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Old 09-13-2008
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Re: Charging rape victims--Palin/Obama/Biden/McCain

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Originally Posted by Hafke View Post
The fact that the law exists is the problem. To use the analogy, it means that if someone enforces the law and beat a black man who came into their apartment, then that person has no right to take their attacker to court. Common decency is not enough. Sometimes there have to be laws to back it up.
Right. The policy is on the books. Even if they don't apply it in practice, it may be applied at some point and they would be perfectly within regulations to do so.
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