Simply whenever you assume you’ve seen the worst from our deranged state legislature, alongside comes a invoice that even savages shouldn’t help. However nothing is off the desk for our lawmakers as long as it comes with a boatload of money.
The most recent missive is called the “Massachusetts Survivors Act”. It claims that the aim of the invoice is to make sure justice for victims. Sounds good till you see that the phrase “victims” refers to criminals who say they have been abused in some unspecified time in the future earlier than they dedicated their crimes and that the abuse made them rape or kill an harmless human being.
Let me repeat that. This invoice offers rapists, murderers, financial institution robbers, drug traffickers, baby predators, and so on. the suitable to request diversion & dismissal of legal costs, or considerably scale back their punishment, as long as they declare that they have been abused earlier than they dedicated a criminal offense.
As if that isn’t dangerous sufficient, the “abuse” doesn’t need to be severe. It’s sufficient if somebody merely “Tried to trigger bodily hurt” or was “controlling” in a means that precipitated a legal to really feel worry.
In different phrases, a legal can get his costs dismissed even when no one ever touched him, however they made him really feel scared. He doesn’t even want any proof, he simply must make a press release and if the choose believes him, he wins.
Criminals may even use this legislation in the event that they’re already behind bars. For instance, if a man dedicated an particularly horrendous homicide or brutally raped and killed fifteen youngsters, and he’s in jail for all times with out parole, he can file a movement from behind bars and – get this – have his sentence diminished to “10 years or much less.”
Severely.
Oh, and guess who pays the legal professionals to file these motions? You do. It’s our tax {dollars} at work.
Put apart for a second the blatant sexism on this invoice on condition that 90% of rapists are males who rape ladies, and this legislation successfully decriminalizes rape. Feminine rape victims not often damage anybody, which proves that nothing in human nature causes an abuse sufferer to hurt another person. However Massachusetts lawmakers don’t care. Giving rapists a go is a sport on this state because of the rapists’ foyer. Frequent sense and pubic security be damned.
No person truly believes that males rape ladies as a result of they have been abused themselves.
Certainly, analysis exhibits that males rape ladies for one purpose: as a result of they’ll. Males know that 98% of rapists by no means spend a day behind bars, so it’s a low-risk crime.
Research additionally present {that a} widespread character characteristic of rapists is a way of entitlement, which is why Harvard and MIT have such excessive sexual assault charges in comparison with decrease tiered faculties. One other large purpose males rape ladies is cash. They make movies of their crimes and add them to the darkish net for money (bitcoin). They aren’t reeling from abuse, they’re businessmen, and this piece of crap laws will assist with revenue margins by making it simpler for rapists to stay on the streets the place they’ll hold producing new materials.
For those who surprise who on Beacon Hill sponsored this invoice, listed below are just a few of the 21 state reps who put their names on it: Christine Barber, Brandy Fluker-Reid, James C. Enviornment-DeRosa and Mike Connolly. It’s no shock that Barber is on the high.
Two years in the past, I used to be on the State Home with a rape sufferer consumer who was scheduled to testify earlier than Barber’s committee on a invoice that might add ladies to the state’s Hate Crime legislation. The invoice would carry Massachusetts in keeping with each different state in New England that already protects ladies, however Barber doesn’t help it. To make her disdain recognized, she made the rape sufferer anticipate hours to testify, refusing to name on her till after 7 pm.
The sufferer sat patiently, and by 5 pm was the one one ready to testify in individual, however Barber known as on individuals to testify by Zoom earlier than calling on the rape sufferer, and most of them didn’t even stay in Massachusetts. Worse, they have been testifying in help of a a lot much less necessary invoice that dozens of individuals had already testified about. Solely when all the out-of-state individuals on Zoom have been achieved did Barber permit the rape sufferer to speak about how necessary it’s that the hate crime legislation be amended to guard ladies. Barber couldn’t have cared much less. She despatched the invoice to a research to kill it, and now she desires you to assume she is a champion of rape victims as a result of she sponsored the Survivors Act.
Don’t be silly.
Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald
State Rep. Christine Barber testifies throughout a digital assembly on drivers license rules. (Workers Picture By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald, File)
