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Message: [QUOTE="lynx000, post: 2911920, member: 2065"] Two responses to that: 1. Kevin Spacey has suffered no punishment for his alleged `crimes'. At this stage he has not been charged, he has not been convicted, he has paid no penalty whatsoever. If you adopt the innocent until proven guilty mantra, then until there is some proof of the allegations, he should not been be penalised by being blacklisted in his industry. In the current `me too' environment, it appears that all you need is a mob making the same or similar allegations to be sufficient proof in the court of public opinion. I am a strong believer in the former, so until there is actual proof that has been accepted by a court or other authority, there is no sound basis in my view for him to be restricted from working. In reality, the court of public opinion will and has ensured that he will be blacklisted. 2. If you accept the allegations as fact, there is a basis for an argument that Spacey should be prevented from working in the industry again. That is, some of the allegations have harassment occurring on film sets, stage plays and therefore effectively in a work environment. Secondly, Spacey has used the profile he has developed as a film star from working within his industry as a means to carry out his alleged conduct. On both of those grounds, there is a basis for him to be prevented from working in the industry. Compare that to Lodge. He was a 21 year old nobody (particularly in the USA) and his conduct on the evening in question had absolutely no link to his employment duties or role. He was not representing the NRL, he was not in his playing gear. He was in fact in another country. He was no different to a drunk, drug affected 21 year old American male with an attitude problem. By the way, I would be saying the same things if Lodge had been contracted by the Storm. He is entitled to another chance to prove himself. He is in a different position in my view to someone like Carney (how many chances was he given by the NRL?) or Barba, who were also given more than one opportunity by the NRL and blew it. [/QUOTE]

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