Caporegime
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Well social media does seem to be breeding a generation of narcissists.
#MeToo - is it just different for men and women?
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No, they were always there. Now they have a world wide platform and the media loves to stir it up. The media also knows how to troll the masses and push all the right buttons to rile them up for all the clicks and trends.
Don
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-46856934
This has blown up in the Scottish government's face by the looks of things. Found to have acted unlawfully in the Salmond accusations, now Sturgeon has referred herself to the standards committee over her involvement.
Total shambles.
This has blown up in the Scottish government's face by the looks of things. Found to have acted unlawfully in the Salmond accusations, now Sturgeon has referred herself to the standards committee over her involvement.
Total shambles.
Caporegime
Shock as Scottish government again shown to be inept.
Soldato
Sturgeon has been brilliant, but such is the thirst for male blood these days it must've seemed like a no brainer to her at the time.
Could be costly, and as they say in Scotland; hell mend her.
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Soldato
Yea, the plot thickens!
Don
Alex Salmond charged with attempted rape http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-46984747
Charged with 2 attempted rapes, multiple sexual assaults, indecency and breach of the peace.
Charged with 2 attempted rapes, multiple sexual assaults, indecency and breach of the peace.
Man of Honour
Unfortunately that doesn't mean much nowadays. Given that men are to be presumed guilty and the police and CPS are ordered to manipulate or suppress evidence in order to convict more men (whether they're guilty or not), an arrest no longer means very much. Even a conviction is far from conclusive regarding whether the man actually is guilty or not. When a jury is primed to presume guilt based on biological group identity and the evidence is "adjusted" towords guilt, verdicts are unreliable.
Maybe he's guilty. Maybe not. We'll probably never know.
Maybe he's guilty. Maybe not. We'll probably never know.
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Do you have any actual evidence to support this scurrilous assertion?
I presume he might be making a reference to the disclosure failings that lead to the collapse of several rape trials, for example:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44366997
Man of Honour
I rarely agree with Angilion but there's been a few cases where crucial evidence has been conveniently left out of a trial.
Whether that's to 'convict more men' is a different story.
Man of Honour
I was expecting an innocent hand on shoulder incident blown out of proportion, seems more sinister - how do all these charges just appear at once ?
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He's been under police investigation for months.
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As with Anglion's claim about the CPS being "ordered to manipulate or suppress evidence", I would suggest that you might like to justify your paranoid claim that crucial evidence was conveniently not disclosed to the defence.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...d-cps-apologise-to-man-after-collapse-of-case
Guy is on bail for two years, spends three days in court, seemingly the CPS forget to disclose a text message from the supposed victim to her friend stating: “It wasn’t against my will or anything.” That was rather convenient to forget about/apparently miss while cherry picking other messages from the pov of wanting to get a conviction.
Man of Honour
Ok, that explains it then
Man of Honour
Yes, of course. It was briefly made public in a number of trials recently. You already know that, so there's no point in me telling you again.
You also already know that pressure is applied to increase the conviction rate for men (not guilty men - just men) - that too is public. Very public. It's not at all hidden.
You know these things already. As does everyone else. It's just that some people think it's a good thing.
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From where in that report did you get the information that the CPS "forgot" to disclose anything, or did you "imagine" that detail as well?
Ordered to manipulate or suppress evidence?
note: "seemingly"
It is possible they and/or the police didn't do their jobs properly and despite that, by sheer chance, they managed to get text messages that were useful to them.
It is possible they deliberately withheld the text messages.... etc..