were quickly replaced by something else rage. rage for courtney andrews, who shared her story and should have gotten justice in return, rage the that judge woodruff confirmed the worst nightmares of survivors who don t speak for fear that we re not going to be heard, rage he could have used his power to protect the vulnerable but chose instead to allow a predator to go free, rage at the failure of a justice system that has allowed austin klemm to be among the 97 out of 100 rapists who never serve a single day in prison. now, i know you understand those daunting odds because as a district attorney you re fighting against them every day and it must feel sometimes like you are pushing a boulder uphill. but i want to tell you, don t stop. keep pushing. because this case has already overcome so many of those odds. 54% of rapes are never even reported, but courtney andrews courageously defied that statistic when she told. only 12 out of every 100 rapes leads to an arrest, but austin
has been an emotional year. actually kind of ridiculous how many times i ve cried on this year in 2013. at this point, i m basically john boehner, but, you know, with braids. look, time and again i have sat at this desk and told you about the struggles of progressive movements great and small. there were the moral monday protests in north carolina which attracted thousands of people to protest a republican legislature s agenda of cutting federal unemployment benefits, making it harder to vote, and refusing to expand medicaid among other things. hundreds were arrested. we visited the statehouse one monday in june, and the movement s leader, reverend william garber, explained why so many were risking arrest. what do you do when you have insurance and you see people making it harder for people to get insurance, harder for children to get educated, harder for people out of work to get some help, but easier for people to die, easier for schools to be reseg regalted, easier for t