On Sat, 2 May 2020 10:28:43 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2020-05-02 8:58 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 8:28:50 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
>
>> However, it's quite unlikely that a man would get to the point of
>> doing what she claims without ever having done something similar
>> to anyone else. It seems unlikely he was overwhelmed by her charms
>> and simply lost his senses. Her case would be more compelling if
>> other credible women came forth to tell a comparable story.
>>
>> I don't give a shit about "me too". People have always been tried in
>> the court of public opinion. Employers have the right to fire anyone
>> for any reason.
>>
>> Would you prefer that sexual predators keep doing their thing?
>
>The Me Too concerns be because it almost seems like too many people want
>to share the spot light of victimization. They can have some sort of
>sexual liaison with someone rich and powerful, or later to be rich and
>powerful, and then, years later, after someone else makes a complaint,
>they all come out of the woodwork to be included.
>
>We has a Me Too issue up here a couple years ago when a CBC radio host
>was accused of assaulting a woman, and then two other women made similar
>accusations. They dumped him in a heart beat and he ended up facing
>charges. I had not problem with that because he was such a smarmy jerk.
>He was acquitted on the charges.
>
> When the crap first hit the fan the guy was quite candid about
>enjoying rough sex. He liked to get physical and hit women, but he
>complained that the acts were consensual.
>
>The cases fell apart when the three women were caught lying repeatedly.
>While one claimed that she was so ****ed off she never saw him again, it
>turned out that she had. They had more dates, more sex, and more rough
>sex, and she sent him emails telling him how much she had enjoyed it.
>That complainant and another swore that they had not discussed the
>incidents and the accused with each other, but the defense checked their
>internet records and found emails between the two of them where they
>discussed the cases and what they had told the cops and the lawyers etc,
>and there were thousands of similar emails.... thousands. Yet they had
>denied discussing it at all.
>
>The third woman claimed to have been so traumatized by the assault that
>she never wanted to see the guy again, could not listen to his show, and
>could not even listen to the show with a new host. She denied that she
>had contacted him, denied emailing him, denied sending photos of herself
>in a very revealing bikini. They had the emails and the photos and
>showed them to her and she still denied it, but then admitted it, but
>explained that she had been trying to lure him to a meeting where she
>would get him to admit what he had done and apologize to her.
>
>The guy was acquitted because the three alleged victims had zero
>credibility. When you give testimony in court and get caught lying you
>lose your credibility and any testimony you give is deemed to worthless.
>This was a case where one women came forward with an accusation (later
>settled privately) and then three more jumped in the bandwagon with
>surprising similar stores, and each one was found to be lying.
>
>The guy lost his job, his career and his reputation and his accusers
>were all found to have been lying.
>

Sure says a lot about what you are like if you think Gomeshi should be
free!