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14-10-2016, 01:09 PM | #26 | |||
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I would find it impossible. A Defence Attorney's predicament must be even worse, because - as you say - defending someone who you know or think are guilty, must be an impossible moral and emotional problem to have to wrestle with. Especially if you are successful and get them off.
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14-10-2016, 01:11 PM | #27 | |||
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14-10-2016, 01:16 PM | #28 | |||
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I have read cases which still haunt me today.
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14-10-2016, 01:18 PM | #29 | |||
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Horrendous, I know. A friend of my moms used to Foster kids years ago but eventually had to stop after a little boy she'd been fostering for ages was handed back to the parents who had sexually abused him, can you believe that?
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14-10-2016, 01:18 PM | #30 | ||||
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I feel like I should prefix this by saying I'm not even a Hillary 'supporter'. I don't particularly like her and just because I'm anti-Trump, and just because I've made posts criticizing him, that doesn't mean I'm pro-Hillary. I just don't feel the need to criticize her based on something which I believe to be completely inaccurate.
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I'm all for "let's talk about the things Hillary has done and what kind of person she is" and many Trump supporters keep saying that there's too many threads criticizing him and there isn't enough negative focus on Hillary, but when something as unfactual and biased as this is presented as a negative against her I don't find the reaction (or lack of reaction) to it surprising in the least or that people don't feel it's necessary to discuss. If people want to discuss Hillary's faults then something accurate should be presented at the very least. If people see the 'story' here that Hillary is a 'rape-enabler' as being something that's been made up, then why would they be driven to debate it? The comparison between this and the Trump tape is that they are both tapes that make the people involved look bad, but the huge difference is that this one has been manipulated and edited out of all context and only exists to serve as anti-Hillary propaganda, and many people don't give credence to, or form opinions on that kind of thing. With Trumps tape on the other hand, the conversation he's having is clear, it wasn't manipulated and edited with the intention of showing a conversation that didn't happen, and given the nature of it and how disgusted people were, of course there's going to be a big reaction to that. And I reject the idea that it's 'historic'. It was 11 years ago and he was 59, they aren't the views of a teenage Trump who is yet to mature. 59 years old and he said those things. Quote:
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I'm entitled to my opinion too and I don't want to come across aggressive in any of this but I just think it's unfair to dismiss mine or anyone else's opinion as biased etc (especially when I've gone out of my way to explain why I have the opinion I do on this case) just because either they haven't posted, or have posted in defense of Hillary, or making an assumption that the only reason me or anyone else would have a particular opinion is because of being 'pro-Hillary' or 'anti-Trump', when actually I've spent time looking into what happened because when I first heard the rumour she was a 'rape enabler' I thought it was disgusting and I wanted to know what happened, and I've based my opinion on what I found. It has absolutely nothing to do with Trump or bias, I've judged it on it's own (lack of) merits.
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14-10-2016, 01:39 PM | #31 | |||
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We have - basically - a difference of opinion in our interpretation of that video and are both entitled to our opinions. I apologise to you Jamie, if you found offence re: my comments concerning impartiality, objectivity and fairness, and perhaps, I should have worded that differently and included that little word 'some'. I am not always 'word perfect' when typing long posts. I will though, stand by my comments regarding the absence of responses to this Clinton video from those who have been so vociferous about the Trump counterparts, and I will repeat; that I do so, not because I am a Trump fan, because I am not - as a careful search through ALL the Trump related threads prior to the past few days will attest - and I also stand by my interpretation of that video.
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14-10-2016, 01:48 PM | #32 | |||
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I bet your mum's friends were heartbroken by this decision, and I don't want to even think about how mentally and emotionally tortured they must be, and will remain - wondering what horrors 'their' little boy is going through with those non parents. It is all so unfair.
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14-10-2016, 01:52 PM | #33 | |||
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14-10-2016, 01:55 PM | #34 | ||
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Also, where's your proof that there was any wrongdoing on Hillary's part? Like I said before, this is all built on circumstantial evidence and guilt by association. That video and this whole story is just a desperate attempt by Trump and his supporters to gain some ground and it's completely hypocritical given that, if we were to use the same tactics on Trump, he'd be classed as a rapist. Hillary's not been brought up on any charges, Trump's got an underage sex lawsuit in December. Your last paragraph is not worth talking about, stop acting like a victim because nobody is discounting your opinion in fact you're just looking for an argument judging by the other essay you wrote in this topic. Your little jab at the end at everyone who happens to disagree with you is also unneeded and deeply hypocritical. Last edited by Tom4784; 14-10-2016 at 01:55 PM. |
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14-10-2016, 02:01 PM | #35 | |||
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Clinton is a lawyer, and she has to represent those guilty or innocent with the same competence. However, she doesn't need to express joy and make jokes at a result when she knows that the person she was defending was stone cold guilty. That's the issue, I don't understand how people can write that off without calling her character in to question
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14-10-2016, 02:02 PM | #36 | |||
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It MUST be the same for those poor Foster Parents, and the officials responsible for this decision should be sacked. I really hope that it has not been simply a case of 'handing them back' and that the Social Services are diligently pursuing a rigorous 'checking' procedure where they regularly inspect the child, his 'parents', and the home, to ensure that he is not being abused again. I have, though, a sinking feeling, that this is probably NOT the case. I pray that I am wrong.
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14-10-2016, 02:11 PM | #37 | |||
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I have written my opinion - and the very factual and logical reasons it is based upon - and readers can make up their own minds whether to agree with it or not, and therefore, I have no wish to become embroiled in argument for arguments sake, when such argument would be futile, would not further the debate, and probably descend into highly personal barbed post trading.
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14-10-2016, 02:12 PM | #38 | |||
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14-10-2016, 02:22 PM | #39 | |||
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I am not one of the Hilary fanatics if the world either... I sit with you in the knowledge that both these candidates are atrocious... but my lack of posting in the many nonsense threads being made of the character of both candidates should not be read as my having no defense for my opinion....just a lack of willingness to engage regarding false rhetoric. Last edited by Mokka; 14-10-2016 at 02:22 PM. |
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14-10-2016, 02:56 PM | #40 | |||
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I'm not a lawyer but I'd guess that to be a good one you have to learn to be able to separate 'case' from 'crime' and to be able to detach emotionally from the case I'd imagine. People may question her morality I suppose for that, and noone is suggesting she's a perfect person, but it doesn't make her a 'rape-enabler', which is what the issue is.
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15-10-2016, 05:13 AM | #41 | |||
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...hmmm, I feel as though I might have to give a little absence note explanation here...I've been working and although I had seen the thread title and watched the OP vid, I haven't really had time to look further and like Jamie, it's not the sort of vid that I would comment on, on face value without looking into it a bit more because it seems very much contrived and slanted by the 'anti Hilarys'....and yes there is lots to be anti Hilary about as there is lots to be anti Trump about but I don't see the correlation between this vid and the one recently posted with Trump's conversation because they're entirely different circumstances...
...Donald Trump admitted his comments and he tried to justify and excuse them as 'locker room banter'...sexual assault and finding it amusing and abusing his 'star quality' is just the average locker room banter and represents males.../well no, it doesn't not one little bit... ...with Hilary and this vid...?...the vid itself seems to be a distortion so isn't accurate of the title 'rape enabler'...she was a young prosecuting lawyer and she did voice reservations about taking the case but it wasn't ultimately her decision, she was appointed by the judge because apparently she helped run a legal aid clinic at the time, so her name came up and Thomas Alfred Taylor had specifically asked for a female to defend him...Thomas Alfred Taylor was a grim person, an awful person...defence lawyers have to defend some pretty horrendous people..rapists/murderers and even though their thoughts may be of guilt with that person and even though they might be appalled at what they've done...they still have to defend them to the best of their abilities because everyone until guilt is proven in a court of justice, is entitled to that...there is often a whole team of investigators involved also and if errors are found that could reduce a sentence for the client etc, then a job wouldn't be done properly and to the best of their ability if that wasn't used...unpleasant maybe/the thought of that with someone like Thomas Alfred Taylor...but it's what defending attorneys have pledged to do..again to represent to the best of their ability...there seemed to have been mistakes made..and those mistakes are really what are accountable for the unfortunate sentencing and that 'proper justice' wasn't served for the victim...I completely understand the victim's feelings about it and her feelings directed toward Hilary, how could she not feel the way she does and has felt over the years...those flaws in a judicial system just shouldn't happen/it's all wrong but it does happen though..we hear of it so often sadly...with the laughter..?...that's the only thing to me that seems questionable in this and the original vid seems too paint a different thing completely in that Hilary's laughter seems ironic laughter at the judicial system and how things like the polygraph said he was telling the truth when she strongly suspected he was guilty and of forensic mistakes...I mean how ironic for her that she is forced to represent in a case that she doesn't want in the first place../a tough case where a guilt outcome and appropriate harsh sentencing are pretty much certain, so a case she's pretty certain that she's going to lose...and mistakes made and complete false 'truth indicator' in a polygraph meant that justice wasn't served...that to me seemed to be where her lughter was coming from.../the irony of it all...obviously that's just my own interpretation and my own perspective to it but it's definitely not a perspective of any slant of favour toward Hilary...they're both grim, Hilary and Trump, they're both grim in different ways...I just don't think that this is one of those ways for Hilary and represents what it's suggesting....she had a responsibility under her oath to represent and defend to the very best of her abilities and she did because even the most grim of grim people are entitled to a fair representative and fair trial .... |
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15-10-2016, 05:18 AM | #42 | |||
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..or fairly much what Jamie said really...
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