Ghomeshi to sign peace bond.
- Thread starter JLM
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Did you listen to her when she was speaking yesterday? Maybe it's time when people speak up they get taken seriously. What would she gain by lying to thousands of people? She said what he did to her, I think people should accept her word until such time as she is caught lying. Rape cases are successfully prosecuted in about 3 out of 1000 cases. I think it's time that was changed. The "playing field" excuse the pun has been tilted for far too long.
I don't plan on discussing the subject further!
I believe it WAS her idea to have him charged but the Crown decided otherwise. Anyway probably better this way, she got to speak her piece and everyone in the world has heard her version and Mr. Ghomeshi is paying a price, just not at taxpayers expense in the Crowbar Hotel!
He may find employment of his choice a little more difficult to obtain!
One of the problems rape victims have is that too many people "don't really care".
He may find employment of his choice a little more difficult to obtain!
Alleged rape victim in this case of course.
His difficulty in employment is different today than before the peace bond?
That was before the trial where it turns out the smoke was all staged.
And I do notice the word 'if' well positioned throughout my comments.
Yes, but in your words.. where there is smoke there is fire.. and 9 women have accused him of the same thing.. Rape.
But these women can sue civil courts..
You can believe what you want. Facts or what has been proven have not stopped you from forming your own opinions before.
Yes, but in your words.. where there is smoke there is fire.. and 9 women have accused him of the same thing.. Rape.
But these women can sue civil courts..
Yes, there usually is. The expectation would be with so many accusers that his trial should have been a slam drunk. In this case though, the accusers had colluded with each other and effectively produced more smoke than there should have been.
Just like OJ was sued in civil court. I suspect the first group wouldn't stand a chance of getting a penny myself.
I guess no one is right all the time but I think about 95% of my opinions have been pretty close to the mark!
Here's an interesting sidenote I found on Huff Post about Kathryn Borel, JLM. You may want to listen to the podcast before you tell us we should take everything she says as the absolute truth.
Campbell River, British Columbia
I'm not convinced he has anything to be sorry about. Trial or no trial, guilty or innocent, Mr Ghomeshi can never win anyway. Why not just sign the paper and end this farce?
Jesse Brown (Canadaland) has been the driving force behind the Ghomeshi witch-hunt since the beginning. Jesse Brown and Kathryn Borel have been BFFs for over ten years. Listening to the media reports over the last months, it's like 'Kathryn Borel the poor helpless victim'. But there are two sides to every story.
Listen to this CanadaLand podcast from 2013 for a more well-rounded picture of not only Kathryn Borel but also of her part in the 'culture' of the Q workplace at the time of the 'complaint'.
If you don't want to listen to the whole thing, start at the 34:00 mark:
Brown: You were like a Bizarre Rabid Unicorn at the CBC. You were so strange in that environment. You played by your own rules there in a way that would have got so many people fired instantly. It was like, she's Incredibly Inappropriate and Foul Mouthed and Sexual, and just like culturally out of step, yet she's like our most productive worker who books the most stuff and gets the most [gads] and writes the best copy... how can we get rid of her? And she's well liked, but there's a liability issue (laughter)... What lawsuit is going to originate from this? They were just like, in a state of constant confusion
Borel: I don't think anyone wanted to get rid of me. I definitely got rapped on the knuckles for my behaviour...
Brown: You made people very, very nervous.
35:20 – Borel: I wasn't planning to be, 'this crucial member of the CBC community' who was... you know... saying... making a terrible Fist ****ing joke in the middle of a story meeting and be like, 'This is my cred' like, they can't fire me because who else is going to say this ****?
Brown: You were making it up as you went along.
Borel: I was making it up as I went along, as I think most of us are doing in our early to mid twenties when we have like the hubris of and we... you know... are excited about stuff and...
36:55 – Borel: ...and not to bring it back to my initial formative trauma but it's like you know I had a bad car accident where I erased a life in 2001, I became... after I got out of my depression from that, I became hyper-aware of how ****ing absurd...
Brown: You accidentally killed a guy.
Borel: I accidentally killed somebody... and I feel like... once again, once I got out of that depression, I was like, 'this is ridiculous' like, we can be erased so quickly... I did that so somebody. So let us not look to hard at what we're doing because it's absurd, and I feel like that's been a guiding principle for me... It's just like...
http://canadalandshow.com/podcast/rabid-unicorn
This is more fodder for Ghomeshi's defense team. Perhaps part of the reason things went no further than the peace bond. Ghomeshi's team might have had this and other things in their brief case, when both sides sat down and talked about how to proceed.
I believe that both sides - the women and Ghomeshi - did or said things that they regretted. It may be that more and more will leak out, but not from the courthouse.
I think that if further, verifiable information like this was to come out, sympathy for Ghomeshi will increase. At any rate, it would seem things are not as black and white as what appeared in the media.
I believe that both sides - the women and Ghomeshi - did or said things that they regretted. It may be that more and more will leak out, but not from the courthouse.
I think that if further, verifiable information like this was to come out, sympathy for Ghomeshi will increase. At any rate, it would seem things are not as black and white as what appeared in the media.
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Just call in Deadpool to deal with Ghomeshi..
You know that guy from "Regina, Saskatchewan, the town that rhymes with fun!"
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?p=2282662#post2282662
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