{"id":49702,"date":"2014-12-15T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49702"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:55:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:55:33","slug":"no-juthtith-no-peathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49702","title":{"rendered":"No Juthtith, No Peathe"},"content":{"rendered":"

(SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is sitting in the waiting room at the dentist’s office, waiting on a checkup. <\/em>Avery LIBRELLE enters the room, holding a throbbing tooth.\u00a0 BERG tries to hunch down behind his magazine – but LIBRELLE notices him). <\/em><\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Hey, Merg!\u00a0 (Speaks with difficulty through pain<\/em>)\u00a0Thereth\u00a0 an epidemic of rape on American univerthity camputheth.<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Your mouth sounds painful.\u00a0<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: You’re dodthing the queththion!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Well, no, I…OK, so how do we know about this “epidemic”?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Becauthe American univerthitieth thay tho.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 (Wincing in pain as LIBRELLE thpeakth<\/em>) So in other words, university administrations, carrying out their own home-grown investigations, driven by a feminist lobby that actively disparages the idea of due process <\/a>for those accused of rape, and with a vested interest in resolving all ambiguous cases – say, cases where everyone involved was blind drunk and there were no witnesses, or even the occasional malicious accusation – as rape, say there’s an epidemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: Yeth.<\/p>\n

BERG: So you think data coming from university administrations – who act in these cases primarily as political rather than criminal-justice bodies – are the appropriate people to investigate allegations of felonious assaults which our society justifiably regards as second only to murder in moral gravity?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: Of courthe.\u00a0 Who elthe knowth more about thtudentth than the univerthity thythtem?<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 OK.\u00a0 So in the same vein – who knows more about priests than their various dioceses, arch-dioceses and the Vatican?\u00a0 When priests were being accused of sexually abusing children, by your logic, the church was right to try to deal with it by itself.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 OF courthe not.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 How so?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Of courthe not.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BERG: No, I mean why do you think not?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 And I anthwered you.\u00a0 Of courthe not.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 That’s no answer.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Yeth it wath.<\/p>\n

(ASSISTANT calls BERG’s appointment; LIBRELLE attempts to get up and leave the room ahead of BERG)<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Um, hello?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Get an exthternal invethtigation, thucker.<\/p>\n

(And SCENE<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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