I just realized something absolutely nuts.

[WeRQ4U]

I am a law clerk for 3 judges in North Dakota and I am also an appointed magistrate. I do some of the bond hearings and initial appearances for the judges when they are either not around or too busy.

Well, I just realized that the 20,000 cash bond that I set for an old lady who fled from the police and tried to kill herself was MORE than the 15000 bail that the sex offender in Minnesota was released on.

So messed up.

[texastoast]

1. What? (Warning-small rant)

Are you talking women's rights? Stealing a hubcap will likely get you more time than rape, incest, or abuse.

And do you know why? Because we put up with it, just like the Muslim women put up with the shit they choose to. We put up with being owned by our husbands for a long time. We put up with unwanted pregnancies (even though the Native Americans could have schooled us many years earlier). We put up with being fired for being pregnant. We put up with not getting the job because we didn't have a penis.

Along the way we stopped putting up with a bunch of stuff, and things did change.

We still have a long way to go.

:grr:

[WeRQ4U]

2. Sorry, but I haven't got a clue as to what you're connecting to.

[redqueen]

3. I do.

hint here

[texastoast]

5. Why don't they understand

That if you don't know your history, you are bound to repeat it. Just like * would have us do now. All that fighting and so many (not all) young women are completely clueless as to what went on before and what so many would have us go back to in a heartbeat if we let them.

[redqueen]

8. Too busy trying to look pretty? Or appreciating that prettiness?

:shrug:

[texastoast]

6. Who was the sexual offense against? N/T

[WeRQ4U]

10. May have been wise to ask that question first, before your tirade.

[texastoast]

11. Well

are you going to tell me or not? And still in this day and time, my tirade is valid.

[WeRQ4U]

12. Read the final post.

[Droopy]

4. A lock down unit of a psych ward

Might have been a better place for the woman. But I don't know if you can send her to one.

[blondeatlast]

7. The woman needs therapy, for certain, not punishment.

The sex offender is a criminal, period.

That is indeed messed up.

[WeRQ4U]

9. Ok, wow clarification needed I guess.

First of all, I am at a loss as to how on God's green earth this is a woman's rights issue.

The woman who I set bail for was an older woman who had committed several crimes and when she was called upon to show up in court, she not only fled the state, but also was intercepted by the police during an attempted suicide. At the bond hearing I asked her what she thought would be fair, she resonded that she would prefer no bond at all. She obviously feared for her own safety as well, and considering the fact that civil committment proceedings are an entirely different ball game, wanted to stay in jail until her trial date. I didn't want to set NO bond, so I went with the State's attorney's recommendation that 20,000 dollar bond be set. That's how that wound up. Now, if I'm some radical Shiite Muslim woman-hater for that, well then I can't do anything about it.

The sex offender is Mr. Duncan. If you've read the news recently, you'd have seen him. He was released by a Minnesota judge on 15000 dollar bail, despite being a high risk pedophile. He then proceeded to kill and entire family, molest and kill their young son, bury him in Montana, and then kidnap and molest their younger daughter.

The discussion I intended to elicit from everyone, was regarding the fact that for the failry docile, yet obviously troubled old woman in North Dakota, the bail was set 5000 dollars HIGHER than for a convicted pedophile in Minnesota.

It was irony people. A jab at the judicial system in Minnesota. In no way did I expect that this post would be a landing pad for some militant sermon on woman's rights. If for some reason, in some manner, I offended women, a woman, or anyone for that matter, someone is going to have to show me where it is, becasue I'm at a loss.

Maybe a postscript stating the obvious irony would have helped. Man alive.