Maryland Judicial Equality Committee
Accusations and Character
The decisions we make in life reflect the values we hold. There are many however, especially in the legal area and feminists who work to suppress this concept. If there was any doubt of this behavior, ask those involved in divorce and custody disputes. The fallacy of our legal is system is the presumptions the Court makes. Under the Court’s rules of presumption, the first person to make an accusation is held to be truthful until proven otherwise. These presumptions are made to insure a predictable politically correct outcome. We see this by the Court’s routine behavior of dismissing charges when a male is the accuser against a female irregardless if he made them first.
Feminists and their allies in the Courts proclaim that women uniformly as a group never make false accusations, as such should always be believed and never questioned. In fact, several years ago in the 1990’s a Maryland Representative to Congress, Connie Morella, sponsored a bill to codify this presumption. Fortunately, it did not pass, however, the practice of Family Law courts remains consistent with this fallacious presumption.
One of the primary tasks lawyers, court investigators and DV activists work to insure is to separate the motive from the accusation when it concerns women making them. Quite the opposite is held true for men and usually men are characterized as taking revenge in retaliatory filings. It should be obvious to all when someone makes an accusation and stands to benefit either monetarily or gain use of property that motive is highly relevant in making the accusation. When the accuser is the woman, the Court side steps the issue of motive claiming it’s dictum of first accusation. When the male attempts to show proof of malicious motive by the female accuser, that evidence is routinely suppressed. I am reminded of the Old Testament, Leviticus 19:15-18 "You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor."
In the real world character and motive does count. Motives should always be suspect when someone stands to gain anything. "One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him [that which is] wrong; Then both the men, between whom the controversy [is], shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, [if] the witness [be] a false witness, [and] hath testified falsely against his brother; Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you. And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. And thine eye shall not pity; [but] life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. " Deuteronomy 19:15-21 Old Testament.
It is with great humility we should acknowledge that the Old Testament written in it’s time, established the most impressive framework for just and fair legal proceedings. It speaks volumes that our current legal system is literally thousands of years out of step with the basic concepts of Dispassionate Administration of the Law.
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