Republicans vote FOR rape

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Oct 25, 2009, 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by tomder55

The Franken Amendment does not remedy her situation because it needed no remedy .

No. You are right; it doesn't help her directly. It remedies the situation of people like Jones who will be in that situation in the future. Jones won her day in court --but it took three years to be allowed to sue in a civil court what should in fact be handled as a criminal case. On that you and I agree. But if the DoJ can't or won't do its job, for whatever reason, then at least give people the option of a civil trial until such time as these cases are likely to be prosecuted at all, which so far, they aren't.

Further, future perps will know that even if they are functionally immune from criminal prosecution, victims can still sue both them and the company. It's going to have a cooling effect on their various and sundry passions.

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