This is the Jewish Press's protest against the "chutzpa" of American justice to defend husbands against kidnapping and torutre in conducting a sting operation which resulted in the convinction of Mendel Epstein's torture gang. It simply shows how feminism has become more important than commonsense and that any and all crimes are accepted if it promotes the freedom of women to do what they want. I don't think they would have written this nonsense if the crime were Muslims torturing women for not obeying their husband or the KKK lynching Blacks and Jews. Why is abusing others in the name of religion acceptable only when it is women who are the beneficiaries? NY Post
We were dismayed by the picture of prosecutorial excess compellingly
painted in last week’s front-page essay by Washington lawyer Nathan
Lewin. Mr. Lewin wrote of the case of three rabbis convicted and
sentenced to long prison terms in an FBI sting operation involving an
ostensibly forced get. It points to an alarming trend in our country of
selective enforcement and should be required reading for all who cling
to the simplistic notion that America is a place for exclusively
even-handed justice.
The three rabbis were induced to agree to participate in a fictitious forced Get featuring a fictitious agunah and a
fictitious recalcitrant husband. To be sure, the underlying “facts” in a
sting operation – which is ordinarily an acceptable prosecutorial
tactic – are by definition fabrications. But there is a chilling
overarching element in this episode. In unprecedented fashion, in order
to make its sham operation more believable to the three rabbis, the FBI
insinuated itself via an elaborate charade into the bet din system, securing the issuance of a seruv by a leading bet din against the non-existent husband.
Sting operations must be based on a target’s predisposition to commit
a crime similar to the scripted crime. And while it was charged that
the three had earlier engaged in forced Get procedures based on
the claims of three alleged victims, can anyone recall even one sting
operation mounted against a Catholic institution or clergyman in the
wake of the countless charges of sex abuse involving priests over the
past two decades? Can anyone imagine the uproar that would have ensued
had a Catholic ecclesiastical court been purposefully manipulated by
governmental authorities?
How does the FBI’s Get sting square with the seeming
obsession by the courts to keep police authorities at arm’s length from
mosques and emasculating any program of monitoring despite the fact that
virtually all perpetrators of terrorist attacks cite their allegiance
to Islamic jihad? And what would be the reaction if the FBI had acted
toward a Sharia court as it did toward a rabbinical court in the case of
the three rabbis?
Moreover, the rabbis were tried (in the same trial) for their “sting
crimes” as well as charges that they had actually administered
beatings to three recalcitrant husbands. Yet they were acquitted of all
charges except for the fictitious “sting crimes.”
As the Lewin article makes plain, the profound plight of an agunah
was largely kept from the jury by the judge. And the judge’s draconian
sentencing, essentially for committing a manufactured crime, reflects no
appreciation of that plight or the notion that people would be
motivated to try to help.
Certainly the harm ordinarily caused by recalcitrant husbands seems
not to have been in play. All that seems reflected in the verdict and
sentencing is that the rabbis colluded to inflict bodily harm. So people
are going to jail for a long time without having been convicted of a
“real” crime despite federal prosecutors’ efforts to so convict them.
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