Posted on 01/15/2015 1:25:29 PM PST by Mount Athos
Phi Psi members, speaking publicly for the first time since the allegations surfaced, told The Washington Post that they went into hiding for weeks after their home was vandalized with spray-painted messages calling them rapists and with bricks thrown through windows. They booked hotel rooms to avoid the swarm of protesters on their front lawn. They watched as their brotherhood was vilified, coming to symbolize the worst episode of collegiate sexual violence against women since the 2006 Duke University lacrosse team scandal — which also turned out to be false.
Although the Rolling Stone article was discredited and the student’s account challenged — the magazine apologized for inaccuracies after The Post discovered significant discrepancies in the article — it wasn’t until this week that Phi Psi was officially cleared.
On Monday, the first day of the spring semester, Charlottesville police announced that an investigation found no basis to believe that an attack occurred at the fraternity.
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That's the battle cry of the left when they are out to destroy someone without any evidence of wrongdoing.
“The nature of the evidence is irrelevant; it’s the seriousness of the charge that matters.”
-- Tom Foley, Democrat, Former Speaker of the House.
Yes, that’s exactly what happened with the RS hit piece.
I was actually more pissed at the University President after reading this article - in fact, I think my head was ready to explode. She suspends all frats for two months, then un-suspends them only after the story is fully exposed as a fraud (but way after we all knew it was fake)- and ONLY AFTER the frats sign a statement to have higher standards of conduct! NO APOLOGY to the accused frat or the whole frat system.
Just because CNN, MSNBC and Bill O'Reilly discredited accusations that Obama is an illegal alien with a counterfeit birth certificate doesn't mean the accusations aren't true in some form.
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