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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (276353)	9/27/2010 7:48:11 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm not claiming there was no bias or unfair treatment in this case (or that there was). My point is only that the actual crime the man was charged with was forcible rape. The details of the story where originally misreported. He wasn't charged with not being a Jew but saying he was to get sex, the allegation (true or false) was straight out rape. It would not shock me, if the reality is that he was railroaded. That doesn't even require any special bias for religious, racial, and/or political reasons. Criminal defendants get railroaded in the US as well, and probably in just about every other country. (Yes its probably true that the majority, perhaps even a strong majority, of those on trial for serious crimes are guilty, but that still leaves quite a few innocent people, some of whom get convicted.) In this case their may be racism involved as well. But if he is innocent the railroading of an innocent man is the more important consideration IMO, and if he's guilty of the original allegation brought against him, then he hardly got a heavy sentence for his crime. As for the actual charge he was convicted of, I don't like the "rape by deception" charge. It seems to me that its more a case of someone being an a-hole than a rapist. To me its dubious making it illegal at all, and if it is going to be illegal, it probably shouldn't include "rape" in the name of the crime.