One Rule For Them... (Part Two)

Quite aside from the dismaying aspects of trying to run two legal systems side by side to appease the great god of 'Traditional Law', the language in Karen Michelmore's report Traditional Law Role Queried is worthy of mention.

Her introduction:

THE decision of a judge to jail a 55-year-old Aboriginal man for just one month for forcing his 14-year-old promised bride to have sex has reignited debate about the role of traditional law in the wider Australian legal system.

Michelmore pushes the News Ltd predictable outrage button with 'just one month' but then describes the rape of a minor promised to an adult 'when she was just four' as 'forcing his 14-year-old promised bride to have sex'.

Shortly thereafter, we learn that the rapist became 'angry when he heard (his promised 'bride') had struck up a friendship with a young boy' so he:

...beat her with a boomerang then took her to his remote outstation – where he lived with his first wife – and forced her to have anal sex.

So we have a situation in which a man is promised a four year old child as his future wife (an offense against her civil rights and oppressive of the child's gender) but when she is still a minor he becomes jealous of her friendship with a boy of her own age so he kidnaps her and rapes her anally virtually in the presence of the wife he intended to supercede with the child.

One could slap oneself across the forehead and note that if such an act had been carried out by a Caucasian religious sect member or Rockhampton caravan park dweller, the legal outcome would have been a lot more than 'just one month'.

But one is equally askance at journalist Michelmore's language, not only completely lacking any indication of typical journalistic moral outrage but also playing down the seriousness of the offence at a time when the media generally seems especially determined to stir up baying mobs wherever the merest hint of paedophelia is found.

The picture of an Australian journalist trying to cope with the mental conflict of respect for 'traditional law' in the face of paedophile anal rape recalls images of America's leftie MSM doing mental gymnastics till their brains almost exploded when a young woman's boss used his power over her to coerce her into fellating him in the workplace - and the boss turned out to be Democrat darling Bill Clinton.

-- Nick

UPDATE: ABC News:

'Northern Territory Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Rex Wild plans to appeal the sentence given to an Aboriginal elder who had sex with a 14-year-old girl.' (Emphasis added)

The story evolves but the PC language remains the same.