Simply once you assume you’ve seen the worst from our deranged state legislature, alongside comes a invoice that even savages shouldn’t assist. However nothing is off the desk for our lawmakers as long as it comes with a boatload of money.
The newest missive is called the “Massachusetts Survivors Act”. It claims that the aim of the invoice is to make sure justice for victims. Sounds good till you see that the phrase “victims” refers to criminals who say they had been abused in some unspecified time in the future earlier than they dedicated their crimes and that the abuse made them rape or kill an harmless human being.
Let me repeat that. This invoice offers rapists, murderers, financial institution robbers, drug traffickers, little one predators, and so on. the precise to request diversion & dismissal of prison prices, or considerably cut back their punishment, as long as they declare that they had been abused earlier than they dedicated a criminal offense.
As if that isn’t unhealthy sufficient, the “abuse” doesn’t should be critical. It’s sufficient if somebody merely “Tried to trigger bodily hurt” or was “controlling” in a method that prompted a prison to really feel worry.
In different phrases, a prison can get his prices dismissed even when no person ever touched him, however they made him really feel scared. He doesn’t even want any proof, he simply must make an announcement and if the decide believes him, he wins.
Criminals may even use this regulation in the event that they’re already behind bars. For instance, if a man dedicated an particularly horrendous homicide or brutally raped and killed fifteen youngsters, and he’s in jail for all times with out parole, he can file a movement from behind bars and – get this – have his sentence decreased to “10 years or much less.”
Severely.
Oh, and guess who pays the legal professionals to file these motions? You do. It’s our tax {dollars} at work.
Put apart for a second the blatant sexism on this invoice on condition that 90% of rapists are males who rape girls, and this regulation successfully decriminalizes rape. Feminine rape victims not often damage anybody, which proves that nothing in human nature causes an abuse sufferer to hurt another person. However Massachusetts lawmakers don’t care. Giving rapists a go is a sport on this state due to the rapists’ foyer. Widespread sense and pubic security be damned.
No one truly believes that males rape girls as a result of they had been abused themselves.
Certainly, analysis exhibits that males rape girls for one cause: as a result of they’ll. Males know that 98% of rapists by no means spend a day behind bars, so it’s a low-risk crime.
Research additionally present {that a} frequent character characteristic of rapists is a way of entitlement, which is why Harvard and MIT have such excessive sexual assault charges in comparison with decrease tiered faculties. One other huge cause males rape girls is cash. They make movies of their crimes and add them to the darkish internet for money (bitcoin). They aren’t reeling from abuse, they’re businessmen, and this piece of crap laws will assist with revenue margins by making it simpler for rapists to stay on the streets the place they’ll hold producing new materials.
For those who marvel who on Beacon Hill sponsored this invoice, listed below are just a few of the 21 state reps who put their names on it: Christine Barber, Brandy Fluker-Reid, James C. Area-DeRosa and Mike Connolly. It’s no shock that Barber is on the prime.
Two years in the past, I used to be on the State Home with a rape sufferer consumer who was scheduled to testify earlier than Barber’s committee on a invoice that will add girls to the state’s Hate Crime regulation. The invoice would deliver Massachusetts according to each different state in New England that already protects girls, however Barber doesn’t assist it. To make her disdain recognized, she made the rape sufferer look forward to hours to testify, refusing to name on her till after 7 pm.
The sufferer sat patiently, and by 5 pm was the one one ready to testify in individual, however Barber referred to as on individuals to testify by Zoom earlier than calling on the rape sufferer, and most of them didn’t even dwell in Massachusetts. Worse, they had been testifying in assist of a a lot much less necessary invoice that dozens of individuals had already testified about. Solely when all the out-of-state individuals on Zoom had been achieved did Barber enable the rape sufferer to speak about how necessary it’s that the hate crime regulation be amended to guard girls. Barber couldn’t have cared much less. She despatched the invoice to a examine to kill it, and now she desires you to assume she is a champion of rape victims as a result of she sponsored the Survivors Act.
Don’t be silly.
Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald
State Rep. Christine Barber testifies throughout a digital assembly on drivers license laws. (Workers Photograph By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald, File)
