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Showing Original Post only (View all)I have spent over three decades in courtrooms ... [View all]
... and what I could tell you about he said/she said testimony would shake your faith in humankind.
I have heard women accuse men of sexual assault, even rape, only to recant when their stories fell apart on the witness stand. I have heard both men and women accuse each other of sexually assaulting their own children in an attempt to win custody in divorce proceedings. I have watched children being coached to testify against their own mother/father confused and bewildered by the roles they are expected to play before a judge or jury.
The concept of always believe the woman when she claims a sexual assault is just as abhorrent as always believe the man. No one should be believed until all of the facts are thoroughly investigated, and proven beyond any reasonable doubt.
Men lie and so do women. Ones gender should never be proffered as proof of anything, nor should ones accusations be weighed as being more credible because of ones gender.
Whatever anyone has accused Andrew Cuomo of is just that accusations. Nothing more, nothing less. And accusations alone do not constitute guilt or innocence.
It is decidedly an unpopular position to say let the facts play out, when so many people have already made up their minds as to who is actually guilty based on female-v-male stereotypes which are, quite frankly, no less abhorrent than white-v-black stereotypes. To say 'believe the woman no matter what' is no different than saying 'believe the white person no matter what'.
In the end, Cuomos conduct will be investigated and rushing to judgment about whether he is guilty of the accusations made against him are true or not will be revealed.
In the meantime, one has to wonder about accusations made years after they allegedly occurred as a matter of actual fact, or a matter of advancing a political agenda, given that these accusations have conveniently surfaced just in time to besmirch the reputation of the governor of the state that is actively pursuing the crimes of one Donald J. Trump.
Trash me if youve a mind to I am all out of fucks to give. But I do have a serious problem with men OR women who suddenly remember things that supposedly happened years ago, and whose memories just kicked-in when politically convenient.
We've been here before. We lost one of our most admired Democratic heroes, Al Franken, to lies and innuendo - and I for one will not stand by in silence and watch that happen again.