Anti Federalist
04-20-2011, 11:41 AM
The NY Times Endorses False Sexual Assault Accusations
Posted by Bill Anderson on April 20, 2011 09:14 AM
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/86063.html#more-86063
While a number of American industries shut down or move their operations overseas, one “industry” is booming and is providing much wealth for prosecutors and defense attorneys. The False Accusation Industry is responsible, I believe for thousands of innocent people being convicted, imprisoned, and labeled sex offenders for life, and it is driven by federal law.
During the infamous Duke Lacrosse Case, no media entity was more supportive of the corrupt prosecutor Mike Nifong and the “victim” Crystal Mangum than the New York Times. From its endorsement of the “magic towel” theory to its fawning portrayals of Nifong, who later would be disbarred for lying in the case, the NYT helped keep a huge hoax going, but not before it cost the families of the indicted players five million dollars to help debunk the transparently-false charges.
With Mangum now indicted for murder (for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend to death a week ago), one would think that there might be some introspection at the NYT. Think again. The newspaper has endorsed a new federal regulation that will lead to even more false accusations and, ultimately, imprisonment of innocent people.
The U.S. Department of Education has according to the editorial, done a wonderful thing in its new “zero-tolerance” policy toward accusations of sexual assault:
The guidelines press schools to have a zero-tolerance attitude toward sexual assault and harassment and to adopt a complaint process that gives equal protection to the accusers and accused. Schools that fail to comply would be at risk of losing federal aid or facing legal sanctions.
The new guidance requires that the accuser and the accused have the same rights. The guidance makes clear that both the accused and the accuser also need to be notified in writing about outcomes of complaint procedures. It further warns schools that they must not try to dissuade accusers from filing criminal complaints either during or after the internal investigations that schools are required to undertake.
Schools will also have to create violence-prevention programs that include better training for coaches, residence hall counselors and others. A cultural change is essential to make campuses safer places for all.
I’m not sure what planet the editors are on, but college campuses already inundate their students from day one about sexual assault and, more importantly, engage in the ritual male-bashing that this new regulation really is about. No matter what the NYT might tell us, this action is guaranteed to increase false accusations and ultimately false convictions.
For all of its “equal protection” terms, the regulation actually tilts the evidence chain in favor of the accuser because a mere accusation will be enough to “convict” the accused. Lest anyone disagree, look at what happened in the Duke case. Nearly every administrator at Duke acted as though Mangum’s story were true, even though the facts, even from the very beginning, spoke volumes otherwise.
This new regulation has nothing to do with keeping students from being sexually assault. It actually is yet another victory by hard-left feminists to define all male-female sexual contact as rape, and have it written into law. Not surprisingly, the ultra-Politically Correct NYT endorses it, just as it propped up Nifong five years ago.
Posted by Bill Anderson on April 20, 2011 09:14 AM
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/86063.html#more-86063
While a number of American industries shut down or move their operations overseas, one “industry” is booming and is providing much wealth for prosecutors and defense attorneys. The False Accusation Industry is responsible, I believe for thousands of innocent people being convicted, imprisoned, and labeled sex offenders for life, and it is driven by federal law.
During the infamous Duke Lacrosse Case, no media entity was more supportive of the corrupt prosecutor Mike Nifong and the “victim” Crystal Mangum than the New York Times. From its endorsement of the “magic towel” theory to its fawning portrayals of Nifong, who later would be disbarred for lying in the case, the NYT helped keep a huge hoax going, but not before it cost the families of the indicted players five million dollars to help debunk the transparently-false charges.
With Mangum now indicted for murder (for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend to death a week ago), one would think that there might be some introspection at the NYT. Think again. The newspaper has endorsed a new federal regulation that will lead to even more false accusations and, ultimately, imprisonment of innocent people.
The U.S. Department of Education has according to the editorial, done a wonderful thing in its new “zero-tolerance” policy toward accusations of sexual assault:
The guidelines press schools to have a zero-tolerance attitude toward sexual assault and harassment and to adopt a complaint process that gives equal protection to the accusers and accused. Schools that fail to comply would be at risk of losing federal aid or facing legal sanctions.
The new guidance requires that the accuser and the accused have the same rights. The guidance makes clear that both the accused and the accuser also need to be notified in writing about outcomes of complaint procedures. It further warns schools that they must not try to dissuade accusers from filing criminal complaints either during or after the internal investigations that schools are required to undertake.
Schools will also have to create violence-prevention programs that include better training for coaches, residence hall counselors and others. A cultural change is essential to make campuses safer places for all.
I’m not sure what planet the editors are on, but college campuses already inundate their students from day one about sexual assault and, more importantly, engage in the ritual male-bashing that this new regulation really is about. No matter what the NYT might tell us, this action is guaranteed to increase false accusations and ultimately false convictions.
For all of its “equal protection” terms, the regulation actually tilts the evidence chain in favor of the accuser because a mere accusation will be enough to “convict” the accused. Lest anyone disagree, look at what happened in the Duke case. Nearly every administrator at Duke acted as though Mangum’s story were true, even though the facts, even from the very beginning, spoke volumes otherwise.
This new regulation has nothing to do with keeping students from being sexually assault. It actually is yet another victory by hard-left feminists to define all male-female sexual contact as rape, and have it written into law. Not surprisingly, the ultra-Politically Correct NYT endorses it, just as it propped up Nifong five years ago.