Rep. Jim Carroll shared two videos he took in the Vermont Statehouse hallway that captured Rep. Mary Morrissey pouring a cup of liquid into his tote bag.
I meant $100k (not $100). I doubt he will get costs even if he wins. She also got an AVO out against him based on this. Claims it has ruined her business (she wants $100k for lost revenue despite not showing tax returns) and that she fears for her life complete with waterworks in the hearing (despite him living interstate).
The current political climate is biased in her favour. After the Higgins trial win Larissa Waters tweeted “I believe women”.
He subpoenaed mug shots of the women arrested at the rally but none are of her. Seems the police are in on it, using her as a honeypot to attract the extremists. Courts protect police.
Dodgy tactics like that are why it matters that our courts are strong: it’s not going to matter that she got an AVO out because if they didn’t have a history of conflict prior to his genuine identification of her in the video, it’s not relevant to the defamation case and won’t hold up in court.
Whether it’s technically possible to prove it’s her in the video isn’t materially relevant to a defamation case if it’s obvious to the average observer that it’s her. If she prove it wasn’t her, she’d need to prove his identification of her was intentionally malicious to win a defamation claim against him.
The idea that the Lehrmann trial indicates the courts are generally biased toward women is a couple bridges too far. Larissa Waters believes women in regards to their allegations of sexual assault against them where alleged male perpetrator denies it and where there isn’t a sufficient body of contradictory evidence. She isn’t saying she generally believes women about any and every grievance they may have, especially not having awareness spread about a crime they genuinely committed.
I interpret Larissa Waters’ tweet as you did and am shocked by it. That you seem to consider it reasonable is disturbing.
While it is unfortunate that women without rape evidence cannot get justice, there are just as many evil women in the world as there are evil men. If they automatically get believed without evidence in rape allegations (or predator/stalker allegations like my friend’s case) then of course the evil ones will exploit that to put in jail the men they simply don’t like.
I have it on good authority that she has me next in her sights because I am co-admin of what she sees as a rival activist group. This is the right-wing hijacking well intentioned but naive left-wing sentiment.
We have pretty strong courts though and if she loses the judgement she’ll likely be ordered to pay your friends’ costs.
I meant $100k (not $100). I doubt he will get costs even if he wins. She also got an AVO out against him based on this. Claims it has ruined her business (she wants $100k for lost revenue despite not showing tax returns) and that she fears for her life complete with waterworks in the hearing (despite him living interstate).
The current political climate is biased in her favour. After the Higgins trial win Larissa Waters tweeted “I believe women”.
He subpoenaed mug shots of the women arrested at the rally but none are of her. Seems the police are in on it, using her as a honeypot to attract the extremists. Courts protect police.
Dodgy tactics like that are why it matters that our courts are strong: it’s not going to matter that she got an AVO out because if they didn’t have a history of conflict prior to his genuine identification of her in the video, it’s not relevant to the defamation case and won’t hold up in court.
Whether it’s technically possible to prove it’s her in the video isn’t materially relevant to a defamation case if it’s obvious to the average observer that it’s her. If she prove it wasn’t her, she’d need to prove his identification of her was intentionally malicious to win a defamation claim against him.
The idea that the Lehrmann trial indicates the courts are generally biased toward women is a couple bridges too far. Larissa Waters believes women in regards to their allegations of sexual assault against them where alleged male perpetrator denies it and where there isn’t a sufficient body of contradictory evidence. She isn’t saying she generally believes women about any and every grievance they may have, especially not having awareness spread about a crime they genuinely committed.
I interpret Larissa Waters’ tweet as you did and am shocked by it. That you seem to consider it reasonable is disturbing.
While it is unfortunate that women without rape evidence cannot get justice, there are just as many evil women in the world as there are evil men. If they automatically get believed without evidence in rape allegations (or predator/stalker allegations like my friend’s case) then of course the evil ones will exploit that to put in jail the men they simply don’t like.
I have it on good authority that she has me next in her sights because I am co-admin of what she sees as a rival activist group. This is the right-wing hijacking well intentioned but naive left-wing sentiment.