Palin - Victims further Victimized

Not being one to post traumatizing images of people covered in body-length bruises to illustrate a point, the following information needs consideration. Speaking of which, so do the victims of violent acts who are brave enough to come forth.

My apologies go out with much sincerity to anyone who has been through further insult and undue stress by being charged to investigate a crime committed against them. Even receiving such a bill would have a derogatory mental impact, and I find this unreal, and inexcusable.

Four years after Sarah Palin became mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, the small town saved tax money at the exchange of a beating heart replaced by a blackened puck, and began billing sexual-assault victims for rape kits and forensic exams.

In 1994, Democratic vice-presidential nominee, Senator Joseph Biden, drafted the Violence Against Women Act. Provisions were made to ensure that states charging rape victims for kits, supplies, and exams would be made ineligible for federal grant money.

Senator John Sidney McCain III,(*born August 29, 1936), Republican presidential nominee who has chosen said former Mayor to be the Republican vice-presidential nominee , voted against the initiative. Every year the act is renewed, his name is not listed as a co-sponsor. The co-sponsors list is extensive for obvious reasons. Blatantly so those reasons go if you comprehend fundamentals. Systems and individuals that operate effectively require this.

Alaska’s State Legislature approved a bill in 2000 to stop it. Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska from 1996 to 2002. Common beliefs these running mates hold, which in and of themselves hold a vast majority in disbelief.

Tony Knowles, Alaska’s governor at that time stated,“We would never bill the victim of a burglary for fingerprinting and photographing the crime scene, or for the cost of gathering other evidence. “Nor should we bill rape victims just because the crime scene happens to be their bodies.”

The grandiloquent language, "We love Alaska. We love Americans and the working class," translates into rather, by actions alone forgetting the emptiness of the phrases, the usual acquisition of money and want of a reputation in the political arena for lowering taxes, but in this instance at the expense of the true responsibility of the job: The well-being of thousands of people, hopefully never millions. A decision maker, a voice of, and for, the people. How to take care of citizens as Mayor then, lies clearly in question. Agendas taking precedence, nothing new or riveting, no revelation.

Neglect on a human level, for the residents of a small area is...the terms that come to mind presently should not be typed out.

The question to ask here is how irresponsibility with position would effect the masses, and for just how many years. How long would it take before the solution, coming from a finely tuned mind, or even one with some functionality, mere common sense, would come and reverse, possibly, irreparable damage?

The courtesy of footing the bill would have cost the city between $5,000 and $14,000 a year, and, at the minimum, be covered as every Alaskan gets a check from the state government, annually, containing their portion of yearly oil revenues. Think in terms of the $2,000 range. The money exists.

Mother of our country?---Emancipation Proclamation takes on new meaning. : : Angie Seegers : :