Summary: As the MeToo hysteria spreads, many Americans have abandoned the principles of due process and innocent until proven guilty (as described yesterday). That’s bad, since women often make false accusations. That ruins the narrative, and so is seldom mentioned in the news.

“I interviewed the victim twice, and I believed her.”

— District Attorney Denise Lunsford, explains why she ignored evidence showing that Mark Weiner was innocent (from Slate).

Off duty when it comes to false accusations of rape.

In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird

, an all-white jury convicts an innocent black man of raping a white woman in a small 1930s southern town, despite the efforts his lawyer who defies the town’s lynch-mob mentality and proves the victim’s story to be false. It’s a new century, a sequel has just come out – and we still have men being falsely convicted of rape despite the evidence. This time with leftist’s staffing the lynch mobs.

A fine example is Mark Weiner, who on a rainy day gave a woman a ride to her home – a good deed ending in a sentence of eight years in jail for abducting a woman with the intent to sexually harm her. There was almost no evidence of his guilt. There was considerable exculpatory evidence (some of which was not disclosed to his attorney). Of course, none of that matters to the true believers who increasingly run America. This happened in Charlottesville, home of the infamous fake rape publicized in last November’s Rolling Stone.

“During the sentencing phase of the hearing, {District Attorney} Lunsford reminded the court of previous incidents in which Weiner had made unwelcome advances to two women and called it a ‘pattern of behavior.'”

— “Unwelcome advances” are an indication of criminality when done by a beta male. {Source.}

A fit conclusion to this story of injustice: the Judge sentenced Weiner to 20 years in prison (with 12 years suspended). In July, after two and a half years in prison, a judge vacated his conviction.

This sad story was covered in detail by journalist Lisa Provence (who deserves a career boost from it). Also see this article at Slate by Dahlia Lithwick. The story received desultory coverage from other news media, such as this from NBC. No wonder news media companies are laying off reporters and watching their profit evaporate, when they ignore such a hot story of injustice.

Not the justice you see on TV in “CSI”

Why did the DA behave so badly? She believed that rape victims tell the truth, and that this subjective reality trumps evidence. Even at the cost of a man’s life.

“When a reporter asked Lunsford about criticism she’d received for not pursuing justice in this case, the prosecutor said, ‘Sometimes it comes down to, do you believe the victim? I believe her.'” {Source.}

“Lunsford has said all along she believes the victim and she’s still not backing down. Instead she says this case is a prime example of why the job’s so difficult: ‘Sometimes, and often in these cases, it’s one person’s word against another so the decision of how to prosecute and whether to prosecute isn’t an easy one. I believed her in this case and that’s why I went forward with it. I felt she was telling the truth and I felt it was a community safety issue.'” (From Slate.)

After years of propaganda, this is a common belief. Sophie Hess, general manager of the campus radio station WOBC, said this about the rape accusation made by Lena Dunham (actress, writer, and director) …

“Asking whether or not a victim is telling the truth is irrelevant. It’s just not important if they are telling the truth.” {Source.}

Even senior government officials have moved beyond concern about truth. Ideology rules! No evidence needed.

“Not only do women like Dr. Ford, who bravely comes forward, need to be heard, but they need to be believed. They need to be believed.”

— Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) at a press conference on 19 September 2018.

Some high-profile false accusations of rape

Things women do lie about: what they ate for lunch. Things women don’t lie about: rape. — Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) August 4, 2017

In the past, police ignored rape accusations that looked suspicious (sometimes in error). Or they lost interest after investigating them. Now police aggressively pursue accusations. But false rape accusations are too seldom investigated or prosecuted; guilty verdicts produce sentences far lighter than men get for rape.

If we should always believe the woman, why have so many high-profile rape accusations been proven false? Such as these …

Other false accusations of rape

Here is a typical story of brutal rape – by Black men!

“Last March {2017}, investigators with the Denison Police Department received a call from a man who said his fiance, Breana Harmon Talbott {18}, was missing. The man told police that Talbott’s car had been found in the parking lot of an apartment complex. When officers arrived, they discovered the driver’s door was open, one shoe was on the ground and her phone and keys were sitting near the console.” {Oklahoma 4.}

“{Several hours later she} stumbled into a church clad only in bra, shirt and panties, bleeding from cuts and claiming to have been abducted by three African-American men in ski masks. …Social media lit up with angry demands for vengeance.” {Miami Herald.}

“This is going to be a brutally honest post. Today my daughter, Breana Harmon Talbott was taken by force by 3 black men. 2 raped her and she is cut head to toe by a knife.”

— Posted by her mother on Facebook.

Very “credible” (since it is in the news)! But the rest of the story took a different turn.

“Breana Harmon, 19, pleaded guilty to two counts tampering with evidence and two counts of tampering with a government record in Grayson County district court last month. …She faced up to 2-10 years in prison along with a $10,000 fine. … {She was} sentenced to 8 years probation, over $8,000 in restitution, and to pay another $2,000 in court fines on Tuesday.” {From KXII-TV.}

Such stories are quite common.

Even false accusations of sexual assault that do not claim sexual assault are costly and potentially ruinous to men: “Two Students Hooked Up. It Was Clearly Consensual. He Still Spent $12,000 Defending Himself.” by Robby Soave at Reason – “A brief romantic encounter at UC-Davis triggered a Title IX investigation after the female student changed her mind about it weeks later.

DNA is uncovering old false rape accusations: “Two men exonerated in 1991 rape claim.”

Update: Even those falsely accused of rape genuflect to the MeToo Movement

From AP and Fox News – A woman said she was sexually assaulted while intoxicated in a suite at the Wynn Las Vegas resort. Four dentists were charged with kidnapping and sexual assault. Fortunately, they recorded the encounter on a cell phone. Charges have been dropped. But even after a close call with years in prison after a women’s perjury, they genuflect to MeToo. They released a statement including this incredible paragraph.

“We are so grateful to the justice system for recognizing that we were the victims in this case. We knew when the facts came out that the vicious allegations would be exposed as lies and our good names would be cleared. … “At this sensitive moment in our history, we believe that women should be respected and heard and believed.”

Expect more men to record their relations with women. It is the only protection to claims made days or years or decades in the future. Falsely accusing a man of sexual assault is probably the safest crime in America. It is a only misdemeanor in most (all?) States, and seldom prosecuted (because that would discourage women from reporting these crimes). Even if proven in court, perjury is seldom prosecuted.

More about false rape accusations

“It is a nonsense for our daughters to be more frightened of penises than than our sons are of knives or guns. …Raped women will be told not only that they are irrevocably damaged in soul and body but that if they do not acknowledge this they are in denial.”

— By famous second-wave feminist Germaine Greer in her book On Rape (2018).

Slate has a well-written but superficial article with some sad stories: “Crying Rape” by Cathy Young — “False rape accusations exist, and they are a serious problem.” Also see these articles by Francis Walker, rich with links and analysis. She takes a hard look at the soft foundation of the numbers about false rape accusations.

Also see the Washington Examiner article about the not peer-reviewed and undeservedly famous “MAD Study” by End Violence Against Women International. The money paragraph …

“From all of this one could determine that 15.6% of reports could reliably be determined as false, another 17.9% weren’t actually crimes and just 1.2% (or 2.2%) could be reliably determined as true. The remainder would fall into a “we’ll never know for sure” category. …And beyond all of this, none of this data can be applied to reports of campus sexual assault. There is no data available on the number of campus sexual assault accusations that turn out to be false, as it hasn’t been studied.”

See these for more information about false reports of rape.

This post is a follow-up to MeToo = Salem Witch trials 2.0 — see the similarities.

Posts about the Kavanaugh hearing

For a different spin on rape

See “Today In Rape Apologia, Ayn Rand Edition” by Scott Lemieux (Asst Prof of Political Science at College of St. Rose) at Lawyers, Guns and Money. Ayn Rand is a feminist by many standards, yet the sex scenes in her books often glorify rape. That was considered normal in her day. Such scenes, albeit toned down, are still common in chick lit (Fifty Shades of Grey

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A classic about false rape accusations

by Harper Lee (1960).

Also see the 1962 film

with Gregory Peck.

“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

From the publisher …

“A lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic novel – a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man’s struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

“One of the best-loved classics of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It has won the Pulitzer Prize, been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, and been made into a hit film. It was also named the best novel of the twentieth century by librarians across the country.”