Simply once 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 had been abused sooner or later 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, little one predators, and so forth. the correct to request diversion & dismissal of felony prices, or considerably scale back their punishment, as long as they declare that they had been abused earlier than they dedicated against the law.
As if that isn’t dangerous sufficient, the “abuse” doesn’t should be severe. It’s sufficient if somebody merely “Tried to trigger bodily hurt” or was “controlling” in a approach that brought about a felony to really feel worry.
In different phrases, a felony can get his prices dismissed even when no person ever touched him, however they made him really feel scared. He doesn’t even want any proof, he simply must make an announcement and if the choose believes him, he wins.
Criminals may even use this regulation 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 kids, 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 lowered 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 provided that 90% of rapists are males who rape girls, and this regulation successfully decriminalizes rape. Feminine rape victims not often harm 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 cross is a sport on this state due to the rapists’ foyer. Frequent sense and pubic security be damned.
No person truly believes that males rape girls as a result of they had been abused themselves.
Certainly, analysis reveals that males rape girls for one motive: as a result of they will. 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} frequent persona 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 colleges. One other large motive males rape girls 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 will maintain producing new materials.
Should you marvel who on Beacon Hill sponsored this invoice, listed here are just a few of the 21 state reps who put their names on it: Christine Barber, Brandy Fluker-Reid, James C. Area-DeRosa and Mike Connolly. It’s no shock that Barber is on the prime.
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 may add girls to the state’s Hate Crime regulation. The invoice would deliver Massachusetts in keeping with each different state in New England that already protects girls, however Barber doesn’t help it. To make her disdain recognized, she made the rape sufferer await 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 particular person, however Barber known as on folks to testify by Zoom earlier than calling on the rape sufferer, and most of them didn’t even stay in Massachusetts. Worse, they had been testifying in help of a a lot much less necessary invoice that dozens of individuals had already testified about. Solely when the entire out-of-state folks on Zoom had been performed did Barber permit the rape sufferer to speak about how necessary it’s that the hate crime regulation be amended to guard girls. Barber couldn’t have cared much less. She despatched the invoice to a examine to kill it, and now she needs 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 laws. (Workers Photograph By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald, File)
