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Originally Posted by icecube
Where there is smoke there is fire. Let's use logic and reason here. Practically every woman age 20-45 in the arts and music culture in Toronto knows that Ghomeshi assaults woman. It has been rumored for years. The guy is a cretin.
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I think pretty much everyone would agree that these encounters did take place.
But the accusers tanked their own credibility. They can't convict him based on what they said. They just can't.
It's a failure of the prosecution and the accusers. The big ones are the collusion between the witnesses and the changing of/addition to stories right before the trial or taking the stand.
'Oh, you mean, they are actually going to try and find out if what I said was true? I guess I better actually tell the truth then. About this part anyways."
If you're going to accuse someone of something so serious, you have to be prepared to have your own life exposed in a similar way, and if you're uncomfortable with that, there's a problem. None of what happened would have been held against the accusers if they had just admitted to seeing him afterwards and sending flirtatious emails, etc.. No one would have used those instances of evidence that the assaults didn't take place. But they lied about it, and so you have to take everything else said with a huge grain of salt, even if you truly believe it.