Posted on 09/17/2018 3:31:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
There is this thing called due process, where someone accused of something has a right to defend himself, except liberals don’t like it very much. They sometimes play lip service to it, but only when it has to do with covering for the criminals they consider victims of society. You Normals are “society,” by the way. But regardless, when it is politically useful to let super-convenient accusers trash people from a distance by feeding talking points to eager media allies, forget due process. Allowing someone to effectively challenge fake charges gets in the way of the liberal elite’s ability to slander good people for cheap political gain with fake charges. We can’t have that.
The sliming of Brett Kavanaugh by a Bernie donor is disgusting and disgraceful, and if Democrats had any shred of decency they would hang their heads in shame and spend the next two months ahead of the midterms doing penance to atone for their scummy act of cheap political theater. But they don’t, so they won't.
That’s why I hope that after he is confirmed, Justice Kavanaugh remembers and spends the next 35 years making the liberals sorry they ever pulled these skeevy shenanigans.
Let's review. As I write this, a liberal who doesn't have the moral courage to subject herself to cross-examination is presuming to besmirch the integrity of someone who has never had his integrity questioned in any serious way. Well, it has been besmirched in an unserious way, by T-Bone’s buddy Spartacus as well as by that idiot Kamala Harris, but they didn't lay a finger on him because the dumbnamic duo’s allegations were such transparent baloney.
But now we need to pause the confirmation so we can further investigate her inconsistent claim (Was it four dudes? Two?) that an ancient relic/senator sat on for three months? Or something. Sounds legit. Whatev.
Victim status, whether based upon truth or lies – because people do lie, and all the time – does not give you any special privileges or special rights. Instead, it gives you duties and obligations, whether that is cosmically fair or not. See, if you propose to inflict damage upon someone, even if justifiable, you bear the burden of proof. You have to prove it; the accused doesn’t have to disprove your amorphous innuendos. You have the duty to back up your claims, in public, and subject yourself to the greatest engine for the ascertainment of truth humanity has yet invented, cross-examination by a zealous advocate for the accused who is doing his best to show that you can’t be trusted.
Take the stand and the heat, or shut up.
Is it hard? Yeah? Is it tough on real victims? It sure is. Is it unfair? Maybe, but the only people who think life can ever be fair are little kids and socialists, and only fools design their society around the insights of either bunch.
Maybe some tough cross-examination of Asia Argento back when she was a #MeToo heroine might have prevented the activists from going all in on someone who now seems to belong squarely in the abuser column. People who tell you that “You have to believe the victim!” are afraid you’ll spoil their lynching if you discover the alleged victim is lying. When people refuse to allow the one thing that centuries of experience has shown to be the best way to discover the truth, due process including the cross-examination of the accuser, then it’s reasonable to assume that they are not interested in the truth.
Is she hiding from examination because she’s afraid that people will challenge her claims and maybe find exculpatory evidence? This mystery woman appears to admit to mental health issues, which allegedly stem from this ambiguous, third of a century-old alleged encounter, but who knows? We don’t know, but if you really wanted to know the truth, wouldn’t you want to?
Her claims must be challenged if we intend to keep pretending we are seeking justice. Let's be clear. It is a good thing, a necessary thing, a critical thing, to allow a tough advocate for the accused to forcefully challenge anyone making a devastating accusation against someone else by forcing them to prove their claim. No one has the right to expect people to go easy on them when they are saying something that can have such a dramatic effect on another person’s reputation and life. It's not pleasant, but it is absolutely necessary if we are going to figure out the truth.
I know. I do it for a living as a trial lawyer. I intentionally, and on purpose, ask hard questions of people claiming to be victims of various wrongs that are designed to elicit a response that demonstrates to my juries that the person on the stand is not telling the truth. And the other side gets to do the same of the people I represent. That’s a good thing.
It all seems so convenient that California’s doddering, crusty senator (remarkably, DiFi is the least stupid of California's two senators, and she's astonishingly stupid) decided to announce this claim in such a manner that Kavanaugh has no way to defend himself. Maybe the red Chinese spy Feinstein had on staff for 20 years gave her some pointers.
This kind of garbage is galling because it's indecent and scummy, but it's much worse than that because of the effect it has on our society. It destroys respect for what should be our shared norms and values. It's become very clear that if you get crosswise with the liberal elite – even if you are demonstrably part of the elite’s conservative faction – the elite is going to do everything it can, without regard to trifles like morals or scruples, to destroy you
As my upcoming book Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracyexplains, we are in a conflict between an elite that is threatened by the outraged mass of normal Americans who elected Donald Trump in response to the elite’s long track record failure. The elite’s push-back demonstrates that Normals have accurately assessed that the rules the elite points to are only meant to apply to the Normals. The elite may talk a good game about the rules and norms and stuff, but it does not consider itself bound by them. So, this kind of accusation is fine. Innuendo is fine. Slander is fine.
They have to preserve their power and position, you know. And that imperative transcends your bourgeoise morality.
Keith Ellison, Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy were all unavailable for comment.
But do you think Normals are just going to stand there and accept that the rules are applied only to them, while the very people charged with preserving and enforcing those rules blithely ignore them? Do they really think that a double standard society is possible and stable over the long term? It’s not – check out my novels about what happens to America at the bottom of that slippery slope.
Luckily, the Republicans are getting woke to the okey-done, and recognize this as a Hail Satan play by Democrats who realize that the Brett Kavanaugh Express is rolling toward the confirmation station. Heck, even some of the Fredocon sissies are upset by their liberal elite pals and are taking the side of Normals for once, so you know it’s undeniably outrageous.
Brett Kavanaugh is going to be confirmed. And when he is a justice on the Supreme Court, I hope he remembers what these people did to him. I hope he gives them the same kind of lesson in the power of payback that Clarence Thomas has delivered for nearly three decades. As Militant Normals observes, pain is a great teacher, and the elite needs to learn.
The women ‘felt’ Kavanaugh wanted to take off her clothing.
KAVANAUGH DID NOT TAKE OFF HER CLOTHING.
The woman ‘felt’ Kavanaugh wanted to rape her.
KAVANAUGH DID NOT RAPE HER.
The woman ‘felt’ Kavanaugh wanted to hurt her.
KAVANAUGH DID NOT HURT HER.
Many women have sons, husbands, and brothers, grandsons... and they are NOT going to want people they love held to subjective standards that primarily exist within the mind of a woman ... and are NOT backed up by facts.
What if men who raped women used this defense?
A rapists says he ‘felt’ the woman was coming on to him because of the way she smiled.
The rapist ‘felt’ she ‘wanted it’ because she didn’t push him away fast enough.
The rapist ‘felt’ it was OK because all women say ‘no’.
NO ONE WOULD BUY THE RAPISTS BS... AND IT SHOULD BE THE SAME WITH THE WOMAN ACCUSING KAVANAUGH. What matters is ‘what happened’ not what she was ‘feeling’...
ACTIONS MATTER... INTERNAL ‘FEELINGS’ might or might not have anything to do with the reality of what happened.
The vote goes to the full Senate; doesn’t matter what the committee votes.
Since the Kavanaugh confirmation is another front in the multi-faceted cold civil war, this will be a true test of Trump's resolve to prevail.
So, the question is, what resources will Trump bring to the fight? And back to the original statement, will they necessarily "follow the rules"?
Because most assuredly, the so-called white hats have plenty of extra-constitutional tools at their disposal. Lets say for example they not only recover and leak all the accuser's prior social media posts, but actually create new content.
I'd say this is Trump's biggest test so far - we'll see how determined he is to win. Not just Kavanaugh, but scorched earth tactics in return against the entire proglib machine.
Democrats oppose Kavanaugh but supported Ted Kennedy.
“Is she hiding from examination because she’s afraid that people will challenge her claims and maybe find exculpatory evidence?”
It happened (if it happened) at a no-parents party.
Every teen knows the whole point is line-crossing: alcohol, drugs, sex, general crude roudiness. That’s why parents DON’T approve, and why teens arrange & go to them. Lines will be crossed. And that’s where some learn why NOT to go: some people do want to engage in such activity, and if you don’t then LEAVE.
Hard life lesson learned.
Yep, he should use this as a precedent for the evils of liberalism and fight it with a powerful weapon, The Constitution.
“She ‘felt’ he wanted to rape her.”
There are millions of wanting to rape fantasies everyday.
Maybe Trump will release all unredacted info now. He needs to get the DOJ TO investigate Feinstein for her China connections. All hell needs to break lose on the dirt bag dems. This has to stop
Damn Susan Collins called for Al Frankenstein to step down but now is not sure she wants kavenaugh to do same. This does not help. Makes her look like a hypocrite. She should have stayed out of Frankenstein’s stuff as Dems took care of it and she was not needed.
She did already go through a poligraph and passed. Now what? Any more brilliant ideas to destroy kavenaugh?
And they will all treat her with kid gloves which makes me sick to even think about it.
Thomas was confirmed and we lost the 1992 election. We ended up with 43 GOP seats. Ugly. Lost president. And didn’t get the house. I hope history doesn’t repeat at least in Congress in 2018.
Administered by a "former FBI agent". Not official, and polygraphs are not admissible anyway.
Sadly it’s not up to him. It’s up to the usual assortment of jelly-spined RINOs.
Grayfox also said Guadagno was a shoo-in. Optimistic doesn’t begin to describe him.
Anita Hill has rceived no significant vengence
The evidence is that a woman can accuse and lie and nothing at all will happen
As a matter of Fact, Anita Hill was rewarded with a non job job and who knows how much money
Hardly cause and effect. Thomas’s confirmation was 16 months prior to the 1992 election. In that time, Bush lost the faith of the electorate on his own.
And yet we read so many here who swear that if ring’s do what they have always done they will stay home and vote democrat by proxy. Our very survival depends on keeping the majority, no matter how ugly, in order for Trump (and all of us) to ultimately prevail
If she lies under oath, she’s toast.
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