While I understand the man or men that believe or state they believe Brett Kavanaugh is innocent should be expected to testify to that fact; they won’t because of a growing pool of information that states otherwise.
Take for instance Mr. Mark Judge; he could be facing a great deal of peril because he didn’t stop the assault and may have even participated. He could walk lock step to Kavanaugh’s statements, but, he was still in a room with Kavanaugh and Dr. Ford. Why?
Additionally, Mr. Judge’s college girlfriend, Elizabeth Rasor is now coming forward and wants to provide a statement to the FBI of their conversation together whereby he admitted to her, Judge participated in sexual assault of an inebriated woman.
Many women find these growing pool of facts appalling. It would seem the more people read about this nominees sexually aggressive tendencies, including now an incident in 1998, the more they feel compelled to tell what they know. Interesting, all pieces of varied and more sources are fitting together to allow the American people a clear background of a Supreme Court nominee that should have never been selected.
I find it worrisome Kavanaugh has made it as far as he has in the judiciary and there was no FBI file with even a shadow of suspicion. At least it is coming out today.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
There is a reason why the Republicans do not allow an FBI investigation; drugs.
They are all beautiful ladies. When I read the accounts of Dr. Ford and the others what comes through is their inability to leave these incidents behind. Decades later, Dr. Ford continued to discuss the incident with Kavanaugh with friends in tears. There was even couples therapy.
The sexual assaults of women reach into the core of their being, into their survival memories. This is not a minor attack or a minor crime. Altered states of consciousness that are reported by many college women due to exactly what occurred with Ms. Swetnick; spiked drinks. These drinks do not cause memory loss but instead recurrent demands to remember moments of the assault to validate the reality of awakening to evidence of being assaulted. All the shame and worry are there that become an emotional scar. These behaviors by men are not about male bonding, it is about assault that never leaves a woman's soul.
People want to pass the attacks off as male bonding. Male bonding is about hunkering down as a sports fan, playing on a ball team, sharing hunting moments with friends and laughing off awkward moments when dates become their own embarrassments as a nervous arm around a girlfriend in a movie theater turns into a lap full of popcorn and cold ice in his lap.
Male bonding does not include drugging women or drinking games that turn into sexual assault. Those instances are carried out by men, young or old, that believe they are impervious to crime and ridicule. They enjoy the sex enough to call a woman a whore, witch or bitch because she wasn't quite as intoxicated as believed and can recall the incident to friends even decades later.
Today, Dr. Ford is wracked with worry about the fact Mr. Kavanaugh has lived a life of no regret while her conscience cannot find relief from the assault she sustained. She is worried, not just herself, but a country of women that will fall under his judgement and their lives will be changed forever. More than a decade ago when she confided in a friend she was aware of the fact Kavanaugh was a judge that carried considerable power within the judiciary already. That is a woman aware of her own assault as well as the the lack of justice she has sustained.
It is wrong for the US Senate Judiciary Committee to close hearings and FBI investigations while wonderful American women want to be heard. There is a reason they want to be heard and it requires bravery and conscience. In the year 2018 an American woman has to be brave to tell the truth about a man they are concerned will never act to benefit other women, but, only to victimize them for the legal choices they will no longer be able to make.
The US Senate Committee still has a lot of work to do on this nominee, by a President that also has little respect for women. It appears Republican politics are too scared of the truth to carry out a thorough investigation and a full throated reporting of the truth.
I admire everyone of these women and wish them well. Unfortunately, being brave sometimes means leaving home in order to be safe from threats of violence and a secure future. For that reality, I apologize.
September 26, 2018
The sexual assaults of women reach into the core of their being, into their survival memories. This is not a minor attack or a minor crime. Altered states of consciousness that are reported by many college women due to exactly what occurred with Ms. Swetnick; spiked drinks. These drinks do not cause memory loss but instead recurrent demands to remember moments of the assault to validate the reality of awakening to evidence of being assaulted. All the shame and worry are there that become an emotional scar. These behaviors by men are not about male bonding, it is about assault that never leaves a woman's soul.
People want to pass the attacks off as male bonding. Male bonding is about hunkering down as a sports fan, playing on a ball team, sharing hunting moments with friends and laughing off awkward moments when dates become their own embarrassments as a nervous arm around a girlfriend in a movie theater turns into a lap full of popcorn and cold ice in his lap.
Male bonding does not include drugging women or drinking games that turn into sexual assault. Those instances are carried out by men, young or old, that believe they are impervious to crime and ridicule. They enjoy the sex enough to call a woman a whore, witch or bitch because she wasn't quite as intoxicated as believed and can recall the incident to friends even decades later.
Today, Dr. Ford is wracked with worry about the fact Mr. Kavanaugh has lived a life of no regret while her conscience cannot find relief from the assault she sustained. She is worried, not just herself, but a country of women that will fall under his judgement and their lives will be changed forever. More than a decade ago when she confided in a friend she was aware of the fact Kavanaugh was a judge that carried considerable power within the judiciary already. That is a woman aware of her own assault as well as the the lack of justice she has sustained.
It is wrong for the US Senate Judiciary Committee to close hearings and FBI investigations while wonderful American women want to be heard. There is a reason they want to be heard and it requires bravery and conscience. In the year 2018 an American woman has to be brave to tell the truth about a man they are concerned will never act to benefit other women, but, only to victimize them for the legal choices they will no longer be able to make.
The US Senate Committee still has a lot of work to do on this nominee, by a President that also has little respect for women. It appears Republican politics are too scared of the truth to carry out a thorough investigation and a full throated reporting of the truth.
I admire everyone of these women and wish them well. Unfortunately, being brave sometimes means leaving home in order to be safe from threats of violence and a secure future. For that reality, I apologize.
September 26, 2018
By Dan Mangan and Kevin Breuninger
The lawyer Michael Avenatti on Wednesday (click here) identified another accuser of Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh, Washington resident Julie Swetnick.
Swetnick, in an affidavit posted online by Avenatti, claims that Kavanaugh, as a high school student in the early 1980s, with others spiked the drinks of girls at house parties with grain alcohol and/or drugs to "cause girls to lose inhibitions and their ability to say 'No.' "
Swetnick said these efforts by Kavanaugh and his buddy Mark Judge were done so the girls "could then be 'gang raped' in a side room or bedroom by a 'train' of numerous boys." She said "I became the victim" of one such rape "where Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh were present."...
...The woman, Julie Swetnick, said Kavanaugh was in line with other boys, including his close friend Mark Judge, waiting to rape those girls at "many" parties, and that she once became a victim herself. The allegations were detailed in an affidavit released by her lawyer, Michael Avenatti.
Swetnick's stunning claims, made on the eve of a Senate committee hearing for Kavanaugh and another accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, came in an affidavit to a Senate staffer that was released by her lawyer. Ford claims Kavanuagh held her down on a bed and groped her during a gathering in the 1980s while another boy watched....
...The woman, Julie Swetnick, said Kavanaugh was in line with other boys, including his close friend Mark Judge, waiting to rape those girls at "many" parties, and that she once became a victim herself. The allegations were detailed in an affidavit released by her lawyer, Michael Avenatti.
Swetnick's stunning claims, made on the eve of a Senate committee hearing for Kavanaugh and another accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, came in an affidavit to a Senate staffer that was released by her lawyer. Ford claims Kavanuagh held her down on a bed and groped her during a gathering in the 1980s while another boy watched....
Misogyny
The trail of women that have been the victims of Kavanaugh is something for the tabloids and investigative journalism to continue to expose. He is 53 years old and married 12 years, I am certain there are many more women in the shadows still finding the courage to speak out. But, Kavanaugh has exposed the real Republican Party. They are a party of misogynists. They are afflicted with it as well as all their other afflictions, including racism and greed.
It is unfortunate to unearth the truth of the character of the party in this way, but, I hope the country clears their conscience this November. It is time Americans reclaim their pride and return to real values that protect the vote and bring back inclusiveness.
I can only imagine the women making arguments before the Supreme Court. The number of women in that capacity are few the way it is, but, to have this mess to face as well is discouraging. Gender bias is a concern, but, misogyny is a new reality that will require frequent citations to erase it from any continued presence in the practice of law.
Make no doubt about it, liquor and love is a strategy that victimizes women, turns them into an object while erasing any sincere feelings that create longevity to a relationship. This strategy against women is just one expression of misogyny.
Mr. Kavanaugh has no real defense for his actions. He compromised women time and again without any loyalty to their esteem. He enjoyed degrading and humiliating them. He offers as a defense denial and a calendar absent of the words, “Today I sexually assaulted another sophisticated piece of ass.” Bret Kavanaugh is pathetic and offers as a redeeming quality some sort of legal genius carved out of political social climbing that has placed him where he is today.
It is time the country return to intolerance to this level of exploitation of democracy and liberty and embrace our true selves of decency and loyalty to each other.
It is unfortunate to unearth the truth of the character of the party in this way, but, I hope the country clears their conscience this November. It is time Americans reclaim their pride and return to real values that protect the vote and bring back inclusiveness.
I can only imagine the women making arguments before the Supreme Court. The number of women in that capacity are few the way it is, but, to have this mess to face as well is discouraging. Gender bias is a concern, but, misogyny is a new reality that will require frequent citations to erase it from any continued presence in the practice of law.
Make no doubt about it, liquor and love is a strategy that victimizes women, turns them into an object while erasing any sincere feelings that create longevity to a relationship. This strategy against women is just one expression of misogyny.
Mr. Kavanaugh has no real defense for his actions. He compromised women time and again without any loyalty to their esteem. He enjoyed degrading and humiliating them. He offers as a defense denial and a calendar absent of the words, “Today I sexually assaulted another sophisticated piece of ass.” Bret Kavanaugh is pathetic and offers as a redeeming quality some sort of legal genius carved out of political social climbing that has placed him where he is today.
It is time the country return to intolerance to this level of exploitation of democracy and liberty and embrace our true selves of decency and loyalty to each other.
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