prosecutors drop cases for a million reasons that have nothing to do with whether the person accused is guilty or not.

if it smells like a duck...

then we should definitely assume it is and forget about "innocent until proven guilty" and let blind emotion get in the way of facts.

torches! pitchforks! get some rope!

No one ever seems to point out how horrible and frightening it is for someone come out and speak about this stuff. Confronting the one who abused you is not fun, easy, or done lightheartedly. Part of why so many victims stay quiet is because of the omnipresent shame and degradation they feel they will receive when they tell the world that so-and-so abused them sexually. The victims are the ones that get run through the wringer, not the accused.

I'm pretty sure child pornography laws were not passed so the cops could arrest 16 years old doing nude selfies - anyway, isn't this arresting the victim? Maybe its the 'distribution' part of the law they are really enforcing. the well named twit feed.

AMES CITY COUNTY, Va. (CBSDC) – A local teenager is facing child pornography charges after police say she shared nude photographs of herself on the social networking site Twitter. According to WAVY, the unnamed 16-year-old suspect took “selfies” in which she was not wearing clothing, then shared them online at the end of last month.
from rawstory.com

Woody responds. Works for me. If anyone wants to keep the pitchfork raised and the torches burning, that's their waste of time and emotional energy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/op...f=opinion&_r=0

a letter written by his lawyers solves everything huh?

Rob, I hope you never sit on a jury.

Only naive DUMBFUCKS do jury trial. Why trust your fate to potentially ignorant, bigoted, or just stupid people? ALWAYS GO WITH A JUDGE. A JUDGE JUDGES PEOPLE FOR A LIVING. JUDGES UNDERSTAND THE LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES OF THE SENTENCES THEY HAND DOWN. Very often, even in a jury trial, the judge may use the jury's verdit but NOT their sentencing recommendation, because 9 out of 10 times the jury is excessively punitive.

Never go with a jury. Remember I told you that.

This is not a courtroom. Just a place to talk about current events.

Its a good question - he always gets his movies made and does anyone actually watch them. You hear about billion dollar directors who can't make the movies they want, so how does he get all the financing.

networking?

From an article in The Atlantic about Shirley Temple-Black


The casting couch is real, and still exists.

Regular people let this fucker slide for over 30 years, allegations after allegations, police reports, etc. "How could such a beloved public figure fuck pre-pubescent children?" they said.

Typical Americans, we knew Jimmy Saville was a paedo-creep way before it was cool.

John Lydon outed this scum in a radio interview in 1977 - was never followed up on, for God knows what reason...

As did also Jerry Sadowitz in 1987: http://vimeo.com/52162279

I never knew that about John Lydon, he might be a bit scattershot sometimes and i might not agree with him, but Jonny has always seemed a real trustworthy person. See also Jerry Sadowitz's bit

I'll always remember Savilles appearance on Have I Got News for You. I didnt grow up with him as a TV personality so when he showed up there (and on that Louis Theroux episode) it was the first id seen of him besides nostalgic video clip shows. Its kinda weird watching that episode back cos i recall at 15 or whatever thinking "He's one of them" and not even feeling remotely like i might be jumping to conclusions

which celebrities are showing themselves as allen apologists? i'd really like it for people to recognize what sort of overprivileged hypocrites the media gives a platform to tell the public what to think. most celebrities would want normals like us thrown in jail if we tried to say hi to them in the street, but they'll make the deliberate effort to defend a child molestor!! when their 'public relations' and 'common human decency' senses should be telling them to shut up. they see themselves as some angels above the rest of us because they went to so many charity banquets and like totally care about causes, if a great person like scarlett johansson can get along with woody allen it's impossible for him to have ever done wrong...right?

stephen king thinks dylan farrow is bitchy and doesn't want to believe her for example. there must be tonnes more