Salon beats the radical feminist tom-tom and spreads more misinformation about the prevalence of false rape claims. This is from an article on the WikiLeaks rape claims against Julian Assange:
"It certainly appears that the case was handled poorly, but there is a whole lot we still don't know. Here's what I do know: Regardless of the validity of the specific claims against Assange, high-profile prosecutorial reversals and fumbles like this are a disservice to victims of sexual assault. They help perpetuate a distorted sense of the frequency of false accusations and contribute to the view of rape claims as a tool used to manipulate and destroy men. Ultimately, cases like this discourage victims from coming forward and only make it harder for women with legitimate claims of sexual assault to be taken seriously by police, prosecutors and the general public."
First, "high-profile prosecutorial reversals and fumbles like this" surely do a disservice to victims of sexual assault, but they do a much greater disservice to victims of false rape claims.
Second, claims such as this do not "help perpetuate a distorted sense of the frequency of false accusations" because false accusations are far more common than Salon is willing to tell its readers. It is astounding that we must continually explain how the persons who dominate the public discourse about rape are spreading myths, half-truths, and outright lies when it comes to the prevalence of false rape claims. See here. What is most galling is that publications such as Salon posit such assertions as if they were a given, suggesting that any contrary view can only be -- oh, no! Misogyny! Heaven forbid that facts should get in the way of a good feminist victim metanarrative.
Third, if cases like this "contribute to the view of rape claims as a tool used to manipulate and destroy men," that is because far too often rape claims are used precisely in this manner. Salon's writers would do well to spend several weeks reading through the true-life false rape cases and objective materials posted on this Web site before they spread any more half-truths.
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There will be a time when law enforcement will no loger be able to "manufacture faulty and inflamatrory missinformation" for their gender feminist bosses. Law enforcement crossed some constitutional boundries when they began their " faulty and inflamatory" missinformation campaigns.
Repeating the same old lies over and over again doesn't make it truth, no matter how hard these people try.
Repeating the truth over and over again is the perfect counter. Eventually, it's the only argument left standing. One day, magazines like Salon will stop spreading these lies and start treating men with dignity, just as ordinary people learned to stop believing nonsense about black people and stopped calling them 'nigger'.
Whatever their motives - and they are many and varied - what they are doing is wrong. They cannot win if we persist. Persistence is all it takes.
May God bless you at this site who already know this.
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EmailPrint..By BILL DRAPER, Associated Press Writer Bill Draper, Associated Press Writer – Sun Aug 22, 4:55 pm ET
LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. – After Ted White Jr. was wrongfully convicted of molesting his 12-year-old stepdaughter, his parents poured everything they had into clearing their son's name.
When he won his freedom after finding out that the detective who led the sex-abuse investigation was his estranged wife's secret lover, White wanted someone to pay — to pay the legal bills and to pay for what he went through during his nearly six years behind bars.
Now, more than five years after his release, he's still waiting for the Kansas City suburb of Lee's Summit to do what it once promised — pay the multimillion-dollar court judgment against former Detective Richard McKinley.
The city doesn't deny signing a 2006 agreement saying it would pay any judgment against McKinley in exchange for White dropping Lee's Summit and its police chief from his civil lawsuit alleging they had violated several of his constitutional rights.
Instead, Lee's Summit Mayor Randy Rhoads says the city can't pay the $16 million judgment — upheld in July by a federal appeals court — because a local ordinance bars it from indemnifying a city employee who violates another person's constitutional rights.
Meanwhile, White says, his parents are the ones who are suffering. His father, a 71-year-old optometrist in southwest Missouri, has suffered at least two heart attacks since 1999 but can't retire.
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