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In reply to the discussion: CNN reporting 5th accuser comes forward against Al Franken [View all]Denzil_DC
(7,187 posts)25. Then if it's a crime, as you've jumped so quickly to convict on very bare evidence,
with repeated use of the term sexual assault - a very serious allegation indeed in most people's books, a lifechanger, a potential career-ender/marriage-ender - why haven't any of those making the allegations chosen to press charges?
If this post isn't getting more attention it's because, if people looked down a page or so on GD, we've had at least five or six long threads about today's allegations already in the last 12-18 hours, and some of us are about argued out to be going over old ground again and again and again.
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If the allegation is true, then it is sexual assault, not being "being hands-y in public"
Lurks Often
Nov 2017
#3
Not when it is a lie... consider the bullshit...they want Franken gone..the right wing don't
Demsrule86
Nov 2017
#14
Then if it's a crime, as you've jumped so quickly to convict on very bare evidence,
Denzil_DC
Dec 2017
#25
I was responding to a poster attempting to minimize the allegations as just being
Lurks Often
Dec 2017
#34
Agreed and I've tried to be clear in stating these were allegations and nothing has been proven
Lurks Often
Dec 2017
#37
No, not new, but the 24/7 news cycle and social media are making it much more visible
Lurks Often
Dec 2017
#46
Of course not, but I don't classify a non-violent touch in public as "assault".
forgotmylogin
Dec 2017
#44
Could we say "accuser" instead of "victim?" Or have we already convicted Senator Franken?
Glorfindel
Nov 2017
#2
I've spent more than a decade working with survivors of sexual abuse and rape.
Ms. Toad
Nov 2017
#20
Get your picture with any public figure, in public, and make an accusation against them. It's
OnDoutside
Nov 2017
#18
Welcome to DU...also...oh and they have another anonymous report who is supposedly elected
Demsrule86
Nov 2017
#15
I am with you...these are right wing lies...and they just want to get rid of an effective Dem
Demsrule86
Dec 2017
#41