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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Blind Stupidity, Questionable Justice

"When you provide a condom, what do you expect him to do? How do you expect the man to interpret it? You went willingly up to the [hotel] room with him You were not forced. You end up sitting on the bed and providing him with a condom. What is the message?"
"I've always seen him to be a bon vivant, a very nice guy. I've never had any trouble with him at all."
"I don't know what was going through the woman's mind, or emotions, but there is my difficulty in believing Massimo [Pacetti, Member of Parliament] would use force. That I would have a lot of trouble believing."
"I'm not blaming anybody. From what we know, she didn't even want this to be brought out. It's a huge mess, a very very emotional thing. I can just imagine what she's going through right now."
"I do not envy my leader's [Justin Trudeau, leader, Liberal Party of Canada] position at all. It must be an incredibly difficult situation to go through with one of your MPs. I do believe he will feel morally obliged to give due consideration to whatever report comes out."
"I'm not excusing Massimo here. I don't approve of infidelity -- clearly not. But, again, that's not for me to judge. He's never been anything but a gentleman with me."
"I would say that quite a few, both sexes, would probably be guilty as charged [of sexual misconduct]."
Alexandra Mendes, former Liberal Member of Parliament

It seems abundantly clear that both Liberal Members of Parliament Massimo Pacetti and Scott Andrews, accused of unwanted sexual advances by unnamed New Democratic Members of Parliament are guilty of stupidity and allowing their libidos to control their intelligent sense of propriety, unchecked by the thought that harassing female MPs might come back to bite them at some time in the future.

It seems that future time has arrived. The women prefer to remain anonymous. In stating their emotional upset at the behaviour of the two men they now, it appears, meant the men to be spoken to by the authorities in Parliament, most particularly their own party leaders. They had no wish for the incidents to go any further. Both refuse categorically to lay criminal charges, and both speak of legitimate reasons to decry the condescendingly crude sexual advances amounting to sexual abuse.

The casual attitude toward scoring a sexual advance evidenced by these men speak volumes of their emotional maturity. All the more so as they're married with families. Pressing unwanted advances of a physical and violent nature on women is about as despicable as possible. The matter wasn't kept in-house; the Liberal leader, Justin Trudeau, took immediate action amounting to judicial censure and punishment by tossing the two out of caucus and effectively ruining their political careers.

The women, not wanting their own careers to be tarnished, have chosen to remain anonymous. If they meant to extract the revenge of the righteous, by exposing the two men involved to public revelation, they succeeded, but it clearly isn't as simple as that. This is not what they meant to achieve; perhaps they're not clear in their own minds what they meant to achieve other than that the two men become aware they are never to repeat their chauvinistic stupidity.

Their behaviour was clearly horribly wrong. At the same time the manner in which swift justice was meted out is questionable in the authority of its execution as far as blind justice is concerned. Surely we can do better in the Parliament of Canada?

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