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Henriquez: Charges 'completely untrue'
By adamg on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 10:08pm
State Rep. Carlos Henriquez took to Facebook tonight to deny the assault-and-battery charges:
I want to thank all my family, friends, colleagues and particularly the community I am privileged to represent who have expressed their support, love, understanding and best wishes during this confusing and upsetting course of events.
I have been accused of some serious charges, these allegations are completely untrue.
I was raised by a strong mother and also raised with a younger sister both of whom I respect and love deeply. My father, Julio Henriquez, who recently passed was a track coach and mentor to hundreds of young women from this community and I have dedicated myself to protecting women, not abusing or assaulting them. Putting my hands on a woman is contradictory to my upbringing and my own morals.
As both a community activist prior to getting elected and as an elected official I have spoken with hundreds of youth and adults about the problem of violence against women. I have worked tirelessly with multiple agencies and organizations who champion against the issue of domestic violence. It is a mission I am committed to in my personal and public life.
Currently, this matter is in the hands of the court and I am confident that when this process has run its course I will be vindicated of all charges. This matter will be tried in the court and not in the media or in the court of public opinion. I can assure my supporters and critics alike that I am innocent of these charges. I will follow the advice of my attorney and not provide any details of this incident, other than to say and reaffirm I am innocent.
I will continue to work and serve the people of my district as I was elected to do. This incident is unfortunate and embarrassing, but I will not shirk my duties or hide.
I ask that you remain patient and keep me and my family in your prayers. I ask that you respect all parties involved and show support by helping to serve our community. I have faith that this incident will soon be behind us all and we can continue to serve and deliver for the constituents, the residents of the 5th Suffolk District.
Carlos Henriquez
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all logical fallacy, no facts
The whole paragraph about his parents is a genetic logical fallacy: http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/genetic
The bit about his father recently passing away is an attempt to manipulate via emotional response: http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-emotion
Nothing in the statement contains any factual statements about why he's innocent.
As both a community activist prior to getting elected and as an elected official I have spoken with hundreds of youth and adults about the problem of violence against women. I have worked tirelessly with multiple agencies and organizations who champion against the issue of domestic violence. It is a mission I am committed to in my personal and public life.
Interesting. Especially interesting considering that until the 90's or so, men were overwhelmingly the victims of violent crime, and are less likely to report a crime against them.
http://www.bjs.gov/content/glance/vsx2.cfm
Men have a murder rate almost FOUR TIMES HIGHER than women. "Oh, must be all those men killing other men", you say. Bzzzt, thanks for playing. Women murder men four times as much as other women.
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/gender.cfm
And the case clearance rate by victim gender? Take a wild guess.
But hey, violence against women is so very important. After all, they don't have that male privilege going for them, right?
What's your beef with him
What's your beef with him anon? We are still in America, right? Innocent, until proven guilty, right? Freedom of speech, right?
Cripes
PS, FTR, I don't give a rat's ass about this case. The vehemence of anon brought out the troll in me tho.
What's your beef with him
What's your beef with him anon?
Don't attack me...
http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem
I do have a beef with his comments that violent crime is an issue which should be addressed in a gender-biased way.
Among other things, I don't suppose anyone noticed that almost all of the shootings and stabbings this year have been young men?
That doesn't mean I have a particularly big beef with *him*, however - though I'm pretty unimpressed that a young woman bolted out of his car at 4AM into the arms of police.
As a guy, I'm kind of wondering what a fellow guy was thinking when (especially as a politician) he had a woman in his car that late at night, alone. It's pretty common practice among guys to not give women you don't know (ESPECIALLY if they're intoxicated, though I don't know if this is the case here) rides home alone. You always make sure you have a *female* friend in the car with you...
Innocent, until proven guilty, right?
Certainly, in the criminal justice system. If he issues a statement and uses flawed logic, we're still allowed to critique it, or say that it's flawed logic. You'll note that *nowhere* did I say I thought he was guilty.
Freedom of speech, right?
This isn't really about his right to free speech. I never said he should shut up; I said his arguments were logical fallacies and disagreed with some of his statements.
you obviously dont know of
you obviously dont know of the female privilege enjoyed in the judicial system eff off u misandrist you
Agreed.
I thought he was guilty as soon as I heard he went to that ProjectV party. Why? Because he was probably drinking at the party and because he was out at 4:30AM on the night of the ProjectV party. As my mother says, nothing good ever happens after midnight. And the letter that he wrote sealed the deal for me. He does not give one iota of solid evidence as to his innocence. And I don't want to hear anything about innocent until proven guilty. I'm trying him in my own brain, not the Massachusetts court system.
"He does not give one iota of
"He does not give one iota of solid evidence as to his innocence"
Hey, George Bush III, didn't you know that in the United States you are presumed innocent and that the state has the burden to provide evidence of *guilt*. It is not the burden of the accused to provide evidence of *innocence*?
Or we should use your standards? Where's your evidence you are not a liar, embezzler, thief, murderer and rapist yourself?
Did you not read my comments?!
I don't care whose standards you or anybody else uses; I'm using my standards for me.
This is a good example
...of why you want to stay out of the clutches of the law, with its prospect of being tried by a jury of "your peers". I've done jury duty with numbnuts who obviously had made up their minds about the verdict before the trial was an hour old. Frightening.
Get real. Any criminal
Get real. Any criminal defense attorney worth her salt is going to tell her client to not discuss any facts or evidence whatsoever prior to trial. That statement is about all he can say right now. I do not know if he is guilty or not but you cannot glean anything about possible guilt or innocence from that regardless.
And yes, of course anyone out drinking late at night is going to then commit a crime. That's logical.
Honorable Judge jonbowen
Like he owes you or me or any blog the evidence that he is innocent? You've got a trial court going on in your brain about this? Should you see a specialist in regards to that?
The reported circumstances certainly don't look good for him. He's presented no facts but some character information and family information in the hopes of getting some sympathy, but in the end what matters is what comes out in court. He could be found completely innocent, but people will have formed opinions of him because of this (although they may not have little mental bailiffs and wood-paneled courtrooms in their heads). He might be found guilty but because of his family and his past activities some people will still support him and throw the case out of their own mental courts.
There already is a lot of racially questionable comments pustulating out of this story, which is quite useless and ultimately ineffectual as this thing is the responsibility of the court system and unless we're on that jury, who cares what you or I think. If this guy had been a white, conservative from a route 495 suburb I'd feel the same way. There's plenty out there to judge -- particular cases like these are best left to the court system.
clarification
I mentioned some of the racially-tinged comments, but was not referring to you - your comment was not referring to race.
He does not give one iota of
Doesn't need one. The state has to make the case for guilt.
Simple. See also "Eighth Grade Social Studies".
(captcha is WTFCK. Indeed)
Lots of posters here...
.. who wouldn't recognize snark if it bit them on their derrieres.
Snark vs Heralditis
The problem is the occasional drifter from the Herald comment section coming on board and posting complete idiocy that could very well be written word for word by someone who is ridiculing that same attitude. Re-reading jonbowen's post, yeah now I can see that maybe he was aping some troglodytic hunchback from the land of Carr, or ....he could actually BE a trog! IN THE LAND OF THE MORAN, IRONY IS DEAD! LONG LIVE THE IRONY! or the queen, whichever you prefer.
If in doubt....
... I check a poster's past history. If the post is by some sort of total anon, the sorting out task is harder. But in this case, the spirit of snark _seemed_ pretty self-evident. ;~}
In the era of Poe's Law...
it's often difficult to calibrate one's online snark detector appropriately. (Poe's Law defined: http://bit.ly/ieM5C8 )
original anon here
What you just did is called a "straw man" argument, whereby you misrepresented my argument in order to make it easier for you to attack.
http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman
I never said I thought he was guilty. I said his statement was full of logical fallacies and critiqued his pandering to women's issues - and also criticized this stance that violence against women should be such an "issue", when in fact, it's more of an issue for men.
Saying someone's arguments are invalid is not the same thing as saying they're wrong. If you stand up and say "the moon is not made of cheese because Romney says it's not, and he's right because of his business experience", and I said "that's an appeal to authority", that doesn't mean I think the moon is made of cheese. It means I think your argument is nothing but curds and whey.
snark unplugged
http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ThinkingSomebodyGi...
Do you have some sort of affiliate deal with that website?
Because you are CASHIN' IN!
jesus christ shut up
jesus christ shut up
Hope so
He seemed like a good guy that did great work in many areas that needed help and attention. Hope we learn more about what happened soon.
all of which has nothing to do with whether he assaulted someone
n/t
I can't read the Facebook page
even though I'm logged into Facebook. Do I need to be a friend of Carlos Henriquez? (Do I want to be a friend of Carlos Henriquez?)
Yeah, I guess friends only
So what you're missing is the comments (since I copied the entire statement).
If this was a white guy from the suburbs
the calls for resignation would be deafening from liberals and Universal Hub. Of course everyone wants to give this woman beating thug the benefit of the doubt because he's a "minority". Racism goes two ways.
Two words doe you, my Herald reading friend
James Marzilli.
But the Herald reader could counter with "Marzilli a lib"
if you are citing him as someone (a white suburbanite) who was likewise given the benefit of the doubt, Adam.
I, for one, was pretty fast to call for Marzilli's resignation once he started trying to use the "temporary insanity" defense for his conduct. In the end, he pled guilty or admitted to sufficient facts, if I remember right. And resigned.
Also treated inpatient for mental illness
Don't forget that part. Also sentenced to continuing mental health treatment and compliance with medication.
his day in court
James Marzilli was given his days (sic) in court. Isn't THAT the point?
Cases where a rush to judgment was the wrong judgment:
Agree
UHUB IS FULL OF WHITE GUILT
white gilt
Of course, because all white people are rich, too!
What'd I do?
As Woody Allen once said;
"We're all guilty in the eyes of God"
"Do you believe in God?
"No, but I feel guilty about it"
Your fallacy is...
http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman
http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/composition-division
http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque
Trifecta! Congrats!
Mugshot?
Normally provided for alleged crimes of this nature.
Ch. 25 Report Has Victim's Mom
http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/18975413/2012/07/...
Says he's "mean" and she could hear her daughter scream after he picked her up at 2:00 in the morning.