I'm sure that one of the articles that I read today about the incident at the University of Virginia said that the "time-stamped" photo of the fraternity house where the alleged rape took place was of an empty "entrance corridor." One empty hallway proves that no party or rape took place?
Of course there's no physical evidence left that the rape took place; it happened more than two years ago, and the victim was discouraged from going to the police right after it happened.
The police haven't said that the rape didn't happen; they are simply following the law that requires that there be more evidence than the word of an accuser to make arrests.
It is unfortunate how many people don't care enough about other human beings to be concerned that a rape could have taken place in a room of a house where the party they were attending was happening. However, it seems to me that probably many of the people who most like attending fraternity parties might lie about having attending a party like that if they thought that it would help the men in the fraternity whom they thought were falsely accused of rape. They might also lie if they believed the rape happened but didn't think it was important enough for the rapists to be punished for it. Also, there are probably a lot of people who wouldn't want anyone to know that they had attended the party that was later written about in the Rolling Stone article.
Look at all the lies that have happened around me all the time, in plain sight, for the past five years. "Everyone" knows that I'm a slut who's getting what I deserve, while "nobody" knows what I'm talking about when I protest being coughed at, stalked, videotaped voyeuristically. Is it so difficult to believe that a large group of people would lie?
There's only one person who has had no reason to lie, for whom lying could have no possible advantage; that's the victim.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 23, 2015 @ 11:07 p.m.
