Rapist Ronald Reagan?
Your list of "non-consensuals" prompts me to revisit the rape accusation leveled against Ronald Reagan. Very little information has turned up in my Web searches, but I did find the following precis of the circumstances surrounding the charge. I'm interested in why one may or may not call Reagan a rapist; what criteria to apply.
For example, the term Rapist Ronald Reagan currently poses some difficulties for me. But, perhaps, following your Clinton lead, I will learn to get over my scruples. Let's try:
Rapist Ronald Reagan
Ron "the Rapist" Reagan
Reagan the Rapist
Rapist Reagan
Nope, still not comfortable. But we'll see. Read the following, and let me know if we should add Selene Walters to the list of non-consensuals, or start an "I believe Selene" movement.
Rapist Reagan. Maybe.
ian
More dramatic is a starlet's accusation that Reagan showed up at her apartment at 3 a.m. and pushed his way inside. "They call it date rape today," the actress, Selene Walters, is quoted as saying.
How did Kelley know that Walters, who is reportedly talking now because she hopes to attract interest in a book of her own that has been unable to find a publisher, is not embellishing her story?
"You try to go to people who were around Selene Walters at the time it happened," Kelley said. "There's not a police record. She didn't make a written memorandum. So did she talk to friends?" Kelley says the answer is yes, but this supporting evidence is not cited in the book.
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