"It would appear that Sarah Palin has a problem with Rape."

[ProSense]

Updated: Mayor Palin Charged Victims for Their Own Rape Kits

by Steven R
Mon Sep 08, 2008 at 06:03:21 PM PDT

It would appear that Sarah Palin has a problem with Rape. In addition to not supporting the availability of Abortion for victims of Rape, Mayor Sarah Palin, Maverick, Fiscal Conservative, also had citizens of Wasilla pick up the bill for their own forensics tests. Hat Tip Americablog.

The Frontiersman / May 23, 2000

Gov. Tony Knowles recently signed legislation protecting victims of sexual assault from being billed for tests to collect evidence of the crime, but one local police chief said the new law will further burden taxpayers.

While the Alaska State Troopers and most municipal police agencies have covered the cost of exams, which cost between $300 to $1,200 apiece, the Wasilla police department does charge the victims of sexual assault for the tests.

Wasilla Police Chief Charlie Fannon does not agree with the new legislation, saying the law will require the city and communities to come up with more funds to cover the costs of the forensic exams.

Words don't adequately describe this offense.

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Remember it was Mayor Palin who fired the previous chief when he attempted to:

A. Close bars in Wasilla at 2am instead of 5am due to drunk driving incidents
B. Reduce hand gun conceilment to protect his officers

Sarah's Chief Fannon then was:

1. Pro- Drunk Driving
   
2. Anti-Police safety
   
3. Pro-Charging Rape Victims for their OWN TESTS!!!

This needs to get out into the media folks... I think this blog broke the story.

Update: Connection between Fallon and Palin, She hired him...

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edited to fix link.

[Colobo]

1. That woman's nuts.

[saigon68]

21. No---She's Bat Shit Crazy

[Curtland1015]

2. Wow... WOW! That is eight different kinds of crazy.

How terrible and insensitive can you get?

[anonymous171]

3. Sarah Palin: Friend of Rapists.

[CatsDogsBabies]

4. Sorry to say it this way

but she's trashy. "Trashy for VP. - yipee!"

[boobooday]

5. I'm speechless

It costs a woman up to 1200 bucks to report a rape?

[Nikki Stone1]

6. THIS needs to get out there. Does Rachel have this?

:kick:

[renie408]

7. That Sarah Palin, she is SUCH a feminist!! n/t

[Blaukraut]

8. She is a greedy pig. Everything she did as mayor and governor

has one thing in common: money. Obtaining it, saving it, no matter what it takes. Add to that her religious nuttery and she is a composite of Bush and Cheney.

[seabeyond]

9. i am thinkin the same. rapist rights. victim pay. what child custody for rapist......her religion

dominion and what i have been seeing with her and rape, her husband being in the meetings and making the decions and then a video how he is everywhere with her and mccain and in the pictures, i have to wonder if maybe the woman who is raped is the one stoned for enticing.....

[Terran]

10. "pro-drunk driving"

Now there's a tasty meme to spread around, and it's verifiably true if you read the background on that particular issue.

[KT2000]

11. This is insane

I want her to explain her thinking on this - it would be very revealing.
I suppose women who don't have the money are out of luck?

[Phredicles]

12. Holy fucking shit.

Another thing to talk about frequently and insistently.

[Breeze54]

13. W-T-F-!?! She made VICTIMS PAY???!!!

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
:grr: :nuke: :grr: :nuke:

:cry: :cry:

[Monk06]

16. Palin: your rape is not my problem. It's pay to play in ol' Wa-silly

[Monk06]

14. Sounds like Sarah was cozy with the local tavern owner. Surely there can't be more

than one bar in Wa-silly. BTW who's minding the
kids at 4:00 am? Nice family oriented community.

[Frank Booth]

15. This is disgusting. Charging someone for reporting a rape? Horrible.

[young_at_heart]

17. White women have moved in huge numbers to Palin/McCain

"White women have moved from 50-42 percent in Obama’s favor before the conventions to 53-41 percent for McCain now, a 20-point shift in the margin that’s one of the single biggest post-convention changes in voter preferences. The other, also to McCain’s advantage, is in the battleground Midwest, where he’s moved from a 19-point deficit to a 7-point edge."

One can only hope that a few of these white women will think twice after reading this important info. As a "white woman", I'm just a little embarrassed that so many others of my gender think she'd make a good president. I'm now calling it the "Palin/McCain" ticket, because in reality, that IS what it is!

[Breeze54]

22. That's NOT true!!!

:grr:

[glitch]

27. That seems highly questionable to me. I'd like to see the details behind that sampling. nt

[young_at_heart]

31. I heard it on NBC News tonight and went to Google to check

From http://www.politico.com/

About those sought-after white women

This is easily the best post-convention data point yet for Team McCain: According to an ABC/Washington Post poll out tomorrow, McCain now leads Obama 53-41 among white women.

It's a key demographic, and one in which McCain had been under performing in polls as compared to what Bush's margin against Kerry was in the same bloc.

Before the convention, Obama had been up 50-42 among white women, according to ABC/Washington Post

[glitch]

36. Thank you for googling for me. I will look for their sampling methods behind those results.

Still doubting the results though, considering the source. (It's not you, it's them :))

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. Correct me if I'm wrong: a rape kit has NO medical or therapeutic upshot for the victim

It is purely and simply an investigative tool.

If this is true, the consequences are pretty despicable. essentially, the town of Wasilla had a policy in place that de-incentivized women from pursuing criminal investigation and charges against their rapists. Coupled with Palin's opposition to abortion in cases of rape and incest, this is a damning portrait of the most retrograde anti-feminism you can imagine. It's shocking.

[Breeze54]

24. What a crock! DNA IS an Investigative Tool!

And I agree that Palin is sub-human! :puke:

[writes3000]

Yep, I just posted about this. You've hit the key issue. Victim pays for evidence gathering. nt

[seabeyond]

19. serious question for palin. i want to know if she believes we shld stone the raped for enticing the

rapist? for real. with her religion and her view on rapist bill of rights and now this. i want to know if she BLAMES the victim.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

20. Disgusting.

:puke:

[writes3000]

23. I posted this at another board and the women there are furious. Another great back up point.

Did the city make the victims of other crimes pay for their evidence gathering?

If not, it seems that victims of rape were treated as second class citizens.

[alcibiades_mystery]

28. This is 1950's style shit: "You don't wanna go making trouble, dear

Couldn't it have all been a misunderstanding, little lady?"

That's what this shit is: PATRIARCHY as rape accomplice in the age of DNA.

[writes3000]

29. And sadly, it took the next mayor (a Dem) and another Dem to get it changed. nt

[malik flavors]

25. K&R

[Iris]

26. and rape victims aren't taxpayer?

"but one local police chief said the new law will further burden taxpayers."

[alcibiades_mystery]

30. How many fucking rapes are there in Wasilla that a $1000 rape kit would be a burdensome cost???

It's the most ridiculous fucking thing I've ever heard. Are there 300 rapes a year? Because that would still only be $300,000, and apparently Palin brought in $27 million for her pet projects. She couldn't get an earmark for rape kits?

[Curtland1015]

32. Come to think of it... didn't she scam $27 million dollars in pork for that little town...

of 6000 people? Certainly they could afford the money to help their own rape victims...

[Iris]

42. actually, I think violence against women is quite high in Alaska.

Don't have time to look anything up about this, but remember reading it some time ago.

[Cha]

33. They think we're

stupid.

[Seen the light]

34. I really want to believe this; I really do.

Well, I don't really because it's disgusting, but I so want this to be true.

Doubt it will end up being true though or there will be a flimsy enough excuse that will bury it.

[bobbert]

43. It is true! According to some cop, he said that health insurance covers the cost

So, only if you're wealthy enough to have health insurance, then the law will serve you.

[stillcool]

35. What was she trying to do.....

stop women from reporting rapes? I bet she would burn women at the stake if she could.

[writes3000]

37. Even more horrifying? Alaska apparently has the highest rape rate in the country.

I'm just shaking my head over this.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

38. because it is cold?

[Erin Elizabeth]

40. No. And by the way, it's mostly Native American women

who are raped.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

41. I see. Then she is making native American women pay for their own?

[emmadoggy]

39. Raped....then raped again.

She's a fucking monster.

[vanderBeth]

44. She's sickening.

:puke:

[ProSense]

45. She's being exposed. n/t