Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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Just inserting a note of caution boys and girls.
I have done a rough count of the number of times the words "bomb" and "bombshell" have appeared in the course of this discussion.
I think, perhaps, that both "bomb" and "bombshell" are words that just might trigger some security alert. Some bored GCSB drone with nothing better to do.....
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Update!!!
DPA NZ and friends are going to present their petition against the PHDAct amendment to Catherine Delahunty at Parliament on Tuesday 22nd July. Around lunchtime, bring your placards.
In my opinion this is too little too late, and smacks of hypocracy and inconsistancy.
More mixed messages from the government funded disability leaders.
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Speaker: Not even a statistic, in reply to ,
I think I failed to make myself clear....
What I mean't to say was, "** if a person is convicted** of rape/sexual assault, and the victim demands that the rapist lose any right to name suppression, then name suppression should be automatically lifted."
I was not speaking about some scrote from Central Otago.
I was making a rather pathetic attempt to get back to the topic of Rape Culture in NZ, and ways of perhaps shifting the balance so that at least some of the _power_ is in the hands of the victim.
Rather than a pitch fork.
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Speaker: Not even a statistic, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
My kids were outside playing on our fenced suburban section. The dog barked...passerby alert. And bugger me, there's Fred (not his real name) strolling on past. Now I knew Fred...in the professional sense, when he was under strict parole conditions after being convicted of raping a nine year old girl...who of course had asked for it.
The last I had heard of Fred( about three years earlier) was a newspaper report of him being convicted of raping a three year old boy. Fred's MO was to befriend a solo mother and get into the kids.
So, I phoned the local constabulary...bless them... gave Fred's name and suggested the officer looked him up on the database. " What would you do if he was walking down your street.", I asked. " find out where he is hanging out and warn them!"..."Errr...you're the cop, you warn them".
You can see where this is going.
So I did. And he moved on....to the local dump/recycing depot. More kids...again I intervened.....busy body me...told the site manager, fended off his attack on my character by telling him if ANYTHING happened to a child after me warning him...then I would make damn sure everyone knew he had been warned.
Next time, he was chatting with kids in the local shopping centre. More of Rosemary sticking her beak in...but you know what????
I don't give a shit what anyone thinks.
Predators like him must be kept off the streets, or have a sign on their foreheads...something...because once we know who these people are....we can at least have a chance of keeping children safe.
Rest easy.
Fred's dead.
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So, if a person is convicted of rape/sexual assault, and the victim demands that the rapist lose any right to name suppression, then name suppression should be automatically lifted.
Regardless of what the wriggly arsed, slimy, bottom- feeding, scum- sucking lawyers demand, or what the Judge (who was formerly a lawyer) decides?
That would go a wee bit towards changing the culture.
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Speaker: Not even a statistic, in reply to ,
Most abused children know the difference between a smack as part of the disiplinary process and abuse.
No, edit.
All abused children know the difference.
Just ask an abused child.
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Speaker: Not even a statistic, in reply to Paul Campbell,
(hats off to the ODT for both giving us the search terms and telling us it is legal to use them).
I have always had a soft spot for the ODT.
At the risk of the sky falling and a plague upon my house I did....I went there...and, minor surprise... but not.
This is what they mean by Rape Culture.
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Speaker: Not even a statistic, in reply to Emma Hart,
Just to note, 12-15, it’s unlawful sexual connection. For a rape charge, which carries higher penalties, you have to prove he didn’t have consent.
"Rape", "unlawful sexual connection"... is there any difference? Really?
Especially when we're talking about a child....under the age of consent...and a MUCH older offender.
There is a LINE. Surely to god in this circumstance "consent", even if it were given, is meaningless as the victim here cannot give consent....she/he is too young.
That's surely why the LINE was put there.
And if anyone suggests the LINE is an artificial contruct....that, say a 15 year old CAN give consent to sexual activity.....then where would YOU put the LINE?
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Speaker: Not even a statistic, in reply to Matthew Poole,
And hopefully something that will never change, because down that path lie many bad things.
I get this...the" bad things" that can happen to an innocent person falsely accused of sexually assaulting a child can be grave, even fatal. I have knowledge of two such cases...one involving a schoolteacher, who, by the time one of his accusers had the guts to break ranks and confess that it was all about revenge for him catching them smoking at school, was dead. It was his word against theirs. No evidence was needed to investigate or charge him, and it was before the courts before this 15 year old finally told the truth.
In the case described by Abbie....the evidence was there. The victim was under the age of consent....end of story....surely?
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Speaker: Not even a statistic, in reply to Bart Janssen,
.... changing society in a way that make men less likely to rape.
....and this will be done how?
While those who are the predominant victims of rape are trying to stay safe/ survive/protect one another, each in our own way, it would be really useful to have a discussion on how exactly society needs to change " in a way that makes men less likely to rape.""