Posted on 02/01/2010 9:08:35 AM PST by FreeManDC
Liberals and muslims destroy everything they touch!
y’know i always believe that domestic violence goes both ways. women can be and sometimes are just as hateful and abusive as some men. why do they not get the same harsh punishments as those abusive men? because she will say the man was the dangerous one and she was defending herself. why are these claims not investigated thoroughly? why is the law biased to let women commit murder but send men to prison for saying the wrong thing? equal protection under the law indeed.
“Family violence” is also one of today’s PC crimes, directed at men basically. I see this in our local County Court often. Usually based on verbal testimony of a woman “victim” with no supporting physical or medical evidence or witnesses.
Do I condone violence within the family? Of course not! But I have seen cuss fights (verbal arguments) result in the man’s arrest. We need balance here.
Statistically, the woman starts the domestic violence and the man finishes it.
Good article — bad headline. Should be “it pays to be a woman” — not “it doesn’t pay to be a man”. Fundamentally, it shouldn’t “pay” to be a man. All that is expected is equality ... it shouldn’t pay to be a member of any particular demographic.
SnakeDoc
Obviously this poor SOB was also....... WHITE....
Doesn’t anyone think anymore?
First, you don’t provide proof of a general condition by a single example. So you can’t condemn Maine’s system by showing how if failed in one case.
Second, whatever may be Kellett’s virtues, failings, or outright misconduct, the generalized smear presented about her actions are little more than gossip.
Finally, by setting up specific examples of domestic violence stats and then belittling them without addressing either their accuracy or merit, the author does little but diminish himself.
The author may be 100% right on all points. He may be a visionary. But, it would be luck. All it would have taken to make his case would have been a little critical thought and facts, not opinion. Sad.
Old Korean saying - “When the hen starts to crow like a rooster, the home is finished”.
“Where’s Waldoboro”?
“First, you don’t provide proof of a general condition by a single example.”
The Amy Dugan case is one example of a woman being treated too leniently, but the comments by Kellett (two examples were given) are a good indicator of a bad prosecutor. It took one case for Mike Nifong to lose his job. It looks long past due for Kellett to lose hers.
Still, I’ll never understand why men or women will get into a relationship with a person with this kind of history. Just like the Peterson case with the four dead wives & the guy has another girlfriend!
Okay. We won’t condemn the system up there for that one case.
We’ll just split it into three cases, the initial assault where she attacked the police officer, the murder four months later, and the battery of her next unfortunate boyfriend two years later.
Now we have three separate cases to buttress the point.
I will say that when she moved to Tennessee, at least those people had the common sense to be horrified that she could do this, be released and go to live in their state.
I live in Massachusetts, and our state is much worse than Maine in this respect, so bad that a group sees fit to have to put banners on highway overpasses demanding justice for men in the legal system up here.
Waldoboro is in The Mid-Coast Maine area, near Rockland Maine.
Mrs. NHD
I took a criminal justice class one summer for elective credit, and it was taught by a raving feminist. Our textbook, if you can call it that, was the most unbelieveable over-the-top, Gloria Allred-inspired, NOW-worshipping piece of propaganda that I have EVER seen. The author’s central message was that no woman was ever responsible for a crime; men were the the culprits in all situations.
Waldoboro is in the ‘mid-coast’ region of Maine.
The town is on US 1, north of Brunswich, but 20 miles south of Rockland.
(winslow mills is a small community within Waldoboro, and has a ‘mini-slum’ reputation.)
The light house on the Maine quarter is in Bristol, about 20 miles away.
This sounds like one of those wacky National Organization of Men type screeds. I had a lonely neighbor once who used to send these kinds of letters to the editor of our small twon local paper once a week.
My post had nothing to do with the state of Maine and everything to do with how the article was written.
My post had nothing to do with the state of Maine and everything to do with how the article was written.
Lots more examples of Kellets failings and misconduct here from the article;
http://www.fillerfund.com/marykellett.htm
Seems Kellett is a female Mike Nefong, just like the author contends. It is easily checked if you had any interest in critical thought or in finding the truth.
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