Here are two news stories out of Cambridge, Ontario, brought to our attention by reader Paul K. They recount a girl's rape accusation -- the first is from November, the second is from yesterday. We present them as a case study in how police and the news media treat, and foment, false rape claims. Let us dissect the stories, with comments interspersed throughout:
STORY NUMBER ONE -- NOVEMBER 26, 2009:
Police search for man who sexually assaulted girl in Cambridge park
[FRS COMMENT: Note the headline. A man did sexually assault a girl, period. No "alleged," no "girl claims".]
CAMBRIDGE — Police will be searching through a Cambridge park for evidence again today after a 15-year-old girl was grabbed and sexually assaulted Thursday afternoon.
[FRS COMMENT: The girl "was grabbed and sexually assaulted," not the girl "claims" she was grabbed, etc. It is reported as if it were true. It is intended to make us believe it happened. If you don't think this is intentional, read on.]
Waterloo Regional Police say the girl was at Silverheights Park on Nickolas Crescent around noon when a man grabbed her, took her into a bush area and assaulted her.
[FRS COMMENT: Same. Note the reporter seems to be getting her information entirely from what the police want her to hear.]
Afterwards, the girl was able to make it to her house where she called police.
[FRS COMMENT: Thank goodness she made it back to the house so she could lie to the police.]
The girl received minor physical injuries and was taken to hospital. She has been treated and released.
[FRS COMMENT: The intended implication is that the injuries were inflicted by the rapist, and there is no other possible explanation.]
Police spokesperson Olaf Heinzel said officers spent Wednesday in the park with a canine unit trying to track down the suspect. Officers will be back today looking for any evidence.
[FRS COMMENT: Now the reporter references "the suspect," suggesting that police are looking for a specific individual. And the story notes that the police were going back to the scene to look for "any" evidence.]
“We’re working through the circumstances of what occurred,” Heinzel said.
[FRS COMMENT: Which means what? I think it means that "all we have is what this teenage girl says, and we're trying to find something -- anything -- that might verify it." But of course, neither the police nor the newspaper will come out and say that -- why? Because to say it would cast doubt on the veracity of the girl's tale, and the police want the newspaper to write it up as if it really happened.]
The man is described as white, about six feet tall, in his 30s with a medium build and black shaggy hair. He was wearing a black sweater and jeans.
[FRS COMMENT: And that description obviously applies to hundreds of guys in the region who easily could have been picked up, arrested, and forced to submit to invasive and embarrassing testing. And this newspaper, if it is like most newspapers, would gladly, without hesitation, splash his name all over its pages for the world to titillate to his humiliation. His life would be destroyed simply because he matched the girl's made-up description -- you know, guilty by reason of penis.]
“We’re looking for witnesses,” said Heinzel. “If anyone saw individuals with this description around that time yesterday, we’d be interested in hearing from them.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 519-650-8500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
[FRS COMMENT: Nice, isn't it, that the police have acted as this girl's stenographers, parroting her wild, misandric tale? And the news media, in turn, seems to do nothing here except take dictation from the police, never questioning the validity of the story, never asking "what evidence do we have for this?" and apparently never doing its own independent investigation beyond copying down what the police say because, gee -- I don't know -- aren't they supposed to be reporters? This isn't a news report, it's a public service announcement intended to foment rape hysteria.]
STORY NUMBER TWO -- JANUARY 19, 2010:
Girl lied about November sexual assault in Cambridge
CAMBRIDGE — A girl who told police she was grabbed and sexually assaulted in a Cambridge park in November was lying, police have determined.
[FRS COMMENT: Is any reader here surprised? I follow stories like this and find that an astounding number of similar claims of stranger rape by teen girls are false.]
The 15-year-old girl told police she was assaulted by a shaggy-haired man at Silverheights Park on Nickolas Crescent around noon on Nov. 25, 2009. She said a man grabbed her, took her into a bush area and assaulted her.
Afterwards, she told investigators she was able to make it to her house where she contacted police. She was taken to hospital and treated for minor physical injuries.
[FRS COMMENT: Notice the subtle difference here in the way it is reported: last November, we were told the girl made it to her house to call police. Now we are told the girl told police she made it to the house. Why didn't the November story say that? Did the newspaper fear that the girl's story might have been viewed with suspicion last November if the reporter had added "the girl claimed"? The question scarcely survives its statement.]
Investigators searched the park for days looking for the man. They called in a canine unit to help in their search and issued an appeal to the public for information.
The girl gave police a description of her alleged attacker, saying he was white, about 30 years old with a medium build and black shaggy hair.
[FRS COMMENT: In the earlier story, we are told that police were looking for "the suspect" who matched that description. Here, after the story falls apart, the newspaper just refers to him as an alleged attacker. Newsflash: that's all he was in November, too -- an "alleged attacker," and the newspaper knew or should have known it then. So why couldn't the news media call him that in November? Because it would have cast doubt on the veracity of the girl's tale, and that's the last thing the news media wanted to do.]
On Tuesday, police said the girl made the story up. The injuries she said she received during the attack actually occurred when she tripped and fell earlier that day.
Waterloo Regional Police spokesperson Olaf Heinzel wouldn’t say exactly what caused the girl to lie but that “she was dealing with some personal issues at the time.
[FRS COMMENT: When was the last time you heard a teen rapist described in that manner: ". . . he was dealing with some personal issues at the time"?]
“It was the result of an unfortunate choice on behalf of the (girl) to report the information to the police and thereby create numerous concerns in the nearby area and in the community,” he said.
[FRS COMMENT: Is this astounding, or what? We are stranded in an era where the fantastic rape musings of girls are accepted as Gospel; where the police and the news media act as nothing more than parrots for children with "personal issues"; where innocent young men need to worry about whether they match the descriptions given by girls bent on fomenting rape hysteria; and where crimes are "unfortunate choices" when they are false rape allegations.]
Heinzel added that the girl “clearly did not understand the impact of her actions on the community and her family.”
The girl will not be charged.
[FRS COMMENT: Of course not. Why would we charge a criminal with committing a crime? And let us hope every fifteen-year-old girl reads this and gets the idea that they, too, can cry "rape" when they need a little attention, or better yet, when their brothers or fathers or male teachers or classmates do something they don't like.]
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On a (slight) positive note, at least we know names of the incompetent police spokespig and the incompetent and biased reporter.
"the police want the newspaper to write it up as if it really happened"
Perhaps a more innocent explanation is that the police honestly thought that is what happened, not that they had some ulterior motive for the press to write something they suspected was false.
That she had injuries and went to the hospital might have made her story seem more believable.
Given the little we know, I would say that her claim deserved to be investigated. Investigation is just that. It should not assume that her story was false any more than her story was true. Imho, Cherri Greeno is the one who is at fault here.
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/whatis/chap16.htm#Corruption
What Is The Corruption Of Tradition
Tradition becomes corrupt when the manners, customs, institutions or laws, which make up the tradition are either discarded or reversed. A tradition is reversed when it stops being a vehicle for duty that improves the community, but becomes a vehicle for indulgence that erodes the community.
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/undrstnd.htm
"Language Is Understanding
by Philip Atkinson
"What a man cannot state he does not perfectly know, and conversely the inability to put his thoughts into words sets a boundary to his thought... . English is not merely the medium of our thought; it is the very stuff and process of it."—Report of the Departmental Committee on the Teaching of English in England ; H. M. Stationery Office (1921)
A man may have a notion but the only way of determining the value of such an impression is to express it in words, and then, and only then, can he grasp the substance of the idea. And if an author omits this step, the risk is that the idea will not be rational but fanciful. So not even the author knows what an idea is until it is clearly expressed in words, a quality which makes language the essence of understanding. Diagrams and pictures may be used to support words, but it is the words that contain the idea. (see also) Hence:
1. Language is the expression of thought, with the translation of notions into words being the act of understanding.
2. The understanding of an idea can be improved by simplifying the words used to express the idea.
3. The understanding of an idea can be improved by shortening the number of words used to express the idea.
4. The exercise of improving the expression of an idea, is the improvement of the understanding of that idea.
5. The more plain the use of language, the more clearly an idea is revealed. The more clearly an idea is revealed, the better the understanding of that idea.
6. If an idea cannot be expressed in plain English, it cannot be understood.
— which is why all English speaking citizens should strive to use plain English in their thoughts as well as their communications.
Nevertheless language is merely a discipline where meaning is created by the universal adoption of the rules of spelling and grammar. So:
i. Clear thinking is disciplined thinking while confused thinking is undisciplined thinking.
ii. The less discipline a man reveals in the use of language, the less disciplined are his thoughts and the less reliable are his opinions.
iii. Improvement in the discipline of a man's use of language must reflect an improvement in the discipline of that man's thoughts. Whereas decay in the discipline of a man's use of language must reflect decay in the discipline of that man's thoughts.
Hence the crucial importance of mastery of the use of language, both to the individual and to the community. And the only way such mastery can be maintained is by regular exercise; that is by frequent discussion, reading, writing or speeches. Otherwise not only will the mastery of language decay, but also understanding.
Language is also tradition, for it is tradition that establishes the words, spelling and grammar; hence it is tradition that forms the basis of communal understanding, so the corruption of tradition is the corruption of communal understanding."
Anon at 9:47: correct.
Anon at 9:49: The police need to treat every rape claim seriously. Of course. And they do. But they present these claims as "real" even before an investigation -- and even when they KNOW that they may not be -- because they know that if they didn't treat it as a "real" rape and it turns out there really IS a rapist on the loose, then they will be widely criticized. It's all about CYA.
Why we are targets:
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/person/index.htm
"The Impact Of Social Decline Upon
The Individual
by Philip Atkinson
Once The Worst Were Stigmatized
When a community is waxing those individuals who indulge their desires at the cost of their duty, earn public odium. They become branded as cowards, liars, cheats, etc and suffer public persecution if not judicial penalty. Such people find themselves justly shunned and despised, if not imprisoned or executed, by their fellows. These unfortunates are able to enjoy the company of their fellows only by dissembling their true nature. But as long as they live, their inability to resist temptation will expose them to the constant threat of shame and disgrace; a danger that can only be minimised by avoiding social intercourse and the demands of ambition. Even when old age eventually calms their vices, the threat of social odium that would accompany public discovery of their history will compel them to remain social outcasts.
Now The Best Are Stigmatized
Whereas in a waning community the opposite is true. Those few citizens who refuse to collaborate in the destruction of their community by denying truth while embracing tyranny quickly discover they must adopt social exile if they are to avoid social stigma. If they cannot bring themselves to comply with the silly demands of their senile community such as becoming a teacher ready to accept the contempt of his pupils while promoting nonsense; or a policeman who protects criminals while persecuting ordinary citizens; or a doctor who must mistreat his patients; or a scientist researching a non-existent virus; or a public servant acting as a mill-stone on the community—they will be stigmatized. The only defence against the risk of persecution or prosecution, is withdrawal from the company of their peers and subsisting, if necessary, by a menial job."
So, I accept my menial, part-time job as an anonymous false rape activist. The pay is crap, but the benefits are outstanding!
"(Police spokesperson Olaf) Heinzel added that the girl “clearly did not understand the impact of her actions on the community and her family.”
The girl will not be charged."
I may be alone in this view, but the only mistake I see the Police making is in not charging the girl once it became clear that she had fabricated the whole thing.
Police are charged with investigating all alleged crimes (yes, they should refer to them as allegations until they have evidence enough to support charges). It would not be appropriate and certainly not acceptable for Police to unilaterally decide which cases they will look into and which they will dismiss out-of-hand. As near as I can tell they did their jobs, they took reasonable precautions regarding public safety, and eventually broke down the lie.
Are their things they could have done better - certainly. But, they were acting on the girls claim - she, as she alone, is to blame.
Now, I would also point out that there is no indication that the Police randomly detained anyone for questioning nor a line-up. There is also no indication that they did one bit of work beyond searching the area soon after with K-9 units and searching for (non-existent) evidence the following day. They put out the standard call for anyone who might have knowledge to call in - then they apparently waited.
There are plenty of cases where the Police engage in "royal" screw-ups. I just don't think this is one of those times.
Another thing to consider is the possibility that the Police learn from such occurrences. Here, they took the girl at her word, and set about to find evidence of a crime. Now, they're left with "egg on their collective faces" when they learn they've been had.
Do you really believe that the next time some girl claims a sexual assault that they're going to be near as quick to believe her (aside from a few die-hard white-knight types)?
Getting to the truth of the FRA issue is a learning experience. It will never happen all at once, for anyone. Most people are inclined to believe women and girls, and will need hard evidence of the relative deceitfulness of the female gender to wake them up.
Lay the blame at the feet of many for this - school, churches, even parents and "sugar-and-spice" fairly-tale rhymes.
Blame the press for the ways in which they phrase things, or (my pet peeve) withhold information.
Blame the Police when they over-step their bounds.
Blame men who do commit rapes (the ultimate reason that women's false claims are believed).
But, never, ever lose track of the fact that the power to set it all in motion, and the power to stop it with the truth, lies squarely in the hands of the women and girls who make FRA's.
What I don't like is the habit of police and news media of saying the following: "A girl was raped . . . ." This suggests to the casual reader that the police and news media believe a girl was raped. It's not accurate, by any measure.
No one is suggesting that the police should not investigate every claim of rape seriously. But if they actually picked up a guy to question him and it got reported, the public would assume, "They got the rapist!"
To say "a girl was raped" under these circumstances simply is false. Take a look at the Hofstra TV report we stuck up on this site. Atrocious. And THAT'S what most people in the area will remember -- a rape was committed -- even when the truth comes out that she lied. It foments rape hysteria.
Pierce Harlan - "What I don't like is the habit of police and news media of saying..."
While it certainly doesn't apply in all cases, from what I've observed, Police spokespersons generally make full use of the terms alleged and allegation
We aren’t given any examples of Olaf Heinzel editorializing in the first story – although he clearly does in the second account. And, even then, he seems more intent on white-knighting on the liars behalf - “she was dealing with some personal issues at the time.” & “clearly did not understand the impact of her actions on the community and her family.”
Of course, I do agree that Police all too often will over-step and interject their personal feelings into the accounts given to reporters (having assigned HR spokespersons was intended to prevent this very thing).
But, it’s seldom the case where we have Police shouting a warning tot eh public that “there’s a rapist on the loose!”. That is what the press tends to do. They get a little bit of information, and put their own anti-male and/or rape hysteria spin on it, and blow it up into a bigger story.
We see this quite often.
Which is also why I tend to be so annoyed when their accounts of FRA exposed contain so very little information – like they only report it begrudging at all. Recently, when ever such a perfunctory FRA story is published, I take a look at other stories the same paper is publishing. On a couple of occasions, I’ve pointed out here just how much more in-depth they tend to go with stories of a far less serious nature, than they do in reporting the uncovering of FRA’s.
I don’t seek to entirely absolve the Police, but I tend to believe that the press carries more of the blame for fanning the rape-hysteria flames. Just my opinion on the matter.
slwerner, are you saying that the fault -- which we see time and time again -- lies solely with the news media? If so, you might be correct -- they seem to love to foment hysteria for ratings purposes. What do you think?
"What the fuck is wrong with all of these men? Sexual abuse is not women; it's men. Every once in a while a woman will sexually abuse, but in 95 percent of cases it's a man that is known to the child — a teacher, a friend, a family member. These are high-functioning people in society who are choosing to molest children. All this focus on the psychology of the victim is a way to sidestep this central question: What is going on in society that so many men are choosing to get off on small children? I can find almost no studies on the subject. People will go into jails and interview a perpetrator, but most of these people don't go to jail, and most of them aren't caught."
http://www.Salon.com/books/int/2010/01/18/trauma_myth_interview/
Susan Clancy discusses her controvrsial theory by Tom Rogers, Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/books/int/2010/01/18/trauma_myth_interview/
@ Anon,
Women are at least a third of all child sexual abusers.
There's also the fact that women are much less likely to be found out.
And when you factor in all the false accusations against men, that should tip it over half on the side of women.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Males skew so wide we produce a small percentage who are dangerous; we produce a big percentage that make the world go round in lots of ways. But our focus here isn't to defend criminals. It's to defend the innocent who are assumed to be criminals by reason of being male.
Snark: right on.
Pierce Harlan - "slwerner, are you saying that the fault -- which we see time and time again -- lies solely with the news media?"
I don't think that the blame lies entirely with the media alone, but rather that they are disproportionately responsible - both through their unrestrained biases, and the choice of words to be used and information to be published.
It may occasionaly be the fault of someone in law enforcement, I just tend to beleive that it is much more oftern the press.
slwerner, I think you are right.
Anonymous: If you would use some logic and common sense and ignore the feminist generated hysteria in the media you would know that child molestors must be very rare. It is against Natural law to desire to have sex with a child(an individual under the age of puberty) and is a taboo in every civilised society. The number of people with this psychiatric disorder must be extremely rare something in the area of 1 in a million. Most of these so called "child" molestor cases are really consentual sex with an individual under the age of consent which may be 18 in many places. Hardly a child. And why is it when two people under 18 in places where this high age of consent exists that it is the male who is prosecuted when in fact under the law they are both committing a crime?
Philip atkinson seems to be borderline genus.
Very well written Archivist and your comments are spot on!
What is it Scott keeps repeating about a gender feminist/ law enforcement misinformation alliance?
I add the media to the mix as they are also guilty of misinforming the public.
Imagine what would have happened if the police saw a man that fit the desription the girl gave them.
"What is it Scott keeps repeating about a gender feminist/ law enforcement misinformation alliance?"
Something about it being a perversion ...
and unconstitutional.
"What is it Scott keeps repeating about a gender feminist/ law enforcement misinformation alliance?"
Scott is right. Feminism owns law enforcement. It is men with power discriminating against men with less power. Men who are presumed guilty by default instead of innocent.
"(yes, they should refer to them as allegations until they have evidence enough to support charges)"
Until they have a conviction, in my opinion. What the fuck is so hard about reporting a story like this?
"A Detroit woman alleged she was raped last Saturday while walking home...."
"In a follow-up of last week's alleged rape story, police are now searching for the man they believe fits X's description of her alleged assailant..."
"Last week X was found guilty of raping Detroit woman,X, and has been sentenced to _____ for his crime..."
Notice how AFTER the conviction, the person is referred to as a rapist or criminal,not BEFORE. It's not rocket science.
That makes me believe that when they write the stories up as if a rape had definitely occurred before we even have a suspect to hear from, they are doing it intentionally.
Males accused of rape are the only ones who receive this kind of treatment in the media, as well. That's another thing that makes me think it's intentional.
Archivist wrote, The police need to treat every rape claim seriously. Of course.
Why should they? Suppose there is a female who comes in and makes a false complaint every month?
Or a female that has made false claims in a number of police stations around the county and one day she comes into their station and some cop recognises her from stories he has heard. They should waste resources and perhaps ruin some innocent man's reputation just because this evil female feels like making a complaint? They should actually be keeping a data base on these females who make false reports to protect men.
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Hey, you want to know why the newspaper reports sexual assaults, whether attempted, false, or real, in such a fashion? TO WARN OTHER WOMEN. At the time of the rape, no one knows whether it was real or not, so it's better to warn the public. ALSO, the Toronto police were put on trial in the 80s for NOT warning the public about a balcony rapist, which could have prevented real rapes.
Of course I agree that some women lie about being raped, just as some men lie about NOT raping. And just to let you know, more women are actually raped then those that lied about it. Go to a sexual assault clinic and see what rape does to people. Some women are made INFERTILE by the brutality of rape.
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If you have any balls at all, you WON'T prevent this comment from appearing. I don't wish rape upon you, but having some guy slam you up against a wall and rape YOU in the ass might teach you a lesson, idiot.
P.S: I see the comments must be approved by the "author", so I know you read this, you asshole. Fuck you and horse you rode in on.
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