Good Morning… Two entirely different stories but similar in stupidity…Will government officials we elect ever get it right? Italian and U.K. legal authorities have recently discarded rule interpretations based on embarrassingly anachronistic stereotypes of women. In July, Italy's Court of Cassation reversed a 1999 ruling creating a legal presumption that a woman wearing tight jeans could not be the victim of rape because such jeans would be impossible to remove without her assistance. [Daily Telegraph (London), 7-23-08] This story almost makes me want to grab an Italian Official and Slap them into reality!
Coincidentally, at about the same time, the British government formally removed the special, ameliorating defense of "provocation" for husbands charged with murdering their wives, thus putting domestic homicide on the same footing as other homicides. (Some husbands had received lesser penalties by claiming that their wives' affairs had provoked them to murder.) [Daily Telegraph (London), 7-22-08] Oh so now killing due to adultery is legal? My gosh… what is next witch burning all over again because we have reason to believe?
I rest my case…Governments for and by the people do not exist…
A huge hug and many pats…and my heart felt apologies if you live in or around those two nations…
Mart
