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duck & cover. this could be political.
There's some friends on my friends list that aren't gonna like this. However, I think that it's incredibly important. It is a basic issue that goes beyond most of the debates between Republican and Democratic philosophies. This isn't "what's the federal government's purpose," or "who should pay what taxes," or "what are a fetus' rights?"
This is Justice.
Justice is something that every American believes in. That our police and system of laws exist to protect the victims of crime, to discourage and prevent future crime, and to punish those who commit crimes is universally acknowledged as CORRECT. No matter what your party.
Palin's town, under her stewardship as Mayor, charged rape victims for their own evidence collection kits.
That's not opinion. That's fact. It took action by the then Governor of Alaska, Gov. Knowles, to force the town of Wasilla to acknowledge that the burden of investigation of ANY crime falls not on the victims, but on public officials and their department charged with upholding the law.
What that says about Former-Mayor Palin IS opinion.
To my mind, that gives us 2 options:
1. She knew about this despicable policy. It was brought to a STATE-LEVEL legislative body for correction. The former representative Eric Croft, who sponsored that bill, is sited by the Associated Press as saying "he was disappointed that simply asking the Wasilla police department to stop didn't work." It would be hard to believe she did not know. That she did not act to correct it means she either agreed with the police chief she appointed, Charlie Fannon, that rape kits and examinations are too expensive for taxpayers (that apparently JUSTICE is too expensive for taxpayers), OR the whole issue was not important enough to be addressed.
2. She did not know. In a town of only 6,000 people, she was ignorant of the policies of her own police department. She was unaware of the state-level interest in the complaints. She was out of touch with anyone who could have told her there was a problem with her rape investigative department. Her inaction was not out of misplaced thriftiness, apathy, or a dismissal of the suffering of the victims, but out of sheer ignorance of the voices of complaint which were loud enough to be heard in Juneau, the state capital.
Regardless of your party affiliation, I'm sure you're as disgusted by this situation as I am. America may not always agree on how to best serve justice abroad, but we damn sure know what justice is at home.
This is Justice.
Justice is something that every American believes in. That our police and system of laws exist to protect the victims of crime, to discourage and prevent future crime, and to punish those who commit crimes is universally acknowledged as CORRECT. No matter what your party.
Palin's town, under her stewardship as Mayor, charged rape victims for their own evidence collection kits.
That's not opinion. That's fact. It took action by the then Governor of Alaska, Gov. Knowles, to force the town of Wasilla to acknowledge that the burden of investigation of ANY crime falls not on the victims, but on public officials and their department charged with upholding the law.
What that says about Former-Mayor Palin IS opinion.
To my mind, that gives us 2 options:
1. She knew about this despicable policy. It was brought to a STATE-LEVEL legislative body for correction. The former representative Eric Croft, who sponsored that bill, is sited by the Associated Press as saying "he was disappointed that simply asking the Wasilla police department to stop didn't work." It would be hard to believe she did not know. That she did not act to correct it means she either agreed with the police chief she appointed, Charlie Fannon, that rape kits and examinations are too expensive for taxpayers (that apparently JUSTICE is too expensive for taxpayers), OR the whole issue was not important enough to be addressed.
2. She did not know. In a town of only 6,000 people, she was ignorant of the policies of her own police department. She was unaware of the state-level interest in the complaints. She was out of touch with anyone who could have told her there was a problem with her rape investigative department. Her inaction was not out of misplaced thriftiness, apathy, or a dismissal of the suffering of the victims, but out of sheer ignorance of the voices of complaint which were loud enough to be heard in Juneau, the state capital.
Regardless of your party affiliation, I'm sure you're as disgusted by this situation as I am. America may not always agree on how to best serve justice abroad, but we damn sure know what justice is at home.
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*HUGS* YES. You're still invited to the wedding. Yes, the kitties are just fine. (Berlioz is sleeping on my desk below my monitor right now. Fat and sassy as ever).
I had hoped not to pin this piss-poor piece of municipal judgment on a PARTY--and therefore an entire mass of people who have never been to Wasilla (or heard of it before S.Palin) and have absolutely no culpability in its deplorable policies. It was very clearly a horrible situation and one that a specific candidate should be asked to defend--NOT every American with conservative tendencies on this planet.
That it is something that should alarm anyone with a pulse is the reason I posted it. I can respect that there are inherent differences of opinion about issues pertaining to HOW we govern. That's why we do that voting thing and all, right?
This didn't seem to be a 'method of governance' so much as a 'constitutional rights violation.' And believe you me, if I had found that BIDEN or OBAMA or MCCAIN were guilty of the same, I would be posting about them.
If you know of any, PLEASE TELL ME. I want to vote for a candidate that supports (in both actions, words, and policies) the basic rights guaranteed in our Constitution-Bill-of-Rights Combo-Pack. I am not happy about the direction a number of Bush policies have taken us in that regard, and if there's one thing I want above all others, it's to have a Leader that must live by the same laws and rules as the rest of us.
It's no judgment on 'all republicans everywhere.' It's an alarmed citizen posting about something that really, REALLY scares her about a candidate.
And you're welcome to post in my journal whenever you like, with whatever you like. Whether you think i'm a dirty hippy or not. ;)
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Ron Paul is your man. Too bad he's a little on the crazy side.