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 Ford originally made the accusations anonymously, but identified herself Sunday in The Washington Post after her accusation was brought to light.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.
I wonder if people can make the connection that males attitudes towards females changed dramatically during and after the sexual revolution.
That the traditions of showing respect for women were driven out by the feminists yelling any male who held the door open for a woman and shows like “Girls” where women are sexually objectified. Then there is porn.
Sexual “freedom” comes with risks and the way men and women look at sex is different.
Gimmee a f’n break!!
Not a chance this is the writing of 15 yr olds, especially TODAYS 15 yr olds!
“We believe her because the last time we got shit-faced at a drunken pool party with older boys we got the same treatment.”
Barf alert needed on this article
EXACTLY
To paraphrase OCommie:
YOU DIDN’T WRITE THAT
Yeah, that one was a keeper.
Between Janet Reno and Obama, I don’t have warm, fuzzy feelings for Bill. Still, the Obama years made Clinton’s years look relatively-normal.
Well, except for that murdering of folks in Texas that they didn’t understand. Yes, they were in error but.....Janet Reno was like the Nazi’s on parade.
bitches in training.
In Idaho yet
[Nothing regarding Keith Ellison? Hmmm....]
Excellent point. Do they “imagine” themselves being the victims of Keith Ellison?
The Crucible 2.
Schoolgirls making up tales hunting witches.
Nobody doubts that Christine Blasey was involved in any number of encounters in which she was “groped” - other accounts of her early years as a teenager would appear to bear this out.
But to assign this incident of “groping” to a young Brett Kavanaugh - that appears also to be a manufactured recollection. There is no pattern of the Supreme Court nominee ever engaging in this kind of activity.
A very small leap of faith to attribute this to the convenient name, if the objective is to attach an aura of criminality to a hated ideological opposite. There was some speculation that Justice Neil Gorsuch, who was of approximately the same background and origin as Judge Brett Kavanaugh, was also regarded in much the same light, and subject to a similar attack from this very same individual, Christine Blasey Ford. The attack was not used then, because it would have tipped a hand a little too soon.
For all of the logic, facts and reason that goes into something like this, I’m thinking that it would be far more beneficial for the country to start a petition supporting the Easter Bunny.
I am SOOOOOO sick and tired of these brainless, emoting, hate-filled people on the Left. I’m almost at the point of wishing for a 2nd (or 1st, or 3rd, depending on your P.O.V.) civil war to clean out these bastards...but I’m at least sane and reasonable enough to know that such a thing would be a disaster unlike what any of us have ever seen. However, the frustration with these Leftist $hitbags is definitely there, and I know that I’m not alone.
Teachers using brains full of mush....
RUSH HANNITY et al
Start each segment with “Keith Ellison”
Just keep saying it and ask everyone to repeat it to their friends, family, et al
KEITH ELLISON
Let’s bring this hypocrisy to the forefront. Stop spending all your time defending BK. Use some energy to name the DEMS....Franken, Ellison, FatHarv, Slick
Yep.
That’s why I had to stop my Mom’s dogs from ordering on eBay. Mom is with the Lord, but I’m fortunate enough to still have her two dogs.
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