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		<title>Judge Blames Woman Sexually Assaulted by Cop</title>
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			<title>Tarlington says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This is outrageous! Shame on Judge Hatch.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tarlington</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:09:53 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Jim Young says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm sorry I can't say that it never happens, but none of my friends in the military would tolerate such abuse of women. All took immediate and effective action on anything that we witnessed. My Veteran Wife and Veteran Mother-in-Law never hesitated either, diving right in to stop stuff while the civilian "men" present just stood and watched. I hope those you describe are as rare as I sensed in 20 years.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jim Young</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:47:45 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>X Dane says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rick Levy. Gee Rick I wonder how you would feel if a woman in a bar went up to you, unzipped your pants and groped you???? This is an attack on your person, and unbelievable humiliating. Even MORE so if it was witnessed by other guests, but infuriating under all circumstances. I think only a man could make such a stupid comment as you just did]]></description>
			<dc:creator>X Dane</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:40:50 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>X Dane says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Matt Matt. OK you started it, and I will ask: What was the color of the woman? I would not at all be surprised if she is black. This judge is despicable, and she should not be anywhere near a court room, let alone be on the bench. She must be impeached. Let's start a petition.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>X Dane</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:13:56 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>overanddone says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Agreed!!!A totally anti business decision, Jobs lost at least 90, from my company alone this year.She should be fired on that basis alone. My firm was considering a move into the Phoenix marketplace. Our food and beverage chain has been growing steadily in southwestern states. We have great food and fairly priced drinks but even our chefs know that what really puts asses in the seats is WOMEN and guys who want to meet them. The whole gun deal had us skittish but this sealed the deal]]></description>
			<dc:creator>overanddone</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:12:23 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>rebelgroove says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Jacqueline Hatch, you are a disgrace to womanhood ... I pray your karma catches you when you least expect it ...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>rebelgroove</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:36:24 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>dick says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Left brain, right brain, LAME brain. A lot of this stems from jealousy. The judge probably wishes she had the personal freedom of the woman at the bar. IF I can't, you can't. If I can't have an abortion, you can't. If I can't take the slim risk of pregnancy, you can't. If I can't enjoy sexual freedom, noBODY else can, either, no women, that is.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>dick</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:33:41 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>rebelgroove says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In Arizona, it pays to be stupid .. you get elected to pubic office. For this judge (what a mis-use of the title) to blame the woman for 'being in the bar' just proves my point ... America has become a joke of itself ...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>rebelgroove</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:33:00 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>cybersleuth58 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Any criminal defense attorney worth his/her salt will tell you that when defending a man accused of rape you want to put as many women on the jury as possible. Women jurors tend to be much harder on a female complainant than men and a (see http://www.e-psychologist.org/index.iml?mdl=exam/show_article.mdl&Material_ID=72). There are a number of theories about why this happens; the most popular being that blaming the victim is a way of assuring themselves that the same thing could not happen to them. (The just world myth: bad things only happen to those looking for trouble).]]></description>
			<dc:creator>cybersleuth58</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:56:03 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>brux says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There is nothing inconsistent with what I said and what you said. I did not mention that I think the cop should have the book thrown at him though.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>brux</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:18:02 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>kalpal says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Arizona used to be where you went to get well if you were ill. Now it's where you go to finish becoming insane.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>kalpal</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:08:41 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Norgereader says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I am not sure when I last laughed so hard. In the early 80s while spending 6 years in the middle east I happened to have a traffic accident in Jeddah SA. Peuguot taxi ran into back of Chevy truck at traffic light. Extensive damage. Religious police decided I was to blame and the costs were extensive. Reason for my being to blame was because "had I not been in the country" the taxi could not have hit me. Seems maybe Arizona is going the way of Saudi Arabia.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Norgereader</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:44:20 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You're kind of missing the point.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:05:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Anarchist 23 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA['And found her in some way provocative' SOS from the patriarchal establishment. Get a clue boys-this world would be a whole lot better for all with women treated as equals worthy of respect and respected.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Anarchist 23</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:21:11 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Anarchist 23 says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220827</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A Ad that solves the problem how? We need an entirely new more equatable idea of relations between the sexes-our planet and human future depends on it.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Anarchist 23</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:18:34 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Anarchist 23 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I just love how men in this country presume they can tell women how to feel about the sexual assaults perpetrated on them by men. so nice to know that none of our feelings about the matter are genuine-we just need to cool out and wait for men to tell us. Potting soil-just potting soil.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Anarchist 23</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:16:41 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220820</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I also guess anyone that cops runs over while drunk driving shouldn't have been walking on the sidewalk.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:07:30 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You're just describing in detail why women should be discouraged from joining the military or dating anyone in the military. Men join the military for the very power trip you were victimized by. I'm sure he got away with it many more times before and after you. Our culture hero worships the military. History shows anybody who's treated like a hero will feel immune from any reprecussions for his own actions. The same behavior is rampant in college and professional sports. It doesn't help when women give these guys so much attention. It's a sickness of American society and I'm going to make damn sure my daughters aren't caught up in media generated definitions of "manhood" and "womanhood".]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:06:20 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>lourdmar says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[So we have an illiterate judge "If you wouldn't have been there that night,...' making a vicious comment promoting the abuse of women! Fine state Arizona, rapidly becoming a monument to evil and stupidity! By the way it's either: "if you hadn't been there" or "Had you not been there". How did she get through law school? Or grammar school for that matter.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>lourdmar</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:29:43 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Shanti says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Years ago a group was talking about racism in Arkansas. A black member said that when she went through Arkansas, "I don't even stop to pee." That now seems appropriate for Arizona.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Shanti</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:10:07 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>dkonstruction says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I wonder if the judge would have told the cop that "If you wouldn't have been there that night, none of this would have happened to you" after she tasered him in the balls in response to his assaulting her?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>dkonstruction</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:32:39 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>pianosaurus rex says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Lots of good comments. A couple of other thoughts come to mind; One major thing that has been missed in the story is where the perp cop readily admits to ingesting eight beers and then getting behind the wheel of a car and driving. No charges from the prosecutor following those self-incriminat ing statements. It would seem like a slam dunk from here……. Using the judge’s statement blaming the victim, by extension, I guess all the thousands of young boys who have experience sexual assault by a priest should have not attended Catholic schools…...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>pianosaurus rex</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:24:20 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Madrona says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The judge apologized after a local talk show host, Mitch, of the Mitch and Joe show on The Big Talker Radio, 105.1, a right-wing station, admonished the judge for her statement to the victim. I did not hear the radio show, so I do not know if Mitch also admonisted her for the laughably light sentence the judge gave to the police officer. I emailed Mitch to thank him for bringing up the topic on-air, and to ask if he thought the judge would give more appropriate sentences from now on.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Madrona</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:05:46 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Madrona says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The petition asking the "judge" to step down was well over 10,000 signatures, so she apologize. Think she means it? Even though the "judge" has apologized but the laughably light sentence she imposed on the police officer cannot be changed. She should still be impeached! http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/09/10/arizona-judge-jacqueline-hatch-apologizes-for-chiding-sex-abuse/]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Madrona</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:49:15 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Madrona says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220667</link>
			<description><![CDATA[PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION. It asks the judge to step down: http://www.change.org/petitions/arizona-supreme-court-judge-jacqueline-hatch-should-step-down-for-unjust-sex-abuse-case]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Madrona</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:46:20 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>NAVYVET says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Groping isn't rape but I've experienced both. Of course rape is worse--life-thr eatening and nightmarishly terrifying--but both are nothing but power trips on the part of an out-of-control perpetrator, humiliating and demeaning to the victim, who is taken by surprise and helpless. I'm a woman, and I can assure you that some drunk staggering up behind you and copping a feel is shocking and EMBARRASSING when it happens in a public place with people looking on. It happened to me during an Officers' Club party at Pearl Harbor. My date wasn't nearby, but others were. Some of the men who saw it--except the feel-snatcher, a drunken officer who was too soused--grinned and snickered, while their wives, other women officers and men friends of mine were indignant and got the guy out of there. I could have pressed charges but didn't since it would have prolonged the embarrassment. There was plenty of that anyway. The feeler and I were officers in the same department at CINCPACFLT. Fortunately he was due to be transfered, so I didn't have to keep avoiding him for long. Sexual predation in the form of groping happens to men, too, just as rape does--but it's easy to guess that you've never been groped. Lucky you.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>NAVYVET</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:44:14 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>engelbach says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[So many people wonder why a woman would vote for the anti-women GOP. This confused, incompetent, stupid judge is just such a woman. Are such women self-hating?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>engelbach</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:53:27 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Muzzi says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This is Jan Brewer's state! Can you imagime what will happen to women's rights when the Mormon church leader takes office? They will probably start Polygamy (sp?) again.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Muzzi</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:20:18 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>karlarove says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When you blame others, you give up your power to change," Hatch said that her mother used to say. ????? So, instead of blaming the rapist, blame the woman for being in the bar?? "If you wouldn't have been there that night, none of this would have happened to you," Hatch said. Well then, if the rapist hadn't been in the bar, none of this would have happened either. This is extremely crazy logic. And we pay her to be a judge. She isn't practicing law, she is preaching her personal opinion.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>karlarove</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:33:36 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>deadhead69 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sounds like she and Akin would be the next Republican "dream team".]]></description>
			<dc:creator>deadhead69</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:21:16 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Rick Levy says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[At the risk of bringing down the wrath of the RSN forum on my head and a triple digit negative score, I have to say that the post headline "Judge Blames Woman Sexually Assaulted by Cop" is misleading. It made it sound as if the victim was raped instead of just groped. No, I'm not a "rape apologist" nor am I defending the judge. The offending cop originally got the sentence he deserved. But feeling up someone and raping her while both forms of violating her person are not of the same magnitude.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Rick Levy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:55:31 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Rick Levy says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[All the male-bashing in the world won't the change the fact that Hatch and Brewer are women in power who are using their power against other women.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Rick Levy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:44:47 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>NOMINAE says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[@ Archie Yeah ...... the hinterlands... quite unlike those paragons of justice and personal role models for every judge that are now seated on the Supreme Court of The United States of America in full and thoroughly embarrassing view of the *entire* world. You are not wrong, but we can all benefit by broadening our views a bit.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>NOMINAE</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:16:12 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>oldfella says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Someone already beat me to it, but it does almost seem like the victim should have worn a burqua to the courtroom. BTW does the good judge drive a car? If it gets stolen, she was asking for it - serves her right for parking it at the grocery store when shopping. Does the judge have a daughter? Would she act the same if her daughter were assaulted in such a manner? Anyway, no wonder most people consider our justice system to be such a joke. Too bad the joke is on all of us.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>oldfella</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:11:08 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>brux says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[seriously, the judge injecting her opinion in this case does not change anything. i think the judge probably had sized up the plaintiff and found her in some way provocative ... but in a way that was not illegal, so she gave her some personal advice. you really fly off the handle or maybe you purposefully like to provoke people?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>brux</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:14:34 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>brux says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[> What a disgusting hag this "judge" is, What a disgusting comment that was in disgusting language - pointlessly disgusting ... why can't you reply without namecalling and express your point calmly ... what are you, "disgusting" or something ?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>brux</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:11:38 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>brux says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[what is the message that this comment transmits ... weird ! implicitly is she saying that society is too big and some places are too dangerous and cannot be policed or controlled by civilized people ?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>brux</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:09:38 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Regina says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This judge, appointed by the weirdo AZ governor, Jan Brewer (R), appears to know what her job depends on -- toeing the mark on all the Republican "attitudes" that define the party line. That includes their War on Women.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Regina</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:41:48 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Phlippinout says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220430</link>
			<description><![CDATA[That Jan Brewer is a moron, she has nothing intelligent to say and appoints stupid judges that continue to leave a negative image of Arizona.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Phlippinout</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:52:42 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>TrueAmericanPatriot says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[No, not mentally ill; JUST PLAIN EVIL!!! What's to be expected from a Jan Brewer spawn? I said I would never visit Arizona again; I will DOUBLE DOWN on that promise and try to avoid FLYING OVER THE AIRSPACE of that stste as well!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>TrueAmericanPatriot</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:42:38 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Archie1954 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Boy there are really weird people on the bench in the hinterlands of the US.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Archie1954</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:32:54 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>janie1893 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I wonder if this judge realizes she herself has taken the 'power' away from women by her very statement?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>janie1893</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:32:50 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Vermont Grandma says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220383</link>
			<description><![CDATA[One more reason not to visit Arizona AND be clear with everyone, including their congressional delegation and tourism bureau why folks will choose other destinations. What does this say to tourists about the integrity of Arizona policemen and the willingness of Arizona judiciary to treat all criminals equally? The fact that the perpetrator was a cop makes it even more necessary for their to be punishment - surely he knew what he was doing was illegal. Green light for cops in Arizona, visitors and everyone else beware.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Vermont Grandma</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:27:11 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Davethinks says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220381</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What a disgusting hag this "judge" is, but then, she was appointed by another hag, Jan Brewer. What a strange flock of birds! Would the victim of a hit and run be at fault for being in a crosswalk as some drunk sped down a street? Arizona seems to be collecting weird characters. I hope there are still a lot of decent people there.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Davethinks</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:25:25 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Harry_Spider says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The only thing conservatives understand is money; the only way to change anything is to put an economic "incentive" into the equation. So here's how to fix this: Since this idiot judge had the nerve to blather: "If you wouldn't have been there that night, none of this would have happened to you," ... then the women of Arizona should stand together and say "You're right, we agree, bars ARE dangerous places, especially when we know our rights are not protected by courts such as those run by Ms. Hatch. In other words, if YOU weren't wearing that robe, we wouldn't be getting f**ked all over again... So from here on, all women will boycott all bars; there won't be a single (or married) female in ANY bar, until Ms. Hatch is removed from the bench..." See how long it takes the merchants to call for her impeachment...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Harry_Spider</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:22:32 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220345</link>
			<description><![CDATA[No. It would have been the judge's fault for sitting on the bench that day. Note, I'm only sarcastically arguing with you. You're absolutely right.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:42:56 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>NAVYVET says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Impeach her! IMMEDIATELY! My guess is that this judge is very, very mentally ill.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>NAVYVET</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:24:16 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>pernsey says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220322</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Just some more republican nonsense, imposed on this poor woman by a female judge. Victimizing the victim all over again, to cover up the real menace...the drunken cop who assaulted her. Its just your basic Fox news nonsensical garbage...what a load of horse manure this is.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>pernsey</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:09:55 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>pagrad says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[One's logic and one's concept should be tested. Any Arizonian may now accost Judge Jacqueline Hatch at anytime. After all, if she hadn't been there, she would not have been victimized. Go to it, gun-toting AZ.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>pagrad</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:35:53 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Citizen Mike says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220294</link>
			<description><![CDATA[AMAZING! THERE ARE ANTI-WOMEN WOMEN IN THE REPUBLICAN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Citizen Mike</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:25:51 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>jackho says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, at about 6:00pm, I was robbed in the parking lot at Walgreen's where I had gone to pick up a prescription. I'm a senior citizen. By the judge's logic, if I "wouldn't have been there" I wouldn't have been robbed? Am I,therefore, partly to blame for the robbery just for "being there" in the first place? How about the people in the Twin Towers? How about the young victims of pedaphile priests? They were in church, for heaven's sake. And how about young students, both male and female, victims of sexual abuse by their fathers? How can they avoid "being there" when the assailant is their own dad? Iknow, I know, the judge is talking about being in a bar. Someone should tell her that even in bars people can expect to be protected by existing laws, or does she think that females who go into bars should leave their rights as citizens at the door?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jackho</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:23:56 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Texas Aggie says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220291</link>
			<description><![CDATA[So what the judge is saying is that if the victim had then punched her in the mouth, it would have been her own fault because she didn't have to say what she did.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Texas Aggie</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:23:27 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Mamazon says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220282</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Unreal -- Jan Brewer's ugly way of dealing with the world seems to be spreading -- I will avoid Arizona at all costs... That way I won't be there to be assaulted by police officers or arrested for not looking white enough.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Mamazon</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:03:44 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>DaveM says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220277</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I suppose it didn't occur to the judge that if the assailant hadn't been there, nothing would have happened. The victim's presence or non-presence merely led to her becoming a victim. He would have found another had she not "been there". The judge appears unaware that she was dealing with a convicted violent criminal (who I believe has had legal problems in the past). Blaming the victim is absurd and the judge's actions in violation of any number of bar association ethical canons. She should not only be impeached, she should be disbarred. And perhaps required to spend some time dating Robb Gary Evans.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>DaveM</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:53:37 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Matt_Matt says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220276</link>
			<description><![CDATA[At risk of sounding racially and socially insensitive, it appears that Judge Hatch would like for women to be attired in burqas and to be accompanied by a male guardian whenever they dare to go outside the house. Apparently this woman was "asking for it" by virtue of going to a bar. I have to believe that the judge is unlikely to convict a rapist whenever one comes up on charges before her.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Matt_Matt</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:47:59 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Buddha says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220270</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I am guessing she is a conservative judge, married, and deeply religious. And therefore she believes that any single woman out in a bar is "asking for it". Disgusting. And hopefully she will lose in the next election when her opponent informs voters of this disgusting ruling.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Buddha</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:36:17 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>pianosaurus rex says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220264</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Congratulations Hatch. You have just re-victimized the victim all over again along with marginalizing the rest of the female population. Clearly an example of someone being raised to their level of incompetence, Hatch only responds to her level of intellect which in this case is completely non-existent. Who cares what her mother used to say. Her mother did not sit on the bench.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>pianosaurus rex</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:29:22 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>BradFromSalem says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220253</link>
			<description><![CDATA[WTF! Blame the victim, it is so Republican. The "judge" is in effect saying that when a woman gets accosted, its her fault for being there, and its likely she was wearing a short skirt as well. What drunk male could resist the urge to fondle her genitals, they are so within reach? Obviously, this woman wanted her genitals fondled. Last I checked when any person ventures into the public, they have a right to expect to be safe in their person and possessions. The person entrusted for administering that protection was the person responsible for violating that trust? And the victim share the blame. WTF?!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>BradFromSalem</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:05:24 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>feloneouscat says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220252</link>
			<description><![CDATA["When you blame others, you give up your power to change," Hatch said that her mother used to say. Funny, it sounds EXACTLY like Judge Hatch is blaming the victim. Perhaps she didn't heed her mother's advice. Or, just perhaps, she just doesn't think that being sexually assaulted is that big a deal. She is part of the problem in our judicial system. Falling back on "what her mother said" instead of legal precedent is indicative of someone with a lazy attitude towards the law. What right does Hatch have to lecture the victim? She committed no crime. The judge in essence said "if you go to bars, it's sexual predator free time." The judge should not only apologize, but resign.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>feloneouscat</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:02:58 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220244</link>
			<description><![CDATA[So, let me get this straight: Unless a woman stays home all the time huddled under her blanket with a jan brewer approved weapon, she's being irresponsible? The "judge" refered to bad things happening, as if it was just a weather event and no one bore any responsibility for it. She refered to it as if it's "just one of those things" and no one can do anything about it. BUT, SHE'S A "JUDGE". SHE'S responsible to do something about it. By her own philosophy, there's no point in punishing anybody under any circumstances, because you can't avoid crime, so why try? And, as the victim said, the totally unaccountable "cop" would have just done the same thing to someone else, and THAT person could have been given the stern lecture about leaving her home. This is beyond insane.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:47:04 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>fdawei says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/13395-judge-blames-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-cop#comment-220233</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Judge Hatch most definitely must be impeached. Her remarks and actions are reprehensible. What is it with the judiciary in Arizona, and more specifically, what is it with Arizona that breeds such undesirables? Could Judge Hatch explain or develop and app to advise where woman should and should not be, with appropriate warnings linked to each location. Why are the thugs (police) always exonerated from their despicable anti-social acts of violence against women, with the "judges" complicit in their crimes against women.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>fdawei</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:28:26 -0800</pubDate>
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