Gillibrand Demagogues Rape

What if they had a fraternity gang-rape pledge initiation and nobody showed up? What would Haven Monahan do?

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is cementing her reputation as a single-issue politician. Her issue is appealing to the emotions of female voters alarmed by the stunning lack of rapes rape epidemic on today's college campuses. Statistics from self-selected groups of females demonstrate that nineteen out of ten women will experience forced oral copulation before the end of rush week.

Gillibrand spoke in the Senate yesterday in support of CASE (Campus Accountability and Safety Act) and against H.R. 3403, the Safe Campus Act of 2015.

"The price of a college education," Gillibrand said, "should never be the risk of a sexual assault." The risk of sexual assault can never be reduced to zero. The best we can do is mitigate the bulk of the risk, and punish those who betray our trust.

Expulsion from school is perfectly acceptable as academic discipline, but that discipline must be subordinate to criminal jurisprudence.

Slate has eagerly carried Gillibrand's water. Contributor Christina Cauterucci writes that H.R. 3403 is "far more concerned with creating a safer university environment for alleged rapists than for potential victims." In other words, the sponsors of H.R. 3403 are rape-loving monsters.

Hey, if you are so interested in making campus safer, why not ban alcohol on campus and stop shaming any cultural efforts to restore women's virtue?

Cauterucci says that H.R. 3403 "would prevent colleges and universities from taking action to make their campuses safer." How? By requiring a victim of sexual assault to report to law enforcement, the "university would not be able to enact final disciplinary measures against the perpetrator until the police finished their investigation."

The key word here is final. The university still has a free hand to enact interim disciplinary measures, including "suspensions, no contact orders, adjustments of class schedules, or changes in housing assignments."

Gillibrand and her fellow rape alarmists claim that colleges are doing a poor job of handling sexual assault, because they are underreporting sexual assault in the hopes of avoiding bad PR. Yes college sexual assault is the most underreported moral panic in history, with even the president parroting bad statistics. H.R. 3403, Gillibrand said, "would worsen our understanding of a violent crime that is already drastically underreported."

The way we improve our understanding of an underreported violent crime is to justify not reporting it? Er, no.

Gillibrand supports CASE because it would "standardize university processes for addressing cases of sexual violence." Gillibrand claimed that this process would ensure that "the kangaroo courts that exist today will be over."

No, actually, they would become the national standard.