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Beware the Rape Allegation Bandwagon
by Michelle Malkin
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Sean Hannity Discusses Uranium One
Scandal With Sara Carter and John Solomon
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MAGA – ICE Announces Crackdown on
Employers, Increased Workplace Deportations
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Workplace enforcement was a logical early step to take in getting a grip on the illegal alien menace in the United States... While nine months into the Trump administration isn’t exactly early, there now appears to be a renewed enthusiasm at ICE for holding the anti-American employers accountable for their actions. Speaking at a panel discussion at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan revealed that the agency is initiating a policy of prioritizing workplace enforcement and investigations and sanctions against businesses knowingly employing illegals. Homan told the group, “Unless you remove the magnets for illegal immigration, as long as they think they can come here and get U.S. citizenship and not get removed, they’re going to keep coming. As long as they can come here and get a job, they’re going to try and come. So we are stepping up worksite enforcement.”... https://rickwells.us/maga-ice-crackdown-employers/.
Sessions Stomped Franken In Senate Hearings –
So Why Not Indict liar-Hillary Clinton?
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ There definitely is a different bar and attention paid to detail by Democrats when they’re engaged with their own fellow corrupt partisans... and when they’re engaged with the members of the Trump administration. Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson was notorious for word-parsing and giving incomplete responses or answers to questions that weren’t even asked in order to avoid telling the uncomfortable or implicating truth and nothing was said. They likewise pretend to be completely oblivious to what must be the obvious crimes of liar-Hillary Clinton, given their ability to recognize contradictions, be they actual or fabricated. In this instance, the most liberal globalist Democrat in the Senate, Al Franken (D-MN), spends almost fifteen minutes attempting to corner and berating Attorney General Jeff Sessions about statements he made during his confirmation hearings, statements that are now basically irrelevant beyond being potentially useful to discredit members of the Trump administration... https://rickwells.us/sessions-franken-hillary-clinton/.
Senate Judiciary opens probe into
liar-nObama-era Russian nuclear bribery case
by JOHN SOLOMON
VIDEO: http://launch.newsinc.com/embed.html?trackingGroup=91690&siteSection=thehill2300_nws_pol_sec&videoId=33133034
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Ann Arbor City Council Kneels For Pledge of Allegiance.
ISIS Is Between A Raqqa And A Hard Place.
Goodell Punts: NFL Wont Force Players To Stand For Anthem.
Britain’s MI5: There Are Over 3,000 Terrorists In The UK.
RINO-McCain Snaps at Peter Doocy For Legitimate Question.
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Beware the Rape Allegation Bandwagon
Count me out.
"The most important response to #metoo is 'I believe you.'"
No. I do not believe every woman who is now standing up to "share her story" or "tell her truth." I owe no blind allegiance to any other woman simply because we share the same pronoun. Assertions are not truths until they are established as facts and corroborated with evidence. Timing, context, motives and manner all matter.
Because I reserve the right to vet the claims of individual sexual assault complainants instead of championing them all knee-jerk and wholesale as "victims," I've been scolded as insensitive and inhumane.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper informed me, "People coming forward should be applauded." But applauding people for "coming forward" is not a journalistic tenet. It's an advocacy tenet. Tapper responded that he was expressing the sentiment as a "human being not as a journalist." Last time I checked, humans have brains. The Weinstein scandal is not an excuse to turn them off and abdicate a basic responsibility to assess the credibility of accusers. It's an incontrovertible fact that not all accusers' claims are equal.
Some number of harrowing encounters described by Weinstein's accusers and the #MeToo hashtag activists no doubt occurred. But experience and scientific literature show us that a significant portion of these allegations will turn out to be half-truths, exaggerations or outright fabrications. That's not victim-blaming. It's reality-checking.
It is irresponsible for news outlets to extrapolate how "commonplace" sexual abuse is based on hashtag trends spread by celebrities, anonymous claimants and bots. The role of the press should be verification, not validation. Instead of interviewing activist actresses, reporters should be interviewing bona fide experts.
Turvey's most recent book, written with retired NYPD special victim squad detective John Savino and Mexico-based forensic psychologist Aurelio Coronado Mares, is "False Allegations: Investigative and Forensic Issues in Fraudulent Reports of Crime."
Based on their review of decades of scientific literature, Turvey and his colleagues explode the "2 percent myth" peddled by politicians, victims' advocates and journalists "claiming that the nationwide false report rape for rape and sexual assault is nonexistent." In fact, the statistic was traced to an unverified citation in a 1975 book by feminist author Susan Brownmiller.
"This figure is not only inaccurate," Turvey and his co-authors conclude, "but also it has no basis in reality."
Published research has documented false rape and sexual assault rates ranging from 8 percent to 41 percent. Savino notes that in his NYPD's Manhattan Special Victim Squad, "our false report rate was in the double digits during all of my years. Sometimes, it was as high as 40 percent." Turvey, Savino, and Mares make clear to students that based on the evidence -- as opposed to Facebook trends:
They are common because people lie for all sorts of reasons -- from the need for attention to the lure of profit, out of anger or revenge, to conceal crimes or illicit activity, or because of addictions or mental health issues. Unlike activists or advocates "steeped in bias, denial or self-interest," Turvey and his colleagues teach criminal investigators and students that true professionals "do not seek confirmation of beliefs or ideas: they seek eradication of false theories. All reports of crime must be investigated. Otherwise, they are merely unconfirmed allegations that the ignorant or lazy may pass along as truth."
Rape is a devastating crime. So is lying about it. Ignorant advocates and lazy journalists can be as dangerous as derelict detectives and prosecutors driven by political agendas instead of facts.
When #MeToo bandwagons form in the midst of a panic, innocent people get run over.
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