The colorful title might make one think of a festive event and cute animals on display. However, it exposes two major areas where our society has derailed. The recent Senate hearings for Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh took on a carnival-like atmosphere. Last minute allegations included attempted rape, exposing himself, and participating in drugging women for sex trains, i.e. multiple men sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman.

The allegations sounded terrible and horrific, and the charges trumpeted by media outlets made most Americans cringe. However, once the initial shock of hearing these charges was over, people wanted to see proof.

The stakes could not be higher than the nomination of a brilliant legal scholar, a sitting Federal Judge for the last 12 years whose professional career was viewed as impeccable, not only morally but also some of his legal opinions adopted by the high court. The man was praised and spoken highly of by women he knew and women he worked with. He helped the homeless through his church and coached his daughter’s basketball team.

How was this misconduct missed over the years in his six prior background investigations? A lifetime of good work came into question due to 36-year-old allegations.

Women should always be respected and not harassed, but the allegations are not facts. Very few things can be more frightening than being falsely accused, especially involving sexual misconduct. The fallout and damage to people from mere accusations last a lifetime. The rush to judgment seems very premature. The American judiciary system has always been based on the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, but now some in Congress screamed guilty until proven innocent. This seems unconscionable.

It’s no surprise to those of us who have been watching this type of bias against men taking place for years on college campuses across America. Born out of the same rush-to-judgment culture that turns the presumption of innocence on its head, the bias increased exponentially after the Obama Administration’s 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter that went to the Department of Education. In its essence, it wanted to hear about sexual assault numbers, and if universities were not aggressively pursuing all allegations (no matter how baseless some may be) and adjudicating them with threadbare standards of evidence and lopsided or discriminatory procedures, government funding could suffer.

I have witnessed and have been in direct contact with college students, mostly males, who have been victimized by false accusations, then railroaded by overzealous college administrators who follow no rules or rules they made up along the way. I have published several articles on the subject.

In 2017, I traveled to Washington with the advocacy group SAVE (Stop Abusive and Violent Environments) to lobby congressional staffers, informing them it’s impossible to defend yourself when you are judged guilty before you’re ever told the charges.

Sound unbelievable? Ask the 20-year Navy veteran in Oklahoma who used his military benefits to become a Social Worker. Just months before he was to graduate, he was suspended for an allegation of sexual harassment and not told any details. He learned some of the specifics weeks later, yet still does not know the full scope of allegations. After more than a year he is still battling with the university.

Or how about the 50-year-old fully vetted Auxiliary Deputy Sheriff in Ohio who volunteered for over two years with an outstanding record of service, even a recommendation of his department? He decided to attend a college police academy. He was accused by a male student of inappropriately touching a female student during a combat training exercise. No statements, no evidence, no due process, and he was terminated within two days and told he could not appeal. To his amazement, he learned that the school falsified evidence to justify their actions.

The student is just more of the ever-growing collateral damage of a corrupt college system out of control. The latter student even petitioned Ohio Attorney General DeWine’s office to investigate the potential corruption in the university police academy as his office oversees law enforcement training. His office was no help. This student even petitioned Governor Kasich, asking for a real investigation but received no reply. Odd, as the Governor came out for then-nominee Kavanaugh to have an FBI investigation. It appears Governor Kasich’s words and actions do not align.

In innumerable ways, campus kangaroo courts have used the most underhanded and un-American ways of terminating male students. Recently, there have been over 200 cases that have gone to court at great emotional and financial cost of the students and their families. It’s no surprise that many students are winning these cases as well.

America got a front row seat for the pulling back of the dirty veil of injustice while hearing the accusations against Justice Kavanaugh. The optics were horrific, the consequences were devastating, and the collateral damage will last a lifetime. For a very short window of time, Justice Kavanaugh and his family personally experienced what so many students may have to live with for a lifetime. I truly hope God heals and shields him and his family from this painful episode.

As I stated earlier, very few things can be more frightening than being falsely accused, especially involving sexual misconduct. Fair-minded Americans have seen the circus in the Senate, and now they are being informed about the college kangaroo courts. They are both a national disgrace.

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