Posted on 01/05/2013 7:00:55 PM PST by Morgana
She's using the Clinton defense line...
Amazing how people have jumped on this story so heavily. While I DO support any rape victim and hope this case will be resolved fairly and hostely, I wonder why the public hasn’t risen to the same level of disgust and anger over a president we know absolutely nothing about who has set his sights on “raping” this country. What really is “fair” these days?
I fear for my country.
Has anybody actually READ what Anonymous is stating as truth?
Has anybody clicked on any of the links that Anonymous has provided? They lead to message boards full of Occupy Movement hate. They are one in the same.
Two people have been charged, arrested, and will stand trial on 2/13/1013
The county prosecutor turned this case over to Special Prosecutors from the States Attorney Generals Office in AUGUST less than 3 weeks after the rape.
Anonymous has hacked websites, hacked private email accounts and complied a dossier complete with names, phone numbers, addresses, and social security numbers of the Principal, coaches, all the faculty of the school and their relatives and have threatened to release all of this if the victim doesn’t get an apology from people who may or may not be involved.
Does the majority of members of freerepublic really support that?
Really?
This is no different than forces against the 2nd Amendment using Newtown as leverage to eliminate guns.
Anonymous/Occupy is using this rape as leverage to spread their anarchy.
That LiveLeaks website is so full of smears many of which can be easily dismissed, except for the fact the crime involved and the conduct of the perp is so outrageous, it is difficult to criticize what Anonymous/occupy is doing because they claim to be defending the victim.
LiveLeaks smears the county prosecutor,for saying what ANY prosecutor would tell the rape victim on what to expect from a trial.
Furthermore, it’s the states attorney general special prosecutors who are handling the case. The county prosecutor turned it over in August. AUGUST!
The Sheriff has been smeared for running a prolonged investigation, except it’s the City Police, not the Sheriff, who has jurisdiction over an investigation that has produced two arrests prior to the States Attorneys involvement.
Anonymous/Occupy claims on Liveleaks that the sheriff is aware of the 12 minute video which shows the OSU student laughing about the rape, but that the sheriff cannot get access to it.
Then Anonymous/Occupy criticizes the Sheriff for not arresting this OSU brute.
Seriously?? People are lapping this up
They are accusing the Sheriff not arresting a perp for his conduct on a video that the Sheriff has admitted that he has not seen, that he cannot get access to, in an investigation that he does not have jurisdiction over.
The Sheriff first saw the video this week after Anonymous/Occupy posted it online, which leads me to this simple question.
If Anonymous/Occupy was SO concerned about the victim, why on earth would they not give a COPY of the Video to the sheriff when he told them he doesn’t have it?
I don’t want to defend that Sheriff or the county prosecutor, I do not know them, and I certainly don’t know Steubenville, and I’m certainly not defending the brutes involved in a rape.
But Damn it, somebody has to speak up for the Rule of Law, and very, very, very few people are.
One of the Football players from Steubenville, a sophmore, I believe, (what does that make him 15-16 years old?), was quoted in the Cleveland paper today that he wasn’t there, has absolutely nothing to do with, and yet thanks to Anonymous/Occupy, he is getting Death threats, he has been told that the entire football team needs to be lined up and shot. Another Parent compared this to a witch hunt.
Apparently, human nature hasn’t changed much since Salem, the big difference now is in powerful tools in the form of the internet and Social Media.
With great power comes great responsibility. I believe what Anonymous/Occupy has done is incredibly irresponsible.
They haven’t done anything, to force anyone, to do anything different, that they already haven’t done.
1) Arrests have been made
2) Special Prosecutors have been called in
3) Trials have been set
Does that sound like a cover up to you?
All done in the weeks after the assault. Once there is sworn testimony from the trial, the door is open for more arrests, per the prosecutors.
It saddens me that I appear to be a lone voice out here, very very few people across the political spectrum are speaking out against the Anonymous/Occupy tactics.
My wife is a member of the faculty at a local high school, an English teacher, had we lived in Steubenville, her personal information would be held hostage by Anonymous/occupy right now, as they whip up a frenzied crowd.
I don’t recognize this world we live in anymore. This is French Revolution BS.
And nobody gives a damn.
Not a good outcome to this whole thing is likely. However, as a veteran of the Duke Lacrosse Frame, and a news-blogger in my own right, I can tell you that cannot believe what law enforcement, district attorneys, or other local government types tell you.
They lie. Often.
Did mean to smear all law enforcement, district attorneys, or other local government types based on the Duke lacrosse case?
Because it sure looks like you just did.
Nope, not all of them. But I can tell that in the three parishes (counties) where I have covered local government for the past 3 1/2 years for my own newsblog, I NEVER take ANYTHING that I’m told by government types at face value.
And I’ve known some of these people for forty years.
There have been stories about this sheriff for years!! This man makes Rosco P Coltrane look like Andy Taylor!!
There have been stories about this sheriff for years!! This man makes Rosco P Coltrane look like Andy Taylor!!
“I’ve read at several sites.....there seems to be a very cushy relationship between all the players...one cop is inlaw of this guy who lives next to the this coach and this judge works with this players father etc...AS AN EXAMPLE....but it goes like that....”
EXACTLY That town is just a hick town where Friday night football is the main attraction. That is why they players are being cuddled.
I tend to address every thread on it's own merits, and this one wasn't a political thread regarding Obama.........it was about a rape case. So excuse me if I tend to find your comment out of line on this one.......
you obviously didn't take the time to read thru the entire website or watch the videos...........THE SHERIFF IS PART OF THE COVERUP..............SHEESH!
The City Police handled the investigation, it’s their jurisdiction, not the Sheriffs department.
The Attorney General has had special prosecutors on the case since August 28th
Two people are arrested, a trial is scheduled, special prosecutors are on the case from the States Attorney’s General office claiming that more charges could be made after there is sworn testimony at the trial.......This is a cover up?
How exactly had Anonymous/Occupy moved this case forward?
Do you own a Guy Fawkes mask?
What harm could be done by giving the Sheriff a COPY of the video? Is he going to cover up the copy? I’m having a hard time making sense of that.
And I did read that the Sheriff had breakfast with the coach a couple times a week. He’s obviously guilty as hell, as is the waitress who served them coffee and the busboy who cleaned their table. And the owner, who is a bookie who runs drugs (According to Anonymous/Occupy).
This surely hampered the Sheriffs investigation, oh wait, it wasn’t is case to investigate.
Damned facts.
YES IT IS...
Do you own a Guy Fawkes mask?
NO I DON'T......Why should that be a part of your argument unless you've failed on all the others?
What harm could be done by giving the Sheriff a COPY of the video?
You obviously missed the salient parts of the website. The sheriff WAS provided with all the evidence, most of which was subsequently scrubbed from the picture taking cellphones .......
The sheriff is part and parcel of this entire coverup and he will be taken down.........
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/06/justice/ohio-steubenville-alleged-rape-case/
Lawyer seeks new venue for Ohio teen rape trial
By Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt, CNN
updated 7:46 PM EST, Sun January 6, 2013
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Lawyer in teen rape case wants a change of venue due to publicity and threats
A spokesman for state prosecutors had no direct comment Sunday
Both Steubenville, Ohio, teens deny the allegations against them, their lawyers say
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