Alex Limkin, now presumably a former employee of the Public Defenders Office, was slapped with a restraining order after grabbing a colleague and expressing a desire to choke and rape her to another member of the department.
Is this what our tax dollars are paying for? Is it too much to ask to ensure that those we are supplying to our indigent fellow citizens for legal representation meet at least a minimum of societal standards?
Alex has an impressive history– he’s a lawyer, and he’s served in the Armed Forces. He published a series in the Weekly Alibi relating his experiences in Iraq during our latest forays there, and his mental recovery since. Accomplished, brave…insane? Perhaps his experiences in wartime did dull all of this emotions, maybe he doesn’t think women deserve any respect.
It’s hard to truly discern someone’s intentions in a situation like that, but it seems to me that Alex and Mel Gibson belong together, ideally far away from any power, money or women.
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I know Alex and the accuser and you should not judge him. If you are concerned for the judicial system you would understand innocent until proven guilty! Do you know him or the person accusing him? Or any other details for that matter? If you do not maybe you should think before expressing your uninformed “thoughts”.
We’re not in court and we never will be. It’s been more than a year with no charges filed, which is fine. (These days, we expect a videotape of the encounter before the law gets involved.) This is the court of public opinion– anonymous online opinion, at that.
“Innocent until proven guilty” is a standard from criminal law that we use when we’re taking away someone’s freedom. We ought to have a much lower standard for social disapproval, which is what the post talks about. If we were willing to shame anyone we suspect of inappropriate sexual advances, we would nip a lot of these behaviors in the bud. Maybe we wouldn’t need as many rape trials.
Of course,same rules apply to Lisa’s comment: she gets to use derisive quotes around the word “thoughts” and assume the Senorita doesn’t know anyone involved and if that’s enough to change someone’s opinion, then so be it. But when it comes to what goes on when two people are alone, I for one don’t know any man well enough to be sure he’s blameless, nor any woman well enough to be sure she’s lying.