{"id":14884,"date":"2011-08-03T18:13:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T01:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14884"},"modified":"2011-08-03T18:21:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T01:21:12","slug":"a-demonstration-of-the-value-of-virtualomniscience-com-i-dont-remember-offhand-what-i-was-doing-last-tuesday-but-this-does-not-automatically-lead-me-to-assume-i-was-gang-raped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14884\/a-demonstration-of-the-value-of-virtualomniscience-com-i-dont-remember-offhand-what-i-was-doing-last-tuesday-but-this-does-not-automatically-lead-me-to-assume-i-was-gang-raped\/","title":{"rendered":"A demonstration of the value of VirtualOmniscience.com: “I don’t remember offhand what I was doing last Tuesday, but this does not automatically lead me to assume I was gang-raped.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ann Coulter gets a bad rap, I think. She is a demagogue, a dirty-pool artist, a Menckenesque presence in the public prints. But she is not a rhetor, a champion of pure debate. Rather, she is a satirist, and she is damn good at it. The shrieking she incites seems like so much group-glowering to me, whipped up, I expect, by people who know that a chorus of grievances, no matter how loud or plaintive, is not an argument.<\/p>\n

Tonight she brings us a problem near-omnipresent video can easily solve:<\/a> False<\/em> accusations of rape:<\/a><\/p>\n

Having showcased Jones’ original, false accusation in a 1,500-word article splashed across its front page, as soon as her story unraveled, the Times stared at its shoes and said nothing. In another six months, liberals will once again be citing Jones’ case as evidence of the “troubling trend” of sexual assaults among military contractors.<\/p>\n

If only Jones had accused Bill Clinton or any member of the Kennedy family of rape, the mainstream media might have treated her allegations with a little more skepticism. But she accused employees of a company with a tertiary, long-ago, six-degrees-of-separation relationship with Dick Cheney. This was no time for journalistic integrity.<\/p>\n

Still, wasn’t it the tiniest bit suspicious that Jones claimed KBR management responded to her rape claim by locking her in a shipping container?<\/p>\n

Why would a company that already had a PR problem stick its neck out to protect accused rapists? Isn’t it more likely that a corporation would sell out even innocent employees accused of rape? Wouldn’t it have occurred to them that she’d eventually get back to the U.S.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

None of this could happen if there were video cameras everywhere and on everyone, and if the captured video were stored forever. No need for visual interpretation or database mining. Just a permanent record of everything<\/em> that happens, for anyone to view in real time or review later. This is the omniscience we have always wanted from our gods, the irrefutable information necessary to correct injustices. But by making it an omni<\/em>-omniscience — everyone has the capacity to observe anything they want to see — Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ann Coulter gets a bad rap, I think. She is a demagogue, a dirty-pool artist, a Menckenesque presence in the public prints. But she is not a rhetor, a champion of pure debate. Rather, she is a satirist, and she is damn good at it. 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