Cosby-Inspired Law Change?

California Governor Jerry Brown has recently signed a bill to eliminating the statute of limitations on sex crimes.  This in and of itself isn't a problem isn't a problem.  This writer has no problem with making criminals pay for their past crimes.

The problem (aka BS reasoning) with this is that this move was inspired by the current issues plaguging the lengendary actor, Mr. Bill Cosby.  Where's the BS?  It's in the fact that there is no solid evidence that he did anything but have consensual sex with these women.  A lot of these women have been proven to be lying, but that doesn't matter to the law makers or public at large.  Fifty women came out, so it must be true.  Not necesarily.

This writer remembers in second grade, the entire classroom teamed up against him to get him in trouble with the teacher.  These kids cranked their BS machine into high gear and told lie after lie, which reulted in this writer being penalized.  It didn't involve sex crimes or jail time, but that's beside the point.  The point is that this writer got in trouble because the majority had their lies lined up.  To simplify it further, just because at lot of people say someone did something doesn't make it true.

This writer isn't saying that Mr. Cosby did or didn't do anything.  He's saying that there's no proof that he did it and that numbers don't mean anything without solid evidence or facts to back it up.  Now, laws are being changed because we can't proof that a potentially innocent man did anything wrong because multiple 'victims' could (emphasis on could) be lying.  Do you see what happens when logic is trumped by emotion?  This writer alway though the phrase was "innocent until proven guilty", not "guilty because a bunch of people come out with no proof".  How is this fair?

A few people told this writer that his stance makes it hard for rape victims to come out and say they've been raped.  This is false.  Liars make it harder for the victims, because if there are too many liar, people question the truth who's really a victim.  As stated before, this writer isn't saying that all of these women are lying, but (as stated in this writer's personal example) any number of people can get together and lie on an individual.

On the good side, actual predators won't be able to run and wait out the statute of limitations.  The only thing that will have to be done is to sort out the real victims from the liars.  But then again, why wait to report a rape.  Report it as soon as possible, so that you'll have a stronger chance at proving your case and getting a scumbag of the street, instead of waiting decades, when the possible proof has all but vanished.

Until next time...