That influence is reflected in the letters by Elizabeth Tweedie and AB Modak in The Witness of October 11, which, it would appear, now accepts any claim of sexual molestation by women is credible, regardless of the evidence or the lack of it. The upshot of that emotional mindset is disregard for the principle of innocent until proven guilty and that all men are sexual predators.

In arriving at their conclusions, did Tweedie and Modak consider the following?

• That Dr Ford could not remember whether her alleged rape by Kavanaugh took place in 1982 or 1983;
• She was unable to state either the location of the alleged attack, how she got there and how she got home;
• Her best friend denied ever being at such a party or having seen Kavanaugh there;
• Kavanaugh’s diary for both 1982 and 1983 shows he was out of town on the occasions Ford thinks he attacked her;
• Ford has refused to make public the polygraph test she took in July and cannot remember who paid for it and whether it was videoed or not;
• Ford claimed in testimony that she fears flying and initially declined to travel from California to Washington. But her travel record shows she is a frequent flyer.
• Mrs Mitchell, the special sex crimes prosecutor of 25 years of experience who questioned both Ford and Kavanaugh at the Senate hearings, stated that given Ford’s inability to provide substantial evidence, her case would not have qualified for criminal adjudication.
• Sixty-five women have come forward and attested to Kavanaugh’s cordial and courteous dealings with women including his former girlfriends.
• Seven FBI probes of Kavanaugh did not turn up a shred of evidence regarding sexual misconduct.

Elizabeth Tweedie claims that either Ford or Kavanaugh is lying. Neither one was lying. Kavanaugh faced the charge of perjury if he was lying and disbarment. As for Ford, whilst one sympathises with what she claimed occurred, her mistaken identity of Kavanaugh has been crudely exploited by the Democratic Party for political ends.

Sent into The Witness and published, 12 October 2018.

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The protracted and squalid process to which Kavanaugh was subjected has been termed a “national disgrace” by 93% of Americans polled, responsibility for which lies squarely on Schumer’s so-called Democrats. From the moment Kavanaugh’s nomination was announced, Schumer pledged to oppose it. For three months his colleague, Dianne Feinstein, sat on a letter she had received from a Dr Ford alleging that Kavanaugh had sexually molested her in 1982 or 1983, she could not recall exactly. When the Senate’s role in adjudicating Kavanaugh’s eligibility was nearing an end, Feinstein produced the letter.

What had been a job application up until that point then turned into a vitriolic character assassination ordeal unprecedented in the history of appointments to the US Supreme Court. For Schumer now, to claim that Kavanaugh “lacked the temperament” to be a Supreme Court Justice is contrived nonsense. Kavanaugh’s robust defence of his integrity and his family in the face of the unsubstantiated claims by Dr Ford have nothing to do with temperament, as Schumer avers. How else was Kavanaugh supposed to have responded in the face of false accusations which were being deliberately exploited for political ends?

Thanks to the obfuscating and delaying tactics deployed by Schumer and his ilk along with the George Soros- sponsored far left-wing fanatical demonstrations, violence and intimidation transcended the peaceful right to freedom of speech and the right to dissent.

The real loser in American politics is liberalism. Previously it resided in the Democratic Party. But sadly it has now been replaced by extreme intolerance and socialism.

Sent into The Mercury and published, 9 October 2018.

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