... good point.

 

[Nikolokolus]

And, of course, we really don't know the full extent of the story- only what's fed to us by liberals.

Actually I'm a moderate (fiscal conservative, pro gun, pro-choice, pro the "gummint" not legislating morality) and until about 5 years ago I was a registered republican ... If anything I should probably register as a libertarian, except I'm not that ideologically driven.

 

[DennisRodman]

By saying "F*** that B****!", aren't you telling us to rape her?

Well an eye for an eye, and so forth... If she is trying to get other people to get raped, then she should get raped. It's only fair.

 

[maxiep]

Well an eye for an eye, and so forth... If she is trying to get other people to get raped, then she should get raped. It's only fair.

Okay, so who rapes Kobe?

 

[DennisRodman]

Okay, so who rapes Kobe?

Vanessa Bryant? lol.

Maybe Rosie O Donald? (might be a bit too much torture)

 

[Nikolokolus]

Well an eye for an eye, and so forth... If she is trying to get other people to get raped, then she should get raped. It's only fair.

to Palin's credit she just wants to "rape" the victims' pocket book ... and hell we all know that those "bitches" were asking for it ... right? ... guys?

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Okay, so who rapes Kobe?

A perfect statement.

I hate Kobe and everything he represents.

 

[Jurassic]

Wow, I can't believe that this silly joke filled conversation is taking place about rape, a very serious subject.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Wow, I can't believe that this silly joke filled conversation is taking place about rape, a very serious subject.

To be fair I think all of us realize the severity of rape (god I hope!), the tongue-in-cheek comments I think are mostly for effect (at least for my part).

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Did they catch who did it?

No. Insurance covered a lot of it . . . but don't ask me about my postion on the death penalty for residential burglaries. : )

 

[DennisRodman]

No. Insurance covered a lot of it . . . but don't ask me about my postion on the death penalty for residential burglaries. : )

Well, I think that would be a little extreme, I mean just because the dog is preventing the guy from doing is job doesn't mean it should be put to death.