I never referred to him as a rapist. I only offered my opinion that I am inclined to believe that he raped the woman based on the evidence I've read.
Does that mean that I can call someone else a rapist and you will all join in with me? I mean, I could make up a pretty believable story so it must be true, right?
Your story wouldn't be very believable without the kind of evidence that was presented in Kobe's case (eg. blood, semen, pubic hair, incriminating admissions by the accused, independent witnesses verifying parts of your story, etc.)
A lot of people assume that just because Kobe is rich, athletic, and arrogant he MUST have raped that poor, innocent girl.
Not I, because he had a pretty spotless reputation before the evidence of his guilt was made public.
There is no way that she could have planned this whole thing out to either get some money from him or get a little attention for herself, right.
As I've stated, Kobe was anxious to pay money to settle the case as soon as the cops went to question him, but instead of trying to seek money before anything went public, she reported a rape to the police almost immediately. She knew that he was married and had a spotless reputation and that she could have received plenty of attention or plenty of money just by claiming that he had sex with her.
The point is, you can say what you want about Kobe Bryant but the fact of the matter is that the girl decided that she didn't want to go ahead with the criminal case because she didn't want to face a heated cross examination that might have embarrassed her by bringing her personal life into question. Instead she is going ahead with the civil suit where she will stand to make roughly 2 million dollars plus whatever she gets for the book deal. Doesn't anyone find that a little odd?
Not at all, particularly if she is pregnant as has been reported. Do you remember the way the defense and the press savaged the woman who accused Teddy Kennedy's nephew of rape? I wouldn't be surprised to see her drop the civil case for some kind of half-assed apology for the same reason(s).
One thing that many defenders of Kobe don't seem to realize is that rapists have an intuitive way of choosing vulnerable victims whose credibility would be questioned because of their flirtacious tendancies and lack of any stature in the community.
For one thing, if it were your daughter, would you not want Kobe to fry for doing something like this?
Not if the price of doing so was ruining her life -- and nothing close to "frying" would ever happen to Kode even if he were to be convicted of rape.
Anyway, I just don't think it's fair to call Kobe a rapist and her a victim without a verdict being handed down.
Then you must not support the 1st Amendment, which thankfully makes it perfectly legal for anyone to state their opinion that Kobe is a rapist or O.J. is a murderer.