Sunday, June 5, 2016

Why was Drew an undergraduate and a fraternity member in 2006 and then an undergraduate in 2012?

June 5, 2016


What and where are the University of Virginia's records that the Charlottesville police department's statement said "may have been relevant" to Jackie's case, that the school has refused to disclose and that nobody has subpoenaed?  Are those records about Drew being a rapist?  Was he suspended or did he decide to leave until his victims and everyone who knew them and him had graduated?

What about Drew's financial records that the Charlottesville police statement said "may have been relevant" to Drew having taken Jackie to dinner on the night when she was later raped?  Do they prove that Drew is not a fictional person, not a lie that Jackie told to get someone else to like her?  How does a fictional person have financial records that corroborate what a real person says?

What about the routine and documented practice of fraternities not registering the parties at which they haze male students or drug and/or sexually assault female students?

What about the Washington Post's promotion of sexual abuse, including the sexual abuse of children?

What about the Columbia Journalism Review being part of Columbia University?  Columbia University also awards the Pulitzer Prize.  This year, the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting went to, according to the Pulitzer Prize's website:

"T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of the Marshall Project

For a startling examination and expose of law enforcement's enduring failures to investigate reports of rape properly and to comprehend the traumatic effects on its victims."

When I first read about Mr. Miller several weeks ago, there was nothing in the article that I read about his visit to the University of Virginia that indicated that he was an advocate for rape victims; the entire article was distorted to make it seem like he was a persecutor of rape victims who called them liars.  I owe him an apology.  


What nobody who was part of the erroneous discrediting of Jackie and Ms. Erdely, which has led to three lawsuits against Rolling Stone and the near-total silencing of public discussion about sexual assault, seems to be doing is saying, in so many words, that the discrediting of the article was a mistake. 

Nobody should believe that the silencing of public discussion about sexual assault wasn't the goal of getting that article discredited.  

The lawsuits aren't being stopped, are they?  Nobody's talking about the rapes that happened at the University of Virginia THIS YEAR, and almost nobody is talking about the gang rapes that happened at other colleges and universities THIS YEAR. 

The media frenzy of incorrectly discrediting the Rolling Stone article went on for months.  The media doesn't seem to have nearly as much interest in talking about the sexual abuse of 13-year-old Nicole Lovell by a male Virginia Tech student and her murder by him and a female Virginia Tech student.  Where does anyone think that those Virginia Tech students got the idea that sexually abusing and then slitting the throat of a little girl would be enjoyable?  

Is nobody in the conglomerate going to take responsibility for what 6 years of murderous rape promotion by the most powerful people and institutions in the world are causing?



Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, June 5, 2016 @ 11:45 p.m.