BS: Is it true what they say about Bill (Cosby)?

Subject: RE: BS: Is it true what they say about Bill (Cosby)?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Nov 14 - 07:53 PM

"Are you saying it isn't rape if the woman is over the age of consent - even if she is drugged and unconscious?"

Of course I wasn't saying anything of the sort, topsie. I was just pointing out that statutory rape is tied to the legal age of consent, and the press reports seem to show that it wouldn't have applied in the case of that particular alleged rape.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it true what they say about Bill (Cosby)?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Apr 18 - 08:48 PM

Sadly, a guilty verdict is in.
This is the second trial.

Yogi Berra once said it ain't over 'til it's over,
and probably the last of this has not been paraded before the public eye.

The defendant's own depositions, from years earlier,
were presented in court.
These alone, regardless of the jury's verdict,
contained such disclosures as to make many persons stop in their tracks.

Between the time this thread was opened,
and this post,
one of Cosby's adult children died of natural causes.
Added to the distressing murder of another adult child earlier,
there are now two of his children
who have not lived to see this day.

At his age, I don't know how many grandchildren Cosby has now.

And this is not to speak of the witnesses in this criminal trial,
and the ordeals they have endured;
a trauma like this is not erased,
but has to be dealt with as long as one lives.

The saddest thing of all
is that there are so many victims of other incidents by other men.
It is not easy to witness the healing process
that is exposed by the removal of denial.
I don't mean to stir up trouble by posting this,
rather just to admit to grief and mourning about it.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it true what they say about Bill (Cosby)?
From: Senoufou
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 04:25 AM

I'm glad for the sake of his victims that he's finally been found guilty and will face a prison sentence.
There have been far too many of these types of cases where fame equals forceful entitlement where sex is concerned.
He sounds like a grubby perverted predator, and I have no sympathy for him at all. The drugging makes it ten times worse.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it true what they say about Bill (Cosby)?
From: gillymor
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 06:00 AM

He can't be removed from society too soon afaic and it's shameful that he wasn't incarcerated immediately given the preponderance of evidence against him and the volume and severity of his crimes. I just hope he doesn't do any more harm before he begins serving what may well be a life sentence.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it true what they say about Bill (Cosby)?
From: Charmion
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 08:45 AM

When these allegations first surfaced, my lateral-leaping mind immediately retrieved a memory from an early stand-up album: a bit called "Spanish Fly". About -- guess what? -- drugging women into willingness to have sex with men they would otherwise not even consider having sex with.

Colour me "not surprised".

Subject: RE: BS: Is it true what they say about Bill (Cosby)?
From: Senoufou
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 09:39 AM

Oh good grief Charmion, I've just found it on Youtube!!!! How appalling in the light of his recent conviction!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Is it true what they say about Bill (Cosby)?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 10:02 AM

Creepy sickos will find they will no longer be insulated from their crimes by fame and fortune.

How does President Trump view Cosby? He is probably envious for all but the conviction.

Stay tuned for Trump's conviction.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it true what they say about Bill (Cosby)?
From: Senoufou
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 10:07 AM

Yes Donuel, I reckon Trump is of the same mind regarding attractive women.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it true what they say about Bill (Cosby)?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 01:41 PM

That kind of thing shakes you up - like it was for us in the UK with Rolf Harris. Not so much with Jimmy Saville - he always was a creepy kind of bloke, but Rolf Harris you'd have trusted, a sort of universal uncle. Bill Cosby had the same sort of feel for Americans it seems.

It's like another verse to American Pie, yet another betrayal and loss of shared innocence in a society.

Subject: RE: BS: Is it true what they say about Bill (Cosby)?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Apr 18 - 03:27 PM

I actually remember seeing a broadcast on network television, 1985,
of this New Coke commercial, complete with kettle-drum-roll.

I remember thinking that Bill Cosby's jacket looked very expensive. It was a gray color.
But you can't tell that from this video copy with greenish tint.