Posted on 10/07/2018 7:55:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The cost of coming forward with her allegations against Brett Kavanaugh was enormous. But it wont be in vain.
Why suffer through the annihilation if its not going to matter?
Christine Blasey Ford said she asked herself that question this summer, when she decided not to come forward publicly to say that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they were in high school.
She ultimately reversed her decision, speaking to the Washington Post about her allegations (which Kavanaugh denied) and then testifying at a hearing last week. But throughout that process, her question to herself has resonated. After the hearing, Katie McDonough of Jezebel wrote of the sensation of Ford receding from view her hours of testimony, another woman publicly reopening wounds out of a sense of responsibility and a fragile belief that it might actually mean something obliterated by the rage of powerful men.
Ford, McDonough wrote, had predicted that future and called it by its name: annihilation.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
I hear Ezra Kleins frooty lisp....
Why has she not been arrested for her lies to the FBI?
her story is one of a liar and it is the worst kind of liar - one who destroys the reputation of an honorable man. God will not be kind with that woman!!
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor”
Christine Ford is a SURVIVOR of a grope????
I am sorry but this whole thing is such a stupid joke. It is not ok to grope women. BUT WOMEN ARE STEONG ENOUGH TO GET OVER SUCH A MILD OFFENSE, SHEESH.
Piled high and deep.
The note is signed “Christie Blasy”, but her name appears on many other documents as “Chrissie Blasey”. Forgery?>
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