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- From: paul@hsh.com
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Anita Hill to Head EEOC
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.182813.236@hsh.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 22:28:13 GMT
- Organization: HSH Associates
- Lines: 61
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- In article <nate.801@psygate.psych.indiana.edu> nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu
- (Nathan Engle) writes:
- >root@june.cmp.rpi.edu (J.R. Ordon) writes:
- >>pajerek@kadsma.kodak.com (Don Pajerek) writes:
- >>>jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () writes:
- >>>>tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
- >>>>>She offered no evidence that she was harassed by anyone.
-
- >>>>In your opinion...
-
- >>>Testimony is evidence.
-
- >>If it was truly "testimony", then why all the fuss over how she was
- >>treated by the "cross-examiners". BTW , Clarence Thomas "testified" that
- >>her allegations were false, if you take her testimony as "evidence", you
- >>must take his as evidence also.
-
- > Quite true. And then we can do what juries do all the time. *Weigh*
- > the evidence on each side and come to a conclusion.
-
- All this talk, as though Thomas were on trial!
-
- > > How about this as an alternate wording?
- > > "She offered no *proof* that she was harassed by anyone."
-
- > Yes, she did. Given that we have no time travel, the only *proof* we
- > have of ANYTHING is evidence. If we think that the evidence is good
- > enough, we call it "proof beyond a reasonable doubt." You may argue
- > that her evidence wasn't good enough, but you can't argue that she
- > didn't give any.
-
- Sure sounds like Thomas was on trial!
-
- > > Evidence and testimony are all well and good, but the Judiciary was the
- > >only body which could validate Ms Hill's evidence. There were no judges
- > >on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and there was no chance that any
- > >new allegations made in Thomas's confirmation hearings could have been
- > >validated within the purview of those hearings. Our system demands that
- > >Judge Thomas be considered innocent until proven guilty, and since no
-
- > No, it doesn't. He wasn't on trial.
-
- Oh, so Thomas WASN'T on trial!
-
- > If he were, then he must be considered innocent.
-
- Just so.
-
- > There's no such thing as irrefutable proof -- even videotaped evidence
- > isn't irrefutable. (Ask Rodney King about that.)
-
- Apparently, YOU haven't seen the ENTIRE videotape; the jury DID. Seeing the
- WHOLE truth might have changed a lot of minds, and perhaps prevented the riots.
- But it ain't your fault; most of the networks refused to air the ENTIRE thing
- until after the riots. Aah, but that's another thread, isn't it?
-
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