Depends on the culture of the area. In some places codes of silence like this are considered your civic duty, messed up as that may be.
Ah-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Th-THAT IS AWFUL! What is wrong with younglings? I remember seeing a show where the girls did this to a rape victim and thought "Oh come on, that wouldn't happen!" WELL NOW I KNOW IT DID HAPPEN! Fuckin' terrible this world.
I know, its just a horrible thing to accept about our world. Its like those Japanese videos games that I don't want to describe in detail because they are terrible.
You don't have to accept it.
The reason people do this is somehow tied to when people make jokes about prisoners getting raped repeatedly.
I hate those kinds of places. My wife grew up in places like that. Not too happy to see what they consider outsiders.
That's because you're not a member of the ruling class. In DC, that's government workers. In Texas, it's high school football programs.
Exactly. Plus, in order to get the message out there, he engaged with Anonymous. That makes him a hacker and a terrorist. He deserves no less than to be locked in Guantanamo Bay for the rest of his life.
What the what?!? Child pornography? Is that what they are calling the video of the young girl? Dude, that's thin as shit. Had he not done this, the video in question would have been disappeared, just as all the others mysteriously did. And since the cops were actively trying to suppress the case, including evidence, what else was he supposed to do.
Girl gets raped in flyover country and nobody there gives a crap? Yeah I'm sure that the news networks were going to fall over themselves to break that story. I'm sure that the same networks that mourned how the two rapists lives were over would have loved to pressure the local government to take that case to court.
I say you take it on a case by case basis. In this case the guy hacked a website harming nobody to bring two boys who raped a girl to justice.
You should read this article, its a much better source (really the last one shouldn't even be called a source)
The X-Files have taught me that the FBI is requested by local authorities to assist when the situation is bigger than the available resources to handle it. Usually this involves some kind of genetic mutant and/or possible extra-terrestrial lifeforms.
I don't think it's so much rape culture as "golden child/celebrities/sports figures can do whatever they want" culture. I mean, after all, they probably would have done the same no matter what the crime was. There have been plenty of instances of high school, collegiate and even professional athletes trying (and sometimes succeeding) to duck the rap for everything from robbery to murder. I even remember posting a story about how a high school football program was trying to get the date of one of their players' murder trial moved so it wouldn't impact his ability to play that season.
This is true. Imagine if it'd been for something like underage drinking, or doing lines of coke at a party, or showing off stuff they'd shoplifted from the local Wal-Mart. The same thing would probably still happen.
When someone is robbed, they are robbed, everyone acknowledges their goods were stolen. It's not like. "So... you left that computer in your room, right on a desk? You were kind of asking for it with that TV in the living room mounted right on the wall...."
