The Other Side Speaks: Defending the Accused at Campus Rape Trials

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'"It is hard to overstate the importance of hiring a lawyer as soon as you find out that you are charged," said Justin Dillon, a partner at the law firm of Kaiser, LeGrand & Dillon PLLC, who represented the male student. "The creative ways that the colleges will think up to screw the student will blow your hair back."
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Kaiser and Dillon spoke with Reason about some of the cases they have handled, trends in college sex disputes, and the desperate tactics some administrators have pulled to score convictions. Their perspective represents just one side of the story, of course—but it's a perspective deserving more attention than it has received in these days of heightened interest in the campus rape crisis. What's clear from talking to them is that the raging debate over the proper way for universities to deal with rape won't ever be settled until someone ill-treated by the bizarre process takes the issue to federal court.'

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"Men rape infants, toddlers, elderly women and occasionally cadavers"

Article here. I think we're overdue for an organization called the Men's Anti-Defamation League", or "MADL", for short, as in: "MAD as helL from all the blanket insults and hateful generalizations." Excerpt:

'In a gender-equal world, there would be no prostitution, no rapes, no forced marriages, no forced childbirths, no sex slaves, no vulgar gender disparagements, no glass ceilings. In an equal world, men would not view male qualities as the norm and portray females as “other” or secondary.

The idea that men are helpless to women’s lures should not lead to men sticking cameras under women’s skirts. Women turn men on without even trying. If a woman sits stone-like, there is surely something she will do to arouse, even if it is only to take a breath. Men are programmed to find allure even when it is not intentioned.

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Number of suicides in UK increases, with male rate highest since 2001

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'The number of suicides in the UK increased in 2013, with the male rate its highest since 2001 and middle-aged men most at risk, according to the latest data.

Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show 6,233 people over the age of 15 killed themselves in 2013, 252 more than in 2012, which represents a 4% increase.

The UK suicide rate was 11.9 deaths per 100,000 people. The north-east had the highest rate in England at 13.8 deaths per 100,000, while London had the lowest with 7.9.

The male suicide rate has increased significantly since 2007, the ONS said, while female rates have stayed relatively constant and were consistently lower than those for men.

In 1981, 63% of UK suicides were male, but in 2013 the figure was 78%. The proportion of male to female deaths by suicide has increased steadily since 1981.'

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A Bid for Guns on Campuses to Deter Rape

Article here. "Weapons are an instrument of ill omen, and not the instruments of the superior man, until he has no choice but to employ them." - Lao Tzu.

So packs of rapist men are running wild all over college campuses, justifying a movement supporting female students keeping loaded guns in their rooms or maybe start packin' to keep the gangs of rabid drunken men that predate campuses openly looking for victims to catch off-guard from raping them in broad daylight? Bizarre. Excerpt:

'As gun rights advocates push to legalize firearms on college campuses, an argument is taking shape: Arming female students will help reduce sexual assaults.

Support for so-called campus carry laws had been hard to muster despite efforts by proponents to argue that armed students and faculty members could prevent mass shootings like the one at Virginia Tech in 2007. The carrying of concealed firearms on college campuses is banned in 41 states by law or by university policy. Carrying guns openly is generally not permitted.

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Men's rights movement: why it is so controversial?

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'The men's rights movement, a loose coalition of activists who largely gather online, is growing in size and support.

They advocate fathers' rights and speak out for male victims of abuse and domestic violence – so why have they been branded a "toxic" hate movement?
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Men's rights activists (MRAs) argue that society is inherently "sexist" towards men and that they face daily discrimination from the government, the media and the justice system. They fight against custody laws they say overwhelmingly favour women, false rape allegations, violence against men, conscription and disproportionate male prison sentences.

"When women are underrepresented as CEOs of companies that is deemed discrimination," David Benatar, head of philosophy at the University of Cape Town told the BBC. "But when boys are falling behind at school, when 90 per cent of people in prison are male, there's never any thought given to whether men are discriminated against."'

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Three Myths of Rape That Need Sunlight

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'A pivot point occurred within feminism on the issue of rape in 1975 when the book Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller appeared. In its pages, Brownmiller attempted to chart the history of rape from the Neanderthal through to modern man, placing great emphasis on periods of war and crisis. Against Our Will reportedly gave rape its history. It became a founding document of the "rape culture," which further propelled the feminist movement from liberalism to political correctness, which has also been called gender or radical feminism.

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NPO: Colorado state Senate passes bill for parental rights protection

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'National Parents Organization continues to make strides in the State of Colorado. Our Gilbert Tso once again testified before the Senate Education Committee in support of Senate Bill 15-077, also known as the Parents Bill of Rights. The bill was approved by the committee by a 5-4 party-line vote and has now passed the full Senate 18-16.

Here’s how Tso describes the bill:

"This bill was introduced and first read in the Senate Education Committee; its sponsors in both the Colorado Senate and House sought to remedy the growing intrusions by state agencies and schools into parents' fundamental right to raise their children according to their beliefs and principles, to opt-out of certain state-directed education, mental health-care and medical practices involving their children.

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University releases statement on falsely reported assault

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'An aggravated assault of a woman on campus has been determined to be false according to a university statement released today.

The female student reported the incident Wednesday and in follow up interviews with police, she said that she had not been on campus that day and the confrontation did not occur, according to the statement.

Capt. Mike McCord said police are currently investigating the information they have gathered.

According to the Texas Penal Code, making a false report is a class B misdemeanor punishable by up to a $2,000 fine, confinement in jail for up to 180 days, or both.

The Shorthorn attempted to contact the female student, but received no response.

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College blocks man from housing access for reminding student of her rapist

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'... She discovered a essay recently authored by Professor Janet Halley in the Harvard Law Review that should boil the blood of anyone concerned with quaint notions like justice and due process.

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Biden, again

Article here. If he weren't VAWA Joe giving lip service to feminism left and right, does anyone suppose Mr. Nuzzly-Paws would get a pass from feminist critics? One certainly need not be a feminist to find such behavior from one of our elected officials objectionable, on top of his apparent inability to avoid offending any number of people because of their ethnicity. But this isn't Biden's first time he's pawed up some woman in front of a camera, apparently believing being VPOTUS gives him license. Grow up, Joe. Excerpt:

'As Carter began speaking in the Roosevelt Room, Biden beckoned Stephanie Carter from across the room, then put both hands on her shoulders as her husband thanked Biden for presiding over the ceremony. Biden's hands lingered for roughly 20 seconds until he leaned in and whispered in her ear.

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What Are We Teaching Our Girls? Men Are Not The Problem With The World

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'I have three sons. One is in college, and one will be there in a few years. I worry about them.

I worry because it seems obvious that our universities have become a cesspool of leftist, feminist culture that is harmful and even possibly dangerous to young men.

Let me also say that rape is a heinous crime and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. However, what happens when a girl decides she was raped after she said yes?
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What are we teaching our young girls?

That it’s okay to lie when you feel guilty and wish you hadn’t done something? That men are the problem and young women have no personal responsibility? That women are inherently society’s victims and that lying about men is okay?

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New Hampshire: House Committee Hears Circumcision Bill

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'Today a house committee considered a bill that would prohibit Medicaid from funding circumcisions of newborn baby boys.

Bedford Republican Keith Murphy sponsored this bill. He firmly believes circumcision is dangerous – potentially, very dangerous.

"One hundred and seventeen children a year, on average, die from circumcision complications. In fact it’s one of the leading causes of neonatal male deaths," says Murphy.
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Ronald Goldman, Director of the Boston-based Circumcision Resource Center, painted a dark picture of circumcision’s impact on the male psyche.

"Anger, a sense of loss, sadness, and sexual anxieties....A recent study found a connection between circumcision and the risk of autism," said Goldman.
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If passed, it’s worth noting this bill could impact a lot of people. The latest data from 2010 found Medicaid paid for nearly 30 percent of the babies born in New Hampshire.'

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KC Johnson’s campus talk on due process in sexual assault draws protesters

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'Johnson is best known for his book analyzing the Duke lacrosse rape case with National Journal‘s Stuart Taylor, but you’d think he was Joe Pesci going up against a cartoonish Southern prosecutor to defend “two yoots” against Dixieland justice.

Two of the university’s student publications, The Post and The New Political, live-tweeted the circus around Johnson’s talk, including the heavy security presence.
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"As Johnson approached the podium, members of Student Union and F*ckrapeculture stood from their seats and turned to the crowd of around 70 people in the Baker Center. They wore hand-made shirts saying “RAPE IS REAL, THIS IS BULLSH*T”, and some members held signs saying “SEX WITHOUT CONSENT IS ALWAYS RAPE” and “1 in 5 women will be SEXUALLY ASSAULTED during college”.

The protesters sat down after some members of the audience audibly complained that they could not see Johnson and after a warning of their removal by the police."
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Johnson took it all in stride, telling The New Political after the lecture:

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The (New) Big Chill: More on Erosion of Rights of the Accused from a Harvard Law Prof

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'Harvard Law School to the rape-hysteria rescue!

Or, more specifically, Harvard Law School professor Janet Halley, who’s been a leading protestor against the university’s new sexual harassment policy, which—like that of all too many colleges and universities these days—not only tilts the on-campus legal procedure against the accused but defines as harassment a range of classroom and out-of-classroom speech, from jokes to mere generalized references to sex, which means that anyone can be a victim who feels like a victim.
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Paradoxically, Halley herself specializes in teaching gender and sex-related issues at the Harvard Law School. As a professor who knows whereof she writes, she probably has serious doubts about whether her fellow feminists in charge of enforcing Title IX will pay attention to her warnings. So far, they haven’t.'

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U Penn procedure on sexual assault concerns some law faculty

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'Nearly one-third of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Law School have criticized a new university procedure for handling sexual assault cases that they say undermines traditional safeguards for the accused and could lead to wrongful disciplinary actions against Penn students.

The procedure, adopted under pressure from the Obama Administration, establishes a new position at Penn - the Sexual Violence Investigative Officer - and became effective Feb. 1. The policy weakens standards for finding that a sexual assault has occurred while offering the accused only limited rights to a defense, the law school critics say.

Given examples of high-profile sexual assault charges that have unraveled under close scrutiny, notably the gang rape allegation at the University of Virginia reported by Rolling Stone magazine, the university must take steps to ensure its procedure for adjudicating sexual assault cases is fair, the faculty members say.'

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