red baron wrote on Mar 22
nd, 2014 at 7:18am:
So all these people from different walks of life have collaborated to gang up on a hapless Robert Hughes to sink him.
Well it would appear so if you take a line through The Grappler's point of view.
Sorry, not with you on this Grappler, doubt that there would be many out there that would.
Just upholding the rule of Law, Red - ignore Winston and his 'misogyny' delusions. I said not one word about women as a group - he did, though there have been cases of women lying about rape etc and even causing false imprisonment
(** differentiates carefully between 'false' imprisonment' and 'wrongful imprisonment', a simple extension of mine to the studies on 'wrongful conviction'**)
As a copper you may well consider it fair and reasonable that every accused be convicted - how many of your 'mates' have made fanciful accusations of being 'assaulted' to cover up misdeed of their own in the full expectation that the 'courts' will support their 'version of events' regardless of hard evidence? Why the long face over countless Royal Commissions and PIC findings? An honest police force is one i which every officer knows he is safe from punishment unnecessarily over suspicion of doing wrong, and every officer should make it a rule not to support corrupt or illegal behaviour in order to uphold the morale and integrity of the Force.
Hence the requirement under a proper Rule of Law for a 'version of events' to be supported by substantial corroboration, as required by the Supreme Court with regard to 'expert opinion', and thus, by extension, to any 'version of events' - especially in an emotive issue such as child abuse.
Winston - you really need to get your head out of feminist mythology and into the real world. I deal only in factual matters - not emotive issues such as yours, and again - I said nothing about women as a group.
If feminist women find it too hard to sustain and support the Rule of Law - they are quite welcome to do without it...