red baron wrote on Nov 4
th, 2015 at 3:00pm:
If you have committed a heinous crime and it is forty years old. I don't care whether you're the King of the freaking world. If solid evidence is there, sufficient for a Prima Facie case against you.
Then you should be charged and due process should occur.
Why should not victims have their day on historical cases.
Nothing is more pertinent than the Rolf Harris case. A tall poppy and the victims too frightened to speak out until one, did and it gave others the encouragement to speak out.
And of course Harris was found guilty by a jury of his peers of being A PERVERT EXTRAORDINAIRE. He got away with it, almost forever...but not bloody quite.
Yes - evidence may generate a Prima Facie case, but that evidence needs to be properly supported and considered under the rules of Law.
Someone simply saying something is not proof positive - it is an assertion - not a proven fact. You know that Red - for far too long the NSW Police and others got away with making assertions against people without adequate proof and getting away with it. This has caused a huge amount of cost to many, often hatred of said police force, and a brooding hostility between police, courts and public, which is now coming to the fore with all the chicanery of elected governments.
That is oppression and tyranny - not Law.
All of these factors are heading us towards either a truly enlightened government or perhaps even a civil war, and I can only say that at least MOST police these days are becoming more aware of the true place in the community, though there are still bricks, burnouts, and head cases out there.... especially in the middle of the night.