Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Then I Joined the Case … Now I’m An Abuser!

 

I’m going to begin with a confession. I’m an abuser of women.

In the Spring of 1979, my law enforcement fraternity went to a national conference in Sacramento. At the pool party after, one of my fraternity Brothers picked up one of my fraternity Sisters and threw her in the pool. (Yes, there were women in my chapter. It was an academic fraternity.) While he was carrying her, I tickled her feet, even though, or maybe because, I knew she didn’t like to have her feet touched.

The rest of the details of that night are rather hazy, even though there was no alcohol at the party. (Again, academic fraternity.) I don’t recall my Sister being angry at me or my Brother, either immediately or afterward. Frankly, I can’t remember their names, and after we all graduated I had only sporadic contact with any of the people in my fraternity. I’m sure they all went on to have fine careers in law enforcement, corrections, and probation services. I wouldn’t be surprised it everyone else has forgotten this little incident.

Of course, I’ve not been nominated for the Supreme Court.

There are a number of very strange things about the accusations made by Professor Christine Blasey Ford against Judge Kavanaugh. The first is, how in the world is she so sure that she knows the identities of the people involved? Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge were nobodies. There is no evidence that she had any contact with either of them before or after the event in question. Sure, Kavanaugh’s parents were rich and influential, but so were the parents of most of the kids who went to those exclusive private high schools.

Kavanaugh was an athlete; maybe Ford knew him from his prowess in basketball and football. Maybe that will all come out in her testimony. Still, in 1982, Kavanaugh was just another student at another high school.

What is more unusual is Professor Ford’s admitted behavior the night of the incident. What 15-year-old girl goes to a party where the only other attendees are four older boys? Did she have friends, a boyfriend, siblings? Where were they? I’ve known a few 15-year-old girls, and I know a lot of people who were 15-year-old girls. None of those I’ve talked to could imagine doing something so stupid.

Then, after this traumatic incident, she has no other memories of the details. Where did this occur? When did this occur? Who else was in the house? How did you find out about this soiree? How did you get there? How did you leave? Did you tell anyone about this at the time? Did anyone tickle your feet? Again, maybe this will come out in her testimony. The Federal Bureaucracy of Incompetents sure hasn’t found anything.

My brilliant wife thinks Professor Ford’s credibility could be destroyed with just four questions:

Professor Ford, are you a member of the American Psychological Association (APA)?

Have your memories of the incident been repressed, and were they only recovered in counseling?

What is the APA policy and philosophy on recovered repressed memories?

What is the corroborating evidence for this memory?

But, let’s play devil’s advocate and assume everything Professor Ford accused Brett Kavanaugh of is true. If that is the case, it shows that Christine Blasey Ford is a coward, a slimy political operative, and a traitor to other women.

After the incident in 1982, did she warn any of the other girls at her school, her friends, about his abusive behavior? No.

Did she inform Yale University or their law school that Kavanaugh might tarnish their reputation? No and no.

She obviously followed Kavanaugh’s career pretty closely. Did she let any of the law firms know that it might not be safe for him to work with women? No. How about the judges he clerked for, any warning to them? No.

When Kavanaugh was an advisor the President of the United States, during a time of tremendous national crisis, did she inform anyone that maybe he didn’t belong in the White House? Nope.

When he became a Federal Judge, what did she do? Nothing. When she found out that most of his clerks were women, did she tell anyone that he may be grooming them for abuse? No.

When #MeToo came along and all sorts of powerful men were outed as being sexual predators, did she do anything then? No, it wasn’t quite the right time.

When she found out that he was coaching his daughter’s basketball team, did she do something to protect those children? No, children are not important to her.

Instead, she chose the exact time when revealing the truth would most damage the Republican party. How very convenient that this all came out at the perfect time to delay Kavanaugh’s conformation. What a coincidence that she just happens to be a Democrat. Bringing this up at this time does nothing to protect women; all it does is advance the Democrat agenda.

I’m thinking she’s just deluded, but slimy political operative is also a good possibility.

And to my Fraternity Sister, wherever you are, I’m sorry.

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  1. RightAngles Member

    You are a monster, and I’ve always known it ever since that weekend which we won’t speak of again.

    Great post, and I hope they follow your advice.

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    • September 18, 2018, at 8:40 PM PDT
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  2. JosePluma Thatcher
    JosePluma

    RightAngles (View Comment):

    You are a monster, and I’ve always known it ever since that weekend which we won’t speak of again.

     

    Ohhh, I forgot, it was so long, long ago, and so far away. But I apologize to you, too. (Just don’t tell my wife. The tickling thing was hard enough to confess to her.)

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    • September 18, 2018, at 9:22 PM PDT
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  3. Jack Shepherd Coolidge

    She’s admitted she had a drinking problem at the time.

    She went to a different high school, as Georgetown Prep was (still may be) an all-boy’s school.

    We know Kavanaugh’s mother ruled against her family in a bankruptcy case 14 years after “the event”.

    We also know that she’s a Democratic supporter and anti-Trump activist. It’s easy to imagine that someone from the party contacted her. Which makes this a set-up.

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    • September 18, 2018, at 11:38 PM PDT
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  4. Arahant Member

    dnewlander (View Comment):

    She’s admitted she had a drinking problem at the time.

    She went to a different high school, as Georgetown Prep was (still may be) an all-boy’s school.

    We know Kavanaugh’s mother ruled against her family in a bankruptcy case 14 years after “the event”.

    We also know that she’s a Democratic supporter and anti-Trump activist. It’s easy to imagine that someone from the party contacted her. Which makes this a set-up.

    But, but, but, we must believe all wimmin folk.

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    • September 19, 2018, at 12:34 AM PDT
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  5. ST Inactive

    Operation SUPPRESS REPUBLICAN VOTE has commenced.

    • #5
    • September 19, 2018, at 1:05 AM PDT
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  6. Randy Webster Member

    Simon Templar (View Comment):

    Operation SUPPRESS REPUBLICAN VOTE has commenced.

    They ain’t suppressing my vote. Yay, Marsha Blackburn!

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    • September 19, 2018, at 1:45 AM PDT
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  7. Ralphie Member

    JosePluma: What is more unusual is Professor Ford’s admitted behavior the night of the incident. What 15-year-old girl goes to a party where the only other attendees are four older boys?

    I found it odd she went to a party that small and didn’t really know any of the 4 very well. I wonder how that happens? She could name 2, but not the other 2. Would it have been difficult to discover who BKs room mate was? I don’t remember seeing where Mark Judge was named in 2012, but I haven’t read or heard everything. It doesn’t sound like all gears are engaging in this story. So it is like the south park underpants gnome profit plan with bullet point 1 missing. 1.? 2. at party 3. attempted rape and murder. 

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    • September 19, 2018, at 2:53 AM PDT
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  8. Ralphie Member

    I can’t recall being at any party where I wasn’t a friend of at least one person. It is hard to get over the first part of the story. It is plausible not to know an exact date of mundane parties, but it doesn’t seem plausible to know why you went. And then I won a million dollars.

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    • September 19, 2018, at 3:01 AM PDT
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  9. OkieSailor Member
    OkieSailorJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    JosePluma:

    Professor Ford, are you a member of the American Psychological Association (APA)?

    Have your memories of the incident been repressed, and were they only recovered in counseling?

    What is the APA policy and philosophy on recovered repressed memories?

    What is the corroborating evidence for this memory?

    That’s the same thought process I had when I learned she didn’t mention it to anyone until telling her therapist about it some 30 years later. Glad you brought it up. 

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    • September 19, 2018, at 3:15 AM PDT
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  10. OkieSailor Member
    OkieSailorJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    Arahant (View Comment):

    dnewlander (View Comment):

    She’s admitted she had a drinking problem at the time.

    She went to a different high school, as Georgetown Prep was (still may be) an all-boy’s school.

    We know Kavanaugh’s mother ruled against her family in a bankruptcy case 14 years after “the event”.

    We also know that she’s a Democratic supporter and anti-Trump activist. It’s easy to imagine that someone from the party contacted her. Which makes this a set-up.

    But, but, but, we must believe all wimmin folk.

    I believe they’re all women, even the ones that don’t believe that themselves. Beyond that I judge the veracity for my self. I’m a stubborn old Coot.

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    • September 19, 2018, at 3:20 AM PDT
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  11. JosePluma Thatcher
    JosePluma

    OkieSailor (View Comment):

    JosePluma:

    Professor Ford, are you a member of the American Psychological Association (APA)?

    Have your memories of the incident been repressed, and were they only recovered in counseling?

    What is the APA policy and philosophy on recovered repressed memories?

    What is the corroborating evidence for this memory?

    That’s the same thought process I had when I learned she didn’t mention it to anyone until telling her therapist about it some 30 years later. Glad you brought it up.

    I can’t take credit. That part was my better half’s contribution. 

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    • September 19, 2018, at 3:31 AM PDT
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  12. Arahant Member

    By the way, congratulations on your title. Now I have this song stuck in my head:

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    • September 19, 2018, at 4:12 AM PDT
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  13. Michael Brehm Coolidge

    Ralphie (View Comment):

    JosePluma: What is more unusual is Professor Ford’s admitted behavior the night of the incident. What 15-year-old girl goes to a party where the only other attendees are four older boys?

    I found it odd she went to a party that small and didn’t really know any of the 4 very well. I wonder how that happens? She could name 2, but not the other 2. Would it have been difficult to discover who BKs room mate was? I don’t remember seeing where Mark Judge was named in 2012, but I haven’t read or heard everything. It doesn’t sound like all gears are engaging in this story. So it is like the south park underpants gnome profit plan with bullet point 1 missing. 1.? 2. at party 3. attempted rape and murder.

    I believe the other attendees at the party included Haven Monahan with his date, Jackie, (both visiting from UVA) and the Duke Lacrosse Team.

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    • September 19, 2018, at 5:07 AM PDT
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  14. EDISONPARKS Member
    EDISONPARKSJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    It is strange how everyone bends over backwards to “believe” this woman’s story when we have never actually seen this woman, much less heard her speak. All we have to base our judgement is her letter to Rep Eshoo and Sen Feinstein, an article in the Washington Post, and the public statements of her attorney.

    The story is more than suspiciously timed, so old as to make it essentially uninvestigatable, and unusually vague for such a traumatic event.

    It is more than possible her story is completely fabricated in order for the Left to either derail the Kavanaugh nomination or at the very least simply cause the political/cultural vandalism their hard core base loves so much.

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    • September 19, 2018, at 5:52 AM PDT
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  15. PHCheese Member

    dnewlander (View Comment):

    She’s admitted she had a drinking problem at the time.

    She went to a different high school, as Georgetown Prep was (still may be) an all-boy’s school.

    We know Kavanaugh’s mother ruled against her family in a bankruptcy case 14 years after “the event”.

    We also know that she’s a Democratic supporter and anti-Trump activist. It’s easy to imagine that someone from the party contacted her. Which makes this a set-up.

    Just for the record all Kavanaugh’s mother did was release the lien against the home of Fords parents. That would be a good thing for the parents. They did not lose the house.

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    • September 19, 2018, at 5:59 AM PDT
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  16. PHCheese Member

    To understand the victim hood of the left and how far it has penetrated our Culture even here on Ricochet one of our members called this a rape. When questioned it became an attempted rape. Even the victim never claimed that. If and a big if, it was a assault with apparently no physical results. If this happened I appreciate the mental aspect this could cause. Even at 73 I remember every sexual encounter I have ever had and they were all consensual. I was twice the (victim) of statutory “Rape”. I know it’s different being male but this had no affect on my life.

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    • September 19, 2018, at 6:20 AM PDT
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  17. Full Size Tabby Member

    OP:

    What is more unusual is Professor Ford’s admitted behavior the night of the incident. What 15-year-old girl goes to a party where the only other attendees are four older boys? Did she have friends, a boyfriend, siblings? Where were they? I’ve known a few 15-year-old girls, and I know a lot of people who were 15-year-old girls. None of those I’ve talked to could imagine doing something so stupid.

    This is among the bafflements I also have.

    Teenaged girls almost always travel in packs (prides? flocks? OK, groups). Or at least they did in those days, before on-line social media. It’s highly unlikely a teenaged girl would go to a party alone in 1982 unless she was the “girlfriend” of one of the male attendees and/or already knew the boys well. There’d be at least one other 15 or 16 year old girl there also. Even if she did go alone, and an event such as she claims happened, wouldn’t she have told her girlfriends about it in the next few days? Where is the corroboration from those girlfriends?

    I did know a very few 15 and 16 year old girls from a decade earlier (the 1970’s) who went to parties alone, but they all went with the knowledge that they were there to be a sex object (those were parties to which I was never invited). 

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    • September 19, 2018, at 7:30 AM PDT
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  18. KentForrester Moderator

    Arahant (View Comment):

    By the way, congratulations on your title. Now I have this song stuck in my head:

    Arahant, I just knew you were a Monkees fan. You were probably even fixated on the tall one. Square!

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    • September 19, 2018, at 8:19 AM PDT
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  19. Matthew Singer Member

    I may have to don asbestos for this, but why is she a “survivor”? Aren’t you only a survivor of something that could cause you death?

    sur·vi·vorsərˈvīvər/nounnoun: survivor; plural noun: survivors

    1. a person who survives, especially a person remaining alive after an event in which others have died.”the sole survivor of the massacre”

    PHCheese (View Comment):

    To understand the victim hood of the left and how far it has penetrated our Culture even here on Ricochet one of our members called this a rape. When questioned it became an attempted rape. Even the victim never claimed that. If and a big if, it was a assault with apparently no physical results. If this happened I appreciate the mental aspect this could cause. Even at 73 I remember every sexual encounter I have ever had and they were all consensual. I was twice the (victim) of statutory “Rape”. I know it’s different being male but this had no affect on my life.

     

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    • September 19, 2018, at 9:36 AM PDT
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  20. Arahant Member

    KentForrester (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    By the way, congratulations on your title. Now I have this song stuck in my head:

    Arahant, I just knew you were a Monkees fan. You were probably even fixated on the tall one. Square!

    You mean the guy whose mother invented Liquid Paper?

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    • September 19, 2018, at 9:38 AM PDT
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  21. KentForrester Moderator

    Arahant (View Comment):

    KentForrester (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    By the way, congratulations on your title. Now I have this song stuck in my head:

    Arahant, I just knew you were a Monkees fan. You were probably even fixated on the tall one. Square!

    You mean the guy whose mother invented Liquid Paper?

    See there, Adamant. You know far too much about the Monkees. You’re a fanboy. 

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    • September 19, 2018, at 9:45 AM PDT
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  22. HankRhody Freelance Philosopher Contributor

    I thought it was only done on Lifetime shows
    Done by macho jerkwads not like me
    Hairy guys in dago tees, that’s the way it seemed
    ‘Till I saw her kicking her bare feet

    JosePluma: Then I Joined the Case … Now I’m An Abuser!

    No there’s not a trace of guilt in my mind
    I had fun — now I’m an abuser
    I’d tickle her again at any time

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    • September 19, 2018, at 10:29 AM PDT
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  23. Western Chauvinist Member
    Western ChauvinistJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    “I’m Kavanaugh,” is that what you’re saying?

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    • September 19, 2018, at 11:02 AM PDT
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  24. Basil Fawlty Member
    Basil FawltyJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    KentForrester (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    KentForrester (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    By the way, congratulations on your title. Now I have this song stuck in my head:

    Arahant, I just knew you were a Monkees fan. You were probably even fixated on the tall one. Square!

    You mean the guy whose mother invented Liquid Paper?

    See there, Adamant. You know far too much about the Monkees. You’re a fanboy.

    A Circus Boy fanboy. And a hard man.

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    • September 19, 2018, at 11:05 AM PDT
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  25. Jack Shepherd Coolidge

    Arahant (View Comment):

    KentForrester (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    By the way, congratulations on your title. Now I have this song stuck in my head:

    Arahant, I just knew you were a Monkees fan. You were probably even fixated on the tall one. Square!

    You mean the guy whose mother invented Liquid Paper?

    No, the guy who sings One Ton Tomato.

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    • September 19, 2018, at 11:44 AM PDT
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  26. JosePluma Thatcher
    JosePluma

    Arahant (View Comment):

    By the way, congratulations on your title. Now I have this song stuck in my head:

    Dang! You always get my references!

    The title was just a throwaway; it should have been “Then she joined the case. . .”

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    • September 19, 2018, at 2:35 PM PDT
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  27. Randy Webster Member

    Arahant (View Comment):

    KentForrester (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    By the way, congratulations on your title. Now I have this song stuck in my head:

    Arahant, I just knew you were a Monkees fan. You were probably even fixated on the tall one. Square!

    You mean the guy whose mother invented Liquid Paper?

    The only actual musician in the group.

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    • September 19, 2018, at 2:38 PM PDT
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