Posted on 07/18/2003 9:01:35 PM PDT by bd476
Why would anyone feel more sympathy for Kobe Bryant at this point than for his alleged victim?
Why would anyone allege a superstar's innocence simply by intoning hated doctrine from the liberal left?
"Hosed by the N.O.W. GANG" in one subject heading implies a scenario where Kobe Bryant becomes a victim of N.O.W, rather than the young woman as the alleged victim of Kobe Bryant.
Is there anyone willing to take one small step further which would paint Kobe Bryant as a victim now cramped into Hillary Clinton's crowded "vast right wing conspiracy" corner?
After more than a week of extensive investigation, Kobe Bryant has been indicted of sexual assault by a duly licensed District Attorney.
By strict legal definition at this point in time, Kobe Bryant is innocent, period. However, this does not mean that Kobe Bryant did not sexually assault the young woman.
How about considering another speculative scenario which does not lead by accusing conspiratorial leftist liberal indoctrination?
How about the story of a young woman working in a hotel, who notices a handsome superstar basketball player flirting with her so she smiles at him.
Later young woman is summoned by telephone and special request from the superstar for her and her alone to deliver food to superstar's hotel room. Young woman knocks on superstar's door, delivers the food, begins to leave and superstar asks her to stay a minute or two longer.
Out of respect and in awe of his superstar status, her job in mind, and in some astonishment that the superstar is flirting with her, young woman stays the extra minute.
Superstar finishes his dinner with the same young woman still in his room.
Or maybe superstar doesn't eat dinner at all. Maybe superstar is more interested in the young woman before him than dinner. Perhaps dinner delivered by a young attractive woman via room service was just an excuse to invite the young woman into his hotel room.
Maybe the young woman anticipates superstar's next invitation and young woman decides to leave the superstar's hotel room. Maybe superstar stops young woman from leaving.
Or maybe the young woman cannot fathom a legendary superstar making any suggestive comments or advances and simply remains in awe, still in the superstar's hotel room.
Maybe superstar verbalizes his desire for an innocent hug and maybe superstar doesn't. Maybe superstar simply makes an advance.
Maybe young woman agrees to superstar's request for an innocent hug, maybe she doesn't but either way young woman at some point heads for the door.
Maybe superstar is unaccustomed to hesitation or negative reaction in his prior advances to young women. Maybe superstar has never had any of his innocent hugs refused.
Or maybe young woman lets superstar hug her once and it's then that she pulls away. Maybe superstar doesn't let her pull away and then young woman is frightened and angry and expresses her dislike of the superstar's advances, using any of the words "no," "please," or "don't."
Perhaps superstar in turn expresses some anger towards the young woman for rejecting his advance.
Then expressed anger from rejected superstar might elicit fear and outrage from the young woman and young woman expresses her fear and outrage physically with a slap, a push or a kick. Perhaps young woman accompanies declining speech with her physical defense against superstar's advances, perhaps not.
Perhaps superstar is angered further by young woman's verbal and/or physically enacted rejections. Anger triggers adrenalin production in a superstar athlete as quickly as a jaunt down a basketball court.
Perhaps superstar is fearful that young woman will tell tales of his advances and her subsequent rejection of him.
Perhaps superstar fantasizes that a completed seduction of the young woman would magically change the young woman's initial rejection of him into something similar to the typical fan-like obsession he is accustomed to.
What if the young woman was unarmed? How would a young woman defend herself against the advances of a possibly enraged superstar athlete?
How about a speculative scenario where a superstar athlete acted out of uncontrolled rage at the young woman's rejection of his advances rather than the a "hosed by the N.O.W. gang," "no means no" giggling-silly-school-girl-dreaming-of-millions-and-brain-washed-by-the-left scenario?
Thank you very much! |
Thank you very much! |
That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me. |
It isn't every day |
good fortune comes me way! |
I never thought the future would be fun for me! |
And if I had a bugle |
I would blow it to add a sort |
o' how's your father's touch. |
But since I left me bugle at home |
I simply have to say |
Thank you very, very, very much! |
Thank you very, very, very much! |
That is where you little tale falls apart. Kobe didn't suggest that he had been batteried. But maybe his lawyers will soon suggest it.
Because this is not a court of law. It's a discussion forum. You know, for discussion.
We can say any damned thing we want, as long we're willing to put some reasoning behind it.
I think you're wrong, BTW. The woman didn't take food up to the room, according to MSNBC. She went after her shift was over.
And, she's no babe-in-the-woods. She's had some "relationship problems."
Unless the DA's got bruises or blood, he's got her word against his, and his word has been solid gold.
Bryant walks.
they had a very elitist attitude towards the sheriff and the DA...
yep....there will be plenty of freepers on the guy's side....them and all the elitist media, the entire athletic brotherhood, the entire city of Los Angeles, that probably we will be hearing from every black "brother" on how that "whitey " trash girl just wanted some black hot stuff and that the whole thing is racist, racist, racist....
for me, I will await the trial, but until then if I lean one way or the other, I will lean in defense of the 19 year old young woman who will take the brunt of the favored media, the favored rich, and the favored black population....
she seems like a pretty brave soul to me, even if she still lives with her mom and dad....
From what I just heard on MSNBC the young female alledged victim was off duty. I think it would be a good idea to wait and see what comes out in the trial.
He didn't lie about it,did he?
There's another angle I haven't seen here yet.
She's white. She still lives with mom and dad.
Could be she's afraid of what her parents might think if she tells them she had sex with a black man.
But if that black man assaulted her, well, then, none of it was her fault.
Oh, nonsense.
My speculative scenario tells only the facts. That is... facts written in the context of my "speculative scenario."
Then again, within my "speculative scenario" you will find that I used the words "speculative scenario" "maybe" and "perhaps" many times.
All versions of what happened to the young woman within Kobe Bryant's hotel room are "a little tale" until the case is tried in a court of law.
You must have missed the news conference.
She does.
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