I suspect that now cardinal Pell can never be cleared in the court of public opinion.
Let's just pretend, under a now out of date standard of innocent until proven guilty, that he didn't do anything wrong. But under the new standard, that now can never be proven. He will always have a big dark cloud over him. He's cooked. Even if he didn't do it.
There is a priest in prison for a crime he didn't commit, and that would be just fine with her. Father Gordon McRae is rotting in prison in New Hampshire, abandoned by State and Church, under the craziest of legal circumstances. I am reminded of one little verse from the Bible. Thou shalt not bear false witness. I guess Emily Lindin would never have been exposed to that concept.
Yeah - that is how I read her position.
That is normal feminist tripe.
I am beginning to feel unsettled that this 'Me Too' thing could have been very positive in reacting against abusers of men and women, boys and girls, but is becoming only a thing of liberal feminists against men in general. I do think abusive men do need to be stopped, but men abusing boys needs to be stopped and I don't hear any of that any more from the 'Me Too' movement. Or the fact that women abuse as well. That is getting lost. And the idea that a little collateral damage is no bad thing, that's just evil.
Not sure who the 'they' is but presuming those who do shady financial deals.
The problem is there will always be a certain subset in society that insist on interjecting themselves into the hot news story of the day. We saw it after 9-11 when throngs of people who were nowhere near the tragedy came out of the woodwork with stories about how they could have been on one of the planes, they almost visited the WTC that day, or how they are all shook up because their best friend's mother's brother's barber's urologist was twenty miles away, but in the flight path and could have been killed had the plane gone down early. We saw it after the Boston Marathon bombing as legions of Doritos-eating couch potatoes who hadn't ran since the last time someone chased them with a salad lamented that they could have been killed because they almost ran in the marathon. When NFL players were dropping like flies over domestic violence allegations, women lined up to wear the victim label because their ex-boyfriends from high school called them fat once, and that's pretty much the same as Ray Rice knocking his wife out in an elevator. And now it's the MeToo campaign, which on it's face is a great thing because it's bringing a lot of things to light that should have never been hidden. But it's also attracting flies in the form of women seeking attention because someone accidentally brushed up against them once on the city bus, so they know what it's like to be Amanda Berry.
