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redqueen

(115,096 posts)
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 02:59 PM Apr 2013

Rehtaeh Parsons Rape Case Solved By Anonymous in Less Than 2 Hours Despite "No Evidence"

...The story of Rehtaeh is sadly typical these days; she went to a party, drank, was gang- raped by four boys, and then bullied so cruelly that she hung herself. The full story can be read in that link. My focus is on what happened after: How after a year of investigation, the police deduced that there wasn't enough evidence to charge any of the four assailants, and how Anonymous proved them wrong in two hours.

No, you didn't read that wrong. It only took two hours for the vigilante hacker group to show the world just how useless the RCMP (Who led the investigation) are. Rehtaeh's story stirred the so-called "Internet Hate Machine" into action, but it didn't take any kind of hacking to get down to the bones of the case and build the prosecution that the RCMP bungled in a show of failure and incompetence that would make the Three Stooges shake their heads in embarrassment. Once Anonymous made their rage and intent clear, they were flooded with witness testimony, and from there built the case of the RCMP’s incompetence on three points: that dozens of teens and adults had heard the rapists brag about taking part in the gang rape, that the photo taken of the rape was reportedly so widely circulated it's unlikely the authorities ever bothered to try and find it so they might look at the EXIF data, and that Parsons's school did nothing, despite the fact that child pornography was going viral in their hallways.

Look at those time frames. LOOK AT THEM. One year of resources poured into a case that shouldn't have taken a day to solve had the RCMP given a enough of a damn to ask the right questions and let people know they were looking to bring some serious wrath down on the four swineheads who perpetrated this crime. Anonymous sums it up best when they say that "Every officer that signed off on this 'no evidence' conclusion should be guarding the entrance to a petting zoo for the remainder of their careers." Anonymous received dozens of emails by both adults and children who knew the rapists, and the biggest and most offensive thread that stood out from those emails was the lack of fear these scum showed about admitting to their crime or spreading the evidence of it. They were stupid enough to believe no one was ever going to do anything about it, and before Anonymous caught wind of the story, they were right.

The Nova Scotia Government did nothing through this entire situation, and now they're catching hell for it. The province is currently controlled by the NDP (New Democratic Party), and despite the fact that Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter now believes that Ottawa needs to make changes to the criminal code, he and the NDP thought differently just last year before Rehtaeh Parsons hung herself. That situation, as well as this press release, shows just how badly the NDP government is scrambling to carry out damage control. It also demonstrates how they waited until Rehtaeh killed herself to revisit the issue.

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http://www.policymic.com/articles/34491/rehtaeh-parsons-rape-case-solved-by-anonymous-in-less-than-2-hours-despite-no-evidence


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Rehtaeh Parsons Rape Case Solved By Anonymous in Less Than 2 Hours Despite "No Evidence" (Original Post) redqueen Apr 2013 OP
ah, you know, teh rape culture a few on du are actually arguing about. seabeyond Apr 2013 #1
Me too... haikugal Apr 2013 #2
Me, too... as a grandmother of a soon-to-be 14 year old beautiful young woman, I am disgusted and secondwind Apr 2013 #16
As the father of two young women, I'm sick and tired of the "she was drunk" excuse. radicalliberal Apr 2013 #48
As the father of a daughter GeoWilliam750 Apr 2013 #53
+1000000000000000000000 blackspade Apr 2013 #76
There is no rape culture in the first world. sufrommich Apr 2013 #3
We haven't seen any comments from anyone claiming to be 'confused' about what is or is not rape redqueen Apr 2013 #6
Example: Downwinder Apr 2013 #21
We live in a sick society that places sports above sufrommich Apr 2013 #22
Sports picks up where religion leaves off. If the importance of religion doesn't distract you from valerief Apr 2013 #68
Anonymous. Whisp Apr 2013 #4
+1 October Apr 2013 #57
Well done, Anon! LittleBlue Apr 2013 #5
Mine too. I might feel differently if they ever came after me Warpy Apr 2013 #17
The police have little interest in taking care of any matter truedelphi Apr 2013 #35
The only advice I got when I had a violent stalker was Warpy Apr 2013 #37
Well done Anonymos! smirkymonkey Apr 2013 #7
Wanna bet they were afraid of ruining the "bright futures" of a bunch of tblue37 Apr 2013 #8
With emphasis on the well-connected. Cleita Apr 2013 #9
I live near the area; there isn't much in terms of right sides of the tracks there Posteritatis Apr 2013 #27
I bow to your superior knowledge of your own place, Cleita Apr 2013 #29
I'd add a nice healthy purge of the school's administration to that, too Posteritatis Apr 2013 #32
Exactly.. sendero Apr 2013 #45
It's amazing, the things that can be done, when people who care and who are solely motivated by Zorra Apr 2013 #10
+1 Go Vols Apr 2013 #15
WOOT!!!!!!! haikugal Apr 2013 #19
LOVE this!!! calimary Apr 2013 #39
I would love to see GiveMeFreedom Apr 2013 #41
I stole the flag, and put in the motto myself, which actually came from Zorra Apr 2013 #44
Hi Zorra, GiveMeFreedom Apr 2013 #47
Hi, GiveMeFreedom ~ feel free to use it if need be. Zorra Apr 2013 #69
I'd like to recommend that post. +1K mill loudsue Apr 2013 #43
Police are constitutionally and legally limited by privacy rules that Anonymous does not respect. Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2013 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2013 #13
The school sitting on it hasn't helped either Posteritatis Apr 2013 #33
when dozens of people know what happened RILib Apr 2013 #62
It is hard to say timdog44 Apr 2013 #12
K&R Thank you, Anonymous! idwiyo Apr 2013 #55
Found at online site of the area newspaper: Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2013 #14
De Adder's usually a talentless hack but he nailed this one. (nt) Posteritatis Apr 2013 #26
that illustrates the "dude-bro" mentality of the World perfectly. BlancheSplanchnik Apr 2013 #74
Her father mercuryblues Apr 2013 #18
a human being. she was loved. and she loved. seabeyond Apr 2013 #23
SAD mtasselin Apr 2013 #20
The cruelty and evil in the world is beginning to sap my will to live. Being empathic is becoming a firenewt Apr 2013 #24
yeh. Phillip McCleod Apr 2013 #34
K&R defacto7 Apr 2013 #25
Go Anonymous!!!!! Initech Apr 2013 #28
THANKING ANONYMOUS Skittles Apr 2013 #30
Good For Anonymous. Warren DeMontague Apr 2013 #31
Anomymous----I love you guys and gals!!! Curmudgeoness Apr 2013 #36
Me too!!! I'm such a damn technophobe that I can barely deal with the basics. calimary Apr 2013 #40
Oh, I did not need the link to remember the Bobbitt's! Curmudgeoness Apr 2013 #42
It seems that 2naSalit Apr 2013 #71
at least in the US teachers are MANDATORY reporters ZRT2209 Apr 2013 #38
They are here, too. Hopefully some heads will be rolling soon over this. (nt) Posteritatis Apr 2013 #52
I wish Poster...... MAD Dave Apr 2013 #70
I'm not sure that's going to happen in this case Posteritatis Apr 2013 #72
I sincerely hope you are right! MAD Dave Apr 2013 #73
Anonymous Brooklyns_Finest Apr 2013 #46
Because... Lady Freedom Returns Apr 2013 #49
Except in this case they actually *were*. Posteritatis Apr 2013 #51
are you saying we have to BLINDLY follow an org? this is what you felt you needed to say on this seabeyond Apr 2013 #66
Insulting to law enforcement? Iggo Apr 2013 #75
I find it sad Texasgal Apr 2013 #50
If it lands on a few cases like this, people might get the hint and it won't be. (nt) Posteritatis Apr 2013 #65
Thank you Anonymous GeoWilliam750 Apr 2013 #54
Link to the statement released by Anonymous: idwiyo Apr 2013 #56
They need to release the names ASAP. Not sure why they're holding this the names back as they didn't freshwest Apr 2013 #58
Anonymous was saturating Twitter about this 2 days ago. dixiegrrrrl Apr 2013 #59
They're saying they're backing down some at the request of the parents Posteritatis Apr 2013 #64
thank you fresh, for this read. "you are pathetic, quietly sobbing while fondling yourselves in the seabeyond Apr 2013 #67
That makes me so fucking mad Rex Apr 2013 #60
K&R!! hue Apr 2013 #61
Rehtaeh Parsons was not JEB Apr 2013 #63
 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
1. ah, you know, teh rape culture a few on du are actually arguing about.
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 03:06 PM
Apr 2013

these stories. our lost girls. adults knowing and doing nothing. is really getting to me.

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
16. Me, too... as a grandmother of a soon-to-be 14 year old beautiful young woman, I am disgusted and
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 04:15 PM
Apr 2013

appalled at the lack of compassion for a young girl who drinks too much (or maybe they put something in her drink)... it is almost being looked at as a 'rite of passage' for young men...

Shame on the folks in Nova Scotia, who did nothing! Shame on you.

radicalliberal

(907 posts)
48. As the father of two young women, I'm sick and tired of the "she was drunk" excuse.
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 09:35 PM
Apr 2013

If I see a drunk businessman passed out in an alleyway, does that mean I have the right to help myself to whatever money or credit cards he has in his wallet? I'm sick and tired of the defenders of rapists, such as Poppy Harlow, who express not a single word for any victim who has been traumatized for life by rape. My daughters are two highly intelligent and beautiful young ladies who are better human beings than I was at their age. They are not rape toys! I'm sick and tired of the rape culture!

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
3. There is no rape culture in the first world.
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 03:12 PM
Apr 2013

You just need to stay focused on how much worse it is in third world war torn countries and be grateful you aren't there.

redqueen

(115,096 posts)
6. We haven't seen any comments from anyone claiming to be 'confused' about what is or is not rape
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 03:22 PM
Apr 2013

recently.

Hopefully, as we continue to raise awareness of these issues, the comments and OPs claiming there is no rape culture will disappear as well.

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
22. We live in a sick society that places sports above
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 04:46 PM
Apr 2013

human dignity.That's a clear message to rape victims that football trumps sexual assault.

valerief

(53,235 posts)
68. Sports picks up where religion leaves off. If the importance of religion doesn't distract you from
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 12:42 PM
Apr 2013

the crimes of the .001%, then the importance of sports is supposed to do it. That's been the strategy for a century.

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
4. Anonymous.
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 03:15 PM
Apr 2013
THANK YOU!

I hope this catches on like wild fire - street justice from ordinary people because our laws and the people that enforce them prove over and over again how fucking useless they are. Let all those enabling assholes from all corners come to fear Anonymous and do the right thing.
 

LittleBlue

(10,362 posts)
5. Well done, Anon!
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 03:17 PM
Apr 2013
"Every officer that signed off on this 'no evidence' conclusion should be guarding the entrance to a petting zoo for the remainder of their careers."


Wow.

Anyway, my respect for Anon goes up with every case like this. Hopefully the evidence will lead to convictions.

I hope in the future that any girl who is in a similar situation will see that there is hope for justice, and hopefully not turn to suicide. It is never the answer.

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
17. Mine too. I might feel differently if they ever came after me
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 04:21 PM
Apr 2013

for any reason, but I doubt I'm doing anything to capture their specific notice.

I love that they cracked the case with two hours of old fashioned police work that the fucking police were paid to do but didn't.

I guess unless you're threatening the plate glass windows on the buildings of the plutocracy, you don't deserve attention.

This has got to stop. Maybe if enough cases like this one pile up where cops are shown to be lazy idiots unless they're prancing around in riot gear, we'll shame the bastards into doing their jobs.

(and yes, I know, the lazy fuckers are the minority like the gratuitously violent fuckers. They both need swift kicks)

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
35. The police have little interest in taking care of any matter
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 06:23 PM
Apr 2013

Unless it involves property rights of Big Time Property Owners, or else their own loved ones.

When I lived in San Rafael Calif, I couldn't get the police to charge a stalker who threatened me repeatedly, often in front of witnesses.

And once when both my belongings and my landlord's belongings were stolen by a former tenant of the landlord's, the police didn't want to even take down the particulars of the case. The fact that the landlord could identify the thief meant nothing. This despite over $ 1500 worth of goods were stolen. I ended up recovering the goods myself - and then the police lectured me about how stupid I was for doing that. (Of course, they weren't going to do it!)

The very next week, the same police department had multiple cars out doing a high speed car chase, as someone had stolen 400 bucks worth of stuff from a Target department store. They were willing to risk multiple auto accidents to innocent people during rush hour to get a shoplifter using their high speed chase procedures! For four hundred bucks!

What is wrong with these people?

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
37. The only advice I got when I had a violent stalker was
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 06:45 PM
Apr 2013

"buy a gun." Yeah, that would have done a lot of good, cowboy. Unless I had it loaded and in my lap, fuhgeddaboudit.

I ended up doing something quasi legal that scared the hell out of the guy to the point he blew town.

However, I did surprise thieves the last time they tried to break in here. The cops were handed full descriptions of them and their car including the (probably stolen) license plate number. Again, fuhgeddaboudit. Unless I'd been a bank, they weren't all that interested.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
9. With emphasis on the well-connected.
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 03:45 PM
Apr 2013

If they had come from the wrong side of the tracks they would all be wearing their orange jumpsuits by now.

Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)
27. I live near the area; there isn't much in terms of right sides of the tracks there
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 05:10 PM
Apr 2013

It's much more likely that this was just a straightforward case of the school not caring in the least. They even admitted they didn't pursue anything with the students, ostensibly to avoid interfering in a police investigation, but in practice schools have always looked the other way when things like this happen.

Nova Scotia as a whole isn't really a place where you're going to have many terribly "well-connected" high school students.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
29. I bow to your superior knowledge of your own place,
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 05:30 PM
Apr 2013

however, what is it then? Is it pure male chauvinism? If it is, it's seems you need to start conducting seminars in gender sensitivity issues, like companies used to have to do to about sexual harassment.

Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)
32. I'd add a nice healthy purge of the school's administration to that, too
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 05:57 PM
Apr 2013

Cole Harbour District High's been a troubled place for a long time; this is just the most over-the-top unacceptable example. It's not a terribly nice part of town (by our standards at least - again, "troubled" describes the area well) and the school in particular's had a checkered past at least as far back as when I was attending high school in town in the nineties.

A lot of it around there is straight up machismo, male chauvinism, and a hefty dose of bullies-sure-are-utter-assholes to boot. The dude-bro mindset in general around here, and the fact that it's taken for granted, is a bigger problem than the social upper crust being outside of the law's reach. (They likely are as much here as anywhere, of course, but there's much less of that crust where I live.)

There's plenty of utter viciousness involving bullying in general, especially types of bullying that involve sexual violence or opportunities to drag someone through the mud and document it. The province in general, and local schools in particular, only started trying to systematically look at what to do with that about two years ago or so, with some mixed reactions to their thoughts and proposals so far. The Parsons case is making it very abundantly clear that things aren't working and need to be fixed yesterday, and that fact is still utterly dominating local news and conversation in general.

I dunno what specifically is going to come of it. I expect this case will start moving fairly quickly now that the entire planet's shining spotlights on the town (and I am at least glad this almost certainly destroyed the justice minister's career), but I'm trying to be hopeful, and it at least feels like this is getting people to begin to understand that no, bullying isn't just "kids being kids," not that it ever was.

sendero

(28,552 posts)
45. Exactly..
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 08:33 PM
Apr 2013

... this was not likely a case of "lazy" this was a case of "look the other way".

Hopefully in the fullness of time the details will emerge and it will be easy to see.

Zorra

(27,670 posts)
10. It's amazing, the things that can be done, when people who care and who are solely motivated by
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 03:47 PM
Apr 2013

genuine human decency set out to do them.

Zorra

(27,670 posts)
44. I stole the flag, and put in the motto myself, which actually came from
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 08:27 PM
Apr 2013

an "Anonymous Source" at the first mass Occupy Phoenix action on Oct 15, 2011.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,773 posts)
11. Police are constitutionally and legally limited by privacy rules that Anonymous does not respect.
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 04:05 PM
Apr 2013

All the same, I agree with most people that the police did not deal with the case properly or effectively.

Response to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #11)

Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)
33. The school sitting on it hasn't helped either
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 05:58 PM
Apr 2013

When mandatory reporters don't report the whole chain of events can fall apart - as we saw here.

timdog44

(1,388 posts)
12. It is hard to say
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 04:07 PM
Apr 2013

I am glad you posted this, because it meant that this rape happened and was subsequently ignored. Good job to Anonymous for the work exposing the crime, and many criminals involved. Including the school, police, other students and parents.

I saw the other post about a "rape culture" in America/Canada. I would suggest we have a ignore the rape culture. Absolutely unfathomable to believe the thinking.

But thanks for posting this. Heartbreaking.

Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)
26. De Adder's usually a talentless hack but he nailed this one. (nt)
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 05:07 PM
Apr 2013

The other (better) cartoonist's been making his own views known as well:

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
74. that illustrates the "dude-bro" mentality of the World perfectly.
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 02:50 PM
Apr 2013

I'm not familiar with this cartoonist, but this illustrates very well how the Rape Culture stays alive --->Women don't matter.

When it's dudes that do the violence and dudes charged with protecting the vulnerable from the dudes........

mercuryblues

(14,489 posts)
18. Her father
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 04:24 PM
Apr 2013

wrote a heartbreaking letter. It does make you wonder how connected the rapists are.


http://glencanning.com/2013/04/10/rehtaeh-parsons-was-my-daughter/

How is it possible for someone to leave a digital trail like that yet the RCMP don’t have evidence of a crime? What were they looking for if photos and bragging weren’t enough?


Why was this treated like a minor incident of bullying rather than a rape? Isn’t the production and distribution of child porn a crime in this country? Numerous people were emailed that photo. The police have that information (or at least they told us they did). When someone claims they were raped is it normal to wait months before talking to the accused?
 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
23. a human being. she was loved. and she loved.
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 04:48 PM
Apr 2013

this is an excellent article all should read.

i will start an op later. right now i am too beyond anger.

mtasselin

(666 posts)
20. SAD
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 04:38 PM
Apr 2013

It is so sad that another victim was told that she was lying and that the boys were telling the truth. My heart goes out to the family this should not have ended this was, again. Men protecting young men and basically telling them to got do what you want and that we got your back. They should feel ashamed of them selves as men and police, but I am pretty sure they don't.

 

firenewt

(298 posts)
24. The cruelty and evil in the world is beginning to sap my will to live. Being empathic is becoming a
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 04:52 PM
Apr 2013

heavy burden. When you can feel others pain, you cannot understand how people can be so cold. I just don't know.......................

 

Phillip McCleod

(1,837 posts)
34. yeh.
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 05:58 PM
Apr 2013


it's pretty hard to bear day by day. would be nice to have a heart switch but then that's what psychopaths do.

calimary

(80,693 posts)
40. Me too!!! I'm such a damn technophobe that I can barely deal with the basics.
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 07:08 PM
Apr 2013

But I am SO with these folks.

Lots of really worthwhile examples of speaking truth to power these days, and NOT accepting "no" OR naysayers. Look, for another example, at how the Senate turned from certain filibuster to republi-CON caving. Granted that's only a beginning and the REAL bill passing is still up the road. But LOOK WHAT HAPPENED when "No" did NOT get the last word. The Anonymous folks didn't accept the RCMP's verdict as the end of the story either.

Wonder what would happen if there was a Lorena Bobbitt clause implemented in the punishment for convicted rapists... how many rapes would we have then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
42. Oh, I did not need the link to remember the Bobbitt's!
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 07:48 PM
Apr 2013

I guarantee that these young bucks who just think this is "great fun" will be deterred....although I am told that a rapist does not need a penis to rape, since rape isn't really about sex. But with that said, I believe that there are few men who would not be concerned about this punishment.

2naSalit

(86,031 posts)
71. It seems that
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 12:47 PM
Apr 2013

the MO of of the rapists du jour is to do these awful things to women and girls who are not aware enough to fight back. If they had been aware there may have been more Lorena-like responses by now.

MAD Dave

(204 posts)
70. I wish Poster......
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 12:47 PM
Apr 2013

I am from rural Saskatchewan. You know as well as I do, that very few if anyone will be fired for this.

In my hometown, a group of female basketball players repeatedly verbally and physically bullied another student until she was forced to leave the school and move into the city. The principal of the school, who was the basketball and football coach, did nothing concrete to rectify the situation. He remains the principal to this day. The board of education backed him up for Christ's sake. They circled the wagons. You can be sure thus will happen in Coal Harbour too.

Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)
72. I'm not sure that's going to happen in this case
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 12:53 PM
Apr 2013

People look the other way for a lot of things in Nova Scotia, but I don't think I've seen the province as a whole this angry over, well, anything. "Normal" bullying is one thing, but this went beyond that and it's starting to sound like the school principal was obstructing the investigation. The general outrage in the public plus the fact that, well, you and I are talking about this on a thread hosted in another country altogether, when a lot of people in town were already disgusted enough about Steubenville, should be telling. It's definitely not a case of a rural school out of the spotlight.

I've seen junior high and high school principals around here sacked for considerably less than that. That the principal's career is over after this summer I'm pretty confident of. I'm less confident of him getting a perp walk for contributing to all of this, but I'd only be a little surprised if charges landed there as well eventually. (I'd be utterly unsurprised if a civil suit did.)

Brooklyns_Finest

(789 posts)
46. Anonymous
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 08:57 PM
Apr 2013

Weren't they responsible for getting Adria Richards fired after the "dongle gate" scandal?

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/03/22/anonymous-claims-responsibility-for.html

I'm pretty sure you were against their attack on that woman, yet in this case you cheer them?

And I find it very insulting to law enforcement everywhere, that this group feels that they are more adept at investigating an alleged crime than the local police who spent a year looking at the facts of the case.

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
49. Because...
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 09:44 PM
Apr 2013
" Look at those time frames. LOOK AT THEM. One year of resources poured into a case that shouldn't have taken a day to solve had the RCMP given a enough of a damn to ask the right questions and let people know they were looking to bring some serious wrath down on the four swineheads who perpetrated this crime."


And

" The Nova Scotia Government did nothing through this entire situation, and now they're catching hell for it."


Plus

"That situation, as well as this press release, shows just how badly the NDP government is scrambling to carry out damage control. It also demonstrates how they waited until Rehtaeh killed herself to revisit the issue. "

Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)
51. Except in this case they actually *were*.
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 09:47 PM
Apr 2013

The police investigation into this was lackluster to say the very least. It got a cursory look and was largely ignored afterwards. Even the school didn't get involved.

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
66. are you saying we have to BLINDLY follow an org? this is what you felt you needed to say on this
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 12:27 PM
Apr 2013

thread?

vomit

Texasgal

(17,029 posts)
50. I find it sad
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 09:46 PM
Apr 2013

and disgusting that anonymous even HAD to get involved. I am grateful they did.. but damn! Is this our future?

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
58. They need to release the names ASAP. Not sure why they're holding this the names back as they didn't
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 12:51 AM
Apr 2013
in the Stuebenville case.

Although the difference may be there was a blog created by a guy who cared enough about that girl to create it and ask for help, IIRC. These people need to taken off the streets now. From the link:

And just to clear things up once and for all for the young men in Nova Scotia who are unlikely to hear this from any of their role models: vomiting drunk girls are not capable of giving you consent to have sex with them. That kind of sex is called rape. It isn't really sex at all.

If that's the only way you can laid, you are pathetic and should stick to quietly sobbing while fondling yourselves in the dark until hopefully the day comes when some woman you probably don't deserve pities you enough to teach you how to act like a real man.


At this time we can honestly say we're confident we know the identities of the people involved in Rehtaeh's rape. It would probably take us a lot longer to come up with a list of the people responsible for her death. We hope you all find some way to sleep at night.

See you Sunday.

- Anonymous.


I hope by that they mean TOMORROW. The embolding and underlining is mine.


Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)
64. They're saying they're backing down some at the request of the parents
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 12:21 PM
Apr 2013

If the cops botch the investigation this time around, things will probably change on that front of course.

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
67. thank you fresh, for this read. "you are pathetic, quietly sobbing while fondling yourselves in the
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 12:37 PM
Apr 2013

dark, how to act like a real man."

 

JEB

(4,748 posts)
63. Rehtaeh Parsons was not
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 12:19 PM
Apr 2013

rich enough to qualify for police protection. Women are second class citizens unless rich enough. Another cruel casualty in the assault by the 1%. Shit rolls down hill and it landed on this beautiful young woman. Anonymous should be heralded for their excellent work to expose not only the actual perps but also the institutional bias that was all to willing to sacrifice Rehtaeh's young life.

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