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 Ford originally made the accusations anonymously, but identified herself Sunday in The Washington Post after her accusation was brought to light.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.
“Well that settles it - three 15 year old girls in Idaho have spoken.
What more evidence do you old, white cis-gender republicans NEED!!!????”
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I say we wait until some 4th graders in a San Francisco public school render their judgment on this matter!
These 15 year-old girls write better than the 50+ year-old college professor who has made these allegations. That says it all.
Kav is sunk now.
Bingo...
I haven't spent two minutes reading anything that POS rag publishes in the past ten years.
Poor mans Roll Call.
Was it written in cursive?
Or fake news, courtesy of a ghostwriter.
Someone’s teacher should probably be fired. Either that or a mom or dad are really damaging her child’s grasp of reality.
Yeah, I bet they all love listening to 6ix9ine though, even though he sexually molested a 13 year old.
Write it?
I smell Soras stink.
Dear childish 15 year old girls,
Your daddies raped me and I am glad you feel the way you do because I am about to tear up your life and destroy your family by lies and false accusations that never even have to be proven.
Signed,
No shame
Ford does not claim that she was raped, that there was any clothing removed, that she was touched in any way skin on skin. She says she was able to leave the room unimpeded after one of the 2 boys jumped on the pile and the pile fell. For some reason that never seemed to be a way I thought of for initiating a sexual encounter. It sounds like a bunch of drunks.
She claims to have been at a drinking party. She can’t remember where, when, how she got there, how she got home, or who was there...except for those 2 who are both currently public figures (a suspicious coincidence, if you ask me.)
They were juveniles, so what would the police have thought about a claim that drunk teenagers piled on top of her but that there was no sexual imposition at all. Would it have gone to juvenile court? I seriously doubt it. It sounds more like a case where the police might have given a lecture and written nothing up.
But, she didn’t call the police.
A bunch of juvenile stupidity and no one was hurt.
IF you believe the story at all. Which I don’t.
There are credible anonymous online allegations that all three of these fifteen-year-old girls repeatedly raped toddlers that they were babysitting...
This is all about plain girls wanting revenge for boys who would not give them the time of day.
Why the hell is this an article?
Media shills.
Purely driven by emotions. No ability to reason the possibility of false accusations. No desire to find the truth. Typical herd mentality.
This is why there is an age requirement to vote. Not that many of these young people today ever grow up mentally.
And I seriously doubt these girls wrote that letter themselves.
What’s scary is they can reproduce and vote.
What do you think about adding Keith Ellison to the hearing on Monday? Make the hearing a two for one investigation.
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