Posted on 09/21/2018 11:55:31 PM PDT by John Semmens
Christine Blasey Ford, the college professor who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of groping her at a drunken party in somebody's house near a park sometime in the early 1980s when both were high school students, has been resisting Republican requests for her to testify at the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) insists that "the Republican demand that it is the accuser's responsibility to tell her story to them is an attempt to silence her. Christine has already done her part to put the ball in play with her accusation. It is now Kavanaugh's job to prove that she shouldn't be believed. Can he account for his whereabouts for all of his high school years and show that her story can't be true? If not, then shouldn't her account be the one we go with since he can't disprove it?"
Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif), concurred with her colleague, saying that "Dr. Blasey has fulfilled her obligation by leveling the charge in the letter I received last July. She showed great courage in making her originally anonymous allegation. Now it's up to the FBI to investigate to see whether it is true."
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) denounced Republican demands for evidence as "the same old suppression of women by white men that has stained America since its first days. I just want to say to the men in this country: Just shut up and step up. Do the right thing for a change and let us women rule for awhile."
The procedure demanded by these Democrats is the exact opposite of what has been normal for this nation's history. The first step in an allegation of a crime is the filing of a complaint by the claimed victim. The sooner this is done, the better. The complaint serves as the starting point for an investigation in which witnesses are interviewed and forensic evidence (such as torn clothing or traces of bodily fluids) is examined. Dr. Ford never filed a criminal complaint with any law enforcement agency.
In the more than three decades that have passed, any evidence that conceivably might have existed is unavailable. There are no contemporaneous witnesses. There is no forensic evidence. The only "evidence" is an unverifiable allegation made in a letter that Sen. Feinstein refuses to share with her Judiciary Committee colleagues. The Democrats are essentially arguing for a process that more closely resembles the 17th century Salem Witch trials in which the ravings of hysterical teenagers led to the execution of more than a dozen persons accused of witchcraft.
Former Vice-President Joe Biden rejected the analogy because "everyone knows there are no witches, but I know from my own experience that teenage boys grope teenage girls. Even if we can't conclusively prove that Kavanaugh molested the teenage Chrissy Blasey, we do know that he was once a teenage boy. Since he fits the profile of a sexual molester based on this alone we cannot simply look away when the girl finally remembers 30 years later who got 'handsy' with her. So, to be on the safe side we must assume he's guilty unless he can prove otherwise."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/247916-2018-09-21-semi-news-semi-satire-september-23-2018-edition.htm
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I don’t see what is satirical in this. It’s what has happened and without exaggeration.
It is not fair for Feinstein to hold onto a letter for 2 months and use it at the last moment to wreck someones’s life.
Looks to me like she's got a great memory.....she's stringing together one bit here and one bit there.
The overall effect she hopes will be that she's "hazy" with the details b/c it was so "traumatic."
Truth is most of us would NEVER forget when and where a sexual attack occurred.
At the risk of stating the obvious, the Dems have NO CREDIBILITY on this issue.... After the debacle of their support of Bill Clinton (it’s just about sex) in denigrating Paula Jones, Juanita Broadrick ( whose credibility far exceeds Dr. Ford’s), Kathleen Willey etc etc etc. A person who as an adult was kicked out of Oxford on sexual allegations.... Pardon me Dems....just STFU !!
Let’s not forget the LYING of the Democrat party, Ted Kennedy actually killed a woman by his reckless behavior !!
And I seem to recall a Waitress sandwich with Ted and Chris Dodd being the bread. Oh yea, Gary Conditt’s sex parties while in Congress ..... Senator Menendez trysts our of the country.... I believe he’s still in the Senate voting on this!
Jeff Epstein’s Lolita Express with Clinton aboard what... 20+ times !!
How anyone of any intelligence can consider anything the democrats claim about the moral and ethical behavior of others is incomprehensible. Of course the press pushes the dems claims and minimized their dirty laundry and the gullible masses follow along.
Is this satire or is it manure?
A twit from: “Kirsten Gillibrand”
@SenGillibrand
US Senate candidate, NY
“Senate Republicans can’t summon the decency to treat Dr. Ford with the respect that she deserves. Stop the bullying tactics and take yes for an answer. Call Mark Judge and other witnesses to get the facts instead of putting her on trial.”
Personally I think there should be an investigation into who is paying Chrissy with respect for the lack of a any shred of evidence in her slanderous accusation?
The argument about who must testify first is a joke.
After all those episodes of Law nd Order by Dick Wolf & all the spinoff’s he has created——Even a 3rd grade kid in the USA knows the Prosecution (accuser) goes first in the sequence of things.
These members of Congress are lawyers?
What school did they graduate from???
I agree with you.
What was once satire is now predictive.
“the Republican demand that it is the accuser’s responsibility to tell her story to them is an attempt to silence her.”
Brilliant! LOL.
“It is not fair for Feinstein...”
What planet are you on? Do you actually think for even a microsecond that these swamp dwellers give a crap about what’s “fair”.
That’s like telling a lion it’s not fair that he killed a gazelle.
Didn’t you read the title of the article? Sounds like you are having a bad day.
She is crying the GOP committee reps. are unfair, while she is unfair. It was her ace in the hole, if Kavanaugh did well, to try to poison the hearings.
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