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Under the McCain/Palin Plan, your bodies will belong to:
1) Your Government.
2) Your Husbands.
3) You.
Sincerely,
ConcernedXY
sarcus caveat
So, Ms. Palin is all for raising taxes for a sports arena, but not for taking care of basic law enforcement forensic tests?
Note though that defines almost all cities in the nation. Stick the taxpayers for the cost of professional sports facilities and give the profits to the franchises. Exception is that disgusting, Commie, Pinko, faggot, liberal, traitorous city, Los Angeles, where the damn Democrats won't let them build a professional football stadium as that is Communism for the rich. Note also that profits are guaranteed for the professional franchises by giving them various concessions on taxes, etc.
Well, of course not. Because those women were 'asking for it,' you see. Probably as part of a fiendish liberal plot to con the good people of Wasilla out of the cost of a forensic exam.
Idiots!
for a town of 7000?
must be alotta rape going on in Wasilla
So about 16 people per year need the exams.
So the McCain / Palin ticket would solve healthcare, by sending everyone to the emergency room, and then billing them for it.
Would be tough on crime, by billing the victim for the costs of the investigation.
Would solve the education crisis in this country by banning books.
"The intent is to encourage women to seek an examination after an
assault without the stress of questioning from police. The exams will be
paid for by the state..."
http://archives.higheredcenter.org/hecnews/3433...
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http://images.hollywoodgrind.com:9000/images/20...
snarcus caveat
Can someone dig into her votes while on city councilor. This is the "experience" she is running on. What did she stand for?
See the chart here:
http://www.clrsearch.com/RSS/Demographics/AK/Wa...
Wasilla! The armpit of Alaska!
So I guess Obama was right....If you get raped...You're on your own.
the dividend check does not go very far. EVERYTHING costs so much more. Seriously, walk into the grocery store and a pound of grapes can cost $5.00.
areas.
http://aljazeera.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=15...
You combine dumb people with liquor and long, cold and lonely nights....something bad is bound to happen. here is an example.
swear to God this was in the paper while I was there:
A woman was brought to one of the main hospitals in Anchorage. It happened to be the one next to my doctor's office so it caught my attention in the headline. She had been raped repeatedly and in a horrible car accident....or so they thought. turns out it was the other way around. The woman was driving not far from the hospital one night. it was very dark and the road was icy. she lost control of the car and after bouncing around a bit, the car landed off to the side of the road in a shallow ditch. I can't remember if she was thrown out of the car or if she pulled herself free. anyway, she started trying to crawl to the road so someone would see her chances were slim but she had to try. She had broken both legs and was bloodied so she was dragging herself along and made it to the road where someone spotted her. She's thinking "Thank God I am saved because this nice person is going to help me and get me to the nearby hospital."
NOPE. The man in the truck stopped, took a look at her injuries and listened to her beg for him to call for help. Then he raped her several times and left her right where he found her in a pile of snow. Miraculously, someone else found her before she froze to death.
sick, eh?
I vaguely remember Tony Knowles signing this, but I never knew that Sarah was actually charging rape survivors in Wasilla. Unfortunately, Anchorage doesn't pay much attention to Wasilla (of course, that's changed since the Sarah thing)...however, my friends in Wasilla don't remember that either.
Linda Celtic Diva's Blue Oasis
Today's posting over at www.conservative-truths.com happens to be about conservative states having a higher rate of forcible rape than liberal states. Alaska has the highest rate of forcible rape in the nation with 81 rapes per 100,000.
The question in my mind, is, "Did Palin know this?" The person I am torqued at from reading this is the police chief, Fannon, but it is not at all clear that the mayor knew. I mean, who would ever think that a rape victim would be billed for her exam? This is potentially very big but it needs more work than has gone into it so far. Slapping Palin's name onto it only preaches to the choir.
It is immaterial. If it happened on her watch, she should have known. Ignorance is no excuse, as we've all heard countless times. If I get a parking ticket, can I tell the cop, "Ooops -- I didn't know it ws a no parking zone." Will he then say, "That's ok." The GOP, from Bush on down, has used this as an excuse since day one.
What does it say about her executive skills and ability to lead, if she can't even figure out that something is terribly wrong in a town of 6000 that she lived in all her life? It's not like she just moved there and hadn't got up to speed yet, had no family, friends, etc.
This is appalling. Compassionate conservatism, my Aunt Fanny.
EDIT: didn't mean to repost -- got Internal Server Error when I tried to post this the first time. Don't know how to delete the dupe. Sorry.
This is just SICK to condemn a victim of a violent crime as a burden on taxpayers.
IT IS THE RAPISTS, THE PERPETRATORS OF THE CRIMES, WHO ARE BURDENSOME!
In terms of statistics, don't think 1 in 10 is an unprecedented number ... the national average is 1 in 3 women will be sexally assaulted at some time in their life.
As environment conscious citizens are fighting to protect what is left of our natural resources and the health of our planet for ourselves and future generations, do we need someone in the White House who only sees a way out of this overindulgent, immediate gratification centered mess by continuing to decimate protected lands and deplete our nonrenewable resources?
Given the age of the Republican Party's nominee for president, are you willing to risk the chance that Sarah Palin may very will one day assume the power as the leader of the most powerful country in the world?
Sarah Palin does not speak for me, and should not speak for other women. I am willing to fight for my hard earned rights as a woman and as a citizen of the United States of America.
2 before and 2 while Palin has been Governor? What type of services did she approve/slash while she was governor.
What are the same statistics for her town while she was Mayor for 6 years and what did she do about it?
If the Police Chief and my math is right that is approx 10 women raped in a town of 4-5,000/year? Did the rate go up or down? What type of services did she approve/slash while she was Mayor for the town.
Secondly-- At least they BOTHER to do rape tests. My daughter was assulted. We took her to the ER to get a rape kit done. Which BTW is typically just as tramatic if not more so then the assult. We were told they would not"bother" to process the kit becuase it was too expensive. I OFFERED to pay and was told that was not allowed. SO my daughter was assulted by this pedofile, and then by the state of Indiana. So I have to admit at least they run the tests there.
(They did get a conviction even with out the DNA evidence because when they told him they had a rape kit and they were going to make him submit DNA, even though were not going to process it he confessed. However had he not confessed he would still be out there to strike again.)
In a report titled: "Maze of Injustice: The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Sexual Violence in the USA" a number of rape cases are not prosecuted due to under funding and other problems.... now we know that during her stint why funding is a problem.....
Pedestrian Observer GB
I appreciate your explanation of the truth.
Mz. Ella @ Ladies' Hood Journal reporting >
p.s. Now they can wonder, just how long we've been around - while their at it..
"Palin, as mayor, fired police chief Irl Stambaugh and replaced him with Charlie Fannon, who with Palin's knowledge, slashed the budget for the exams and began charging the city's victims of sexual assault. The city budget documents demonstrate Palin read and signed off on the new budget. A year later, alarmed Alaska lawmakers passed legislation outlawing the practice...It turns out that Wasilla did not bill sexual assault victims for the cost of rape exams while Irl Stambaugh was chief of police. As chief, he had included a line item in the budget to pay for the cost of such exams. He had only just heard about the Mayor Palin/Chief Fannon policy today, and was just as shocked to hear about it as I was."
You can read the full article here.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-alperinsher...
Not only does she oppose abortion with NO exceptions for rape or incest, but in
Palins world, if I get raped, I have to pay for the examination and care, and if I get pregnant as a result of the rape, I HAVE to carry the child? (but then it would be perfectly acceptable if I dumped the newborn into a dumpster? Because these people don't seem to really care what happens after the child has left the uterus)**don't take that wrong I would NEVER EVER consider doing that to any living creature- just making a point, OK?
I'm shocked, of all the idiotic things I'm hearing about this woman, women are still transfixed by her? "Shes one of US" WTF? Be afraid.... Be VERY afraid. The thought of her winning scares me to death.... Just what we need: a bible thumping pole dancer running the country together with the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
If during the same time as Palin billed for rape kits she had robbery victims pay for fingerprint dusting and matching, hit-and-run victims pay for accident reconstruction and estates of murder victims shell out money for autopsies and forensics she might be in a position to try to justify what she was doing on fiscal grounds. But we know that government rightly paid for those other tests and that the extra burden was one created especially for women.
It was a major feminist victory when rape laws started to change some 40 years ago. Before then, a rape victim was called a "prosecutrix" - the lone exception to the word "victim" which applied across the board as to other crimes. That word put the focus on the woman’s motivation for making an accusation rather than the underlying acts and made it much more uncomfortable for a woman to come forward and risk feeling raped all over again by how she would be treated.
Before then the victim would be grilled as to all of her sexual experience with the implication that any outside of the marital bed made it impossible for her to make an accusation of rape even when the perpetrator was a stranger. There was a wonderful parody written to expose this attitude, paraphrased:
Q - "You accuse my client of robbing you, do you not?'
A - "Yes."
Q - "But you have quite a record of giving away money, do you not? In fact you're quite a philanthropist, aren't you? With that kind of promiscuity, there’s no such thing as being robbed and you’re lying.”
To go back to putting extra burdens on rape victims serves no one’s interests but those of rapists hoping that evidence of their crimes will stay hidden, and of personal ambition seeking power and attention at the expense of undermining legitimate governmental functions, safety, order and basic human decency.
Palin is no advocate for women and the contradictions between reality and the cynical attempt to portray her as such needs to be exposed as the clever but dangerous plot that it is.
To sum this up, it's a complicated matter that was oversimplified and spun to make Governor Palin look bad. Though you can easily spin it back around to make the former Governor, Tony Knowles, look bad. After all, he was the Governor of the state when this was going on and he did not succeed in getting the state to pay for the victim's testing.
As a political matter, Sarah Palin repeatedly took credit for the fiscal policies of Wasilla. So to now give her the excuse that it was the fault of the City Council is ridiculous. Furthermore, the use of the phrase "separation of power" is better limited to the core three-pronged separation into three branches of government.
As a recent rape victim here are my thoughts
http://rape-and-sexual-assault.blogspot.com/200...
Victoria Placeo