Interesting dismissal at the CBC.......
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A female friend of mine was beaten so badly by an abusive partner last winter that her face is permanently scarred. (He rammed her face through her bedroom mirror). My friend's bestie called the cops and they called by.
My friend pretended that she had slipped and fallen simply because she didn't want extra hassle and didn't want the courtroom experience. (The cops were nice and supportive and called her outside her apt and told her anytime she wanted to change her mind and lay charges, they would meet her and support her choice and lay the charge).
The guy beat her again a week or two later. Again, she refused to lay charges. I loaned her $$ to change her lock and she told the concierge at the building that he was now banned.
Point being - all my friend (and many, many women) wanted was to be left in peace and for her tormentor to just go away. Not everyone is a crusader. Not everyone is brave and determined.
My friend pretended that she had slipped and fallen simply because she didn't want extra hassle and didn't want the courtroom experience. (The cops were nice and supportive and called her outside her apt and told her anytime she wanted to change her mind and lay charges, they would meet her and support her choice and lay the charge).
The guy beat her again a week or two later. Again, she refused to lay charges. I loaned her $$ to change her lock and she told the concierge at the building that he was now banned.
Point being - all my friend (and many, many women) wanted was to be left in peace and for her tormentor to just go away. Not everyone is a crusader. Not everyone is brave and determined.
It seemed very likely to me the CBC was acting on more than what has been publicly reported so far. No doubt there's still more details to come at this early stage, but even this is really damning... now it's eight women (and counting):
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...t_of_violence_sexual_abuse_or_harassment.html
It appears that the CBC correctly anticipated the shitstorm that would ultimately materialize.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...t_of_violence_sexual_abuse_or_harassment.html
It appears that the CBC correctly anticipated the shitstorm that would ultimately materialize.
First victim comes forth by name. Pretty boy is so toast. Things will likely unravel quickly for him from here on in
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/1...nd-choked-her-at-his-apartment/#__federated=1
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/1...nd-choked-her-at-his-apartment/#__federated=1
Dude! Hitting on a 16 yr old when you are in your 40s is extremely normal? Extremely normal. EXTREEEEEEEEEEME!!!!! ...normalcy. Pretty fucking oxy there, moron. But still. Yeah. Normal. Hitting on a 16 yr old when you are middle aged. Normal. I suppose so... if you are a major league creep, and think being a sociopath and a creep is normal, then sure. Nothing wrong or out of the ordinary there, nosirree.
No. That is how we do it in a court of law. How we do it in a civilized society is that an employer can shitcan you if the allegations are too many and compelling to ignore, or if you are an on-air personality and your continued affiliation is harming the image of the broadcaster. And we the great unwarshed in a civilized society "do it" by examining the allegations and forming our opinions based on their nature and number. A single anonymous allegation might be subject to a greater degree of doubt. Multiple ones with corroborating details, not so much. Even less when names are attached. In Ghomeshi's case, 8 women have come forth to the Star, one has come out and released her name, and two of them are former CBC employees. Oh, and "Big Eared Teddy", so you know... details. Sounds pretty fucking not-terribly-innocent to me.
"Mr. Ghomeshi either forced sex on them or began beating them without warning, sometimes in public."
Unless I missed something, still no hard evidence? No text messages, voicemails, emails, photos, medical reports, videos, eyewitnesses, etc. and this has been going on for more than 10 years? Rob Ford smoked some stuff twice and was caught on tape. Ray Rice punched his GF once and is caught on tape. Jian has been beating and "raping?" multiple women for over 10 years and all we have are allegations?
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/0...ssaulting-student-after-night-out-in-toronto/
Two Toronto doctors were arrested and went to trial based on the accusation of one woman of one incident. Meanwhile, Jian has been accused by 8 or more women over numerous incidents over 10 or more years and he is still walking around a free man (albeit unemployed). Why haven't the police arrested him (like they did with the 2 doctors)?
Two Toronto doctors were arrested and went to trial based on the accusation of one woman of one incident. Meanwhile, Jian has been accused by 8 or more women over numerous incidents over 10 or more years and he is still walking around a free man (albeit unemployed). Why haven't the police arrested him (like they did with the 2 doctors)?
You seemed troubled by the fact that the women Ghomeshi harrassed or attacked hadn't come forward earlier, and haven't gone to the police. Then you link to an article where a woman came forward against her attackers and was denied justice. You do realise that it kinda answers the question of why women don't bother going to the cops, right?
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was willing to give Ghomeshi SOME credibility of the doubt, but this has pretty much killed it!!!
You know when the trailer park girls come calling, its pretty much over
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/1...eshi-slapped-and-choked-her-at-his-apartment/
You know when the trailer park girls come calling, its pretty much over
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/1...eshi-slapped-and-choked-her-at-his-apartment/
Yes, a publicly named victim who is a working tv series actress and relatively well-known by Canadian TV industry standards and who corroborates the other anonymous allegations and who has no motive to fabricate that anyone is aware of. Ghomeshi is looking very bad.
Aside from the consent issue - and all the women seem to say that he did not seek their consent before punching them - who the fuck punches women in the face and hurts them anyway??!! That's fucking normal??!! Perhaps to a small minority in a carefully constructed scene that is planned beforehand. Not to every scared, shocked waitress, student and out of work actress you go on a date with, for fuck's sake!!! Are all of these women hard-core bdsm-ers who then reconsidered their participation and became psychotically unhinged and compulsively vengeful??!!
The guy is a fucking creep and a woman-hating psycho pig! If he asked every woman he met to piss on him, it would be less offensive.
From what my SO tells me he's not so pretty.
Then again, she's with me so WTF does she know...LOL
(just kidding)
Interesting synopsis here in Macleans:
http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/sex-lies-and-the-cbc/
They point out that one of the reasons the CBC decided to take action pre-emptively was because of all the criticism the NFL faced in the handling of the Ray Rice affair:
Even Ray Rice, the former Baltimore Ravens football player whose gruesome beating of his fiancée in a hotel elevator made the press earlier this year, had an easier time hanging onto his job amid public scrutiny. In fact, the NFL paid deeply in the media for its slow reaction to the Rice affair, which may explain why the CBC rid itself of Ghomeshi so quickly.
Meanwhile one of the reporters who broke the story makes the good point about the lengths his accusers have gone to despite not identifying themselves publicly:
Brown, one of the reporters who broke the story in the Star, and who hosts a popular media-criticism podcast called Canadaland, hopes “people keep in mind that there are different types of anonymity. An anonymous commenter on YouTube is very different than a person whose name is known to journalists, who is interviewed extensively, who has provided documentation to support details of their account, but who chooses to withhold their name for totally understandable reasons,” he wrote to me in an email.
http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/sex-lies-and-the-cbc/
They point out that one of the reasons the CBC decided to take action pre-emptively was because of all the criticism the NFL faced in the handling of the Ray Rice affair:
Even Ray Rice, the former Baltimore Ravens football player whose gruesome beating of his fiancée in a hotel elevator made the press earlier this year, had an easier time hanging onto his job amid public scrutiny. In fact, the NFL paid deeply in the media for its slow reaction to the Rice affair, which may explain why the CBC rid itself of Ghomeshi so quickly.
Meanwhile one of the reporters who broke the story makes the good point about the lengths his accusers have gone to despite not identifying themselves publicly:
Brown, one of the reporters who broke the story in the Star, and who hosts a popular media-criticism podcast called Canadaland, hopes “people keep in mind that there are different types of anonymity. An anonymous commenter on YouTube is very different than a person whose name is known to journalists, who is interviewed extensively, who has provided documentation to support details of their account, but who chooses to withhold their name for totally understandable reasons,” he wrote to me in an email.
Kind of a junior Russell Williams or Bernardo in the making. All the necessary sociopathic ingredients might be present
Note the dates... these tweets were all made in April, way before now. This sure is an awful lot of different people all saying the exact same thing!
