We should stop naming people accused of sexual assault

From Ashe Schow at the Washington Examiner via H/T at Instapundit:

That’s why rape shield laws exist. They’re meant to protect victims, but it’s now becoming clear that the “victim” in many accusations is actually the accused. Activists often claim that the number of false accusations is between 2 percent and 10 percent. But these statistics refer only to accusations that are proven false. An equally small number of cases result in convictions, so following the same logic, we should also be claiming that just 2 percent of rape accusations are true. And even then, rape is the number one crime in which DNA clears convicted people, so even a conviction doesn’t necessarily mean the crime occurred.

Brown University student sues his accuser for defamation.

From Ashe Schow at The Washington Examiner via H/T at Instapundit:

We should see more lawsuits like this. False accusers should be named and punished.

At some point during the party, the two began a lengthy conversation, and as the party ended, they began kissing. “The couple continued their intimate conversation and public displays of affection among a group of mutual friends in another dormitory room down the hall,” John’s complaint says. At some point Jane texted her friends that she might be about to “hook up” with John.

The two decided to go back to John’s dorm, and once there, continued kissing and touching each other on John’s bed. John says Jane was an active, willing participant who “passionately” kissed John’s neck, leaving a hickey. John’s lawsuit claims Jane “expressed her consent and pleasure” with the sexual activity and at no time did she “express in actions or words that she was uncomfortable or withdrawing her consent.”

Jane said she did not want to have sex that night, and John said okay, but the two continued kissing. John escalated the sexual touching and asked Jane: “Do you like this?” The lawsuit says Jane nodded her head and said “yes.”

John then says that Jane guided his hand and told her what she wanted him to do. Jane then stood up and said again that she didn’t want to have sex, that she had to go meet a friend she had previously agreed to meet, but that she would see John again at her birthday party the next day.

John says Jane kissed him goodbye and left his room.

“In the week that followed, John Doe was unaware that Jane Doe considered herself the victim of sexual assault,” the lawsuit says.

John’s lawsuit suggests that Jane made the accusation against him after he didn’t talk to her at her birthday party the next day.

John is suing his accuser for defamation based on statements she made to other students at Brown that were false. The people she made the claims to would later testify on her behalf. Some of the false statements included her claim that she was “covered in bruises” despite claiming in future statements that she was only attacked on her lip and neck (which had no bruises according to Facebook photos and a medical report).

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Once the accusation is proved to be false, she is no longer a victim, I agree she should be named AND punished.

Does Washington Post’s Steve Elliot support Rape Violence?

From Gun Free Zone via H/T at Instapundit: Too short to excerpt:

None of that happened with my gun, of course, but after every new mass shooting, I’m reminded that I, as a responsible gun owner, bear a portion of the responsibility for our nation’s gun violence…

…My gun is being used to argue against doing anything to even try to reduce gun violence in our nation. That’s what being a responsible gun owner means now — I’m responsible…

…The Monday after the shootings, I disassembled my Ruger, clamped the pieces in a vise and cut them in half with an angle grinder. I sent the proper paperwork in to the state to report it destroyed.

Source: I’m a responsible gun owner, so I destroyed my gun – Steve Elliot- The Washington Post

Well, I don’t see him cutting his penis off, so it is a good (liberal) guess that he is all for women being raped, right?

Come on Steve, you can do it. Imagine how well the gesture will be received, how much it will advance the feminist cause and the fight against sexual violence in this country.

SLICE THAT SUCKER OFF!

If it stops just one rape!

I just couldn't stop laughing all morning.

Prosecutor from Polis’s District: ‘Shadow’ campus system is no solution to sexual assault.

Via H/T at Instapundit:

Although universities adjudicate student discipline, it is a serious mistake to equate investigation and resolution of felony sex assault with cheating on a test or drinking or smoking in a dorm room or the other normal fodder of the university discipline process, where due process on some level is important, but of an entirely different quality than the criminal justice system provides.

We should never tolerate the adjudication of serious felony behavior outside the criminal justice system. There are many reasons:

1. The risk of wrongful conviction is too great. The rigorous due process of the criminal justice system exists for mainly one reason: to make sure society can have confidence that one who is found guilty is, in fact, guilty. Relaxing due process, or having investigations not handled by well-trained professionals can lead to wrongful conviction.

2. The risk of traumatizing victims of sex assault. Interview and handling of victims and witnesses in sex crimes requires skill, sensitivity and time. Clumsy or repeated interviews can be traumatic for victims.

3. Those guilty of serious felony behavior present a societal risk, not just a campus risk. To suggest that sex assault on campus is primarily a campus problem is just plain wrong: it is a societal problem and deserves a societal response through the criminal justice system.

4. The criminal justice system is public and the public can observe, evaluate and criticize the proceedings. University conduct investigations carry the inherent secrecy of the discipline process, which can leave the public questioning the fairness of an investigation and the accuracy of the determinations.

The federal government’s decision to tie campus funding to a one size fits all investigative approach can interfere with criminal investigations. Fair, effective, sex assault investigations take time and cannot be handled by investigators under pressure to rush to a particular conclusion due to financial pressures on the university. Also, “warning letters” or warning bulletins, or campus-based “stay away from each other” orders can, if issued prematurely, prevent law enforcement from determining the truth of alleged criminal behavior. Of course, that only matters if you actually care about justice. If you’re just pushing bureaucratic employment and Hillary-friendly “War On Women” talking points, then who cares what happens to individuals?

errr, maybe the parents of the falsely accused?

The Week In Pictures -- Fiorina Trumps Edition

From the guys at Powerline Blog:

Hillary to sexual assault accusers -- “You have the right to be heard, the right to be believed”

From Hot Air:

I didn’t think Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick would be players in next year’s campaign, but now that we’ve been told by Mrs. Bill Clinton that they have “the right to be believed,” I dare say a cable news interview or two is in order.

So I wonder, will ANY member of the Drive-By Media dare ask Hillary about Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broderick, Monica Lewinski, or "Bimbo Eruptions'?

Due process group distributes warning flyers to campus men

From Ashe Schow at the Washington Examiner via H/T at Instapundit:

To combat wrongful accusations of sexual assault on college campuses, a pro-due process group is distributing flyers meant to prepare young men for potential expulsion.

The organization, Families Advocating for Campus Equality has already begun distributing the flyers on California campuses, where "yes means yes" consent policies were adopted last year. The policies purport to make clear what is and isn't consent, but make it impossible for accused students to prove their innocence and in fact redefine normal human actions as rape.

This is good, but if you really want to hit them, pass these out at the "Road Show" events for prospective student.

That would cause quite a ruckus.

The Hunt for a Good Bad Guy

From Taki's Magazine via H/T from Instapundit:

There is a severe rape drought going on in the West; not the violent sexual assault as is broadly defined by the law but a particular kind of rape. We want wealthy white males with blond hair high-fiving each other as they torture some poor girl who was just trying to get an education. The Middle East is resplendent with these scenarios, but the guy usually has a funny hat on instead of Richie Rich hair.
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There is a lot of currency behind the Duke lacrosse rapist ideal. Through Title IX, the government offers financial rewards to schools for digging up sexual offenders in varsity jackets. Rapists give feminists something to fight for in a culture where women have little to complain about. This means when a woman lies about frat boys, or carries a mattress around, or simply says someone resembles a rapist, the ax falls hard.
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Which brings me to this week’s rape de semaine. Daryush Valizadeh is a “pickup artist” (a.k.a. PUA) who spares us his ridiculous foreign name by using the moniker Roosh V. He tours the world giving small groups of men simple tips such as: Get in shape, be interesting, start the conversation simple, etc. As far as I’m concerned he’s a hippie love guru trying to rebuild the male-female relationship after decades of sabotage. We live in a stifled environment where groups of men have entirely given up on women and replaced them with porn. They call it a “sexodus” and groups such as MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) are “Refusing to bow, serve and kneel for the opportunity to be treated like a disposable utility.” This isn’t good for the human race. As Joe Strummer used to say, “Without people, you’re nothing.”

Encouraging traditional gender roles is a dangerous trend for the rape alarmists. So when Roosh announced he was doing talks in Toronto and Montreal this week, the feminazis committed to shut it down. They cited an article he wrote back in February called “How to Stop Rape” wherein he said we should “make rape legal if done on private property.” His point being women would be a lot less heedless about inviting men over and false accusations would also end if this amendment came to pass. His proposal was about as serious as one of Jonathan Swift’s, but the message is correct. Women have such hubris these days that they are endangering themselves. Getting wasted in public is reckless for a woman no matter how much we “teach men not to rape.” Passing out on a crowded beach may not be asking for it, but it’s pretty close. This is what an intellectual discussion does. It posits an outlandish hypothesis that provokes you into confronting a dark truth. He could have said, “If we forbade black men from ever being around white women, rape cases would plummet.” This is an impossible scenario no sane person would want to implement, but it’s also a great way to showcase the shocking statistics behind interracial rape.

The last thing feminism can tolerate is men REFUSING to bow down.

Cheers to Roosh giving them the flutters and read the whole thing.

Should false rape accusers be sued?

The short answer is yes.

From Roxanne Jones at CNN:

In 2012, according to the FBI, nearly 87,000 "forcible rapes" were reported. That's down 7% from the number of rapes reported in 2008. Law enforcement agencies estimate that the number of false rape accusations ranges from 2% to 8% annually, or between 2,000 and 7,000 cases each year.
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In 2002, Brian Banks was one of those unfortunate statistics. He was just 17 when a classmate, Wanetta Gibson, 15, falsely accused him of raping her at school. Banks, then a top football talent, spent more than five years in prison and five years on probation for rape and kidnapping.

He was exonerated after he got his accuser to admit on tape that she lied about the rape. Banks later explained that his attorney had advised him to take a plea bargain and avoid a jury trial because "... I was a big black teenager, and no jury would believe anything I said."

The Long Beach Unified School District sued his accuser, and she has been ordered to repay the $750,000 she was awarded in a lawsuit against the district.

And those women should be prosecuted as well. One could argue that if Crystal Mangum, the false Duke Lacrosse Rape "victim", was prosecuted, she would have been in jail. Instead she was free to stab her boyfriend to death.

Jury Quickly Convicts Woman In False Rape Trial

From CBS Detroit:

A Michigan woman accused of lying for years about having cancer was convicted Thursday in a separate case of falsely accusing two men of rape.

The jury took less than 30 minutes to convict 38-year-old Sara Ylen after a three-day trial in St. Clair County, 60 miles northeast of Detroit.

Ylen was charged with making up a story about two men attacking her in her Lexington home in 2012. Ylen was also convicted of tampering with evidence after police said she used makeup to create what looked like bruises. She did not testify in her own defense.

One question, how long would the men's sentences have been, if they were convicted of raping the woman? She need to serve at least that long.

Woman is finally jailed after FIVE false rape allegations against her ex-boyfriends in eight years

From the Daily Mail UK:

Her sentence? two years! ! ! ! !

Judge William Gaskell told the woman that her history of made-up rape claims had made it more difficult for genuine rape victims to be believed.

The judge seems to have neglected to think the most obvious victims — the men she falsely accused.

But just as the Narrative says that men can't really be Victims, so too does it say that women can't actually be Oppressors. So the penalty leveled against her is a small one -- she really can't be a criminal. She's a woman, and women don't lie about rape, and if they do, well, they must have had a pretty good reason to do so.