Posted on 10/07/2018 8:58:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The #MeToo movement has sent dozens of once-powerful Hollywood players into exile, but few of them have been placed in handcuffs or jail cells. And it’s increasingly apparent that the lack of criminal charges may remain the norm.
Harvey Weinstein has been charged with sexual assault in New York, and Bill Cosby was sent to prison in Pennsylvania in the year since stories on Weinstein in The New York Times and The New Yorker set off waves of revelations of sexual misconduct in Hollywood. But those two central figures are exceptions.
A task force launched last November by Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey to handle the surge in allegations against entertainment figures has taken up criminal cases involving nearly two dozen entertainment-industry figures. None has been charged.
The lack of prosecutions stems from a clash between the #MeToo ethos, which encourages victims to come forward years or even decades after abuse and harassment that they’ve kept private, and a legal system that demands fast reporting of crimes and hard evidence.
The task force has considered charges against 22 suspects, including Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, director James Toback and former CBS CEO Leslie Moonves, all of whom have denied engaging in any sex that was not consensual.
Charges have already been rejected for most. Cases involving six suspects, including Weinstein and Spacey, both of whom have multiple accusers, remain open. …
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“and a legal system that demands fast reporting of crimes and hard evidence.”
Here’s the real target, folks.
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Precisely. Trying to exchange due process with Code Napoléon. Trying to trade rule of law for rule of mobs.
Hollywood and Feminazis lost their ability to argue this issue with their 20 year silence on Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton and Harvey Weinstein and others in media chairs
#metoo movement is a joke.
# = pound - so they are saying: Pound Me Too.
They don’t say it here, but they’re upset that all of the targets have been liberal luminaries.
Bill Cosby went off the Reservation.
Ergo, Bill Cosby had to actually pay.
You take what you can get. If some people just go away, that’s something. If there are future victims, perhaps that will initiate criminal procedures immediately.
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