Under Palin's leadership, Wasilla charged rape victims for collecting evidence

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	Under Palin's leadership, Wasilla charged rape victims for collecting evidence

Lexica

9-9-2008 12:40 PM

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rape, violence, misogyny, law, policy, economics, jackbootery, sarah-palin

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"We would never bill the victim of a burglary for fingerprinting and photographing the crime scene, or for the cost of gathering other evidence, Knowles said. Nor should we bill rape victims just because the crime scene happens to be their bodies."

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9-9-2008 10:23 PM

Imnclady

That is just ridiculous...it makes me mad

9-9-2008 11:22 PM

hitchhiker08

Fuzzy logic...

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I shit you not.  <A href="http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2000/05/23/news.txt">This article</A> doesn't mention her by name, but check the dateline:  Palin was mayor of Wasilla.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2008/09/while-mayor-palin-charged-rape-victims.html">That means that under her leadership, <BLOCKQUOTE>the Wasilla police department [did] charge the victims of sexual assault for the tests.</BLOCKQUOTE>  Back in 2000, Alaska's then-governor, Tony Knowles, <BLOCKQUOTE>signed legislation protecting victims of sexual assault from being billed for tests to collect evidence of the crime, but one local police chief said the new law will further burden taxpayers.</BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2008/09/while-mayor-palin-charged-rape-victims.html">That police chief was Charlie Fannon, Palin's appointee.  One can only assume that she supported Wasilla's policy of billing rape victims for their own rape kits</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2008/09/while-mayor-palin-charged-rape-victims.html">not only because Fannon was her appointee, but also because this was four years into her tenure as mayor</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2008/09/while-mayor-palin-charged-rape-victims.html"><DIV>What was Fannon's rationale?  He didn't "want to see any more burden put on the taxpayer."  </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2008/09/while-mayor-palin-charged-rape-victims.html"><DIV>Palin was willing to raise taxes to build a sports complex.  Her police chief was unwilling to use public funds to investigate rapes.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C350DA41-C85D-476E-9212-DCD5A13956F0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>