Kaitlyn Hunt, 19, released from Indian River County Jail

[enki23]

17. The only thing i've seen about the indian diplomat...

is that she should have been excepted because she was a nice middle-class lady. Being perceived to be generally nice or being middle-class have nothing whatsoever to do with whether a strip search is warranted when a person is detained or arrested. Me, I would fall on the side of less-is-better when it comes to strip searches. But I recognize that there was no relevant evidence produced (that I have seen, I'll grant) for why her situation actually should have been considered exceptional in that way.

The other story, on the hand, hinges on several things. The most important of those is that 1) the age range was not very large, and 2) the supposed statutory rapist was only slightly over the age at which the accusation could be leveled at her. This is a case in which the boundary conditions clearly came into play, as they always sill. We are all smart enough to realize that there's a problem when someone can be labelled a sexual predator for having a relationship with someone else that would have been considered legal (or at least much, much less illegal) mere months ago.

I can see you think you have a gotcha, in this. But you don't. You may still be right about the other thing. I don't know enough about it to take a stand on that one. But the two situations just aren't analogous enough to claim anyone is being a hypocrite. (Besides, I'd be surprised if many of the same "law is the law!" people weren't on the same wrong, stupid side in both cases. Do you have actual reason to think otherwise?)