Kirsten Gillibrands Moment Has Arrived

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93. But Roger Stone is not playing the Lee Atwater dirty tricks

role in 99% of the claims of sexual harassment.

The first woman is a right wing birther known to be working with Roger Stone (as well as a friend of Trump Jr). She is also on video sexually harassing a musician who clearly did not like the attention. Her claim has no credibility.

Most of the other claims are from anonymous sources. Given Roger Stone's already involvement with the hit to take out Al Franken with the first claim, common sense should have dictated a thorough investigation of the allegations. The Democrats refused to give Franken his right to confront his accusers and clear his name.

I don't care who the allegation is against. If anybody is going to make public statements accusing another person of a crime, under our legal system the accused has the right to confront his/her accuser. Innocent until proven guilty. Failure to do that can result someone carrying out a vindictive action against an innocent person just because the accuser hates or is pissed off at the accused.

The problem with the Me Too movement is that everybody is jumping right to executing the accused. I am sure that there are a lot of valid claims out there but I don't for one minute believe that 100% of the allegations would be proven true if properly investigated. That is the same attitude that has put innocent people on death row. If you execute an innocent person sitting on death row that is an action that you can never take back.

I find it disturbing that there is so much rush to judgment without investigation and the fact that the Me Too movement can end up evolving into a boy who cried wolf too often scenario.

I can see a lot of law suits down the road with one side or the other suing the other side for defamation of character.

In the case of Al Franken I think that there is more than enough evidence of the very real possibility of political dirty tricks to assassinate him politically. On that basis, I am pissed off at the Dems for turning on him like Brutus turned on Cesar and finishing the job for Roger Stone. They had no right to deny him the ethics investigation he requested and everyone that turned on him have damaged his/her reputation. Rush to judgment over rode common sense.