During my career as a psychiatrist, I had prepared many court reports in both criminal and civil cases, and I could not help but regard the hearings as a civil action: Blasey Ford v. Kavanaugh.
In the hearings, before Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh made their statements, the women disrupting the proceedings by screaming brought to mind Andrei Vyshinsky and Roland Freisler at slightly higher vocal pitch.
Thus, Blasey Ford's inability to recall so much of what had happened on the night in question, when Kavanaugh purportedly assaulted her, was taken by her supporters as evidence of her truthfulness and probity, inasmuch as she did not pretend to remember what she had forgotten, and fill in the gaps with lurid concoction.
Against Blasey Ford it was sometimes argued that, since she emerged from Palo Alto University, an intellectual, cultural, and emotional environment that sacralizes victimization in its belief in the overwhelming importance of sexual harassment and abuse, and where the cause of militant feminism is deemed more important than truth itself, one may presume that she had an ax to grind.
Because of the human mind's capacity to believe six impossible things before breakfast-again, Alice, this time in Through the Looking Glass, illuminates the case-Blasey Ford may genuinely believe that she suffers from fear of flying, when actually what she feared more was her disagreeable destination: speaking before the Senate.
Blasey Ford's further claim of a link between installing a double front door to her home-to help keep her safe-and the alleged assault that took place decades earlier could not be taken at face value and didn't even meet a loose criterion of plausibility.
This does not mean that identification is never of any value, or that no one ever recognizes an assailant correctly, but in Blasey Ford's case, her identification of Kavanaugh was the only evidence against him; such corroborative evidence as she claimed was refuted.
https://www.city-journal.org/brett-kavanaugh-hearings
In the hearings, before Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh made their statements, the women disrupting the proceedings by screaming brought to mind Andrei Vyshinsky and Roland Freisler at slightly higher vocal pitch.
Thus, Blasey Ford's inability to recall so much of what had happened on the night in question, when Kavanaugh purportedly assaulted her, was taken by her supporters as evidence of her truthfulness and probity, inasmuch as she did not pretend to remember what she had forgotten, and fill in the gaps with lurid concoction.
Against Blasey Ford it was sometimes argued that, since she emerged from Palo Alto University, an intellectual, cultural, and emotional environment that sacralizes victimization in its belief in the overwhelming importance of sexual harassment and abuse, and where the cause of militant feminism is deemed more important than truth itself, one may presume that she had an ax to grind.
Because of the human mind's capacity to believe six impossible things before breakfast-again, Alice, this time in Through the Looking Glass, illuminates the case-Blasey Ford may genuinely believe that she suffers from fear of flying, when actually what she feared more was her disagreeable destination: speaking before the Senate.
Blasey Ford's further claim of a link between installing a double front door to her home-to help keep her safe-and the alleged assault that took place decades earlier could not be taken at face value and didn't even meet a loose criterion of plausibility.
This does not mean that identification is never of any value, or that no one ever recognizes an assailant correctly, but in Blasey Ford's case, her identification of Kavanaugh was the only evidence against him; such corroborative evidence as she claimed was refuted.
https://www.city-journal.org/brett-kavanaugh-hearings
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