> The $3,000 is a far cry from the $100,000 bond the men were initially held up for. Her crime is very scary and ought to be punished equally with that the men would have suffered. Her penalty ought to be that handed out for first-degree rape and crimes against nature, with 3 consecutive sentences. Anything less is blatant misandry by the courts.

The minimum she should face is punishment equal to first-degree rape. I
would likely face higher penalties than she ever will for taking a wiz in a
bush.

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:35:22 GMT, "Anony Mouse" <mousie@nospam.net>
wrote:
The $3,000 is a far cry from the $100,000 bond the men were initially held up for. Her crime is very scary and ought to be punished equally with that the men would have suffered. Her penalty ought to be that handed out for first-degree rape and crimes against nature, with 3 consecutive sentences. Anything less is blatant misandry by the courts.The minimum she should face is punishment equal to first-degree rape. Iwould likely face higher penalties than she ever will for taking a wiz in abush.

Do y'all also consider it misandry when men are charged with making
false accusations of various crimes and receive the typical
punishments associated with false accusations?

It has nothing to do with the fact that false rape accusers are
typically women. It has to do with the fact that false accusations (of
any crimes) are considered crimes against the courts, or the State, or
whatever. The damages done to an accused individual appear to be
categorized similarly to libel, slander, harrassment, etc., which are
civil court matters.

Sure, the laws could be changed, but it would mean a major
reconstruction of the criminal code. All false accusations would have
to be redefined, because AFAICS you couldn't really treat FRAs as
"special" cases to be handled completely differently from all other
false accusations. And then you'd probably have all sorts of other
people clamoring for criminal penalties for civil matters that have
devastating effects on people. So this just wouldn't be an easy task.

The only thing I can think of that could be done in a shorter time
would be to tack on a punishment (monetary, jail time, and/or public
apology/public service) for actual damages to the falsely accused,
when determining the sentence for a false accusation.

As far as making sentences match those handed down to rapists, why are
people so afraid to simply ask for serious penalties for false
accusations of rape? If it's a serious crime it should call for its
own penalties, not "borrow" them from another crime.

Laurie