Three women have gone to court, pressing their claims to have been sexually connected in some way to The Donald.
I have no idea who’s telling the truth, but this is where the issue
belongs---in court, not on front pages or broadcast news programs.
This is how such important matters should be settled, and in this case
SOON, for all our benefit.
I wish the same approach had been taken in the numerous charges
against prominent men in the “me too” and “time’s up” movements. There
certainly is “fire” here and not just “smoke” for the “casting couch”
has long been a staple of Hollywood lore. But allegations are not
proof, and proof comes in court. Nor are the large numbers of women
making such charges “proof." Truth is not dependent on numbers. One is
sufficient. But due process was NOT followed here, and lives have been
changed forever by that fact.
Trial by the news media is not the American way of justice, and
this needs to change. It is true anymore than people are “guilty until
proven innocent” and that’s neither right nor fair.
While I am criticizing my colleagues, let me go one step further.
Major papers and tv casts tell us about “Russian meddling” in our
elections, not “alleged” Russian meddling. That this is political can
hardly be doubted, viz the competing Dem and GOP versions and reports
from the House Intelligence committee. But hold on; all of this stems
from the consensus of 16 intel agencies who agreed in a joint report. I
will say again truth is not just found in numbers. While I think there
is strong evidence for this claim, I still remember these same agencies
told us of WMDs in Iraq and helped cause a war. No part of the most
recent report has been made public, and needs to be for us to make a
rational decision.
The claims that Russia is behind the poisoning of one of their
ex-spies (and double agent) is even flimsier. Given two major cases in
recent years, where much proof was provided, there is certainly plenty
of reason to suspect Putin’s long hand—but all the nations jumping in
(we have not been told the UK shared what information it has with Latvia
and others to make them come on board.) seems more to get brownie
points with the UK than a reasoned explanation of why Britain suspects
Russia. That may come, but there isn’t an international court where this
is likely to be tried. Til then, with a Cold War#2 threatened, the
better path is suspending judgment until the facts come out, and
hopefully they will.
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GOOD news from Frankfort—(1) the budget negotiators have turned
down new money for private prisons (which cost much more per inmate that
state operated ones, and 2—someone is finally challenging the Kentucky Wired project, already behind schedule and way over budget. The idea
is good—get better broadband thru out the state, but the way this was
gone about should have been challenged from the start. It is beginning
to look like a bottomless money pit with little to show for our taxpayer
dollars.
That said, NOTHING is final in Frankfort til the legislature adjourns. Nothing.
I'm just sayin'...
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