Lately the signal to noise in General and L&P has been pretty ugly... I think they _are_ getting a lot of trolls, from Demoratic Undertow, whatever... I get the feeling that some of these clowns are walking into their profs' offices and saying "Hey, look at what I made the stupid gun nuts say this time!" Some of this may come back to bite us on our asses during the next heavily political push... That worries me...
Plus, heaven forbid you say something about a cop... Right now I'm in a situation where my candidate (I'm volunteering PR services) may very likely get targeted by a corrupt department. But you know what? If I mention anything about that on THR, I know what'll happen.
And if you don't think there are still corrupt police departments out there, you haven't lived in St. Louis.
And as for rape accusations... Had a coed accuse a football player of rape. Thankfully the campus cops weren't blissfully unaware of what was happening on campus, and held both parties at the campus cop shop until a few guys from the team, who knew both parties, could get down there and talk to her... You see, there were interesting circumstances.
They'd been dating a while.
They'd been more than a little hot and heavy.
The officer found them in the front seat of his car.
She was on top.
She only started screaming when Mr. Flashlight appeared.
She was a dean's daughter.
She was white.
He was black.
It all got hushed, but almost blew up, because she panicked that Daddy would go ballistic.
I have to wonder, however, these days, how many richochet roofies happen... Jane gets dosed at a party, but goes home with Okay Joe instead of Evil John the Roofmeister. She's got x, she's roofed, what do you think is gonna happen? Fun part is that Okay Joe may be the designated driver, pretty darn straight, and thinks that she actually just fell in love with him... Until morning...