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Originally Posted by eku Zhong  i agree with you.. and perhaps (hopefully) they will find another way to punish her.
my first reaction when reading about this was also WTF..
(actually it still is)
The worst thing about the law is that it not only protects the innocent but also the guilty, especially in cases like this.
I have a hard time understanding a lot about legal issues in the USA and how ppl get off scott free when they obviously need to be punished .. just because of things like this or because of previous cases when x=y. |
It's a difficult thing. In order to keep as many freedoms as we can, there are sometimes really awful things we need to allow legally.
In a workplace, verbal harassment can end in both legal ramifications and a loss of a job.
In personal life, verbal harassment can't really end in much other than someone leaving to get away from that person, otherwise it could be eventually stretched over to anyone who says the "N" word or "F*gg*t" or "bitch" or what-not being able to be thrown in prison.
Stalking, however, can have some ramifications behind it--and if there is to be any legal recourse done against that woman, it could be under stalking, but it's still a bit of a stretch legally. The ramifications behind such a thing could set a horrible precedent to where people could consider it stalking just because someone found them on Facebook or Myspace to say almost anything. It's between a rock and a hard place, and it sucks.
I hope at the very least that this woman gets chastised by most of the people she knows and that she loses many friends over her behavior, if she ever had any friends.