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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRehtaeh Parsons Rape Case Solved By Anonymous in Less Than 2 Hours Despite "No Evidence"
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 RCMPs 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
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)these stories. our lost girls. adults knowing and doing nothing. is really getting to me.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)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)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!
GeoWilliam750
(2,519 posts)I heartily endorse your view
blackspade
(10,056 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)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)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.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Supreme Court upholds Cheerleader must cheer her rapist
http://www.missfidget.com/?p=6953
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)human dignity.That's a clear message to rape victims that football trumps sexual assault.
valerief
(53,235 posts)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)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)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)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)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)"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.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Some justice for the victim will be forthcoming.
tblue37
(64,979 posts)well-connected boys?
Cleita
(75,480 posts)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)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)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)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)... 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)genuine human decency set out to do them.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)Thank you Annon, well done! Great find Zorra....
calimary
(80,693 posts)Downloading a copy of it.
GiveMeFreedom
(976 posts)where that's been posted before. Anonymous FTW. Peace.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)an "Anonymous Source" at the first mass Occupy Phoenix action on Oct 15, 2011.
GiveMeFreedom
(976 posts)You should definitely pass this on to the powers that be, nice work. Peace.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)loudsue
(14,087 posts)Anon has my deepest admiration.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)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)
Bernardo de La Paz This message was self-deleted by its author.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)When mandatory reporters don't report the whole chain of events can fall apart - as we saw here.
RILib
(862 posts)privacy is a non-issue. Come on.
timdog44
(1,388 posts)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.
idwiyo
(5,113 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)The other (better) cartoonist's been making his own views known as well:
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)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)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 dont have evidence of a crime? What were they looking for if photos and bragging werent enough?
Why was this treated like a minor incident of bullying rather than a rape? Isnt 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)this is an excellent article all should read.
i will start an op later. right now i am too beyond anger.
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)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)it's pretty hard to bear day by day. would be nice to have a heart switch but then that's what psychopaths do.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Initech
(99,909 posts)Skittles
(152,963 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)I only wish I had to skills to join you.
calimary
(80,693 posts)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)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)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.
ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)MAD Dave
(204 posts)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)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.)
MAD Dave
(204 posts)I won't hold my breath tho!
Brooklyns_Finest
(789 posts)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)" 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)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)thread?
vomit
Iggo
(47,486 posts)TWO.FUCKING.HOURS.
Texasgal
(17,029 posts)and disgusting that anonymous even HAD to get involved. I am grateful they did.. but damn! Is this our future?
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)GeoWilliam750
(2,519 posts)idwiyo
(5,113 posts)Operation Justice for Rehtaeh
4/11 Statement:
http://pastebin.com/Q8VWUy7a
freshwest
(53,661 posts)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.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Now I see why...it worked!
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)If the cops botch the investigation this time around, things will probably change on that front of course.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)dark, how to act like a real man."
Rex
(65,616 posts)I could spit fire.
2 hrs...
JEB
(4,748 posts)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.