The assault on Brett Kavanaugh's character serves as a perfect storm for feminist ideologues, whose fervor for taking down famous men morphs with its cardinal, excommunicable article of faith, abortion as sacrosanct.
Prominent Democratic politicians insist that decent people must believe the allegations against Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford, a woman who refuses invitations to testify under oath, whose story conflicts with that of the man she names as an eyewitness and the notes taken by her therapist, who cannot pinpoint the approximate date or precise location of the alleged assault, and whose history of supporting ActBlue and other left-wing causes indicates a possible motive to take down the president's pick.
Others, accused not of any untoward behavior toward women but of insufficient vengeance toward the men accused of such behavior, suffer professionally.
Last week, editor Ian Buruma published an essay by Iranian-Canadian talk show host Jian Gomeshi, accused in public but acquitted in court of sexual assault charges, in the New York Review of Books.
Due process, the presumption of innocence, the right to confront your accuser, statutes of limitations, witnesses speaking under the penalty of perjury, and other established rules of fairness appear as enemies to the #MeToo movement.
Cannot we abolish the casting couch and frighten entitled men into civilized behavior without also renouncing our rights?
MeToo, which deserves credit for reorienting the behavior of powerful men who validated Lord Action's axiom, long ago morphed into its Reign of Terror stage.
https://spectator.org/sketchy-case-against-kavanaugh-metoos-thermidor/
Prominent Democratic politicians insist that decent people must believe the allegations against Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford, a woman who refuses invitations to testify under oath, whose story conflicts with that of the man she names as an eyewitness and the notes taken by her therapist, who cannot pinpoint the approximate date or precise location of the alleged assault, and whose history of supporting ActBlue and other left-wing causes indicates a possible motive to take down the president's pick.
Others, accused not of any untoward behavior toward women but of insufficient vengeance toward the men accused of such behavior, suffer professionally.
Last week, editor Ian Buruma published an essay by Iranian-Canadian talk show host Jian Gomeshi, accused in public but acquitted in court of sexual assault charges, in the New York Review of Books.
Due process, the presumption of innocence, the right to confront your accuser, statutes of limitations, witnesses speaking under the penalty of perjury, and other established rules of fairness appear as enemies to the #MeToo movement.
Cannot we abolish the casting couch and frighten entitled men into civilized behavior without also renouncing our rights?
MeToo, which deserves credit for reorienting the behavior of powerful men who validated Lord Action's axiom, long ago morphed into its Reign of Terror stage.
https://spectator.org/sketchy-case-against-kavanaugh-metoos-thermidor/
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