{"id":55395,"date":"2014-10-25T12:11:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T18:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=55395"},"modified":"2014-10-25T12:13:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T18:13:32","slug":"pro-due-process-does-not-equate-to-pro-rape-darleen-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=55395","title":{"rendered":"Pro Due Process Does Not Equate to Pro Rape [Darleen Click]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Left’s wholly-owned subsidiary, “Feminism”, has been at the forefront of a scorched-earth campaign against any dissent from Female Supremacy. From exploiting very young girls<\/a> to forcing colleges into Kafkaesque policies on handling sexual assault accusations, Feminists will stoop to any level. Ask George Will<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Fortunately, some people are not intimated<\/a> by Vagina Warrior lynch mobs. <\/p>\n

Ask litigator Andrew Miltenberg how he decides whether or not to take on the idiosyncratic clients that fall outside his bread-and-butter business litigation practice, and he\u2019ll give you a couple of answers. First, he\u2019ll point you toward Pastor Martin Niemoller\u2019s famous condemnation of German intellectuals for failing to speak out against Nazism when they still had a chance. (\u201cFirst they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out\u2014because I was not a Socialist \u2026\u201d)<\/p>\n

Second, he\u2019ll reference his own stature\u2014at just 5-foot-6, he\u2019s always been one of the shorter guys in the room. The two come together neatly in what might be termed a personal-political symbiosis. \u201cFrom an early age,\u201d he says, \u201cI decided that I was going to stand up and be counted, and that I was going to look out for the little guy.\u201d […]<\/p>\n

Mr. Miltenberg insists his decision to sue a number of universities on behalf of male students who have been suspended or expelled following sexual assault accusations is not inconsistent with any of the above. He\u2019s already filed four lawsuits\u2014against Vassar College, Columbia University, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Drew University\u2014will file several more before month\u2019s end, and is consulting on 20 or so appeals at the college disciplinary level. In each, he is suing the schools for violations of the Title IX gender-parity law of 1972, contractual claims, unfair trade practices, as well as a number of tort claims. […]<\/p>\n

The man is not pro-rape, for God\u2019s sake. What does bother him is the way that many schools have handled the complaints.<\/p>\n

Every single one of the men he\u2019s representing, Mr. Miltenberg argues, has suffered egregious due process violations in closed-door college hearings. (He also believes that his clients are innocent of the charges against them.) And that is how he has found himself in the decidedly impolitic position of not only defending those accused of rape, but also suing on their behalf.<\/p>\n

Impolitic, perhaps, but he\u2019s also in good company. Twenty-eight current and retired Harvard Law School professors recently sent a letter to the university asking it to abandon its new sexual misconduct policy, arguing, as Mr. Miltenberg has more generally, that the new rules violate the due process rights of the accused. \u201cThis is an issue of political correctness run amok,\u201d Alan Dershowitz, an emeritus professor, told a Boston Globe reporter. […]<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, they\u2019re male students,\u201d [Kimberly Lau, a 33-year-old associate at Nesenoff & Miltenberg] says. \u201cBut they\u2019re also victims of a system they trusted, paid money to, thought would give them an education and help them on their way to establishing themselves in a career. That\u2019s exactly what I did. And to see their futures being obliterated by a mix of false statements in the first instance but ultimately by the colleges themselves administering kangaroo courts \u2026 that\u2019s highly offensive to me.\u201d (In the Vassar case, the school refused to consider as exculpatory evidence Facebook messages from Mr. Yu\u2019s accuser saying she\u2019d \u201chad a wonderful time\u201d the night of the encounter.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Back to George Will for a moment. The claim against him that has Social Justice Warriors, Vagina Brigade, demanding his ouster from any speaking engagement, was his pointing out that “when they [colleges & universities] make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate.”*<\/a><\/p>\n

Yet here is a perfect example of this occurring. <\/p>\n

In mid-September, for example, Mr. Miltenberg got a call from the father of a Division I wrestler in Tennessee who\u2019d been accused of sexual assault. After a four-month investigation, the man\u2019s son was found not guilty by college investigators. And then 24 hours later, the hearing officer had a change of heart. \u201cHere\u2019s how that probably played out,\u201d says Mr. Miltenberg. \u201cSomeone got the hearing officer on the phone and asked them, \u2018Are you out of your fucking mind? We\u2019re not going to be the school that lets this kid stay on campus. Get him out of here for a year and when it quiets down, bring him back. We don\u2019t need 100 women walking around here with mattresses.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s referring, of course, to Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia University student who has become the face of what New York calls \u201cthe revolution against campus sexual assault.\u201d She\u2019s done so by protesting the \u201cnot responsible\u201d verdict Columbia rendered against Jean-Paul Nungesser, the man she accused of raping her, by carrying a mattress with her everywhere. She has referred to the protest as performance art, and is receiving class credit for doing so.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Miltenberg, who is consulting for Mr. Nungesser, has choice words regarding Ms. Sulkowicz\u2019s performance, and they\u2019re not the kind that are going to win him any friends: \u201cWhile drawing attention to the important issue of campus rape, she\u2019s clearly enjoying the celebrity she\u2019s created through the perverse spectacle of carrying her mattress around campus. But the attendant media frenzy has seemingly legitimized an event, which, after an investigation and hearing, the University determined did not occur\u2014and which the NYPD has thus far declined to pursue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat has clearly been lost in all of this,\u201d Mr. Milternberg continued, \u201cis that she has achieved this celebrity status through a systematic campaign of publicly defaming and destroying the life of a young man. It\u2019s absolutely mind-boggling to me that Columbia has sanctioned her conduct by giving her course credits, all after finding that the young man was not guilty<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Left’s wholly-owned subsidiary, “Feminism”, has been at the forefront of a scorched-earth campaign against any dissent from Female Supremacy. From exploiting very young girls to forcing colleges into Kafkaesque policies on handling sexual assault accusations, Feminists will stoop to any level. Ask George Will. Fortunately, some people are not intimated by Vagina Warrior lynch mobs. Ask litigator Andrew Miltenberg how he decides whether or not to take on the<\/p>\n

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