UK news outlets are carrying the story of how Emily Owen, a young Labour Party candidate, claims to have been the victim of a politically motivated rape.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-49732681
Before I go one step further, I must state that if her story is true then this is a vile act. It should, indeed must, be investigated, the perpetrator arrested and charged. If found guilty he deserves the heaviest penalty available under UK law (such as it is).
That said, I cannot help but be less than convinced by her story. She alleges the attack took place last year, and she was drugged and raped. The political motivation for the attack was made clear to her. She gives no details other than these scant shreds. No date, time, place and certainly no pesky named suspect who might have the temerity to challenge her statement. She merely states that it happened. She is “recovering” and on a journey, she chose not to inform the police for many different reasons. She “forgives her attacker”, but states “There are some sets of people I can’t forgive”.
Happily, especially for a parliamentary candidate with the prospect of an election looming, she has recovered enough to tell the bare bones of her story (without any checkable details, naturally) on Facebook and to use it to smear Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the British right in general. She even states openly that she is using the platform the alleged attack gives her and that she is “speaking up for those who feel their voices can’t be heard.”. She cites the odious Owen Jones, who claimed he was attacked by “right wingers” outside a pub in London this summer. His story was widely doubted and questioned, I doubt if any MSM outlet will dare challenge her version of events.
Stop using sex as a weapon
It’s the perfect weapon. Blasey-Ford had to try to convince people that a named individual carried out specific acts against her, albeit decades ago. Jussie Smollett dabbled in the physicality of a staged attack and fell foul of forensics and unreliable accomplices. Emily Owen is not shackled by such impedimenta. She has a simple story, one that makes her pretty much bullet proof and indeed, proof proof.
I’m writing this here, for my like minded friends at BW.com. I freely admit I would not have the testicular fortitude to pen this for an open British source. As for someone questioning this in a studio, they’d need a hide like a titanium rhinoceros. What? How dare you attack a rape victim?! Monster! The fact that we only have her word for it, and that she is not exactly without motive to make up a story like this would get you nowhere. The doctrine that the woman must always be believed in such cases – one that got a lot of African American men strung up from trees and lampposts – holds sway in the court of public opinion. In actual courts it has less power, but Owen has carefully avoided real court.
She has been vocal about online abuse in the past, and I don’t doubt that she really has had vile abuse from trollish wannabes who revel in online anonymity, but I simply don’t buy her story. It fits too well with the ongoing and ever more desperate attempt to paint a picture of “Brexit” Britain as a place hostile to foreigners, gays, the left and anyone else the left considers part of its neo-feudal clan system. Although there is a rising tide of anger and frustration at the fact that three years after voting Leave, we have yet to re-establish our independence from the EU, this is not translating into actual violence. It’s pretty much a mirror image of what’s happening in the US, there is a genuine lack of real “hate crime” so they have to manufacture it.
Let’s return to the possibility that I’m just a nasty cynical old poof and poor Emily is telling the truth. In this case she is still in the wrong. If she really was raped, and for political reasons at that, then not reporting the crime and helping to bring the rapist to justice is a gross dereliction of duty. It would be for anyone, but for someone who wishes to become a law maker it’s especially so. To just keep silent and let a predator go free to rape again would be bad enough, though understandable given the traumatic nature of rape, but to the use her rape as a political weapon is vile in the extreme. If she’s recovered enough now to use her experience to attack and smear her political opponents, then surely, she’s well enough to provide the police with the info they need to catch and convict her attacker?
I’d be interested to hear your take on the UK’s latest version Blasey-Ford/Smollett syndrome.
2 replies on “The perfect weapon?”
Saying that it is “vile in the extreme” is an extreme understatement. It is pure malevolent evil once again walking the earth.
The next step is The Inquisition where the accused is tortured until he confesses his crime. He is then burn at the stake without even a show trial. The accusation is all the proof required. A denial of guilt is further proof of guilt though quite unnecessary.
Interesting point about the Inquisition and the assumption of innocence. It reminds me of another story I was going to share…