john cornyns letter on rape and arbitration

[johncoby2]

"Arbitration is a private justice system. It is held in secret, away from media attention, exactly what rape victims want. Rape victims prefer to be left alone. They do not want to air their "dirty laundry" especially in front of a jury in public. Instead, as with arbitration, they just want it to be private and their own little secret."


http://bayareahouston.blogspot.com/2009/10/john-cornyns-letter-on-rape-and.html

[glowing]

1. What a dumb fuck.. Its not these women's "dirty laundry" that they were raped in the 1st place.

I think Sen Cornyn needs to hear from all of us. I think he needs to understand that rape is not someone's dirty laundry. No woman I know has ever asked to be raped. Its the bad of the rapist; not the woman.. what a dumb fuck.

[gratuitous]

2. And what does Mr. Cornyn base this extensive knowledge of what rape victims want?

Because in my experience, Republicans have difficulty expressing what anyone wants, other than their own greedy selfishness.

[laconicsax]

5. Maybe he's raped a few of them.

I don't know if he has, but I also don't know that he hasn't.

[gratuitous]

7. Well, shouldn't he prove that he hasn't?

I believe those are the rules we are now operating under.

[Richardo]

3. What the fuck. He's one sentence away from 'lay back and enjoy it'.

Thanks, old rich white male Republican, for speaking for rape victims everywhere.

[jeffbr]

4. He's running a commercial in Texas asking seniors to call and thank HIM for "saving" Medicare

Despicable asshole.

[Ilsa]

6. God, I wish we could get rid of him as our senator from tx. nt

[MrModerate]

8. I hate Cornyn deeply -- I'm from (happy not to be there anymore) Texas. But this appears fraudulent.

Look at it a bit more closely

[Richardo]

17. Yeah - big unrec for that.

Very disappointing.

[Hepburn]

9. THEIR DIRTY LAUNDRY??????

FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE!! :grr:

[Odin2005]

10. FUCK YOU, YOU ASSHOLE!!!

So you think what my friend went though is "dirty laundry", Cornyn? GO EAT SHIT AND DIE, you pathetic sack of vomit!!!

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[niyad]

11. isn't he the one who did, in fact, say "lay back and enjoy it"? I know some political idiot from TX

said it a while back.

cornyn, unless you have EVER worked with rape victims, STFU-- you have NO idea what any of them want--and you certainly cannot put them all in a single group. "dirty laundry" "little secret"??? you sexist jackass. it isn't the VICTIM who has anything to hide--and I notice you don't say one word about the perp.

as much as I despise you, I pray that no woman in your family is ever raped--because you, clearly, will NOT be any kind of loving support.

do you watch rape fantasies on the sex channels? is that how you get off?

[Odin2005]

12. I have a close friend that was raped earlier this year so I understand completely.

This BS SOOOO pisses me off! :grr:

[MilesColtrane]

14. That would be Clayton Williams...

..a real Yee Haw, dumbass, good ole boy.

Cornyn's basically the same, just with a law degree and a fifty dollar haircut.

[MilesColtrane]

13. Fuck you, Senator Cornhole!

The Texas Democratic Party will continue to make gains until your ignorant ass is voted out of office.

You can always become a lobbyist or a T.V. evangelist, you piece of shit.

[ljm2002]

15. Whose blog is this?

The letter ends with:

That's why I voted against it, so let's let this be our own little secret.

United States Senator John "The Asshole" Cornyn.

And at the bottom of the post we see:

Posted by John Coby at 8:28 PM
Labels: arbitration, satire

No doubt he captured the gist of Cornyn's thinking on the issue. But let us not confuse it with Cornyn's actual words, which this is not. This is satire.

[Richardo]

16. Yeah that sucks.

Very disappointing, jobycom. Not everyone clicks through a post's links, and I think a lot of people rely on the post to accurately reflect the text in the link.

Satire has to be skillfully done to be successful. This was not successful.

[vadawg]

18. not sure of what he meant, but i read is as that the victim dosent want their past dragged out

especially in public, which i can totally understand.

[niyad]

19. and why is it that rape is the only crime where the VICTIM'S past is allowed to be an issue?

in no other crime is the VICTIM held to blame and censure, destruction of reputation, sneering innuendo, and told it didn't really happen, the VICTIM is just pissed.

I don't know how you read it as concern for the VICTIM'S past-- it was clear it was referring to "the dirty little secret" of rape.