Only he’s smarter. Kudos to you, Mr. Lowe Fight back–don’t give in to blackmail. Case closed!

If I were serious about the matter - since it’s a serious accusation I certainly wouldn’t be handling it in the media which obviously makes her lack credibility.

And I certainly wouldn’t pose for a spread in People Magazine just a few days later.

Whether or not either party is guilty of whatever - she’s certainly not handling the “publicity” of her case in a way that would make me take her side. When you put yourself out there like that don’t expect to not be judged in the Court of Public Opinion.

Sex tape controversy

In 1988, Lowe was involved in a sex scandal over a videotape of him having sex with two females, one of whom was sixteen, in Atlanta while attending the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Lowe has asserted that he did not know that the second girl was underaged, and it was confirmed that the two had met at a bar, which the girl entered by lying about her age.

Lowe’s career was damaged by the scandal, and he later entered a rehabilitation clinic for alcohol and sex addiction. Eventually, his career rebounded, and Lowe mocked his own behavior during two post-scandal appearances as host of Saturday Night Live.

Kassandra Moreland
Published Victims Rights Advocate
SISU

Just because you personally might have been unjustly accused of something, does not mean EVERYONE who is accused of wrongdoing is likewise innocent.

This kind of limited thinking is why I do not believe in the jury system. People cannot get past their own prejudices and personal experiences to objectively assess a circumstance.

We are in the restaurant industry which, like domestic and other service industries, draws from a labor pool who are often young, lacking life experience, and coming from unstable home environments, where qualities such as truthfulness, honesty, loyalty and respect are not valued, much less discussed… Combine this with our media-blitzed society which makes everyone feel entitled and the person who puts in an honest days work feel like a sucker for not figuring a way to quickie millionairism…

And add the final and most abhorrent layer of all –defense attorneys who are quite happy to rack up the billable hours to “defend” a client, but whose true loyalties are to the club to which they belong — the legal system (other distinguished members include opposing counsel, presiding judges and courthouse clerks). To them, what’s 30 or 40K in legal fees and a settlement or judgement in the tens of thousands, I mean it’s not like it’s your life on the line, right? Or on the other side are plaintiff’s attorneys who work pro bono and decide the merits of a case not on corrobarative facts, but on the winnibility (extortability) of a case.

I expect Mr. Lowe and his wife have attorneys who are responsive to their wishes and will fight hard for them, based on the firm’s expectation of a long future of billable hours from the Lowe family. But for people like my husband and myself who are small business owners, this kind of legal counsel is just not available.

Our experience has been that attorneys on both sides have no concern or respect for the truth and are too lazy to even conduct a reasonably competent case for their clients.

Laziness, disregard for truth and honesty, lack of respect for others, misplaced loyalties… no wonder these plaintiff’s and their lawyers find each other so easily and with such detrimental effect to our society.

There is no question that civil courts serve a necessary role in our society and that there are many, many plaintiff’s who deserve access to the justice they provide. But if we really want our civil courts to be fair and just, we have to take the decision of which cases are even filed out of the hands of self-serving individual attorneys and put it in the hands of a body which values truth and judges the merits of the plaintiff’s case on something more than the viability of future financial reward for the plaintiff’s attorney.