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Rape is not a crime; at least eight more rapists walk around free
You remember the De Anza rape case, right? Three female soccer players rescued a gang rape victim from eight members of some of the school's sports teams, who were gathered around a naked, vomit-smeared, unconscious girl. "She did this to herself," said a basketball player.

May be triggering.

Lauren Chief Elk and April Grolle are 20-year old De Anza College students and teammates on the school's soccer squad. They were leaving a party at a house when they realized something wrong was going on in a back room where the doors were closed and the lights were off.

"We heard and saw a girl tapping on this door in the kitchen saying 'There is a girl in there with eight guys," explains Chief Elk. They say they tried to get into the room, but were confronted by a baseball player. "[He said] 'Mind your own business; she wants to be in here' and slams the door," says Grolle. What they saw through a crack in the door horrified them. "When I looked in, I saw about ten pairs of legs surrounding a girl, lying on the mattress on the floor and a guy on top of her with his pants down and his hips thrusting on top of her," recall Chief Elk. "And when I saw that I knew immediately something wasn't right. It just didn't look right." "I saw that this young girl did not want to be in there, and that's when we just went 'We're getting this girl out of there,'" says Grolle. April and Lauren -- along with a third soccer player named Lauren Breayans -- broke down the door and were shocked with what they found. "This poor girl was not moving. She had vomit dribbling down her face. We had to scoop vomit out of her mouth [and] lift her up. Her pants were completely off her body," says Chief Elk. "She had her one shoe one, her jeans were wrapped around one of her ankles and her underwear was left around her ankles. To the left of the bed there was some condom thrown on the ground." "When they lifted her head up, her eyes moved and she said 'I'm sorry,'" says Grolle. "One of the guys who was in the room said 'This is her fault. She got drunk and she did this to herself.'"

The Sheriff's Department declined to interview the three women who saved the girl, so, duh, they didn't have enough evidence to pursue the case. That means at least rapists are wandering around, to say nothing of the men and women who have spent the year since then harassing the three rescuers.

Deborah Saunders doesn't try and deny that what these men did is rape. The boys will be boys excuses don't take long to appear, though.

But then she truly goes off the deep end. She questions the victim's decision to file a civil suit. She quotes an attorney who represents the son of the owners of the house where the rape took place as saying, "The issue isn't whether it's acceptable conduct, the issue is whether it's a crime," and then follows with this stunner:

And if it is a crime, is it the same as premeditated rape? It may well be that civil courts are better suited to redress what happened at that March 2007 party.

According to Grolle and another source, the vomit on Jane Doe was not hers. Is it in society's interest to prosecute kids who are months older than Jane Doe for doing things in an alcohol-fueled atmosphere that they never would have done sober or alone? I think there's reasonable doubt.

If it's a crime? Jesus wept. When is rape not a crime? Oh, yeah, that's right. The past week has been full of rapes that weren't taken seriously, plus one accusation of rape made under duress to a murderer.

Eight more rapists are free, and God only knows how many men who sympathize with them, want to be them, want to rape if they could. The difference between Western society and the supposedly primitive societies we criticize is this: those societies don't make any pretense of being fair to women. We do. Deep down, it's just a matter of degree. Western women have rights that don't get taken seriously, don't get enforced, and don't do any good. Western societies offer women hope where there is little to none. Our population is full of rapists, rape victims who never got justice, and men who love the idea of rape so much that they defend it by blaming the victim for it all.

Yeah, we're so superior.

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