Roman Polanski, who previously admitted to sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl before fleeing to Europe in the late-70s, has been slapped with yet another rape allegation.
According to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/08/woman-accuses-roman-polanski-of-raping-her-in-1975-when-she-was-18">The Guardian</a>, French woman Valentine Monnier <a class="u-underline" href="http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/une-francaise-accuse-le-realisateur-roman-polanski-de-viol-08-11-2019-8189568.php" data-link-name="in body link">told Le Parisien newspaper</a> that Polanski violently raped her at a Swiss ski resort when she was just 18 back in 1975.
“I had no links with him, neither personal nor professional, and hardly knew him,” Monnier, now 63, told the paper. &#8220;He pummelled me until I gave in and then raped me, making me do all sorts of things.&#8221;
Monnier claims that the alleged rape occurred after the two enjoyed dinner at a restaurant following a day of skiing. When she went to her own room, Polanski reportedly called for her and then began ripping her clothes off while trying to force a pill in her mouth. Monnier told two individuals of the rape, her best friend and another man, both of whom corroborated her account.
Monnier said that the accusations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and the fact Polanski himself had just finished a movie about injustice inspired her to come forward with her story. She has since written letters about the alleged rape to Los Angeles police and to the French first lady, Brigitte Macron.
“The reaction time is not worth forgetting,” Monnier said. “Rape is a time bomb.”
Polanski’s attorney Hervé Temime said that the director “firmly denies all accusations of rape”, noting that the 45-year-old allegations “have never been reported to judicial authorities.”
In May of last year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences finally expelled Roman Polanski for the sexual abuse of 13-year-old Samantha Geimer only to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46236/admitted-child-rapist-roman-polanski-suing-academy-paul-bois">have him file a lawsuit one year later</a>, alleging that the Academy had failed to follow its own rules when ousting a member from their ranks.
“The Academy committed a prejudicial abuse of discretion in that the Academy failed to proceed in a manner required by law, the Academy’s expulsion decision is not supported by the findings, and the Academy’s findings are not supported by the evidence,” Polanski said in a lawsuit filed in L.A. Superior Court.
In response to the lawsuit, an Academy spokesperson said the procedure for his expulsion was “fair and reasonable.”
“The procedures taken to expel Mr. Polanski were fair and reasonable,” an Academy spokesperson said Friday afternoon, according to Deadline. “The Academy stands behind its decision as appropriate.”
Strangely, at the time of Polanski’s ouster from the Academy, Samantha Geimer said the Academy made an “ugly and cruel” decision.
“It is an ugly and cruel action which serves only appearance,” <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/05/roman-polanski-victim-samantha-geimer-academy-expulsion-ugly-and-cruel">said</a> Geimer, then age 55. “It does nothing to change the sexist culture in Hollywood today and simply proves that they will eat their own to survive. I say to Roman, good riddance to bad rubbish, the Academy has no true honor, it’s all just P.R.”
Geimer was only 13 years old when Polanski drugged and sodomized her during a photoshoot at Jack Nicholson’s house in 1977. During the height of the #MeToo movement, as many as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/23270/five-more-women-accuse-roman-polanski-sexual-paul-bois">five women came forward</a> to accuse Roman Polanski of sexually assaulting them when they were teenagers.

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Roman Polanski Accused Of Violently Raping A French Woman In 1975

Roman Polanski

Sexual Assault

Roman Polanski, the film director who was arrested and charged in 1977 with drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl, is facing new allegations.
Valentine Monnier has accused Polanski, 86, of raping her at Polanski&#8217;s chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland in 1975 when she was 18, according to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/08/woman-accuses-roman-polanski-of-raping-her-in-1975-when-she-was-18">The Guardian:</a>
<blockquote>“I had no links with him, neither personal nor professional, and hardly knew him,” Monnier, a former model who worked in New York, said.
She said the alleged rape was “extremely violent”, adding: “He pummelled me until I gave in and then raped me, making me do all sorts of things.”</blockquote>
Monnier claimed that Polanski, who directed &#8220;China Town&#8221; and &#8220;Rosemary&#8217;s Baby,&#8221; assaulted her after the two had finished a ski run and had dinner.
&#8220;She said that they went back to his chalet and that she went to a room to change. &#8216;Life hadn’t taught me how to be suspicious yet,&#8217; she told the French paper,&#8221; The Guardian wrote. &#8220;When Polanski called for her, he threw himself on her, hit her, ripped off her clothes, tried to make her swallow a pill and then raped her, she said. Afterward, Polanski apologized, she said. Monnier also said that she told her best friend about what happened, and then told someone who later would become her boyfriend. According to Le Parisien, they both recalled her telling them of the attack. She also confided in her husband in 1993.&#8221;
Polanski’s lawyer, Hervé Temime, told The Guardian that the director “firmly denies all accusations of rape,&#8221; adding that the allegations “which date back 45 years have never been reported to judicial authorities.&#8221;
But Monnier, a former model who worked in New York, explained why she has stayed silent. “Rape is a time bomb,&#8221; she said. After the Harvey Weinstein scandal, she wrote to the Los Angeles police and to Brigitte Macron, then the French first lady, <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/11/roman-polanski-rape-accusation-1202781726/">Deadline</a> reported.
“I denounce this crime knowing that there can’t be any punishment, in an attempt to end exceptions, impunity. Public figures are being considered as models. By idolizing the guilty ones, we prevent people from realizing the serious consequences of their acts,” Monnier told <a href="http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/une-francaise-accuse-le-realisateur-roman-polanski-de-viol-08-11-2019-8189568.php">Le Parisien</a>.
Polanski has a new movie about to hit theaters, &#8220;J&#8217;Accuse,&#8221; about the Alfred Dreyfus affair. He has not returned to the U.S. since 1978, when he pleaded guilty to statutory rape.
In 1977, Polanski was arrested and charged with drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. The charges were beyond gross: Rape by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, lewd and lascivious act upon a child under 14, and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor.
In 2017, the Los Angeles Police Department told the British newspaper, The Sun, they had an “open investigation” into the convicted child rapist. The new probe came as seven new accusers had come forward to say that Polanski raped or sexually assaulted them.
Marianne Barnard said she was sexually abused by Polanski when she was just 10 years old. “And five anonymous women alleged they had been sexually abused by Polanski via Imetpolanski.com, a website set up by women’s rights organisation Real Women Real Stories where victims can share their stories,” The Sun reported.
The alleged assaults took place between 1969 and 1976 and all of the women were then just girls between the ages of 9 and 16.

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Roman Polanski Accused Of &#8216;Extremely Violent&#8217; Rape Of French Actress When She Was 18

A common tactic for the “believe all women” crowd is to claim that prosecuting false accusations will lead real victims to avoid reporting a crime. The mental gymnastics it takes to achieve the claim ignores the fact that false accusations actually hurt real victims because they make people less inclined to believe the next victim. Thus, false accusations need to be prosecuted to deter further criminals.
As it stands now, there is virtually no punishment for a woman who falsely accuses a man of sexual assault. The charge for such a false accusation is usually a misdemeanor charge for filing a false police report, a charge that doesn’t take into account the enormous toll the false accusation takes on the actual victim.
Now prosecutors in Kansas are feeding into this culture by dropping the charges against a woman police believe fabricated a rape claim in order to get back at her ex-boyfriend for moving on with his life. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-told-cops-she-was-raped-text-messages-showed-ashe-schow">previously reported</a>, the woman called police before entering a hospital for a rape examination. She gave police access to her phone, which quickly proved to them that the sex between the woman and her ex-boyfriend’s best friend was consensual. Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson said the messages showed the University of Kansas student “fabricated the rape story to effect the relationship between herself and the victim … and her ex-boyfriend.”
“The State believes the evidence presented at the preliminary hearing, including: the testimony of (the victim), (her ex-boyfriend), law enforcement officers, and evidence collected by law enforcement, specifically, text messages from the Defendant to her friend … indicate the sexual encounter … was consensual,” Branson said in a statement.
The woman <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article234717197.html">told</a> the Kansas City Star that her messages joking about and downplaying her sexual encounter were due to her inability “at the time to admit she had been raped.”
The woman only called the incident rape the next day after one of her acquaintances said they would tell people what happened. The accuser texted this person back, saying, “I’m pretty sure it was borderline rape and I have the bruises and statements to prove it so if you want to go there let’s do it.”
Those bruises were on her arms, legs, and neck. She had been drinking the night before and said she didn’t remember how she got them. Bruises tend to show up 1 to 2 days after an injury, not hours.
The woman was arrested for making a false accusation, even though she told police she did not want to press charges. Police investigated anyway due to the seriousness of her allegations. Her legal fees have been paid for by a legal defense fund created during the #MeToo movement.
The Chicago Tribune <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-bc-us--false-rape-report-20191029-story.html">reported</a> that prosecutors are dropping the charges against the woman because of the “cost to our community and the negative impact on survivors of sexual violence cannot be ignored.&#8221;
&#8220;We are concerned this case, and the significant amount of misinformation surrounding it, could discourage other survivors from reporting their attack,&#8221; Branson said in a new statement. &#8220;That is unacceptable.&#8221;
Branson failed to address what dropping the case meant for victims of false accusations. As it stood, the woman only faced up to 23 months in jail for a felony false reporting charge. Had the male student been arrested, he faced decades in prison.
As is typical, media outlets won’t name the woman because she claims to be a victim of sexual assault.

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Kansas Prosecutors To Drop False Rape Charges For Fear Real Victims Won’t Come Forward

Crime

Kansas

Rape

Author E. Jean Carroll enjoyed free press coverage of her latest book after she accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in a New York City department store in the mid 1990s.
Even with that coverage, her book bombed, just barely cracking the top 100 books on Amazon when it debuted before falling to just about 1,000 the next day.
Now Carroll is suing Trump for defamation in a lawsuit that will likely be thrown out. After Carroll came forward with her accusations – just days before her book dropped – Trump said he had “never met this person in my life.”
“I’ve never met this person in my life. She is trying to sell a new book — that should indicate her motivation. It should be sold in the fiction section,” Trump said in his initial response to Carroll’s claims. “False accusations diminish the severity of real assault. All should condemn false accusations and any actual assault in the strongest possible terms. If anyone has information that the Democratic Party is working with Ms. Carroll or New York Magazine, please notify us as soon as possible.”
Carroll included a photo of herself with Trump at a party in 1987, which Trump dismissed because he takes a lot of photos with people he doesn’t know.
“Shame on those who make up false stories of assault to try to get publicity for themselves, or sell a book, or carry out a political agenda,” Trump also said. “It is a disgrace and people should pay dearly for such false accusations.”
Further, Trump said Carroll was “totally lying” and “not my type.”
These statements, Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, meet the burden for defamation.
“I don’t know what type a woman needs to be for him to decide to sexually assault someone, but that kind of gratuitous insult about her appearance is the kind of the thing that juries and judges look to,” Kaplan said in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-york-writer-who-accused-trump-of-sexual-assault-sues-him-for-defamation/2019/11/04/8ab2afb0-fcf7-11e9-9534-e0dbcc9f5683_story.html">an interview</a> with The Washington Post. “It looks like malice.”
The actual legal standard for defamation, especially when pertaining to public figures, is that the plaintiff must prove the following four elements, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation">according to Cornell Law School</a>: “1) a false statement purporting to be fact; 2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; 3) fault amounting to at least <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/negligence">negligence</a>; and 4) <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/damages">damages</a>, or some harm caused to the person or entity who is the subject of the statement.”
It seems impossible for Carroll to prove that Trump knowingly made a false statement, since there is no proof of their alleged encounter in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in either late 1995 or early 1996. Two friends of Carroll <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-women-go-record-about-what-e-jean-carroll-told-james-barrett">did come forward</a> to say they were called after the alleged event, but that’s not enough to prove rape.
She would also be unable to prove that Trump’s statements caused her book to fail and not, say, her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnn-interview-woman-accusing-trump-rape-goes-amanda-prestigiacomo">bizarre</a> and changing statements regarding her accusation as she gained more and more media attention.
In the days after her initial accusation gained media attention, Carroll would go on to claim she had “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-rape-accuser-e-jean-carroll-i-have-not-been-ryan-saavedra">not been raped</a>,” and to give different reasons for why she didn’t come forward previously, including the bizarre claim that she won’t press charges now because “I would find it disrespectful to the women who are down on the border who are being raped around the clock down there without any protection.”
In response to the lawsuit, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham called Carroll’s lawsuit “frivolous.”
“Let me get this straight – Ms. Carroll is suing the President for defending himself against false allegations?” she asked, according to the Post. “I guess since the book did not make any money she’s trying to get paid another way. The story she used to try and sell her trash book never happened, period. Her version of events is not even feasible if you’ve ever tried on clothing in a dressing room of a crowded department store. The lawsuit is frivolous and the story is a fraud – just like the author.”

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E. Jean Carroll Suing Trump For Defamation After He Claimed Her Sexual Assault Accusations Against Him Were False

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In late September, a 13-year-old student at Anderson High School in Ohio claimed a teacher at the school grabbed her right arm, unzipped her hoodie, and touched her breasts in a classroom.
The teenager also claimed that when the teacher let her go, he said, “if you tell anyone about this, I’ll kill you.”
Neither the teacher nor the student have been named in news reports about the incident. At least one media outlet, <a href="https://www.fox19.com/2019/10/25/charges-filed-against-anderson-student-who-falsely-accused-teacher-sexual-assault/">Fox 19</a>, is still referring to the girl as a “victim” even though she has now been charged with “first degree making false alarms,” a misdemeanor.
The teacher was placed on administrative leave during the investigation, but cleared to return to teaching after police determined the accusations against him were false.
On October 11, the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) released <a href="https://www.hcso.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/AndersonTwp-HighSchoolTeacher-10-11-2019.pdf">a statement</a> saying the investigation was concluded.
“As a result of the investigation it was determined that no criminal or inappropriate activity of any kind occurred, and that the alleged incident was fabricated by the accuser. Forest Hills School District and Anderson High School are aware of the situation, and the investigation into the false accusations is ongoing,” the statement said.
On October 25, Sheriff Jim Neil released another <a href="https://www.hcso.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/AndersonTwp-HighSchoolTeacherUpdate-10-25-2019.pdf">statement</a> saying the girl had been charged.
While local media outlets reported on the charges and that the girl had made a false accusation, they did not report what led police to determine she had made up the incident. In response to a Daily Wire inquiry, a spokesman for HCSO said the girl “disclosed the allegations were false.”
Forest Hills Superintendent Scot Prebles <a href="https://www.wlwt.com/article/sheriff-anderson-student-fabricated-sex-assault-claims-against-teacher/29442351">told WLWT5</a> that the school district was “working through” the ordeal.
&#8220;Although we&#8217;ve had a tough day, we&#8217;re all working through it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The repercussions of this do have long term impact.&#8221;
Prebles added that school staff are now “jittery,” due to the false allegations.
“We have a staff who is jittery right now, because this could be done on any day to any one of us,&#8221; Prebles said. &#8220;We&#8217;re also going to make sure that we are supporting our staff member. We have a staff member who has been hurt by an accusation. It was not an accurate accusation.”
As with many false accusations of sexual assault made by women, rather than treating the accuser as a criminal, the school district is concerned with helping her.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to do everything we can to help our students, to help this particular student, to work with their family, to make sure that they&#8217;re in a good place and they&#8217;re maturing and they&#8217;re growing from this situation,&#8221; Prebles said.
Such consideration is rarely afforded to males who commit misdemeanors.
Since the teenager was only charged with a misdemeanor, despite the serious nature of the allegations, she will likely face community service or a fine, if any punishment at all.
This is common for women who make false accusations of rape and sexual assault, since they are only considered misdemeanors relating to filing a false police report. Making such a false report is a unique kind of crime, however, one that causes severe harm to those falsely accused. The flippancy with which police departments can handle such accusations does nothing to help real victims of sexual assault or the victims of false accusations.

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13-Year-Old Girl Charged After Falsely Accusing Teacher Of Sexual Assault

Education

Hoax

It seems like at least once a year we’re subjected to another claim that women on college campuses in America are at an exponentially higher risk of sexual assault than the world’s most dangerous countries.
Scientists often talk about the need for a study to be replicated to prove its results, but as we’ve seen time and time again with sexual assault surveys (that’s what they actually are) a flawed survey can be replicated a thousand times using the same flawed and disingenuous methods.
As I’ve <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sorry-activists-another-flawed-survey-doesnt-prove-rape-culture">written</a> multiple <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lies-damned-lies-and-campus-sexual-assault-ashe-schow">times</a>, surveys that use an overly broad definition of sexual assault are guaranteed to get large, headline-inducing, numbers. The latest version of this debunked survey method comes from the <a href="https://www.aau.edu/sites/default/files/AAU-Files/Key-Issues/Campus-Safety/FULL_2019_Campus_Climate_Survey.pdf">Association of American Universities</a>. Outside of the frightening headlines, the survey, like all others of its kind, does not really show what it is purported to show.
The vast majority of the “sexual assault” allegedly reported by respondents (in reality, they’re asked if they’ve experienced a particular action and the researchers then call that sexual assault) are instances of “unwanted” contact such as a stolen kiss or possibly even an accidental touch. These instances are rolled in with forcible rape to make it seem as though the problem is larger than it really is. As multiple critics have observed, asking about “unwanted” conduct is unfair, as people do not know something is unwanted unless they try. Misreading social signals should not be considered sexual assault along the same lines as forcible rape.
We see this in certain results from the AAU study. At one point, students were asked if they had witnessed sexual assault and misconduct against other students.
“The most common situation respondents reported they observed was someone making sexual comments that made others feel uncomfortable or offended (26.0%), followed by witnessing a situation they believe could have led to sexual assault (15.0%), witnessing someone behaving in a controlling or abusive manner (13.0%), and witnessing sexually harassing behavior (7.0%),” the authors of the study wrote.
One of the other major things to keep in mind with these studies is that they are so often not representative of the national population. This study points that out, and also states that studies that have looked into the matter have found that students are safer than non-students.
“The variation across schools emphasizes the importance of not generalizing from these 33 schools to a larger population (e.g. national),” the authors wrote. “The schools participating in the survey were not randomly selected, and the rates discussed in this report should not be seen as representing student populations beyond this group of schools.”
“Furthermore, the prevalence rates discussed in this report should not be interpreted as an indication that attending one of these four-year schools is extraordinarily dangerous. There have been very few studies using similar methodologies that have compared the sexual assault rates of college students to sexual assault rates among adults of similar age who are not in college or graduate school,” the authors continued. “Of the few studies that have been conducted, researchers have concluded that, if anything, college students have lower rates of sexual assault than those not in college (Coker et al, 2016b; Axinn, et al. 2017; Sinozich &amp; Langton, 2014). While this does not minimize either the seriousness of the problem of sexual assault and misconduct while attending a four-year school or its consequences for students’ well-being, it does provide a wider perspective on its correlate.”
One interesting finding in this survey that didn’t get a lot of media attention is related to certain findings showing how men are victims.
A large majority of students often say they didn’t report the alleged sexual assault because they didn’t think it was “serious enough.” AAU wanted to know more about this finding. The AAU survey found some interesting response. Nearly 70% of women said they didn’t report because they weren’t injured. But deep in this section is the finding that men don’t report sexual misconduct because “my body showed involuntary arousal.” And 30% of men who said they didn’t report an offense said it was “because of the person’s gender, I thought it would be minimized or misunderstood.” This is understandable, as men who have accused women of sexual assault are often ignored unless the woman claims she was sexually assaulted as well.
There are more problems with the survey, however, as Greg Piper at The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/incapacitated-is-not-defined-in-latest-national-survey-of-campus-sexual-assault-thats-not-its-only-problem/">reported</a>. As I mentioned earlier, the broad definition of sexual misconduct helps pump up the numbers in these surveys to terrifying levels. From Piper:
<blockquote>The first major red flag: “sexual contact” includes “sexual touching,” which includes kissing, touching a “breast, chest, crotch, groin, or buttocks,” or touching someone “in a sexual way, even if the touching is over the other’s clothes.”
In other words, that last category depends on how a reporting student perceived any act of touching – with no regard for intent, duration or even body part touched. An accidental grazing of a shoulder could be reported by a student as “sexual touching.”
“Inability to consent or stop what was happening” appears 174 times in the survey results. It is defined as the student being “unable to consent or stop what was happening because they were passed out, asleep, or incapacitated due to alcohol or drugs.”
“Passed out” and “asleep” seem fairly objective. But “incapacitated due to alcohol or drugs” – which are involved in the vast majority of Title IX due process lawsuits I’ve reviewed – is not.</blockquote>
As Piper goes on to note, schools across the country have treated “any alcohol consumption by an accuser as strong evidence that she (and it’s invariably “she” in heterosexual disputes) could not consent.”
Incapacitated should be along the lines of “passed out” or “asleep.” Lowered inhibitions is not the same thing. Supporters of broad definitions of sexual assault like to use the analogy of drunk driving when asked why the accuser’s alcohol level matters but not the accused’s. But the analogy should go both ways. A woman can’t get out of a drunk driving offense by claiming she was too drunk to know what she was doing. It’s not an excuse.

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Another year, another bogus campus sexual assault survey

Just when you believed that Harvey Weinstein had permanently faded into obscurity, the Hollywood mogul resurfaced just in time for Halloween.
According to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/women-confront-harvey-weinstein-at-new-york-actors-event-asked-shut-up-leave-1249922?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=Direct&amp;utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral">The Hollywood Reporter </a>(THR), the disgraced producer was publicly heckled by three women and several performers while attending an Actor&#8217;s Hour event Wednesday night at the Downtime bar in New York City, which eventually culminated in the women being escorted out by staff.
In a lengthy <a href="https://twitter.com/ambercrollo/status/1187388554101571591">Twitter thread</a>, comedienne Amber Rollo, who was attending the event, claimed that Actor&#8217;s Hour invited Harvey Weinstein to what is billed as a &#8220;speakeasy for actors.&#8221; When comedienne Kelly Bachmann took the stage to perform, she quickly addressed the &#8220;Freddy Krueger in the room.&#8221;
&#8220;I was shocked to see him out, but not because I thought he would have shame, he is a sociopath and clearly has no shame. I&#8217;m shocked that he was at an event put on by and for artists,&#8221; said Rollo. &#8220;Not only was he invited, he was supported. My friend and badass comedian Kelly Bachman was performing on the show and when she went after the &#8216;Freddy Krueger&#8217; in the room she was booed and told to shut up.&#8221;
&#8220;Some people didn&#8217;t realize what was going on, some artists knew and were scared and some were outright supporting this f***ing serial rapist monster,&#8221; she continued.
Amber Rollo went on to claim that a woman in the audience began to cry as she shouted at Harvey Weinstein, which resulted in her being escorted out.
&#8220;At the show&#8217;s intermission, a woman started yelling about him being there. She was shouting and crying and seemed to be the only sane person there. SHE was kicked out. What the actual f**k?!&#8221; she said. &#8220;Let me explain that one more time, an event that was supposed to support actors and artists invited a serial rapist who has ruined at least 87 actors[&#8216;] lives and supported that monster over an actor in the room. They supported HIM over all the actors in the room.&#8221;
The woman escorted out of the room has since been identified as Zoe Stuckless, who <a href="https://www.facebook.com/zoe.stuckless" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wrote</a> on Facebook that she decided to confront Weinstein after reflecting upon his alleged victims.
&#8220;I thought about all the voices that have been silenced over the years,&#8221; said Stuckless. &#8220;I thought about the artists, the women, who are paralyzed by the same fear I felt, surrounded by colleagues who were intimidated into a culture of silence and passivity. The room was a microcosm of our whole community. And I couldn&#8217;t sit there and let him laugh. So I spoke up.&#8221;
&#8220;In some ways, tonight was a horrible, painful reminder of the power a man like Weinstein holds even now,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It was a reminder that even in this time of relative awareness it is hypnotically easy to be pulled into a culture of silence. However, it is also a reminder that our voices have so much more power when we stand together.&#8221;
After significant backlash on social media, a spokesperson for Downtime clarified that staff escorted the woman out for disturbing the peace.
&#8220;We want to address some concerns about a recent incident at Downtime,&#8221; a spokesperson wrote on Facebook, as reported by THR. &#8220;A company called Actors Hour rented our bar for a private event, with a guest list all their own. Shortly into the evening, one guest began heckling another, causing a disturbance to everyone in attendance. After several requests to stop were ignored, we kindly asked the heckler to leave.&#8221;
&#8220;Please know that our goal at Downtime is to create an environment where everyone feels welcome. We respect the privacy of our patrons and event partners, and want to ensure that all guests are treated equally, with the same service and respect,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;In keeping with this goal, we made a decision that would allow the evening to continue as planned. Thank you, Downtime.&#8221;
A representative for Weinstein subsequently told The Hollywood Reporter that the incident highlights how an individual&#8217;s rights can be eroded before any due process or conviction has taken place.
&#8220;Harvey Weinstein was out with friends enjoying the music and trying to find some solace in his life that has been turned upside down,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;This scene was uncalled for, downright rude and an example of how due process today is being squashed by the public, trying to take it away in the courtroom too.&#8221;
The statement also claimed that Weinstein was open to talking with the woman and did not ask that she be escorted out.
&#8220;As an aside — Harvey in fact suggested the woman should be allowed to talk and ask him any questions. The venue’s personnel asked the woman to leave, not Harvey’s. I would just point out that he is being treated as if he has been convicted,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;Accusations are, in fact, not convictions. Due process is still the foundation of each and every one of our civil rights in this country. Please don’t lose sight of that definitive conviction when you write. Anyone should be allowed to be there if they are acting in accordance with the norms of the space. As for the name calling, it was 100 percent not anyone in HW’s employ and not someone speaking on HW’s behalf.&#8221;
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Kelly (<a href="https://twitter.com/bellykachman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bellykachman</a>) is my hero. Just a general fuck you to the Freddy Krueger in the room. <a href="https://t.co/DZFm6fhxc1">pic.twitter.com/DZFm6fhxc1</a>
&mdash; clever, but make it spooky (@ambercrollo) <a href="https://twitter.com/ambercrollo/status/1187456327955734529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Harvey Weinstein In Court For Arraignment Over New Indictment For Sexual Assault

Women Heckle Harvey Weinstein During Actors Event, Get Escorted Out

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On Monday, author Sil Lai Abrams explained how her rape accusation against music mogul Russell Simmons and sexual assault charge against then &#8211; “Extra” host A.J. Calloway were allegedly killed off by NBC in 2018.
Abrams says Simmons, who has since moved to Bali, raped her in 1994. Mr. Calloway, who no longer works at &#8220;Extra&#8221; — which &#8220;airs in major markets on NBC owned-and-operated stations,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/russell-simmons-an-extra-host-nbc-news-a-sexual-assault-accusers-story-1123824">The Hollywood Reporter</a> — allegedly sexually assaulted the author in 2006. Both Simmons and Calloway have denied the allegations.
According to Abrams, her #MeToo claims were set to be covered by MSNBC host Joy Reid before the interview was killed off by NBC higher-ups in the same fashion journalist Ronan Farrow&#8217;s reporting on Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was apparently buried.
&#8220;I have been struck by the company’s (NBC) insistence that Ronan didn’t have the Harvey Weinstein story in the bag,&#8221; Abrams writes at <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-not-just-ronan-farrow-nbc-news-killed-my-rape-allegation-story-too?ref=scroll">The Daily Beast</a>. &#8220;I don’t believe a word of what it says because in 2018, the network killed my #MeToo story that was being reported by MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid. Incredibly, a year after NBC botched Farrow’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein, they had the audacity to do it again.&#8221;
Abrams says she was put through &#8220;a thorough vetting process” and an on-camera interview with Reid was taped on January 7, 2018, which was scheduled to air six days later. She assumed they would go forward with the taped interview and publish an accompanying #MeToo piece written by Reid for New York magazine. Neither, however, would hit the press. 
The day before the interview was set to air, Abrams was asked to contact Reid. 
&#8220;When we spoke a few hours later, she informed me that Russell Simmons&#8217; attorney had gone ballistic and NBC was not going to air the segment, and the New York magazine story was also on hold since they were paired,&#8221; Abrams said. &#8220;She assured me the story wasn’t dead, but that NBC simply needed more vetting done in order to feel comfortable with moving forward.&#8221;
&#8220;Over the next several months, NBC put me through an elaborate and bizarre vetting process,&#8221; Abrams continues. &#8220;I provided legal documentation, hospital bills, and over a dozen corroborating witnesses. Still, they stonewalled. I asked Joy repeatedly if NBC was going to do to her what it did to Ronan, and she said that she didn’t think so.&#8221;
In mid-February, Reid allegedly emailed Abrams:
<blockquote>“So basically the story got caught up in a couple of vices: the struggle to get comments from the principles (now mostly alleviated), threats from Russell’s lawyer that spooked NBC,” Joy told me via email. “So now NBC… is demanding that I do all of this additional reporting to meet a legal and standards review.”</blockquote>
“Still not clear why NBC is demanding more corroboration regarding A.J. [arrest] &#8230; his lawyer already confirmed the case, but I know this isn’t about you,” Abrams replied to the MSNBC host. 
“My team and I, my PA and senior producer helping me with the story met with the standards department rep today just to figure out what the heck’s going on,” Reid explained to Abrams in a phone call two weeks later. “I just have to get my company to have the guts to do the story. I’ve never done a story that has this much evidence before. I have more evidence than the LA Times and The New York Times stories combined. So the whole thing is, if my company will trust the evidence that I’ve shown them, which is substantial, they will do the story.”
When Abrams asked if the network was going to kill her story due to legal threats from Simmons&#8217; and Calloway’s attorneys, Reid allegedly told her: “We have enough that we have satisfied the standards side, but this is now in the hands of lawyers who have to determine the likelihood of a lawsuit by two people now, and what is the likelihood that we will prevail. … This has now gone up past the attorneys I deal with to the head of NBCUniversal’s lawyers. I’ve never been through anything like this.”
Abrams writes that the last time she spoke with Reid was on April 6, 2018, when Reid told her should take her story elsewhere. Senior management, Reid reportedly told her, had stopped responded to her inquiries about the story.
As reported last week by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-floats-real-reason-megyn-kelly-was-canned-from-nbc">The Daily Wire</a>, Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested that former NBC host Megyn Kelly was canned from the network because she called for an outside investigation into internal claims of sexual misconduct by former “Today” host Matt Lauer and the handling of Farrow’s reporting on Weinstein. 
“Last September, early September, you (Kelly) on your show, on the air on NBC, called for an independent investigation into these allegations,” Carlson said to Kelly, who appeared alongside the host on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Wednesday night. 
Carlson ran a clip of Kelly from September 2, 2018. “There is a question about whether or not there should be an outside investigator to take a hard look at this,” she said. “To me, as a lawyer, it’s just always better to just send it outside, and then people can have more faith in it and if there’s nothing to hide, you have no worries about it,” Kelly added. 
“People’s jaws hung open when you said that,” Carlson told Kelly. “There have been a couple of published accounts that say you were fired from NBC, a little more than a month later, for saying that.”
Kelly was ostensibly canned from NBC in October for discussing whether it’s “racist” or not for people to darken their faces for Halloween costumes.  
Carlson then pointed out that MSNBC host Chris Hayes similarly questioned NBC’s handling of such allegations and reporting. “He (Hayes) is saying essentially what you said, which is he doesn’t trust the management at NBC News,” he said to Kelly. “Given your experience, do you think he’s in jeopardy of being fired?”
Tellingly, Kelly responded: “No comment to that.” 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-floats-real-reason-megyn-kelly-was-canned-from-nbc">Tucker Carlson Floats Real Reason Megyn Kelly Was Canned From NBC: Called For Independent Investigation</a>

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Author Says Her Rape Claim Set To Air With Joy Reid Was Killed By NBC

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A University of Southern California (USC) student was awarded $142,100 in attorney’s fees after the California Second District Court of Appeal found the student was “denied a fair hearing” after being accused of sexual assault and rape.
The student, referred to in court documents reviewed by The Daily Wire as John Doe, was accused of sexually assaulting and raping a woman referred to only as Jane Roe after a night of partying and drinking. The two met while attending a “paint party” during which participants threw cups of paint on each other. Multiple colors of paint were used, including red. One student later interviewed as a witness during John’s Title IX investigation said she had red paint on her body, including behind her ears, for days after the party.
John and Jane were both drinking that night. Jane reported fell down a few times during the night, but the only video surveillance footage of her shows her walking fine. Witnesses from the party said she began to lean on people throughout the night and act in a matter inconsistent with her shy nature. At one point in the night, she sat on a strange man’s lap and was described by one of her friends as “very flirty.”
Jane was dating another student, referred to as “Andrew,” who was not at the party. Eventually, the group of students, including John and Jane, left the party. The other members of the group left, and John and Jane returned to her apartment. Footage from inside the elevator shows Jane pushing the wrong button for her apartment floor and looking around several other floors before finding her own. It also shows her interacting with others in the elevator and walking on her own. In her apartment, Jane vomited.
John left after their sexual encounter and apologized twice for his behavior, saying he had “no right to do what he did.”
The morning after the encounter, Jane claimed to have found puddles of blood on her sheets, air mattress, carpet, rectum, and thighs. She also acknowledged she still had paint on her body and wore a dress to cover but preserve the marks. She had texted Andrew, the man she was dating, during the night and he picked her up from the rape treatment center the next day. At Jane’s apartment, at her direction, Andrew threw out the sheets and deflated the air mattress.
Witnesses gave conflicting accounts about the marks in Jane’s apartment. Andrew agreed that there was blood in the apartment, but one of Jane’s other friends said she didn’t see blood. Photos of the apartment taken after the sheets were thrown out did not show blood on the carpet, though Jane claimed it did.
Jane refused to report the encounter to police. She instead reported it to USC administrators but did not provide her clothing or medical records. John was unable to independently test these items. The main investigator did not independently interview several key witnesses and dismissed one witness’ statements after she said she didn’t see blood in the apartment after the encounter.
John was found responsible and expelled. He sued the school, but his lawsuit was dismissed. He appealed to the California Second District Court of Appeal and won. That decision found in part that John’s inability to cross-examine the witnesses and evidence against him denied him a fair hearing. The case was remanded to the Superior Court of California and John was awarded attorney’s fees totaling $142,100. In her ruling, Judge Mitchell Beckloff rejected USC’s claim that students are harmed by fair investigations because it makes it more difficult to remove dangerous students from their campus.
“In opposition, Respondent suggests the Court of Appeal decision actually harms three million students by making it more difficult for schools to expel students the school believes committed harmful conduct,” Beckloff wrote. “The court disagrees. Ensuring a fair adjudicatory process for those accused of serious misconduct is not a societal harm. Instead, it is a key component of ensuring overall trust in an adjudicatory process. The court also disagrees with Respondent’s contention the decision here benefitted only a tiny percentage of students within the state. All students benefit from Respondent following its own policies and procedures.”
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated which Court of Appeal reversed the lower court&#8217;s decision.

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Accused Student Awarded $142,000 In Attorney’s Fees After Court Finds Campus Procedures Unfair

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On Wednesday morning, a rape allegation against former NBC daytime news star Matt Lauer hit the press. Brooke Nevils, a former NBC News employee, claimed she was anally raped by Lauer in 2014 while covering the Sochi Olympics. 
The accusation was detailed in journalist Ronan Farrow’s book &#8220;Catch and Kill” and picked up by Variety. 
Lauer has since flatly denied the accusation of rape, adding that it “defies common sense.” 
Nevils told Farrow that she, then &#8212; &#8220;Today&#8221; anchor Meredith Vieira, and Lauer had drinks at the hotel bar the NBC team was staying at during the Olympics. After socializing, Nevils said she went to Lauer’s hotel room to get back her press credentials, which she said were taken by Lauer as a joke. She then returned to his room a second time upon invite, when the alleged rape took place. 
“Once she was in his hotel room, Nevils alleges, Lauer — who was wearing a T-shirt and boxers — pushed her against the door and kissed her. He then pushed her onto the bed, ‘flipping her over, asking if she liked anal sex,’ Farrow writes. ‘She said that she declined several times,’” the <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/matt-lauer-rape-nbc-ronan-farrow-book-catch-kill-1203364485/">Variety</a> report said. 
Nevils claims she “was in the midst of telling him she wasn’t interested again when he ‘just did it,’” Farrow wrote in the book. “Lauer, she said, didn’t use lubricant. The encounter was excruciatingly painful. ‘It hurt so bad. I remember thinking, Is this normal?’ She told me she stopped saying no, but wept silently into a pillow.” 
“It was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent,” the former NBC employee told Farrow. “It was nonconsensual in that I said, multiple times, that I didn’t want to have anal sex.”
Nevils admitted that she had consensual, though she described them as “transactional,” sexual encounters with Lauer, some of which she initiated, after the alleged rape. 
The allegation was an open secret at NBC for years, Nevils claimed. 
“She told colleagues and superiors at NBC,” Farrow said in the book, adding, “This was no secret.”
In 2017, however, Nevils was encouraged by Vieira to go to NBC Universal human resources with a lawyer and make the complaint. Lauer was soon fired, though he denied any accusations of coercion. 
Lauer’s lawyer sent an open letter to Variety soon after the rape allegation hit the media on Wednesday, wherein Lauer denies all coercion claims by Nevils. 
“In a new book, it is alleged that an extramarital, but consensual, sexual encounter I have previously admitted having, was in fact an assault,” Lauer said. “It is categorically false, ignores the facts, and defies common sense.”
“I had an extramarital affair with Brooke Nevils in 2014,” the 61-year-old continued. “It began when she came to my hotel room very late one night in Sochi, Russia. We engaged in a variety of sexual acts. We performed oral sex on each other, we had vaginal sex, and we had anal sex. Each act was mutual and completely consensual.”
Mere hours after the allegation hit the media, “Today” show hosts Savanah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb reacted to the “shocking” claim. 
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Overnight, troubling new allegations about former TODAY anchor Matt Lauer were revealed from journalist Ronan Farrow’s soon-to-be-released book “Catch and Kill.” <a href="https://twitter.com/MorganRadford?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MorganRadford</a> reports the details. <a href="https://t.co/7ooO3oAJ5X">pic.twitter.com/7ooO3oAJ5X</a>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-nbc-reporter-levels-new-explosive-accusations-of-network-cover-up-nbc-fires-back">Former NBC Reporter Levels New Explosive Accusations Of Network Cover-Up; NBC Fires Back</a>

Matt Lauer Accused Of Rape By Former Colleague; Lauer Responds

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Ronan Farrow — who famously left NBC News after the network refused to publish what would eventually be his award-winning exposé on sexual assault allegations against mega-producer and Democratic mega-donor Harvey Weinstein — has leveled new accusations of an extensive &#8220;cover-up&#8221; by the news giant involving Weinstein, former NBC host Matt Lauer and the publisher of National Enquirer.
<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/ronan-farrow-book-how-harvey-weinstein-may-have-leveraged-matt-lauer-1246149">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, which was given a chance to review Farrow&#8217;s new book detailing the accusations, highlights some of the journalist&#8217;s new claims, including &#8220;secret payouts&#8221; to accusers and the potential role Lauer may have played in NBC&#8217;s decision to squash Farrow&#8217;s Weinstein report.
Farrow claims in &#8220;Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators&#8221; (available October 15) that in September 2017, Weinstein met with Dylan Howard, chief content officer of American Media Inc, the publisher of national Enquirer, at New York&#8217;s Loews Regency hotel.
Having become &#8220;increasingly alarmed&#8221; about reports of Farrow&#8217;s developing exposé, Weinstein, who had &#8220;worked to suppress variations of that story for decades,&#8221; was huddling with Howard to find some sort of &#8220;leverage&#8221; to help him &#8220;bully NBC News into killing the story,&#8221; THR reports.
That &#8220;leverage&#8221; came in the form of &#8220;several thick manila envelopes&#8221; allegedly presented by Howard to Weinstein involving Lauer.
&#8220;Weinstein made it known to the network that he was aware of Lauer&#8217;s behavior and capable of revealing it,&#8221; Farrow alleges.
&#8220;Citing anonymous sources at NBC and AMI, Farrow, 31, claims that Weinstein was using the Enquirer&#8216;s accumulated dirt on the Today show star&#8217;s alleged workplace misconduct to pressure NBC executives to kill Farrow&#8217;s long-gestating Weinstein exposé,&#8221; THR explains.
NBC has vehemently denied the accusation to both Farrow and THR.
&#8220;NBC News was never contacted by AMI, or made aware in any way of any threats from them, or from anyone else, for that matter,&#8221; a network spokesperson told THR. &#8220;And the idea of NBC News taking a threat seriously from a tabloid company about Matt Lauer is especially preposterous, since they already covered him with great regularity.&#8221;
But Farrow stands by his claims, insisting that his book has been rigorously fact-checked and that he interviewed more than 200 sources and reviewed &#8220;hundreds of pages of previously undisclosed contracts, emails and text messages,&#8221; THR notes.
The book also claims that Weinstein had such frequent contact with NBC News Chairman Andy Lack, NBC News President Noah Oppenheim and MSNBC President Phil Griffin that his assistants referred to them as &#8220;the triumvirate.&#8221;
The most explosive claims in the book, THR underscores, are &#8220;seven allegations of workplace sexual misconduct by Lauer that seem to contradict the network&#8217;s stance that management had no knowledge of his behavior as well as seven nondisclosure agreements — many with hush-money payouts — to accusers of Lauer and others at NBC.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-lauer-accused-of-rape-by-former-colleague-lauer-responds">Matt Lauer Accused Of Rape By Former Colleague; Lauer Responds</a>

Former NBC Reporter Levels New Explosive Accusations Of Network Cover-Up; NBC Fires Back

Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court Sunday to celebrate the first anniversary of now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s confirmation with marches, signs, and calls to &#8220;impeach the m&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-r.&#8221;
The Washington Examiner reports that demonstrators crowded the Supreme Court steps, blocked traffic, and listened to speeches from members of the &#8220;squad&#8221; &#8212; Congress&#8217; group of freshman, female, progressive legislators, as they agitated to remove Kavanaugh from the nation&#8217;s highest bench.
Although Kavanaugh has proven himself to be something of a middle-of-the-road jurist, women&#8217;s groups have made it their mission to remove Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court over long-unproven allegations that he sexually assaulted Dr. Christine Blasey Ford when the pair were teenagers.
Since Dr. Ford offered her testimony, she has produced no further evidence that a drunk Kavanaugh pinned her to a beach-house bed and tried to rape her, as she claimed. Her only witness, a friend named Leland Keyser, has since noted that she has no recollection of the incident.
Demonstrators not only noted Dr. Ford&#8217;s claims, but also those of several other women, none of which were substantiated, and of a male classmate of Kavanaugh&#8217;s from Yale, who reported to two New York Times reporters that Kavanaugh and his friends had tried to sexually assault a female Yale classmate. The classmate denies the incident ever happened.
That did not stop protesters from throwing themselves across the Supreme Court steps, or dressing as Handmaids to demand the &#8220;rapists'&#8221; impeachment.
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The term &#8220;rapists&#8221; appears to refer to both Kavanaugh &#8212; who was not accused of rape &#8212; and President Donald Trump, who has been accused of multiple sexual assaults.
Protesters also called for voters to &#8220;Abort tRump&#8221; (emphasis on the &#8220;rump&#8221; for good measure), and chastized the &#8220;PABOTUS,&#8221; (which, apparently, stands for &#8220;p&#8212;y a&#8211; bitch of the United States,&#8221; and yes, your fair reporter had to look it up).
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Some more anti-Kavanaugh protest signs. One reads &quot;Abort tRump.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/mftnPTjZxS">pic.twitter.com/mftnPTjZxS</a>
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&#8220;Boofed,&#8221; refers to flatulence; Brett Kavanaugh was forced to define the term in his testimony about the incident with Dr. Ford in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. A popular internet conspiracy theory suggested that &#8220;boofing&#8221; actually refers to a quasi-sexual act involving psychoactive drugs like cocaine. Several of Kavanaugh&#8217;s critics (including former Hillary Clinton campaign director Brian Fallon) <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/01/kavanaugh-boofing-fbi-investigation-220808">demanded, at the time, that Kavanaugh be investigated</a> for &#8220;lying&#8221; about &#8220;boofing,&#8221; as well as the &#8220;Devil&#8217;s Triangle&#8221; and other odd terms under oath as an excuse to begin impeachment proceedings.
Other protesters demanded that Americans &#8220;remember Merrick Garland,&#8221; former President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominee to the Supreme Court who was never confirmed.
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One of the new co-presidents of the Women&#39;s March at the anti-Kavanaugh protest says she has not forgotten about Merrick Garland. <a href="https://t.co/qfYPOZU6ZW">pic.twitter.com/qfYPOZU6ZW</a>
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And, just in case the protests didn&#8217;t seem like enough of a farce, one of Kavanaugh&#8217;s accusers, a woman by the name of Julie Swetnick appeared as one of the speakers. Swetnick accused Kavanaugh of leading a &#8220;gang rape&#8221; ring that operated in the greater suburban Washington, D.C., area, which held parties where they would spike punch and then share the women in a rape &#8220;train.&#8221; She was represented by Democratic presidential contender-turned-indicted potential fraudster, Michael Avenatti.
Her claims were, in a word, outrageous.
&#8220;Mr. Avenatti vouched for a sworn statement from Ms. Swetnick in which she alleged she saw Justice Kavanaugh take part in a gang-rape culture at 10 or more Georgetown Preparatory school parties in the early 1980s. Justice Kavanaugh vehemently denied Ms. Swetnick’s story,&#8221; the Washington Times reported. &#8220;She graduated from Gaithersburg High School in Montgomery County in 1981. Mr. Kavanaugh graduated from Georgetown Prep in 1983. None of his contemporaries in statements to the committee could recall ever knowing or seeing Ms. Swetnick at any high school parties. They denied the parties included punch bowls, spiked or otherwise, as Ms. Swetnick alleged.&#8221;
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One of the new co-presidents of the Women&#39;s March at the anti-Kavanaugh protest says she has not forgotten about Merrick Garland. <a href="https://t.co/qfYPOZU6ZW">pic.twitter.com/qfYPOZU6ZW</a>
&mdash; Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) <a href="https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1180892843331772416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/6/senate-reports-paints-devastating-profile-justice-/">The Washington Times</a> recalls that Swetnick never actually testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Committee&#8217;s investigation team discovered a host of issues with Swetnick&#8217;s story and Swetnick herself.
At the rally on Sunday, demonstrators chanted &#8220;We believe you!&#8221; during Swetnick&#8217;s speech.
The party eventually moved to Sen. Mitch McConnell&#8217;s (R-KY) house because why not.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh remains on the court and although one member of the &#8220;squad,&#8221; Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) claimed to be preparing a demand for an impeachment inquiry, there are no plans in place to remove him from the bench.

Kavanaugh protests

Protesters Swarm Supreme Court On First Anniversary Of Kavanaugh Confirmation

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Shannon Maley had a seeming vendetta against a 20-year-old man with learning disabilities who was dating her sister. She barely knew him, yet claimed he sexually assaulted her and her friends. Maley then created multiple social media accounts under the young man’s name and sent herself disturbing and threatening messages in order to frame him.
She has since pleaded guilty to “perverting the course of justice and also to harassing witnesses,” The Daily Record <a href="https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/coatbridge-man-driven-brink-suicide-20378894">reported</a>.
The young man, who will not be named by The Daily Wire because he is the victim and will instead be referred to as John Doe, told the Record he was on the brink of suicide until he was acquitted last November on five charges of sexual assault. The outlet reported that he “sat on the ledge of his 14th-storey flat window seriously contemplating whether life was worth living because of the vicious lies that had ‘destroyed’ him.”
Maley’s messages to herself included threats “to set you on fire and watch you burn alive” and claims that John was “not going to stop causig [sic] you pain.”
Maley had apparently intimidated her friends into making accusations against John as well. One of those friends eventually admitted that the young man had not sexually assaulted her and that Maley had harassed her and tried to influence their testimony at John’s trial.
John was also accused of sexually assaulting two 15-year-old girls who were also allegedly friends of Maley. A witness explained that John didn’t do what he was accused of doing, leading to acquittal on those charges.
Maley’s story unraveled after she accused John of sending a threatening message while he was in prison without access to the Internet.
No reason has been given for Maley’s vendetta against John, and the young man still fears for his safety.
“It feels like Shannon Maley has destroyed my life. I still can’t walk down Coatbridge Main Street without people shouting abuse at me,” John told the outlet. “I’ve had voicemails from people I don’t even know saying they’re going to blow up my house.”
“Unfortunately, people believe what they see online and it’s a very dangerous situation. I walked free from court and now she’s admitted making up all these messages and telling witnesses what to say,” he added. “She’s an absolute monster.”
John also told the Record that he tried to slit his wrist while he was on remand, which is what led to him being relocated. But he was relocated to an apartment on the 14th floor, and he sat on the ledge and contemplated jumping.
“But I didn’t want to die because of someone else’s lies,” he told the outlet. “I’m happy I didn’t, because now I will hopefully see her punished for ruining my life.”
He said he would like to thank the woman who came forward to admit Maley was lying, but that he still doesn’t “feel safe to walk the streets because of what Maley has made people think about me.”
His mother said that she received angry messages from around the world, including in America, where any accusation made by a woman is supposed to be believed.
“She saw [John] as an easy victim because even though he’s 20, his difficulties mean he has a mind more like a young teenager,” his mother told the Record. “Like [John], I want to see her punished for the devastation she has caused.”

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She Accused Him Of Rape. She Then Sent Herself Threatening Messages To Frame Him.

Scotland

While the decidedly progressive notion of uncritically believing all women continues to be pilloried by <a href="https://quillette.com/2018/11/06/how-the-metoo-movement-helped-create-a-script-for-false-accusers/">endless evidence</a>, it remains very much in vogue among the Left. The most recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-latest-allegation-against-brett-kavanaugh-matt-walsh">spurious allegations</a> against Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh demonstrate this to a fatiguing degree. Due process has been thrown out of the proverbial window when it comes to accusations of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-moral-musical-chairs-metoo-movement-continues-sharif-khan">sexual misconduct toward men</a> with little hope of change in the foreseeable future, particularly in the increasingly progressive court of public opinion.
What these zealots fail to recognize in their uncritical witch-hunts is just how hard we, as Americans, fought to eradicate such false accusations. For reference, the most telling example in our recent history is that of Emmett Till and Carolyn Bryant.
In 1955, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till">Emmett Till</a> was a mere 14-year-old boy when 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant accused him of sexually assaulting her. A kangaroo court ensued. Till was murdered by a small mob, his body mutilated and dumped in the Tallahatchie River.
Historian Timothy Tyson states that in a 2007 interview Carolyn Bryant admitted to <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/how-author-timothy-tyson-found-the-woman-at-the-center-of-the-emmett-till-case">fabricating her accusations</a> against Emmett Till. While historians can debate the details, what simply cannot be denied is that a young teenage boy was denied due process and brutally killed over an accusation.
While public figures often steal the headlines, countless men continue to face outright ruin over false claims of sexual misconduct as well. In 2010, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-11676804">Paul Joseph</a>, an IT consultant from the UK, was accused of rape by his then-girlfriend. Though she was punished with three years in prison for the false allegation, it still destroyed Joseph’s life in the process.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Banks_(American_football)">Brian Banks</a> was once a top football prospect out of high school on his way to attend USC. Instead, a false rape claim forced him to serve six years in prison. He was finally exonerated in 2012, but his dreams of playing pro ball were long dashed upon the rocks.
A <a href="https://torontosun.com/news/world/mean-girls-face-lawsuit-over-false-sex-allegations-against-teen">Canadian teenage boy</a> was falsely accused of sexual assault simply because he was disliked by a group of teenage girls. He was forced out of his job, had to be homeschooled for the remainder of high school, and suffered extensive psychological damage as a result.
<a href="https://coloradosun.com/2019/02/14/moses-el-exonerated-compensation/">Clarence Moses-EL</a> was imprisoned for 28 years because his accuser dreamt he raped her. Though awarded a settlement, no amount of money can give back nearly three decades of his life lost behind bars.
The tragic story of Emmett Till needs to haunt the hashtag of #believewomen. The cruel, regressive irony of the murdered young boy amid the shrill, uncritical demand of progressives results in a suffocating kind of disbelief. Due process, the hallmark of American justice, remains under constant attack as progressives recklessly wield their hashtags with ineptitude and a complete disregard for actual principles. In doing so, they resurrect old ghosts from our past we once thought banished to the halls of history.
More from Sharif Khan:
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KHAN: The Ghost Of Emmett Till And The Inherent Dangers Of #BelieveWomen

Constitution

Racism

Sexism

A former Boston College student was accused of violently groping a woman as he crossed a crowded dance floor on a student cruise in 2012. Now that student was awarded more than $100,000 in damages after a jury determined the school violated his contract and “basic fairness” when it found him responsible despite evidence suggesting otherwise.
The male student, referred to in court documents as John Doe, was arrested for the alleged groping, but the charges were dropped after video from the cruise and forensic analysis seemed to show Doe had not committed the assault. Doe tried to tell campus investigators about an “alternative culprit” he saw just as the woman screamed and who allegedly told Doe that he had groped her. Boston College instead allowed this other suspect to testify against Doe and a senior administrator suggested he be put “at ease” when testifying.
The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/jury-awards-six-figures-to-accused-student-for-title-ix-kangaroo-court/">reported</a> that a school adjudication panel couldn’t reach a verdict until a senior administrator discouraged them from a “no finding” resolution. The panel then found Doe “responsible” for “indecent assault and battery,” which is what he was originally charged with by police before those charges were dropped. The original allegation claimed “penetrative assault” against the woman on the dance floor.
Doe sued the school and the lawsuit actually resulted in a jury trial — the first of such lawsuits since the Obama administration changed school guidelines regarding campus sexual assault. Other lawsuits resulted in settlements or dismissals before reaching a trial.
At the trial, the Fix reported, Catherine-Mary Rivera, who chaired the hearing to determine Doe’s responsibility, testified that school adjudicators did not treat the hearing “as a search for truth,” which the outlet suggested likely swayed the jury.
The Boston College Heights <a href="http://bcheights.com/magazine/index.php/2019/jury-considers-basic-fairness-in-trial-for-alumnus-lawsuit/">reported</a> that school administrators testified that they “had questions about [the alternative suspect’s] honesty” because he kept changing his story. For example, the student’s story was inconsistent about “whether or not he blacked out on the night of the cruise and his claim of lying to Doe that he blacked out.”
These administrators also apparently doubted the testimony of other witnesses, who were drunk during the incident. The college apparently discounted the testimony of the victim’s friend, referred to as “Betsy,” who was sober and claimed there were multiple people between Doe and the victim at the time of the incident. Still, the school found him responsible.
Boston College <a href="https://twitter.com/kcjohnson9/status/1176237543999901696">proposed jury instructions</a> at the trial, claiming it was not contractually obligated “to hear Doe’s side of the story prior to the hearing” or to “proceed with the hearing prior to the end of the criminal investigation.”
U.S. District Judge Denise Casper had initially dismissed Doe’s lawsuit, but the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived it. Casper severely limited Doe’s ability to present his case, professor and author K.C. Johnson said in <a href="https://twitter.com/kcjohnson9/status/1176234469776416768">a tweet</a>. Casper “significantly restricted the number of witnesses” Doe could present, including “virtually all of his experts.” Casper also limited the jury to determining only if Boston College breached its contract with Doe and denied him “basic fairness.” The jury determined that the school had, and awarded Doe nearly $25,000 in lost tuition and $77,600 for lost income due to the one-year “set back” of his planned start of law school.

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Video And Forensics Showed He Was Innocent But College Suspended Him Anyway. He Was Just Awarded More Than $100k.

Boston

The current cultural movement that insists ill intent in many normal encounters continues to ensnare those with autism, who are unable to read the social cues of others.
The family of 5-year-old Nathan Putnam says their son has been punished, “labeled a sexual predator” and “accused of sexual harassment” for hugging a classmate and kissing another one on the cheek. Nathan, who has autism, is unaware that what he is doing is unacceptable.
&#8220;What do you do when a 5 year child is being labeled a sexual predator and accused of sexual harassment by the school system? It was disclosed that it will go in his record for the rest of his life that he is a sex offender,” Nathan’s grandmother, Debi Amick, wrote on Facebook, <a href="https://local12.com/news/nation-world/family-of-5-year-old-with-autism-says-he-was-punished-for-hugging-at-school">according to WTVC</a>. “This child is austic [sic], he comprehends and functions very different than your typical 5 year. What do you do? Who do you turn to for help when the school will not even listen to the child’s doctor when he explains the child’s difficulties in his comprehension of simple things such as boundaries.”
The outlet spoke to Nathan’s mother, Summery, who said she was “sick to my stomach” after a teacher called her and said: “You need to have a talk with Nathan about boundaries.”
&#8220;If you don&#8217;t understand how autism works, you&#8217;ll think he&#8217;s acting out or being difficult,&#8221; she told the outlet. &#8220;But, that&#8217;s not the situation.&#8221;
Hamilton County Department of Education spokesman Tim Hensley told WTVC in a statement that “School personnel are required to [sic] concerns regarding children to the Department of Child Services (DCS)” and that it’s “up to DCS to determine if those reports are acted on by DCS and what form those actions may take.”
Putnam told the outlet that Nathan has switched classrooms and teachers and is now enrolled in special education services.
Nathan is hardly the first autistic child to be punished for his condition, but he currently appears to be the youngest. In 2015, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weve-reached-peak-absurdity-when-it-comes-to-campus-sexual-assault">there was the story</a> of Brian Ferguson, then a 20-year-old student at Navarro College in Texas. Ferguson, like Nathan, has autism, and would hug his friends and kiss them on the top of their head since, at 6’5”, he towered over them. One day Ferguson saw a woman who looked like his friend, so he went up to her and hugged her and kissed her on top of her head. The woman, however, was not Ferguson’s friend. Ferguson was expelled for “sexual assault” because of the kiss on the woman’s head. After a national backlash ensued, Ferguson was re-admitted to the school and even met with the woman whom he allegedly assaulted. She wasn’t the one who reported him, and never wanted him punished for what she called a “peck,” but school administrators witnessed the interaction and stepped in.
In 2018, Marcus Knight was investigated for sexual misconduct for giving a woman a “fist bump” and taking a selfie with another. Knight has autism and cerebral palsy and routinely tried to make friends with the two gestures. While taking a selfie with a woman, he accidentally hit the “burst” feature on his phone’s camera, which instantly took about 200 to 300 photos. The College Fix reported another woman reported Knight for a “fist bump.” She later changed her story to claim Knight had “hugged her, sat very close to her, grabbed her with one hand, and with the other tried to get her hands onto his upper thighs.”
Knight’s mother, Aurora, said the new version of events seemed physically impossible given the photos Marcus had with the woman. Still, Marcus was investigated and denied the ability to participate in his own defense. His mother set up a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-support-for-marcus">GoFundMe page</a> to raise money for Marcus’ defense. His suspension has since been lifted, but the school refuses to remove the investigations from his record.

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5-Year-Old With Autism Labeled Sexual Predator For Kissing A Classmate On The Cheek And Hugging Another

Disability

Sexual Harassment

In an attempt to smear Attorney General William Barr, NBC News framed a story about Barr’s support for due process (which shouldn’t be controversial) as him supporting rapists.
It’s a typical tactic by the media these days. Ever since the Obama administration issued guidelines in 2011 warning schools that they needed to find more male students responsible for sexual assault, due process has gone out the window. In 2017, professor K.C. Johnson and scholar Stuart Taylor wrote a book about the issue. At the time, I wrote a <a href="https://www.realclearbooks.com/articles/2017/06/17/required_reading_for_inbound_college_freshmen_110115.html">review</a> for RealClear Books — and my previous work on the subject was also referenced multiple times in the book.
The book details how colleges and universities ignore exculpatory evidence and hinder students’ due process rights in order to obtain findings of responsibility to avoid federal investigations that threaten the schools’ federal funding. Johnson and Taylor, using court documents, describe multiple instances where male students have been found responsible even though the evidence suggested they were innocent.
NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/barr-praised-2017-book-claims-colleges-unfairly-went-after-male-n1056141">reported</a> that Barr “strongly endorsed a 2017 book accusing colleges and universities of unfairly punishing male students accused of rape.” That is not accurate, as the book accuses schools of unfairly punishing male students dubiously accused of rape. The book does not decry students who are likely guilty receiving too harsh a punishment, as NBC claimed.
&#8220;President Obama&#8217;s Education Department — promulgating regulations beyond its statutory authority, invoking erroneous data, and fanning the false narrative of a &#8216;rape culture&#8217; on college campuses — has created a regime of kangaroo justice,&#8221; Barr wrote in the blurb.
This is an accurate statement. The Obama administration used <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35309/lies-damned-lies-and-campus-sexual-assault-ashe-schow">false data</a> purporting to show that 20% of women are sexually assaulted in college (surveys that use an overly broad definition of sexual assault in order to get such a high number) to justify eviscerating due process rights in campus tribunals. This same statistic has been used to claim there is a “rape culture” on college campuses, with activists and politicians insisting that drunken hookups are now sexual assault. Further, as I previously stated, the lack of due process and the ignoring of exculpatory evidence create a kangaroo court. Franz Kafka would be appalled.
NBC also distorted a recent story about Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh. NBC wrote: “The New York Times published an excerpt of a new book detailing asexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh while a student at Yale that he had previously denied. The book also includes information about a new allegation.”
This leaves out important details — like how the book does not contain corroborating evidence for the previous claim and the new allegation was denied by the alleged victim.
The <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/man-receives-sex-act-while-blacked-out-gets-accused-of-sexual-assault">most egregious case</a> in the book from Johnson and Stuart involves a male Amherst College student who blacked out, received oral sex from his girlfriend’s roommate, and was accused of sexual assault nearly two years later. In the time between the act and the accusation, the female accuser lost her friendship with the man’s girlfriend and became friends with feminist campus activists. Even though Amherst has a policy explaining that a person could be in a black-out state without appearing to be inebriated and determined the male student was likely blacked out, it still found him responsible and expelled him. After the student hired an attorney, he learned that the woman had lied about what happened after the alleged encounter. She claimed she was distraught and called a friend over. That “friend” was actually another male student with whom she had been flirting previously in the night. She sent text messages to her friend explaining that she had done something “so fu**ig [sic] stupid” with her roommate’s boyfriend and that “it’s pretty [obvious] I wasn’t an innocent bystander.”
She proceeded to text this friend about the man she invited over after the encounter — about how he wasn’t making a move on her. This male student signed an affidavit saying she was not at all distraught that night.
When the male student brought these messages to Amherst, school administrators refused to allow him back in, claiming the process worked. The school eventually <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2017/07/26/college-students-falsely-accused-sexual-assault-good-couple-weeks/">settled</a> with the student.
Naturally, NBC didn’t include anything from the actual book in its report.

Bill Barr

NBC Smears AG Barr, Book About Campus Sexual Assault

William Barr

The media this week is trumpeting a study that makes a shocking claim: One in every 16 women say their first sexual experience was rape. As NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/09/16/761201571/tip-of-the-iceberg-1-in-16-women-report-first-sexual-experience-as-rape">notes</a>, this is just &#8220;the tip of the iceberg.&#8221; The one-in-16 figure — over 6% of all women between the ages of 18 and 44 — could even be an &#8220;underestimate,&#8221; we&#8217;re assured.
News reports on this study have, of course, tied these revelations to the #MeToo movement. We are meant to come away with the impression that America is chock-full of rapists, and millions upon millions of women have fallen victim to the millions upon millions of predators lurking behind every corner. A closer look at the data, however, reveals a drastically different picture. There is no reason to artificially inflate rape statistics — rape is horrible enough, and far too common already — but this study does just that.
Here&#8217;s the key portion of the NPR report (emphasis mine):
<blockquote>About 6.5% women — an estimated 3.3 million nationwide — said that their first sexual experience was rape.
The average age of most victims was about 15 when they were assaulted. The average age of their partner, or the assailant, was 27, Hawks notes. This suggests a &#8220;major power discrepancy&#8221; and, possibly, a difference in physical size as well, she says.
More than 26% said they were physically threatened during the encounter, 46% said they were physically held down. Over half (56%) of them said they were verbally pressured into having sex, and 16% said that their partner threatened to end the relationship if they didn&#8217;t have sex. These forms of coercion were not mutually exclusive.
&#8220;The definition of rape is any sexual encounter that&#8217;s unwanted or nonconsensual,&#8221; Hawks says. &#8220;And when a [woman or girl] is coerced into having sex that she doesn&#8217;t want to have, that is still considered a rape.&#8221;</blockquote>
There is quite a lot going on in these few paragraphs. First, NPR misquotes the study&#8217;s <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2751247">findings</a>. The average age of most &#8220;victims&#8221; was actually 15.6 and the average age of the &#8220;assailant&#8221; was six years older, which would make him 21 rather than 27. More to the point, &#8220;verbal pressure&#8221; has been lumped together with physical force. Dr. Laura Hawks, the primary author of the study, broadens rape to include &#8220;any sexual encounter that&#8217;s unwanted.&#8221; The &#8220;or&#8221; in the phrase &#8220;unwanted or nonconsensual&#8221; makes it clear that a sexual act could be in every sense consensual — meaning, both partners actively and affirmatively agree to participate in it — and yet rape still may have occurred.
This is madness.
Traditionally, rape hinges entirely on consent. The Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/blog/updated-definition-rape">defines</a> it with precise detail: &#8220;The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.&#8221;
Now, it is understood that verbal consent is not always legitimate consent. A child is not capable of consenting, no matter what they say, because they lack the psychological and emotional faculties to make that sort of decision. For a similar reason, you cannot get consent by drugging someone. That&#8217;s one of the reasons why &#8220;unwanted&#8221; does not and cannot enter into the definition of rape. A rapist cannot be excused by arguing that the victim really &#8220;wanted it.&#8221; The only question we need to ask is this: Did you have sex with someone who did not or could not consent? If so, you&#8217;re a rapist. If not, you aren&#8217;t.
A man who pressures a woman to have sex by threatening to end the relationship might be a jerk, but he&#8217;s not a rapist. The woman, if she is a mentally competent adult, can still make her own choice. She is not being forced to do anything. She can decline the man&#8217;s advances and she can terminate the sexual act at any time. Her situation, however unpleasant, cannot be compared to a woman who is physically held down against her will and violated. If she decides to go through with it, the sex may be unloving and transactional, but it is still consensual. She may regret it afterwards. She may feel used (she was). She may want to leave him (she should). But none of this, in itself, makes it rape.
And this new definition of rape wouldn&#8217;t just make everyday jerks and bad boyfriends into rapists; it would turn any man who has ever used any form of persuasion — flattery, sweet talk, and so forth — into a sex criminal. In all of those cases, it could be argued that the woman didn&#8217;t really want to, wasn&#8217;t really into it, and thus was raped. Any wife that has ever had slightly begrudging or unenthusiastic sex with her husband is now a sexual assault survivor. Dr. Hawks is right: By this definition, the actual percentage of &#8220;rape victims&#8221; is way, way higher than 6%.
To make matters worse, the standard is inconsistently applied. If a man who convinces a woman to have sex is a rapist, isn&#8217;t a woman who seduces a man also a rapist? Aren&#8217;t strippers coaxing money out of men&#8217;s pockets now rapists? Aren&#8217;t prostitutes strutting on the street corner rapists? Isn&#8217;t any woman who uses emotional pressure of any kind to extract any concession or compromise out of a man now guilty of assault? It&#8217;s true that men can be manipulative in getting what they want out of a relationship — and it&#8217;s true that what they often want is sex — but women have been known to employ their own forms of manipulation to achieve their own ends. If the man is a rapist, so is she. Coercion, pressure, and manipulation is far from a one-way street, as anyone familiar with male-female relationships well knows.
And this is all to say nothing of pressure and coercion in other contexts. By this standard, isn&#8217;t an effective salesman who convinces people to buy things they don&#8217;t want now a thief? Isn&#8217;t the homeless beggar guilt-tripping quarters out of people&#8217;s pockets now guilty of emotional robbery? Isn&#8217;t persuasion of all kinds, in all contexts, problematic at best — and violent assault, at worst?
This is what happens when coherent definitions are broadened into ambiguous, incoherent, all-encompassing concepts. Before long, everyone is a rapist and everyone is a rape victim. The word no longer means anything. And the real victims — of which there are many — are left high and dry.

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WALSH: Media Trumpets Study Claiming That All ‘Unwanted’ Sex Is Rape. That Is Insane And Dangerous. Here&#8217;s Why.

Media Bias

National Public Radio (NPR)

In a wild turn of events, the massage therapist who filed suit against actor Kevin Spacey for sexual assault has passed away.
&#8220;Lawyers for Spacey filed a &#8216;notice of statement noting plaintiff&#8217;s death&#8221; in the federal case on Tuesday. They said they were informed on September 11th that the masseur had &#8220;recently passed,'&#8221; reports <a href="https://pagesix.com/2019/09/18/massage-therapist-who-accused-kevin-spacey-of-sexual-assault-dies/">Page Six</a>.
The unnamed massage therapist filed suit as an anonymous John Doe in 2018, claiming that Kevin Spacey &#8220;assaulted and battered&#8221; him during a massage session in Malibu in October 2016.
&#8220;Spacey assaulted and battered plaintiff by forcing the plaintiff to touch his scrotum, testicles, and penis, grabbing plaintiff&#8217;s shoulders and pulling him in for an apparent attempted forced kiss, and grabbing plaintiff&#8217;s genitalia,&#8221; alleged the plaintiff at the time in court documents reported on by <a href="https://deadline.com/2018/09/kevin-spacey-lawsuit-massage-therapist-sexual-battery-false-imprisonment-house-of-cards-1202473483/">Deadline</a>. &#8220;During these assaults, plaintiff repeatedly asked Spacey to allow him to leave, but Spacey blocked access to Spacey&#8217;s massage table and the door with his naked body.&#8221;
&#8220;Spacey&#8217;s conduct was extreme and outrageous,&#8221; the filing continued. &#8220;Spacey acted with reckless disregard for plaintiff&#8217;s rights and feelings, and with deliberate indifference to the certainty that plaintiff would suffer emotional distress. As a direct and proximate result of Spacey&#8217;s actions, plaintiff has suffered and continues to suffer severe mental anguish, emotional pain and distress, fear, humiliation, grief, embarrassment, nervousness, worry, anger, frustration, helplessness, nervousness , sadness, stress, mental and emotional distress, and anxiety. The general and special damages suffered by plaintiff as a proximate result of the wrongful actions of the Spacey exceed the jurisdictional minimum of the Superior Court.&#8221;
No exact details have been provided as to what led to the massage therapist&#8217;s death at this time. His lawsuit, however, could persist by his estate. News of his death comes just two months after Massachusetts <a href="https://pagesix.com/2019/07/17/sexual-assault-case-against-kevin-spacey-dropped-by-prosecutors/">prosecutors dropped</a> all charges against Spacey in another sexual assault against an 18-year-old man &#8220;due to the unavailability of the complaining witness.&#8221;
The busboy chose to plead the Fifth Amendment when Spacey&#8217;s lawyers questioned him regarding allegedly deleted Snapchat messages that could have proved their sexual encounter was consensual.
&#8220;This entire case is completely compromised,&#8221; Spacey&#8217;s lawyers said at the time. &#8220;This case needs to be dismissed and I believe it should be dismissed today.&#8221;
Though Kevin Spacey has been hit with multiple accusations of sexual harassment and assault, that particular case represented the only criminal charge against him. The &#8220;House of Cards&#8221; actor has denied all the charges and maintained his innocence.
Shortly after the downfall of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, the #MeToo movement focused on Spacey when actor Anthony Rapp told Buzzfeed that when he just 14, the &#8220;American Beauty&#8221; star drunkenly forced himself on Rapp at a party. Immediately after, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/23114/accusation-spacey-attempted-rape-me-when-i-was-15-hank-berrien">multiple allegations of sexual assault</a> broke against Kevin Spacey in both Britain and the United States.
&#8220;I honestly do not remember the encounter, it would have been over 30 years ago,&#8221; Spacey said in response to Rapp&#8217;s allegation. &#8220;But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years.&#8221;

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Man Who Accused Kevin Spacey Of Sexual Assault Is Now Dead

Kevin Spacey

A member of the infamous Congressional &#8220;squad,&#8221; Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), says she will introduce a series of resolutions in the House of Representatives designed to kick start impeachment proceedings against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/461673-pressley-to-introduce-resolution-to-impeach-kavanaugh">The Hill reports that Pressley</a>, who along with Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Rashida Talib (D-MI) makes up the progressive, female &#8220;squad&#8221; intent on resisting the Trump administration inside Congress, is calling for an official inqurity to be opened in light of a recent, new allegation against Kavanaugh that appeared in The New York Times over the weekend.
That allegation, of course, has mired the Times in something of a credibility disaster. The allegation — that Kavanaugh dropped his pants at a college party during his time at Yale and then enlisted his friends to grasp his penis and rub it on an unsuspecting female classmate — is unsupported and was reportedly offered to two Times journalists by a Democratic operative with no corroborating evidence. The female &#8220;victim&#8221; of the incident does not, the two journalists write in an extended excerpt from a forthcoming book, remember it happening.
The New York Times updated its Saturday night scoop with a Monday correction, noting that its two reporters could not get comment from the female victim and that those close to her are adamant that she denies the attack ever happened. Further clarifications indicate that the Times&#8217; news bureau (and The Washington Post&#8217;s) turned down the story for lack of evidence.
But like several 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, including frontrunner Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Pressley took the allegation at face value and believes that Kavanaugh must be accordingly impeached and removed from the Supreme Court bench.
&#8220;I believe Christine Blasey Ford,&#8221; Pressley said in a statement. &#8220;I believe Deborah Ramirez. It is our responsibility to collectively affirm the dignity and humanity of survivors.&#8221;
&#8220;Sexual predators do not deserve a seat on the nation’s highest court and Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process set a dangerous precedent,&#8221; Pressley continued. &#8220;We must demand justice for survivors and hold Kavanaugh accountable for his actions.&#8221;
Oddly enough, if Pressley is intent on &#8220;believing all women,&#8221; as the motto of the opposition went during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, she&#8217;d have to support Kavanaugh on this allegation, since the only one insisting Kavanaugh engaged in a strangely complicated sexual assault during his college years is a male, attorney and former classmate Max Stier.
That matters not to Pressley, who has already, it seems, submitted a draft of her proposed measure. The Hill reports that impeaching Kavanaugh would first require the formation of a committee to take testimony, either live or written, and that could wield the power of the Congressional affadavit. And taxpayers, of course, would not be spared: &#8220;there shall be paid out of the applicable accounts of the House of Representatives such sums as may be necessary to assist.&#8221;
Pressley&#8217;s fellow squad member, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, is likely more than willing to help her Massachusetts colleague in handling the impeachment effort. Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Sunday that she believes Kavanaugh should be impeached over the new allegation, which she feels drives home the veracity of claims made during Kavanaugh&#8217;s confirmation hearings — claims that were similarly unsubstantiated.
Impeaching and removing a Supreme Court Justice is difficult by design, though some on the left have argued that an impeachment process isn&#8217;t necessary to removing Kavanaugh from the bench. Only one justice has ever been impeached.

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