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This
reveals that rape
i.s
not always
the product of the uncontroUable sex
urges alone. The sole aim ofmanyrapes
i.s
íwt
forced sexual gratilleation by a
psychotic: or sex
maniac,
but rather
~b
jugation and humiliation of known
VK>–
tims
by "normal meo.."
D~ologizio¡
Rape
Laws
In
summary, available statistics pro–
vide tremendous proof that. contrary
10
popular belief, rapes are usually
pla.n.ned, generally involve physic:al
force, and are often committed by basi–
caUy normal men
)libO
know theit vic–
tims,
aod that lhere are few false charges
which result in innocent men being con·
vic:ted
o(
ra pe.
Y
et. on the other hand, there exists
a
networlr. of laws based on the
assum
p–
tion that just the opp«ite
i.s
true.
Fear
of
the maniaQ in contrast with fear of
con·
victing innocent men
has
resulted in a
legal
~adox:
Rape laws
are
structured
so as to
frigbten would·be rapists by
polentially beavy sentenoes
(IS
and
20
yea.rs or, in some cases,
life
imprison·
ment). But at the
same
time they
pre-..nt
convictions when thc judgc and
jwy
c:annot recooc:ite the degree of the of·
fense with such
barsb
pe.nalties.
Potentially bigh sentenoes probably
serve
more
to deter juries from con·
vic:ting
than they
serve
10
deter rapists
from raping. The National Commission
011
Reforrn of Federal Criminal
La"w
bas
proposed
a
federal law wbich would di·
~-ide-
"'pe lnto three dilferent
sexual
of·
d"eD.Se$:
C~
A - would include
serious
bodily injury, victim under
a~e
10,
eu:.;
Class
8 -
would consider vic:llm preápi·
tation/assumption of rislr. fa"c:tors, etc.;
Class
C - would consider unusual fac–
tors, such
as
submission duc to mental
incompetenc:e, tbreat with a weapon, or
inccst.
•
Other reform.s are being made, such
as the biD introdueed by
U.S.
Senator
Olarles McMatbias. The bill would es·
tablish a National Center for the
Pre
vention and Control of Rape. The
Center would be a bcadquarters for re
searc:h into the
cause
and etrec:ts of the
crime,
as
weU
as
ways to prevent tape
They would
Manalyzc
laws
on rape and
develop a new model state law."
.
More women on thc police forces
would also be belpful. Femalc offic:ers
sbould be assigned to
sex
investigation
units to give frighteoed and cmbar·
rassed
victims the opponunity to be
questioned and interviewed by another
woman.
Women themselves are organ.izi.ng
against
ral,X'
througb such services
as
tbe
Rape CrisiS Ceotcr in Washington, O.C
Tbe Ccnter provides í.nfonnation,
ser·
vices, and emotional support
to
rape
vi<>–
tinas.
l t also "'orlr.s to educate tbe
commun.ity on the
probl~ms
ofrape.
Crisis ceoters and legislative reforrns
are belpful
in
aUeviating curren! atroc:t
ties, but they
are
tcmporaty. Sucb mea·
sures
are not the ultunate solution for
the su.spiáon.
distrust,
and bias
toward
tbe rape
victim.
nor
for the siclr. and
twisted mind of
a
psychologic:al mis6t.
Tbe best solution, of course, would
be
to
effectuate a change
Úl
tbe lust, avance
and greed witbin our human nature. But
for the time being, it appears the legal
reforrns
wilJ
bave
to do. O
WEBK
ENDINO
MAY 24.
1975
leners
Oaioas:
New
ud
Usecl
Eoclosed ís my opinion
o(
!he new for·
mat of
Ploin Trutlo.
lf times are tougb, you
collld very
wcU
bave used cheaper
paper,
oven
newsprin~
&Del
revemd 10 black and
whlte
pbotos,
but
eh~
10 a tabloid
u
you
did
has put you in flie same
el...
as
Mldnlght
and
The Natianal
Enq•fr<r •••
Eoclosed - Ooe>OrAd• A onioo.
Alex Huntcr.
Paisley, Ootario
CANADA
Tbe life-lfler-cleath questíon (by Robett
Ku.lut, Volume
40,
Number
S)
obviously
frustrates many people at thís time. 1/ one
reads of !he "documeoted"
cases,
in maga·
zioes sudl as tbe
NaJioruU EltiJulr«r, o(
people who havo supposedly "experi–
eoced" a life aller deatb upoo tbe oper·
atm& table, in
a
c:ar
l<lcident,
or other
manoer, one wonders whether their.experi..
eru::e.s
a.re
tnJe ud sincere ones.
Doa
Plaln
Truth
hold
fum
to tbe belief that "out-of–
body
experieoces" are based simila.rly oo
irratlooality and
iUosicality~ead
orcor·
red
reasouin¡ próeedurei?:"..c-. .-. -' ..,. •
To be
sure.
m&oy
sincere
people would
lil:e 10
read
a clear-cvt amwer to !bese
questioos in Orchít!J and Onions. Many of
111
may be wondering if our
rcasonin&
procedures
can
&upcrtede !he experienccs
ofother peoplo. ·
l.oweUMcOee,
Seatde,
WN
EditiN~S
NOIL."
llfttrutd
rtD!Ikrs
lhtlllld
dD
os
Dr. Kuhn
ad>lstd
in
lt./s
arrlcl• -
writ•
for our free broclture,
After
D~ath
- Tben
What?
Tite rubj«t
1.1
tOO
compl~x
to
cov~r
here, b•t, lo JM' ,brlef, blbllcol re..
farlon
wou/d not mppart 1uc!. ,.parts of"/ife ajl.,
dNIA
••
while on tlee
o~atinz
tablc,
tw
most
oth., claims of"out-of-body
upmm«s.
•
1
want to
clea.r
the
air
on a statement r.bat
I
wrote to you.r magazine
last mootb. Tbe
slJitement ,....,
"Piofn
Truth:
!he unlcoow·
ing teaching !he unwilling to do !he unnec–
cssa.ry."lt
wa.s
nol m
y
own
pet
statemeoL l
got it otf !he bathtoom waU
at
Jdloo~
so
1
ooly quoted somo other fool's pet st.t"'"
menL My wife
b
a member ofyour cburcb
and she and somc or the other membc:rs
who have a wealr. conscieoce and get of·
fended ieal easy got upset over ít. •••
Hopefully you will prlnl
!bis
letter
so
that
those
wbo
writc
in a c:ou.otcrstatemeot
will
realiz.e that tbey are
~yiJI&
gralliti
ODd DOt David Laoe.
DavidLODe,
Ok.laboma City. OK
Thís ís
10
inform you tbat we
wish 10
have !he Eastem Mennonite College
Li·
brary dropped from your
Plaln Trvth
mail·
in¡
list.
We never iotended to
be
pu1
oo
in
the
lirit
pi-.
Tbe request carne from
Oary
Harltins,
and
bis
letter appeared in
your MatCh
22
íssue.
Tbere ís
no
such pcrson
as
Oary Har–
ltins.
Tbe letter
was writtco as a
praellcal
joke
by
severa! coUese students usio¡ tbis
poeudooym and my tille. Tbe E.M.C. Ad·
mlnistratioo,
bowevcr, failed
to
sec !he bu·
moroftblt.•. .
Iim
Bíshop,
Media Relations,
Eastem Meononite CoUege
Harrisonl>urs, VA
On tbe
IIJlb
PI&"
of !he MatCh
Púzin
Trvtll,
1
see
Peter Butler secms
lO
thiot
we
in Rbodeaia are dispensable.
Some of
us
have spent !he major part
o(
our Uves in Rhodesia. Many are even
fourth generatioo Rhodesians. Wbere do
wego?
~~
me say that
if
we
so
under, Soutb
Afric:a
goes,
and eventually
al!
lb
e Westcto
peoplcs.
• lD
case it's forgoueo.. neither
Mr.
Vonter
nor any Black African will d.Qde our fate. •
We are in Ood's hands.
Rene Brinlc,
Bulawa¡o, Rbodcsia
A
llowjuet
of
Orcüls
Tbanlc you
vcry
much for your anides.
Tbey
al!
are very informative and very
helpful.
1
am a writer and
am
doing. u•••
dul
of
researcb
in ancient bisiOry. 1
am
under
t&:e
iiñpréssioít
Úl.at
you
b.a~e
.done
~me
very in-<lepth
.resutcb
oo bol>llcal anacnt
history. Your
articles
bave tbe impact of •
buUdoz.c:t, but !he profound genOeness of a
large alwly oalr.
treo.
llook
forwar~
10 receiving your data. lt
ís exccllent food for thougbt.
Pegy Waltbuis,
Tbousaod
Oab, CA
The oew
Púzin
TTUtlt
"
uea~
and !he
articlea are bard·hitting. There ís
so
much
toread it takes me a week to go through
it.
Even thougb !he past
Plain Truth
w""
very
good
&Del
beautiful,
1
lil:e this new forro
even better. And !he anicle by
Mt.
David
Híll
was oae
o(
cbaUcnge aod interest. Oae
of bis sussestíoos about !he oext túpe
.someone fves you an insult.. give them
b>ock a bog •mile and say,
"Thanlcs,
1
oeeded lhat," was very f\Jnny;
1
reaUy
broke up. But it
is
a
very good idea.
Thanlr. you for prlnting
Plafn
Trutlt.
lt's
very necessuy
in
the times
in
whi<:h
we
live.
Hope 10 be seeing it around rora
Ion&
time.
Mt.
Donald Bates,
Poyen,AR
1 wl$b
to com.mend Mr. Oene H. Hog·
be'8 ror !he article, "Prime Time
Crime''
in !he
Pl#ln Trutlt.
We need
1ots
more lil:e hlm
to
speak up.
Our govemor rec:ently
w d
that people do
no& real.iu th.e exten.t
of
orga.niud crime
berc. Such violent
acts
bere every day.
Killings
a.nd
robberics.
.
t
get
JO
upset over the crime pictures on
TV. 1
do
oot loot at the,m. but have
seen
eoougb 10k.now wbat they are. lt ís
too
bad
for out youog folla
10
be upooed
10
such
violen! pictures.
Wc oeed more anides aucb as Mr. Hog·
b erg'a, and less crimc pictures. AJso
stron¡er laws ofpunishmcnt for erimc.
Mm. Franlc.Kenyon.
• Pboenix,
AZ
• Your article in
Plal• Trutlt,
April
S
edi·
!Ion. eotiOed "Our Oegradiog Dote - Put·
ting Down !he Poor"
was
!he best anicle
l've
read
yet
in !he P.T. Keep up !he good
work. 1bope 10 sec more lil:e iL
Chris
Outchu,
Warminster, PA
Calaadft's
Mlxed
Rene,..
To
J.
O.
Calander: AJ\er reading and
. chuclilin& over your
anide, •
A Modest
Proposal
for
a
OictaiOrthlp in ltaly" a few
minutes
a¡o,
1
find it oecessuy
to
com·
pliment you on your a.necdotal aa:ouot of
tbe scene in llaly. ll was
comíc:a~
c:lever,
and so very truc.
1could appreciate every lino aner having
Uved in Rome for
lO
months durin¡ t964-
6S.
Y
ou
a.re
tbe only
O
De
who
has
com·
pletely
oap«ured
!he ftavor of
th.o
ltalian
seene so cleverly.
Por
a
country whlch
has
cootributed
so
mucb
in
tbc .Held or acienoe.
an,
mUlic, and
lherature.
it
ncver ceued to am.atc me
lhat
!he same country could be
so
backward in
evcryday
livin&-
'
1
was a!W&)'$
lOrD
betwecn defeoding
mr
ltaliOD beritage and violendy criticizing !he
grosos
ineflic:ieney whlch c:aused
so much
anguisb in my daily life ín Rome, !he ceo·
ter of ltalían culture.
My Roman d&)'$ were lived over agaio
tbrougb your article.
You
are
10 be c:oagratulated for your
clever accouot of !he ltalian seene, and
your
refc:reoc.e to
tbe ..super·
spicciafaccondi" oeeded 10 rule !he land.
1
actually roared at that one.
Tbere aren't too many writem c:apable of
approaching !he subjea
so
cleverly.
·
Angela Llll,
'
NUea.IL
1t
ís unfonWUite that a papu that deals
with !he big issues of
today's
news - and
!he world í$ fu
U
of them -
can
find space
ror personal
harang~es.
The arti<:le by
J.
O.
Calander in !he
April
19,
1975 íssue
was an
obvious display
of
premcditated hato
and disgust
veoted
IOward ltalians.
How else coll!d
a
man taking a sbott trip
into ltaly and llndín.g ooe
traln
10
be la te.
aod tlnding too tbat he couldn't communi·
cate with tbe officiab (because he couldn't
spcak tbeir 11113uage), come 10 !he coa·
clusioo that a dictaiOrthip wollld be tite
only
thing
that could
uve
ltaly.
Tbat's
a
"real Cbristiao" attitude for yóu!
Has tbe writer ever board about !he red
tape ofdic:taiOrshlps? How could auch tripe
cven be consldered for
Plaln Tnllh1
ls
it
pethaps
bccoming
open seasoo ror peoples
about whom somc don't eve:n
wish
to
coo-.
sidcr
In
a positivo way?
(Oa three dilferent oocuioos
1
bave trav·
eled in ltaly, from
nonb
10 south,
by
2nd
elass train a.nd !he accommodations havo •
alwa)'1 been adequate or better. Com·
parison?-
U.S.
Amtralr.!)
•
·.
FranJe P. lngUma,
'
Pasadena. CA
1
was intrigued by your "Modest
Pro–
~1"
in !he April 19th
P/oin Trutlt.
Al·
lhougb your propoul was indced much
more mndest than tbe original "Modest
Proposal" of Jooathan Swifi, I'm sure you
woo"t be
too
surprised
if
you receivc !he
same son of reactions be did. (Jt gems that
many of
!hose
wbo read
bis
essay thougbt
he really
was
proposin& that the l>abies of
!he lrish poor be fed
10
!he
rich.
lndi¡Mnt
mothers were board to mutter,
"l
aiW&)'$
had
my
suspicions about
Swill,
but tbís
time be's really gooe
too
far!'')
Edel
Tbomson,
Brussels,
Bc:J&ium
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