October 5, 2015: Former New York sex crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein on consent.
This interview with Jim Zirin was uploaded to YouTube on October 5, 2015. By the evening of September 27, 2021, it had been viewed only 177 times.
I had intended originally to link to it, but decided instead to edit it down and upload it to this site.
Whatever, here is an alternative, archived link anyway.
The original runs to 26 minutes 43 seconds, but I have edited out all the irrelevant material.
Her book SEXUAL VIOLENCE Our War Against Rape can also be found in this database.
Before going any further, I should point out that if you have heard this woman’s name before, it is probably as the prosecutor in the case of the Central Park 5, also known as the Central Park jogger case.
I am old enough to remember this from contemporaneous reporting; a young woman named Trisha Meili was raped by a pack of animals and left for dead. Five of these animals were convicted, but over a decade later, their convictions were quashed and they received massive payouts in compensation.
In 2012, a so-called documentary about the case was released; in this, Fairstein is portrayed as the villain. Don’t believe a word of it, they were guilty as sin, all of them.
Returning to this interview with Jim Zirin, I was frankly shocked by what she said about the Owen Labrie case, pleasantly shocked, I might add. You can glean most of the details from Fairstein, but basically, she said Labrie – who is a clone of Harry Potter – shouldn’t have been tried much less convicted.
Alas, her prediction about his conviction being at least partially overturned on appeal did not come true. The New Hampshire Supreme Court threw it out, but he was released from prison in June 2019, having served six months of a ten month sentence.
The non-victim in the case is no longer Little Miss Anonmyous but Chessy Prout. New Hampshire has a Romeo & Juliet law, so in my humble opinion, Labrie didn’t commit any kind of criminal offence. Having said that, he used a condom; I find any association with condoms disgusting. And it was a sordid encounter. The Owen Labrie case isn’t included in this database, not as a miscarriage of justice, anyway.
Fairstein’s observations on this case and on consent generally are worthy of note. Sadly, a lot of prosecutors take an entirely different view, and of course, some have been indoctrinated by feminist ideology.
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