Posted on 09/20/2018 11:09:28 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Three 15-year-old girls in Idaho have penned an open letter supporting Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when the two were teenagers.
The letter, created Wednesday by teenagers who identify themselves as Layla, Charlotte and Jessica, is being driven by Change.org, a website that allows people to start and sign petitions that “call for social change.”
The petition, which has a goal of 1,000 signatures, had reached 723 signatures by Thursday afternoon.
In their letter, the three teens commend Ford for going public this week with her allegations. Ford has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party when the two were in high school in the 1980s. Ford originally made the accusations anonymously, but identified herself Sunday in The Washington Post after her accusation was brought to light.
“We are fifteen-year-old girls. Fifteen,” the teenagers wrote. “The same age you were when seventeen-year-old Brett Kavanaugh assaulted you, when he put his hand over your mouth so no one could hear you scream."
“We imagine you at that party, so young and vivacious, with your whole life ahead of you, and we see ourselves,” the letter continues. “Our hearts break for the fifteen-year-old girl who walked in, and how different that girl was who walked out. We feel connected to the 15-year-old girl still living inside of you, and are outraged by the seventeen-year-old boy still living inside of him.”
The teenagers wrote that Ford’s decision to speak out was “powerful” and said they couldn’t trust Kavanaugh “to make decisions that will impact girls.”
“We realize the effects of what happened are impacting him as it has impacted you, only he has not been living with the consequences. He denies it ever happened.”
“We know the possibility of Kavanaugh being in a powerful position has made it necessary to speak up, yet we haven’t heard if you will testify on Monday,” the girls wrote. “We know how scary that must feel—and we know you are probably tired of people feeling things for you. We hope you will take this chance to make your voice heard, to speak on your own terms, in your own way.”
“Now is a courageous time and a brave time, too, to finally let your voice be heard. Telling your truth will get us one step closer to the world we want to live into; one where seventeen-year-old boys are taught that it is not ok to exploit girls and that fifteen-year-old girls know their bodies are their own,” the letter continued.
“You are strong and the fifteen-year-old girl in you is strong. We are with you and so is everyone who signs this letter,” the teens added.
GOP lawmakers have pushed this week for Ford to appear before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Monday to review her allegations. But Ford, through her lawyer, has said she will not testify until the FBI investigates her allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh.
The FBI has not opened a criminal investigation, saying the allegation does not involve a federal crime. The White House has not directed the FBI to reopen Kavanaugh’s background investigation, despite calls from Democrats.
Kavanaugh has denied Ford's allegations.
President Trump has also defended Kavanaugh following Ford's allegations, saying on Tuesday that there are “few people that I’ve ever seen, that I’ve ever known … have been so outstanding as Judge Kavanaugh.”
The president also said he doesn’t think the FBI should be involved in the case “because they don’t want to be involved.”
Democratic lawmakers have slammed Republican colleagues in the wake of the allegations against Kavanaugh. Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) on Wednesday slammed the party over its handling of the case.
In an interview with ABC News, Hirono said Republicans' claims that they have done everything they can to reach out to Ford "bullshit."
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) also said this week that Ford should not be "bullied" into testifying Monday without an FBI investigation.
They probably don’t even know a letter was sent out on their behalf.
Yep, they convinced me. Is there anything 15 year olds don’t know?
george soros wrote this- probably with the help of gloria what’shername the lawyer
Change.org is simply a BigData tool. It logs every topic the users support and sells it to marketing companies...or worst...
I wrote an open letter supporting Kavanaugh. Do I get an article about me in The Hill?
Do the Schools there require reading To Kill a Mockingbird?
Just asking...
The left does not believe in innocent until proven guilty. One baseless accusation and they start repeating it as gospel.
Do they believe Juanita Broderick too?
So... if the Duke lacrosse team and other young men whose lives have been ruined or disrupted by false allegations and lies of women decide to write a letter to The Hill decrying the unfair absence of due process, do you think The Hill would print it?
WGAFF what these brain dead teenagers think?
The satanic left, through public schools and big media, has so poisoned our culture it will take generations to normalize it, if it’s even possible.
Too many simply don’t think; all raw emotion.
just like we must ‘repeal the 2’nd amendment, because it’s ‘for the children’- The left are now exploiting children to make their political agendas law- They shamelessly did so in florida- and are doing so again with these 15 year old girls-
I’m betting the young girls are being idiots freely without compulsion.
The ability to be offended and injured by proxy, to imagine what has merely been asserted to have happened represents something done against you is a vital cornerstone of the Left.
They frequently need to feel, to internalize, and even suffer vicariously if that suffering reinforces the narrative of the Left.
Thinking rationally can get in the way of that.
Yes they were and probably gone nutso on ergot and/orpeer pressure.
I bet they did write this and I bet that it was an adult that put them up to it for extra credit in a civics class. so lets say I bet three donuts I an right
Does this Ford woman even have any children? I can’t even imagine bringing any of this up so many years after the fact, whether truth or fantasy, and putting my children through it, including what ever repercussions it might bring on them.
[“We imagine you at that party”]
And that, of course, makes it valid and true. SMH
I imagine myself with a new Corvette and some free Taco Bell, Chick-fil-A and Jack in the Box gift cards.
O.K., O.K., O.K., O.K., O.K. I won’t eat in the car.
Boy am I gonna take heat for fast food, LOL.
Not “fast food” Jerry. “Good food, quickly”.
Now we just need a meme of Al Sharpton “imagining” Tawana Brawley......
Change.org
You know the press only searches out stories that support the agenda it already wants to write about.
But thanks for lobbing that high hanging softball. ;)
The Left would like to lower the voting age to 12. It is easy to see why.
Once people actually have developed brains, support of the Left ceases to be an option.
“The Hill considers this newsworthy WHY, exactly?”
They know it will be posted on FR.
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