Ched Evans, not guilty
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Ched Evans, not guilty
I'm looking forward to all the sanctimonious ****s who wanted him hung, despite the fact that the judicial process had not fully completed, admitting they were wrong to be so premature and issuing apologies that are as public as their condemnation was.
I'm looking at you, Henry Winter. You appalling c*nt.
True. But either way it was always a decision which seemed to me to be very unclear, it could have gone either way as what is or is not, consent, is rather nebulous.
Given that, I was shocked at how vehement the condemnation of young Chad was given that an appeal process was underway and he seemed to have a very strong argument. It's almost as though some small-minded muppets quite liked the chance to jump up on their soapbox and come across all holier than thou.
Or perhaps he had been found guilty and they thought it was OK to comment... seeing as he served 2 1/2 yrs for this I don't think his defence was that clear cut to begin with.
Good luck to him, still shocked his g/f stood by him no matter what he had done
I think it's more that he was one of the few high-profile(ish) footballers to actually be convicted of rape in this type of case, which meant he became the go-to case when people wanted to condemn the extremely dubious sexual attitudes and behaviours that appear to exist among some footballers.
Personally, I would be extremely wary of anyone who chooses to get on their high horse in his defence, since I suspect their agenda quite as much as I suspect the agendas of those who lined up to condemn someone who was, in fairness, a convicted rapist.
I think his defence was very clear cut, he always said that she consented. Given that he always denied his guilt, that he had a reasonable defence, that the consent aspect of any rape conviction is a difficult one to prove and that an appeal process was underway; if I was going to 'comment' I would have held back a little on the sanctimony.
Many did. Many others did not. The latter now look a right set of muppets imo. I'm thinking primarily of those people who openly petitioned for him to not be signed by a professional football club even though his appeal was underway.
Would it not make more sense if we all stopped judging others, generally on the basis of very little direct knowledge, stopped hurling insults and abuse at each other, accepted that lives, actions and events may be complex and compromised, and occasionally checked our own eye beams/motes/whatevers?
My issue isn't with the football clubs, it's with the people who felt it sensible to protest publicly against him while he was in the process of appealing his conviction. And, personally, I would only consider someone to be truly convicted of anything once the judicial process was fully complete.
And, as we know, in this case it was not. It's not unreasonable to expect the muppets to have considered this.
So let's say it's another offence - kiddie-fiddling or child porn, maybe. If your club were threatening to sign someone convicted of it, would you be perfectly happy for them to do so on the basis that he was appealing his conviction and had been punished enough?
Of course not - and neither would the thousands of knuckle-draggers who've been shouting his case all this time. He'd be untouchable. And that's the problem: there's a double standard in operation because it was 'just' rape and she was 'just a slag'.