The story unravels further.
I don’t know what this means?
We are entering into very dark and dangerous times, when objective truth and morality or a sense of honor do not matter in elite academia, (and I might add, the mainstream media or government). Thomas Jefferson’s University is the home of the original Honor Code. Students are expelled for lying or cheating, or tolerating those who do. That is, knowing about a lie and failing to report it is an Honor Code violation. Ms. Sullivan, that P.C; commissar maven, late of the UVA putsch/counterputsch, knows that a vile and despicable slander and lie has been told against the PKP fraternity. She virtually watched from her high window when the mob was sent to throw rocks and paint “RAPISTS!!!” on the side of their house.
This is brownshirt stuff, folks. This is riling up a mob for Kristallnacht.
In this case, thank God, the originator of the lie appears to be a very disturbed young lady, who began with “cat-fishing” an imaginary 3rd year dreamboat, to influence a desired first year beau. The lie went up in spirals, embellished and increased with each retelling until it was purveyed to Rolling Stone by a UVA staff interlocutor. When the bomb was dropped, it quickly became apparent that the mass rape frat initiation reported in Rolling Stone was perhaps the worst group libel since the German Nazis set up false Polish attacks on their border on August 31, 1939, as a pretext for invasion. Or the libel that German Jews were poisoning the Berlin water supply.
In this racially-charged post-Ferguson environment, to send the mob against a house representing white male privilege, with bricks and spray paint, was the act of a Himmler or a Goebbels. This time, the lie was outed, and the damage contained—even if the libelous smear will always exist. The next time, the fury of the mob may not be contained, if the false flag operation or intentional smear campaign against a hated scapegoat group is not revealed in time. The blood will be on the hands of those evil people who stirred the mob into a frenzy. Sharpton at Freddy’s Mart and the subsequent fatal arson attack comes to mind.
Ms. Sullivan, who might as well have passed out cans of gasoline and nooses, must not only apologize, she must be expelled from the Grounds and from Albemarle County, befitting any gross violator of the Honor Code.
If she keeps her seat, well, take it for the signal that it is. It’s brownshirt time ahead.
Matthew Bracken
UVA 1979
It’s rather sad that the one young man said, “It doesn’t matter if the story is true” because he felt it was illuminating a serious problem. I wonder if he would have the same opinion on the truth of the matter if she had named him as a rapist or alleged that some of HIS friends or family were involved in a heinous crime?
The damage done to others cannot ever be undone. The Bible says “Thou shalt not bear false witness” and that basic moral truth has been acknowledged by all societies for thousands of years. It is part of our legal system because people need the protection of perjury laws in proper legal forums and if someone goes outside the legal system and lies about another person, there is are remedies in civil courts called slander and and libel.
There is no national moral problem that overrides a principal that the truth does matter.
Thought you might find this of interest.
Ok, I’ll say it....if the false accusation had been made against a black fraternity, this story would be portrayed in a way different light...WAAYYYYYY different. More specifically, there wouldn’t be a peep heard from the current “facts don’t matter, false but accurate” crowd. NOT A PEEP!!
I wonder if Erdely was trying to update this story, another gang rape allegation, in which one of the men was eventually convicted. One difference in this story, is that the young woman went straight away to the authorities about what happened. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/16/i-was-gang-raped-at-a-uva-frat-30-years-ago-and-no-one-did-anything.html