Are you living in liberal never-never land? Have you no concept of reality?
Read the article again. All it asks for is to get the facts out on the table before deciding guilt or innocence.
Do you believe in guilt before proof before all trials? Or is just when white males are involved?
Without hearing a word of evidence, I believe that she willingly went with the Marines, took their money and provided them a good time. Then she yelled after they parted. She suddenly becomes the good little girl abused and raped by this gang of Marines. Now how easy is that scenario to construct? Damned easy.
The Marines seem to have a good team of defenders. I hope they can get a satisfactory solution. If the facts show they did in fact gang rape an innocent woman, they should go to the US Navy prison at Portsmouth NH. If the evidence shows the sex was consensual, they need to be sent back to duty. However, there is a message in here to other military....watch your step!
Portsmouth Naval Prison closed in 1974.
"However, there is a message in here to other military....watch your step!"
That is the simlpe point I was trying to make.
Because of the battle for the support of the Iraq war carried out in the media, our soldiers need to know that context and act accordingly. Stay out of the group sex scene, and watch you six for cameras and rape set up stings!
Business as usual won't cut it.
My recollection is that they were not white. Does that change your perspective ?
more info
A 22-year-old woman has claimed the Americans gang-raped her in the Subic Freeport on November 1.
During the proceedings defense lawyers urged prosecutor Prudencio Jalandoni to accept as evidence tapes and transcripts of radio interviews with Timoteo Soriano, a van driver who initially said he witnessed the rape.
The lawyers cited radio interviews in which Soriano said that Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority security chief Paquito Torres coerced him into linking the Americans—even though he had never seen the alleged rape.
Torres, who was at the proceedings, denied using coercion and invoked his right to counsel.
The prosecutor ordered radio stations to submit copies and transcripts of the interview with Soriano detailing the alleged coercion.