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What is it this time? Supposedly, then-Mayor Palin is to blame for charging rape vicitms for their medical exams.

The smear relies on a story in The Frontiersman, a Walssila newspaper, about passage of an Alaskan law that banned police departments from chargin insurance companies for the cost of a medical exam after a reported sexual battery.

The story quoted Wassila Police Chief Fannon as opposing the bill: "In the past we've charged the cost of exams to the victims insurance company when possible. I just don't want to see any more burden put on the taxpayer."

So, you ask - where's the smear? Palin haters have twisted the story, claiming that Palin - by virtue of being Fannon's boss as mayor of Wassilla - wanted to charge the victims themselves (not the insurance companies) for the cost of the exam. But unless you're intentionally misreading the story, you cannot possibly make that claim.

Chief Fannon's quote, and the article itself, were very clear: it was only the insurance companies that got the bill. Not a single rape victim has ever been asked by the Wassilla police to pay a penny for a rape kit. How can we tell? Not one has come forward - despite Palin's rise to prominence. This "story" only broke because one sufferer of Palin Derangement Syndrome, who happens to have a blog, also happens to have run across - and deliberately twisted - the Frontiersman story.

If even a single rape victim had been charged for a forensic exam, don't you think it would have come out during the governor's race - when Palin beat the guy who signed the bill? Don't you think it would have come out before the convention?

Of course it would have.

But that doesn't matter to the people who are willing to believe anything about Sarah Palin, so long as it's nasty.

Woman, husband said to shackle victims to beds, keep them in dog cages without food
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Joy Johnson

A Democratic Party official and her husband are facing charges in connection with alleged satanic rituals involving the kidnap, rape and starvation of another couple in North Carolina.

Joy Johnson, 30, a vice-chairwoman of the Durham County Democratic Party and vice chairwoman of the Young Democrats, made an appearance in court yesterday after she and her spouse, Joseph Craig, were arrested Friday.

Craig, 25, is charged with second-degree rape, second-degree kidnapping and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon for an incident in January and another in May. Johnson is charged with two counts of aiding and abetting.

According to published and broadcast reports, prosecutors said a man and a woman met Craig through a shared interest in Satan worship, although the couple never consented to any physical abuse.

Joseph Craig

Craig allegedly shackled his victims to beds, kept them in dog cages and starved them inside his home. Police say he beat the man with a cane and a cord, and raped the woman.
 

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