"Rape kit" story makes it on TV and CNNs website.

[Curtland1015]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/21/palin.rape.exams/index.html

Nice to see it about a month after the fact, but at least they're pushing it at all. The big question is, will it make it to the networks?

[eshfemme]

1. The economic problems are probably going to push this story out.

If it had come out during the Palin weeks, it probably would have been better. But what do you expect from the lazy ass incompetent MSM? They always pick up stories when it's too late.

[mikekohr]

3. One Way To Make Rape Statistics Fall Is To Revictimize the Rape Victim a Second Time

Charging the victim for part of the investigation of the crime would accomplish this.

following are some statistics on rape and incest in the land of the midnight bribe:


Senator Murkowski (R)AK, said funding is needed for every aspect of sexual assault, including initial investigation, prosecution and incarceration. She is seeking an appropriation in the upcoming budget, she said.
The senator gave an alarming list of the statistics that describe Alaska's "epidemic" of sex crimes: One out of five adults will be a victim of forcible rape in their lifetime, or nearly 44,000 adults; an adult Alaska woman is raped every 18 minutes; more adult women have been raped than wear glasses or contacts.
"Our statistics are almost unimaginable, given our population," she said.
http://www.adn.com/209/story/190180.html

• 80-90% of rapes against women (except for American Indian women) are committed by someone of the same racial background as the victim. (US Dept. of Justice 1994)
• American Indian victims of rape reported the offender as either white or black in 90% of reports. (Department of Justice 1997)
http://www2.ucsc.edu/rape-prevention/statistics.html (the breakdown of rape perps against Native Women is 12% Black, 78% White)

Only Alaska (20.9% of its women raped versus 20.6% in Utah compared to 13.4% of all women nationally) has a higher rate in the United States. The estimates are said to be conservative because they do not include the cases of women who have experienced attempted rape; rapes where the women were unconscious or impaired by drugs or alcohol; or statutory rape where there was no force. (Salt Lake Tribune, 7/12/03)
http://www.mazeministry.com/mormonism/statistics/rape.h ...

Alaska has the highest incidence of rape and incest in the nation. Alaskan Senator Barbara Murkowski ® AK said, “"Our statistics are almost unimaginable… more adult women have been raped than wear glasses or contacts.” Yet as mayor, Palin’s administration charged victims of rape and incest for their own rape kits, ($230.00) an action so outrageous that it was cited as the reason that the Alaskan State legislature passed a law forbidding the practice.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mikekohr


mike kohr

p.s. I'm from a small, rural community, in Illinois. Rape and incest are not values we practice or appreciate, but in the rare case these abominations do occur we DO NOT charge the victim for the rape test. Never did. Never will. Never even considered it.


mike kohr

[eshfemme]

7. What's ironic is that Biden's Violence Against Women Act specifically fights this practice

It basically makes sure that police departments don't charge rape victims for rape kits otherwise they don't get their federal funding.

But noooo, just because Joe's a man, he just isn't as feminist as a "real woman" like Sarah Palin. :eyes:

And yeah, I'm not saying rape and incest are small town values-- far from it. It should be denigrated as extremist behavior and treated as NOT NORMAL. But the fact that Wasila even made this possible has a very disturbing undertone of misogyny-- I don't know if it's Alaskan culture or the lack of people and thus policing, but it's just disturbing for me, as a woman, to see this.

[gauguin57]

9. I do not think the MSM is lazy. I think they cover what they cover based on how many viewers/readers

it will get them. They want drama, they want to squelch negatives for Palin as long as possible in order to make it as close an election as possible -- that'll get them bigger numbers and more advertisers.

Plain and simple. They're not doing their jobs for us; they're doing them for themselves.

[Ian David]

2. Sarah Palin's $1,200 Rape Victim Tax. Call it RapeGate

http://tinyurl.com/RapeGate

[Joanne98]

4. RapeGate. That's a sticker.

[Shine]

5. Yeah, I just saw that too.

I'm glad it's finally getting out there and TV coverage would definitely help.

[curse10]

6. Come for the fishin'.... stay for the rape

http://www.236.com/video/2008/get_your_war_on_sarah_palin_an_9028.php

[Midlodemocrat]

8. I hope this thing has legs. We need to counter it with the

Violence Against Woman Act sponsored by none other than our very own Joe Biden.