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Defense: Raniere is innocent; women can brand themselves like men do

05/04/2018·

Frank Parlato

A Brooklyn federal judge has set October 1st as the trial date for Keith Raniere and Allison Mack trial date. The two are charged for their involvement in the alleged sex-trafficking cult NXIVM.

Defense: “(Raniere) believes in his innocence and I’m impressed with his stamina. He has no reason to plead guilty.” #NXIVM

“There are groups of men who brand themselves. When women choose to brand themselves, they become victims?” Keith Raniere’s attorneys speaking outside of federal court right now regarding #NXIVM charges.

Attorneys for NXIVM leader Keith Raniere, speaking about the organization being an alleged sex cult: “It’s a slogan, it’s a label that the government is attaching to conduct to make it nefarious. Women joined of their own volition.”

Raniere’s Defense Team: women joined #NXIVM on their “own volition” and “for their “own reasons.”

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Victim Blaming05/04/2018

I hope this strategy doesn't work as well for that law firm as it did when they blamed the hotel maid who was raped by Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn.

FormerNexian05/04/2018

Classic victim shaming. Welp, why did the victims have Keith's initials burned near their vaginas? And does the evidence show VanGrifter ordered the ritual scarification? Allison's words are chilling … THINK OF YOUR MASTER. Nuts. Gonna be a an interesting trial!

Anonymous05/04/2018

I see that the trial is schedule for both defendants. Does this meant that the two have adopted a coordinated defense? Or are her attorneys playing cards close and still working on a plea deal???

just an observer here05/04/2018

he forgot to address the black mail and coercion operation there

ObservingFromEurope05/04/2018

Are there any news on the plea deal with Mack?

Anonymous05/04/2018

I actually despise Mack & Kruek more than Raniere. Women who lead other women to the pig are as low as it gets.

Anonymous05/04/2018

Just those two eh? What about the Salzmans and the Bronfman gals? Without them, NXVIM might have been just another Consumers Buyline taken down long ago by the authorities with no vast sums of money to buy them off. Or is it just actresses you despise? Then what about the BSG gals Clyne and Park, the terminator gal Loken, how about Catherine and CC-2 herself, India Oxenberg, how about the actresses who were part of the infamous The Source — Bonnie Piesse, Alicia Novak, Maja Milkovitch, Rebecca Davis, Ana Risoul, Nik Isbell, Jennifer Kobelt — then there's some others Frank either doesn't know about or hasn't fixated on yet, and, of course, the one who ran the Vancouver center and talked about how great she was at recruiting her actor friends for 12 years, Sarah Edmondson

shadowstate195805/04/2018

I guess what makes the actresses worse than the other women is that their fame is used to entice new recruits. And Mack definitely used her fame to try to bring Kelly Clarkson and Emma Watson into the cult. No one would join NXIVM based on the Salzmans and the Bronfmans.

shadowstate195805/04/2018

This is a trend that I do not like, but women argue that they have the right to control their own bodies. Increasingly younger women are getting tattoos. And women's tattoos are getting increasingly larger. Surveys of women 35 and younger indicate that 47% of these women have tattoos. While these tattoos are often quite small, some are very extensive. Many young women sport so-called “tramp stamps” on their lower backs which advertise that these women are “open for business.” And there are also reports that some women are deliberately getting branded. At what point should the government intervene in the private decisions of grown women on what to do with their bodies? People have to take some responsibility for what they do with their lives. If their is a problem with the NXIVM branding, it is that the women in charge of the branding did not fully inform the women getting the brands what the process would involve. Here is a story in the Huffington Post discussing this trend towards women permanently marking their bodies. The Secret Lives Of Tattooed Women The tattoo parlor was a man’s world. But that’s finally changing. By Claire Fallon https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-secret-lives-of-tattooed-women_us_55ba784de4b0d4f33a01fb25

NC Girl05/04/2018

Nobody's asking for your opinion on women's rights to THEIR OWN BODIES. The reality is these women were lied to and what ultimately would happen to them (branding) was misrepresented by cult members like Allison Mack and Lauren Salzman. This has nothing to do with choosing to be tattooed. Scarification is totally different than what the women were apparently led to believe would happen.

ursula05/04/2018

I hope this lawyer has a daughter and that his daughter gets abused by monsters like the ones he represents. I would love to see what he would say then……

shadowstate195805/04/2018

I know some lawyers and they would be happy to get Charles Manson off of the hook. Hillary Clinton stands by defense of child rapist in the 1970s

NC Girl05/04/2018

Nope: In the video, she states that she “was appointed by a local judge…” She goes on to say in the video YOU posted she asked to be relieved of that responsibility but was not by the judge on the case. You DO understand the concept of innocent until proven guilty? In the US people are supposed to be guaranteed the right to legal representation. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-freed-child-rapist-laughed-about-it/ or https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/05/19/did-clinton-laugh-about-a-rapists-light-sentence-and-attack-sexual-harassment-victims/?utm_term=.a38604ab8873 So what does this have to do with Allison Mack?????

What men? What groups of men?05/04/2018

Except for a tiny sect of ultrareligious men in India, I find no examples where branding is NOT used as punishment. The most common usage of branding throughout human history is marking ownership of slaves, same as is done with cattle. So a handful of crazy men on the other side of the world brand themselves in a religious initiation ceremony… and that means that DOS slaves aren't victims?? That's some kool-aid.

Shaolin05/04/2018

Some College fraternities and some gangs brand.

Examples please05/04/2018

Thank you.

ionwhitepoetry05/04/2018

The real threat of DOX /blackmail for expressing 'defiance' when being held down for the branding is not the same as going to a tattoo parlor and telling the guy to ink Allison's/Keith's logo on your butt

Cassie05/05/2018

They are all stupid women. There's just no excuse for their behavior. Grown ass women wanting to belong to something. Weak women.

Rainer lawyers are PIGS05/05/2018

These lawyers are what gives the law profession a bad name. An honest.defense is one thing,.lying about a group of women who have been tortured by Raniere and Mack makes these lawyers scrum of the earth. Winning by Lying is not justice. Pig's these men are.

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Victim Blaming05/04/2018

I hope this strategy doesn't work as well for that law firm as it did when they blamed the hotel maid who was raped by Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn.

FormerNexian05/04/2018

Anonymous05/04/2018

I see that the trial is schedule for both defendants. Does this meant that the two have adopted a coordinated defense? Or are her attorneys playing cards close and still working on a plea deal???

just an observer here05/04/2018

he forgot to address the black mail and coercion operation there

ObservingFromEurope05/04/2018

Are there any news on the plea deal with Mack?

Anonymous05/04/2018

I actually despise Mack & Kruek more than Raniere. Women who lead other women to the pig are as low as it gets.

Anonymous05/04/2018

shadowstate195805/04/2018

NC Girl05/04/2018

ursula05/04/2018

I hope this lawyer has a daughter and that his daughter gets abused by monsters like the ones he represents. I would love to see what he would say then……

shadowstate195805/04/2018

I know some lawyers and they would be happy to get Charles Manson off of the hook. Hillary Clinton stands by defense of child rapist in the 1970s

NC Girl05/04/2018

What men? What groups of men?05/04/2018

Shaolin05/04/2018

Some College fraternities and some gangs brand.

Examples please05/04/2018

Thank you.

ionwhitepoetry05/04/2018

Cassie05/05/2018

They are all stupid women. There's just no excuse for their behavior. Grown ass women wanting to belong to something. Weak women.

Rainer lawyers are PIGS05/05/2018