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A brief thought about Al Gore's alleged sex assault

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Byron York prints plenty of disturbing details from the police complaint against Al Gore , but this is the one I find most infuriating: Finally she got away. Later, she talked to friends, liberals like herself, who advised against telling police. One asked her "to just suck it up; otherwise, the world's going to be destroyed from global warming." To that "friend" let me offer up a piece of advice: Go to hell. Snarky folks at The Corner are treating this revelation as being run-of-the-mill Democratic politics, but honestly the problem here -- as is often the case -- is of power generally. You can see an almost carbon-copy dynamic at play when people angrily defend the Catholic Church against accusations of widespread child molestation. Victims are urged to hush up, to go away, because their truth threatens The Mission of whichever person or movement or institution is involved. And while it's often true that sacrifices must be made in order to advance a