Current Affairs Prince Andrew poor judge of character or what ?
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The ships are deserting the rat.
spectateur
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Military affiliations.
Pity that, seeing he's the only royal to have proper combat experience.
(Harry was never shot at in afghan)
As he's not been convicted, do please keep throwing in an 'alleged' or similar
The case is sexual assault. Under age or not, any sex is alleged to not be consensual as it was sex trafficking
Terrarian
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Good point. Although she didn't look particularly unhappy in the picture they circulate but yes I agree of course sexual assault is wrong, I retract my statement.
C'mon now. That's an awful comment.
"She was having a lovely time right up until she was raped"
tsubaki
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we should all get used to that particular line of argument though, I mean we are going to be hearing it a lot
It is always part of the "argument", but I refuse to get used to it...hence the call out.
He is as creepy and as sleazy as they come. However if I was defending him I would have advised him to say yes I had sex with her, the legal age in UK is 16, she was 17. I don't know anything about the other stuff. Then let them prove that he did. All this rubbish about Pizza Express and not being able to sweat is crazy.
To clarify however I think he 100% knew what Epstein and Maxwell were up to. Not sure if the US have the same rules as us for proof - criminal case - beyond reasonable doubt; civil case - on the balance of probabilities. If they do, I reckon he's had it in a civil case. They only have to think there's a 51% chance he's guilty.
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I recalled all this as I’ve watched countless attempts to discredit the women coming forward about Harvey Weinstein arise this week. Pundits and commentators are trying to poke holes in their stories by blaming them for not speaking up sooner and crucifying women like Meryl Streep and Hillary Clinton for old photos where they’re standing next to Weinstein smiling at press junkets, on red carpets and during parties even though they denounce him now. Weinstein even cites the smile as his defense against McGowan’s accusations in the Hollywood Reporter, prompting tweets invoking people reading the news to question “why are they smiling with him?” and calling Ashley Judd, another victim, a liar for waiting so long to come forward.
The answer is that sometimes smiling is our only option. I’ve smiled because I’ve wanted to project to my harasser that he hadn’t broken me. I’ve smiled because the rent was due and the economy was bad. I’ve smiled because insurance had run out on my therapist and if I didn’t smile I’d likely be jobless, broke and absent a 50-minute appointment once a week to clear my head.
Terrarian
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fair enough, when you put it like that. I don't want it to come across I'm sticking up for him btw; I only popped in to say about the age thing but you instantly shot me down about assault, rightly so. I think he's a creep and needs to answer for it, by hiding he looks guilty anyway. Also the fact he tried to silence her with £500k doesn't look good either.
I started off having a mare here, hope I have turned it around.
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