Kobe is buying his ticket to Montana as we speak.

Miss Oula is obviously a slut.

Subby said rape 3 times! He must really really like rape

OK, was it rape or rape-rape? Because if it's just rape, no problem. First one is free.

Not happy about this.

Yeah but what is their football record?

quickdraw: You know its not just Montana that does this. This is the way it is everywhere in the US. Nice of somebody to finally notice besides us evil feminists.

Nah, according to the first and only comment on the story, women get raped because they don't dress pretty.

Or something. It was grade A whargarbl.

Hmm, I wonder if (Beers is going to comment.

Oblig

/For me anyway

'STRONG CONCERNS' AMONG WOMEN CITED

/

whyRpeoplesostupid: citing more than 80 reported rapes there during the past three years. Local authorities said the incidence of rape in Missoula, a western Montana city of 86,000 people, is on par with similarly sized college towns, and the county's chief prosecutor questioned the Justice Department's rationale for its inquiry

Jeebus, 26 rapes/year is a lot

No kidding. I forget who it was in TFA (Mayor? Police chief? Random dude?), but when they said "This is on par with similar sized towns!" I thought "Jesus. First off; wrong thing to say. Secondly, wtf is with all the raping. Holy cow!"

Truly god's country.

SurfaceTension: Sybarite: A central thrust of the federal investigation

Phrasing

The U.S. Justice Department unveiled a broad probe

Yep

"Concerns about the handling of sexual assaults in Missoula came to a head months ago"

Who wrote this? Were they giggling the entire time?

Rapes in a college town going under reported and under investigated? Especially when they involve the sports team?

Is this Ric Romero reporting?

whyRpeoplesostupid: citing more than 80 reported rapes there during the past three years. Local authorities said the incidence of rape in Missoula, a western Montana city of 86,000 people, is on par with similarly sized college towns, and the county's chief prosecutor questioned the Justice Department's rationale for its inquiry

Jeebus, 26 rapes/year is a lot

I believe I stopped for gas in Missoula last summer. Didn't seem like there was much to do there =/

1. When I've gone to the Costco in Missoula, the women in there were absurdly hot.
2. What Mr. Holder doesn't understand is you can't fish everyday.

Haha so which one of you guys made the Weeners in the comment section in the article?

These are reported rapes, not rape rapes.

LOL a headline about rape.. open said article and there to the left is a pic of stephen king, which at first glance I thought were related

great placement!!

No Sigma Chi comments? Aight.

ZAZ: What can the Justice Department do if prosecutors like rapists as much as submitter? The feds can't force state officials to enforce state law (see the second Pennhurst v. Halderman).

I just skimmed the opinion, and I don't see the Justices saying what you say they do. Do you have some more detail? Because the opinion is actually talking about Federal laws throughout as far as I can tell and whether Congress intended the law to be applied in the fashion the 3rd District tried to.

The only mention I see of state vs federal law is about the extent of the penalty that Feds can impose for a state not complying with Federal law and whether or not that penalty must be limited to the Feds cutting off funding, or if other actions or fines can be imposed.

I also think that in the case of unequal enforcement of criminal statutes, you are going to run into all kinds of due process, 14th amendment, and maybe even Article 4 problems that the Federal government is bound to enforce.

Missoula County's chief prosecutor, Fred Van Valkenburg, fiercely defended his office and the local police, calling the Justice Department probe an "overreach by the federal government."


Ah, yes, the last refuge (or first, often) of the criminal wingnut.

I'll take 'em for $200.

80 reports of rape at University of Montana which is known as a party school with a decent football team. Their past time is drinking until they black out. Both the girls and the guys. Right off the bat there are quite a few regret/save-face rape charges.

Now the problem with the OTHER ones is the football team that are treated like gods because they won a few championships. They are desperately clawing their way back to their former glory, so they will not do anything to jeopardize their chances, even if it means covering up a few legitimate rapes so their players can keep playing. It is really despicable.

To attribute this problem as something state-wide is farked up though. U of M has always been off in their own little world and since people around here get a hard-on whenever the Griz is mentioned they will continue to hold themselves above the law.

/Go Cats

Sybarite: A central thrust of the federal investigation

Phrasing

Beat me! Well, if you're going to rape, a central thrust is the only way to go.

Rapists should be hanged - no exceptions.

Sure, invite them in. But if you do it right, you can be a Job Creator too!

Welcome to the seedy underbelly of college sports; at least 3 or 4 times a year, I hear a similar story. Girl meets athlete; girl and athlete get drunk; girl goes home with athlete; next morning she contacts police to report a rape. The university leans heavily on the police department and the DA to bury the case; the university uses its discretionary fund to pay for the girl's tuition, the girl signs a nondisclosure and the whole thing gets swept under the rug.

Walker: But if you go there.....

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Meh. Try Alaska:


Rapes per 100,000 by year

Alaska
2005 81.1
2006 76.0
2007 77.4
2008 64.7
2009 73.4
2010 75.0

Montana
2005 32.2
2006 28.5
2007 30.3
2008 35.7
2009 36.6
2010 32.4

If you really really need a green, just make untrue jeering assertions about an entire state, something that even Damien Downey-Syndrome would recognize as being pretty stupid. We also have Stand Your Ground here. And most of us are drunk and armed. Hahaaha! See how funny that is when I make untrue flamebait statements about an entire state?

Aidan: No kidding. I forget who it was in TFA (Mayor? Police chief? Random dude?), but when they said "This is on par with similar sized towns!" I thought "Jesus. First off; wrong thing to say. Secondly, wtf is with all the raping. Holy cow!"

College students.
Reported rapes per 100,000 people, U.S:
2008: 29.3
2009: 28.6
So yeah, the reported rate in Missoula is just about the national average.

And since no one bothered to RTFA, I'll just point out, again, that both the football coach and the athletic director at UM were fired recently over this. Not put on paid leave, not given a time-out, not sent a strongly-worded letter--they were called into an office one morning and fired.

College girl guts drunk
college girl gets horny and starts rubbing up against some guy
guy boinks her
college girl wakes up with a hangover and hears what she did
college girl gets made and claims she would not have had sex with the guy if she was sober
colleg girl cries rape
authorities blow her off

It's no different from a guy being charged with a DWI who is in front of the judge and claims:
"You honor, I never would have driven drunk if I was sober".

Big Sky Country

I wanna rape you in the big sky country...

Sybarite: A central thrust of the federal investigation

Phrasing

quickdraw: You know its not just Montana that does this.

Of course it isn't. Roethlisberger does it too. I am just very disappointed in Joe.

Ah yes, the promised land

hailin: 80 reports of rape at University of Montana which is known as a party school with a decent football team. Their past time is drinking until they black out. Both the girls and the guys. Right off the bat there are quite a few regret/save-face rape charges.

Now the problem with the OTHER ones is the football team that are treated like gods because they won a few championships. They are desperately clawing their way back to their former glory, so they will not do anything to jeopardize their chances, even if it means covering up a few legitimate rapes so their players can keep playing. It is really despicable.

To attribute this problem as something state-wide is farked up though. U of M has always been off in their own little world and since people around here get a hard-on whenever the Griz is mentioned they will continue to hold themselves above the law.

/Go Cats

Something, something, glass houses, etc.

/FTC
//We need to teach grizzly bears to maul rapists instead of tourists
///That is all the slashies I have

I'll take "The Rapist" for 500, Alex....