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Introduction
Jan Logie's new "sexual violence" legislation is designed
-- purely and simply -- to increase the conviction rate for this offence.
Everything else she says is just a smoke-screen and window-dressing.
She does not even mention the possibility of falsely accused people
being convicted. Nor does she mention the societal changes -- most of
them produced by Feminism -- which have (apparently) caused an increase
in this kind of offending.
Lie Number One
At line 71, Logie states: "As a country we are so very far behind
every single other jurisdiction" (i.e. as regards sexual violence
legislation). That is a complete lie, since
countries vary widely as regards their sexual violence legislation and
very few have the kind of legislation that Logie wants to have.
Moreover, it is also a lie to claim that legislation of the type which
she wants to introduce is somehow more "advanced" than previous
legislation. It is merely more anti-male and more totalitarian.
Lie Number Two
Logie implies that the court process is unnecessarily traumatising
for complainants. Consider the following points:
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She agrees when Q+A says that "the purpose of this bill is
to try to establish a balance ... between not unnecessarily traumatising
complainants and victims in the justice process, but also protecting
those principles of justice and open justice. "
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However, when she cited a relevant report (at line 7), it was
a report "where parents said that,
that they wish they'd never reported. If they'd known how traumatising
it would be for their family and their children, they wouldn't have
reported." However, parents have no insight into whether their
children are telling the truth or not. The child's motivation
for claiming that they had been sexually assaulted may, in some
case, have been their parents' probable reaction if they had known
the actual truth. The child may have been forced to lay a police
complaint, in order to persuade their parents that they had actually
been sexually assaulted, rather than just making up a story. In
such cases, a lot of the trauma would have been caused by the fact
that the child had to maintain and repeat a lie to his/her parents,
the police, in the courtroom and possibly to friends and the media
as well.
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At line 11, Logie states that "the most recent research tells
us that 24% of us have experienced sexual violence and only six
percent of those people report to the police and one of the reasons
for that, acknowledged by the Law Commission in this, in their research
into this issue, is because the process is so traumatising."
If Logie was an honest person, she would have acknowledged that
it would be INHERENTLY traumatic to
talk about personal sexual experiences to the police and legal professionals.
That amount of trauma would be unavoidable and not something that
changing the court process would ameliorate!
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The legal definition of sexual violence has been greatly widened
over the years, because of Feminist pressure. It is no longer just
about a stranger jumping on a woman in a dark alleyway at night,
or such-like. Logie herself (at lines 95 and 97) complains about
"an example of a complainant's having kissed a defendant once
before..." being "...used as a definition or evidence
of consent." And at line 103 she states that "at the moment
consent in our law cannot be assumed, given in general, or for the
future." This refers to the facts that sexual violence can
be claimed to have occurred even between long-time partners and
that reasonable grounds to believe in consent has to be present
before each sexual act. Legally, also,
a person who is too intoxicated is not considered capable of giving
consent. While it may well be traumatic for
a person to be forcibly raped in a dark alley by a stranger at night,
it must be much less traumatic to experience so-called "sexual
violence" if you are drunk at the time, or the person who does
this to you is a long-time partner who does it when you just happen
to have a headache!
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I myself, as a male, have had several apparent experiences of
being sexually assaulted -- mainly by females. Mostly, they involved
women pressing their breasts against parts of my body that they
found sexually attractive, but one incident involved a woman performing
an indecent act on me in a bar without my consent. In most cases,
the other party was supposed to be performing a professional service
(mostly medical or dental) for me when they carried out these assaults.
I had no previous personal relationship with most of them. However,
my point is that only one of these incidents
was at all traumatic -- and that was the one which -- legally
-- was least likely to have been an assault at all! What happened
in that case was that a doctor at a hospital needed to examine my
nose. He sat down opposite me and (without warning) forced my legs
apart with his knees and kept them apart forcibly, while he examined
my nose. He had a strange grin on his face, which made the incident
seem sexual. This was mildly traumatic, because of the force used,
the lack of warning or explanation and the strange grin on his face.
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In my experience, then, being sexually assaulted is not usually
traumatic, unless force is used.
Conclusion
Logie is exaggerating the amount of trauma involved, in order to make
it easier to convict people -- mainly men -- even if they are innocent!
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