Comments on: Victim Blaming, Victim Shaming

By: Gail

Gail — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:10:57 +0000

This is about men again. They are still using us as if we are just another kind of sexual enjoyment only one that breathes.

By: Sally

Sally — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:09:39 +0000

Judge Baugh was elected, which should say something about the citizens of Montana. The legal age of consent in Montana is 16 Your Honor, not 14.

By: Lauri

Lauri — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:09:02 +0000

Wow, Maury, I think you win the stupid post of the Internet award for the day. At 14 she was a CHILD. Her brain was not fully developed and she was not mature enough to decide to have an intimate relationship.

As an adult, particularly one with authority over her, his crime is particularly heinous. He is a predator and he destroyed that child. There is no excusing or rationalizing that.

And there is certainly no defending his actions. This was 100% his fault. And if you don’t see that, then you are a fool and I hope you don’t work with children.

By: Erica

Erica — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:07:53 +0000

In the USA, there are two ways judges get their jobs: (1) get selected by a panel of Bar Association and political hacks, or (2) run in an election, which means joining a political machine.

The “debate” over judicial selection is between these two camps, as if there was no other possible way of choosing judges. Both processes are 100% political, and not surprisingly yield 100% political results: hacks like Judge G. Todd Baugh.

There is another way: give judicial job-seekers an objective test, a lot like a bar examination: high score wins. This system would not be perfect, but it would screen 99% of political hacks. Judging from the photos of Judge G.

Todd Baugh, I think such a method would keep society safe from him, Bar examinations are the accepted way of screening lawyers; there is no reason why tests should not be used to select/retain judges too. There would be a night-and-day improvement, and 95% turnover of the current political hacks.

By: Sonja

Sonja — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:07:00 +0000

One day the media will reassess how it views women; maybe then it will stop treating them as objects. Until then, this sort of sickening behaviour will go on.