Posted on 12/14/2014 6:26:22 AM PST by abb
The first thing President Teresa Sullivan of the University of Virginia needs to do in the wake of what now appears to be a faux rape scandal is to apologize to the victims – that is, to the members of Phi Kappa Psi, who have been vilified, forced to move off campus into motels, and suffered suspicions even from family members and close friends. That would be the human and moral response. That Sullivan will not do so is nearly as certain as the chance of her taking false accusations as a matter that needs university attention.
This is for two reasons. First, there is no public traction in calling for false accusations to be stopped. There is no PC-approved party line on the issue, so there is no mileage there. No one else would second her; there would be no faculty resolutions, no candlelight vigils held outside the chapel. A vendor would go broke stocking up on T-shirts with slogans like "Don't rush to judgment!" or "Stop accusing!" No sports team could don them before flashing lights.
(Yet what cause is more noble than standing up on behalf of the innocent? Ask Dreyfus, the Scottsboro boys, Steven Pagones, or the Duke lacrosse players.)
Sullivan will doubtless be advised to keep silent to maintain plausible deniability – to position herself on a detached peak from which she can proffer high-minded and critical advice about today's alleged rape crisis. The cultural mavens will applaud her, and she will appear blameless. She needed to compose and ironclad response, so she made it clear she is against rape and sexual assault. There will be nothing to criticize her for – she is innocent, except that she didn't wade down into the murky waters and join the rescue effort when her help was needed.
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Quite a while ago someone here at FR predicted the exponential rise of anti-female “events” to aid the Hillary campaign. Certainly an astute prediction. I wonder how many of them will be “false flags”?
They never apologize for ruining normal peoples’ lives. In their “minds” the lie was justified, because everybody knows that all White males are just rapists anyway.
“PIV is always rape”...
No, an apology is not required.......... money damages a re what is needed
What gets me is liberals are walking around trying to create cases of fake rape, fake racism, fake abuse of the poor by the rich, but who RUNS the cities and institutions they are protesting? LIBERALS do! THEY run the universities where they are claiming there is a problem with campus rape, they are the ones running cities like New York where they are claiming racism by cops, they are the ones who take advantage of the poor to do their house cleaning and landscaping. So basically what they are doing is protesting themselves which is more proof they are insane.
No more proof is needed to assure all that LIBs are mentally impaired.
I just posted this on the American Thinker comments thread. If you have a moment, give it a like, because I really want as many people as possible to read it.
We are entering into very dark and dangerous times, when objective truth and morality or a sense of honor do not matter in elite academia, (and I might add, the mainstream media or government). Thomas Jefferson’s University is the home of the original Honor Code. Students are expelled for lying or cheating, or tolerating those who do. That is, knowing about a lie and failing to report it is an honor code violation. Ms. Sullivan, that P.C; commissar maven, late of the UVA putsch/counterputsch, knows that a vile and despicable slander and lie has been told against the PKP fraternity. She virtually watched from her high window when the mob was sent to throw rocks and paint “RAPISTS!!!” on the side of their house.
This is brownshirt stuff, folks. This is riling up a mob for Kristallnacht.
In this case, thank God, the originator of the lie appears to be a very disturbed young lady, who began with “cat-fishing” an imaginary 3rd year dreamboat, to influence a desired first year beau. The lie went up in spirals, embellished and increased with each retelling until it was purveyed to Rolling Stone by a UVA staff interlocutor. When the bomb was dropped, it quickly became apparent that the mass rape frat initiation reported in Rolling Stone was perhaps the worst group libel since the German Nazis set up false Polish attacks on their border on August 31, 1939, as a pretext for invasion. Or the libel that German Jews were poisoning the Berlin water supply.
In this racially-charged post-Ferguson environment, to send the mob against a house representing white male privilege, with bricks and spray paint, was the act of a Himmler or a Goebbels. This time, the lie was outed, and the damage contained—even if the libelous smear will always exist. The next time, the fury of the mob may not be contained, if the false flag operation or intentional smear campaign against a hated scapegoat group is not revealed in time. The blood will be on the hands of those evil people who stirred the mob into a frenzy. Sharpton at Freddy’s Mart and the subsequent fatal arson attack comes to mind.
Ms. Sullivan, who might as well have passed out cans of gasoline and nooses, must not only apologize, she must be expelled from the Grounds and from Albemarle County, befitting any gross violator of the Honor Code.
If she keeps her seat, well, take it for the signal that it is. It’s brownshirt time ahead.
Matthew Bracken
UVA 1979
he Board of Visitors is composed of seventeen voting members appointed by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, subject to confirmation by the General Assembly, for terms of four years. In addition, at the first regular meeting of the second semester of the academic session each year, on recommendation of the Executive Committee, the Board of Visitors may appoint for a term of one year, a full-time student at the University of Virginia as a nonvoting member of the Board of Visitors. The Rector and Visitors serve as the corporate board for the University of Virginia, and are responsible for the long-term planning of the University. The Board approves the policies and budget of the University, and is entrusted with the preservation of the University’s many traditions, including the Honor System. The Board maintains offices in the Northwest Wing of the Rotunda and meets four times per year. The meetings are open to the public, but there will be no opportunity for public comment.
There will be a Special Meeting of the Full Board on Friday, December 19, 2014, from 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of Garrett Hall.
Minutes of the Special Meeting of the Full Board of
Visitors on November 25, 2014
It will be interesting to follow the next meeting. The first was a disgrace. Now they have egg all over their heads, hair, faces and shoulders. It will be amusing to watch them all pretend that they see no egg at all.
If this smear is not an honor violation, the word has no meaning.
For UVA, this is like having a worse leftist rat stooge in charge than Obama.
If Sullivan keeps her seat, we’ll know she must have conducted a very successful purge after her narrow counterputsch survival. If she keeps her seat, there are only stooges and lackeys left.
The suspension of fraternities by Sullivan remains in effect.
Done.
Money damages will be paid...quietly and under the table accompanied by a pledge of nondisclosure. The only thing that will stop these false accusations is wide spread publicity about the damages paid and who were the payers. The message must be loud and clear..."Don't open your mouth unless you have solid evidence."
“What gets me is liberals are walking around trying to create cases of fake rape, fake racism, fake abuse of the poor by the rich, but who RUNS the cities and institutions they are protesting?”
True, but the end is in sight as they all run out of “other people’s money.” Here in California we continue to see liberal-run cities filing for bankruptcy. Several have “gone through” without recognizing that they have to do something about their public employees compensation and pension benefits, so they will be “back in” in the not too distant future.I believe that it will be by this mechanism that liberalism in government finally dies ( ditto for public education too). Cops and Firefighters consume at least 75% of most cities budgets, and at the county level, it’s overwhelmingly teachers pay that drives property taxes.
“In their “minds” the lie was justified, because everybody knows that all White males are just rapists anyway.”
That’s the “Dan Rather Syndrome.” Fake, but Accurate!
“Money damages will be paid...quietly and under the table accompanied by a pledge of nondisclosure. The only thing that will stop these false accusations is wide spread publicity about the damages paid and who were the payers. The message must be loud and clear...”Don’t open your mouth unless you have solid evidence.”
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Then one of the damaged parties need to sue and forego the “under the table” payoff. It’s the same with the issue when the cops are abusive. The whole mess needs to be laid bare out in the open so the taxpayers really understand what has happened and how it impacts their wallets. And there needs to be an end to this business of shielding the wrongdoers in the name of privacy.
War on reality.
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