Posted by rogan1313 Boy, is this the mother of all ad hominem attacks. Is it so strange to think that very few Talkleft women bloggers really believe that walking in a large city drunk and provocatively dressed is an act of self-preservation, regardless of who is the guilty party here.

Slado

Keeping yourself out of risky situations is good sense, not nonsense.

Again I think this guy should be locked up forever and if NYC sees fit, even though I don't agree, put to death. Do those banging away on O'reilley feel the same or do they only punish stupid statements, not crimes?

The obvious point is this girl put herself in danger by being alone @ 2am and only compounded it by being dressed to go out (which today means dressing like a prostitute; not that I mind but it's the truth) and being drunk.

After all, anyone that doesn't agree with the left is automatically a racist...right?

Or how badly that traitor John Walker was treated... & how he should be let go...

It's the left that likes to blame everyone else but who's actually guilty.

Nope..blaming things on people that had nothing to do with them is a leftie tactic. We don't do that.

Photos emerged from Lindh's captivity of him being held naked and bound, wearing an obscenity-covered blindfold. When details of the conditions of his captivity began to emerge, it was discovered that he had initially been wounded and hidden for a week with limited food, water, and minimal sleep before being captured. After being captured and taken to a room with the only window blocked off, Lindh had his clothes cut off him and was duct-taped to a stretcher and placed in a metal shipping container for transportation. Lindh was not even released from the stretcher when he needed to urinate. Instead, guards propped him upright. When interrogated, he was denied a lawyer despite several requests, and was threatened with denial of medical aid if he didn't cooperate. It took more than a week in U. S. custody for his wound to be treated and the bullet removed. The court scheduled an evidence suppression hearing, at which Walker would be able to testify about the details of the torture to which he was subjected. The government faced the problem that a key piece of evidence--Walker's confession--might be excluded from evidence as having been forced under duress. Furthermore, the hearing would turn a spotlight on the way that U.S. soldiers had conducted the interrogation. To forestall this possibility, Michael Chertoff, the head of the criminal division of the Justice Department, directed the prosecutors to offer Walker a plea bargain: He would plead guilty to two charges -- serving in the Taliban army and carrying weapons. He would also have to consent to a gag order that would prevent him from making any public statements on the matter for the duration of his twenty-year sentence, and he would have to drop claims that he had been mistreated or tortured by U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan and aboard two military ships during December 2001 and January 2002. In return, all the other charges would be dropped.