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From: "keithw"
Subject: Re: The Photographer's Rights
In Canada, you don't even have the right to face your accuser.
I know that's part of our 'rights' but...I could never figure out who that
benefitted...
Other than to give you someone to vent your spleen at, so what?
Odd bit, that...
Being allowed to make accusations without having to face the consequences of
making false ones benefits the lawyers, but not much else.
Being forced to stand up and face the one you have accused of a malfeasance
forces one to think a bit about what you are accusing a person of prior to
making the complaint.
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An example:
A few years ago in Saskatchewan, a young lady accused an entire junior
hogkey team of gang raping her. She made her statement to the police, was
interviewed by the crown prosecuter and told to go home.
It was a friggin mess, all the hockey players were charged, all of them had
iron clad alibis (that didn't involve them covering for each other) and all
of them had their names spashed around the media as accused rapists.
This really put a blot on their names, as people tend to believe you are
gulty as charged, no matter the outcome.
The young men were all aquitted, and the young lady's name is still, to this
day, unknown, to "protect the identity of the victim".
Sadly, they are protecting the wrong person.
For myself, I would like to know the identities of those who acuse falsely.
It would give me a way of protecting myself from them......
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William Robb
