Kavanaugh Victim #4

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Being a part of the herd is overrated. People feel pressured to do things they later regret all for the sake of fitting in, to avoid being ostracized. They aren't at all authentic.

That's what I would expect most if not all autistic people to say/think.

Yet that's not what I've seen and experienced here in several cases. Rather attempts at or outright negatively labeling people to get rid of them because they're not all in with the herd. And then they say "gee where did those who didn't completely agree with and fit in with us go?".

and because there is reasonable proof that he participated in attempted gang rape, forcible confinement and suffocation.

Case closed.

The beachfront property was rented, the guests were invited and an ever-organized Brett M. Kavanaugh had some advice for the seven Georgetown Preparatory School classmates who would be joining him for the weeklong escapade.

In a 1983 letter, a copy of which was reviewed by The New York Times, the young Judge Kavanaugh warned his friends of the danger of eviction from an Ocean City, Md., condo. In a neatly written postscript, he added: Whoever arrived first at the condo should “warn the neighbors that we’re loud, obnoxious drunks with prolific pukers among us. Advise them to go about 30 miles...”

Recent interviews with more than a dozen classmates and friends from that time depict Judge Kavanaugh as a member of a small clique of football players who dominated Georgetown Prep’s work-hard, play-hard culture. His circle celebrated a culture of heavy drinking, even by the standards of that era.

With the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s background check into the judge reopened, two of his closest high school friends, Mark Judge and Patrick J. Smyth, have been interviewed by F.B.I. agents. Another, Tim Gaudette, was named in Judge Kavanaugh’s testimony as the host of a July 1982 gathering, around the time that Christine Blasey Ford says she was assaulted. Mr. Gaudette has hired a lawyer to represent him and was interviewed by the F.B.I. on Tuesday, the lawyer said.

A different classmate, who was friendly with Judge Kavanaugh and requested anonymity to protect his business interests, said he had reached out to the F.B.I. because he believes the judge misrepresented the extent of his drinking during his Senate testimony last week.


Even the faculty adviser to Georgetown Prep’s 1983 yearbook — a publication littered with debasing comments about women and references to drunken debauchery — has been wondering whether he will hear from the F.B.I., a family member said.

Parties, in the backyards of classmates’ suburban homes when their parents were away, would often attract hundreds of students from nearby private schools, his classmates recall. Five or 10 kegs would be procured and, if all went as planned, drained by the end of the night.

One night during his senior year, according to classmates who witnessed it, Judge Kavanaugh triumphantly hoisted an empty beer keg above his head, in recognition that he and his friends were well on their way to reaching their goal of polishing off 100 kegs during the academic year — an achievement they later boasted about in their yearbook.

Four Georgetown Prep classmates said they saw Judge Kavanaugh and his friends partake in binge-drinking rituals many weekends in which other partygoers saw them inebriated, even having difficulty standing. Three of those classmates signed a July letter, along with more than 150 other alumni, that endorsed him for the Supreme Court.

Kavanaugh, an only child and sports fanatic, surrounded himself in high school with athletes. Among his closest friends, classmates said, were Mr. Judge, Christopher C. Garrett and Don Urgo Jr. Other members of the clique included Mr. Gaudette and DeLancey Davis.

“Academically, athletically and socially, we all became literally almost like brothers,” Mr. Urgo said in an interview with The Times in July. He got to know Judge Kavanaugh as a fellow altar boy in elementary school. “We had a particular esprit de corps, a zest for life, as a group.”

They played basketball and board games. They also drank.

“It was part of the social life,” said Tobin Finizio, now a radiologist who was then the football team’s quarterback. “In the late ’70s and early ’80s, if you look at the statistics, underage drinking was fairly prevalent. We look at it now and say, ‘Oh my God, that was crazy.’”

The 1983 yearbook, for example, includes multiple apparent references to the Ku Klux Klan (but not on Judge Kavanaugh’s page). His page, in addition to the “Alumnius” entry, mentions his role as “treasurer” of the “Keg City Club.”

Some of Judge Kavanaugh’s high school peers said there was a widespread culture at the time of objectifying women.

“People claiming that they had sex with other people was not terribly unusual, and it was not terribly believable,” said William Fishburne, who was in Judge Kavanaugh’s graduating class and was a manager for the football team. “Not just Brett Kavanaugh and his particular group, but all the classmates in general. People would claim things they hadn’t done to sort of seem bigger than they were, older than they were.”

Bill Barbot, who was a freshman at Georgetown Prep when Judge Kavanaugh was a senior, said Judge Kavanaugh and his clique were part of the school’s “fratty” culture. “There was a lot of talk and presumably a lot of action about sexual conquest with girls,” Mr. Barbot said.

Ms. Dolphin was a subject of that braggadocio, according to Mr. Hagan and another classmate, who requested anonymity because he fears retribution. They said Judge Kavanaugh and his friends were seeking to memorialize their supposed conquests with the “Renate” yearbook references.

I think the whole process in this case is dodgy and I think both Kavanaugh and Ford are dodgy as well. I think they should scrap the whole thing and press restart.

I am steeling myself against the barrage of victim blaming which has already started.

No-one can possibly know the utter horror of gang-rape unless they have been through it, (I have) and the lifetime of trying to get well and recover from the depths of despair. There is almost no chance of reporting it at the time - (of course there may be people who have been able to, I haven't heard of any) - but I think I was almost in my fifties before I even began to be able to recover. I in no way led a 'normal' life after that event, and spent a great deal of time deep in alcoholism and drug addiction. (I stopped drinking and drugging 29 years ago).

I think the woman who has put herself forward is incredibly brave - and my concern is that she will be torn to pieces by the people with the republican agenda. I hope with all my heart that she has guardian angels (people or spiritual) that will be with her and support her.

I don't usually speak up about such matters but my time on WP although short has been a time of finding refuge and finding my Aspie self.

I have heard some commentators wondering why do they not just put up another conservative that would be a slam dunk to be confirmed and once he or she is on the bench consistantly rule in favor of the conservative agenda. Past writing seem to indicate he would protect Trump from Mueller or it maybe they want the best candidate to own the libs.

There is no proof - no DNA, no video, no corroboration.

I remember exactly where I was when I was violently attacked and assaulted by 3 strangers, how I got there and what year it was. And I was so traumatised by the incident I had to be hospitalized. But that's me. I know my situation doesn't apply to everyone else.

I'm so sorry to hear that Ezra. I didn't realise that you had also withstood a terrible attack. I think it is more important that we support one another as best we can than argue politics. Our healing is paramount.

Memories are odd. I only know the date of one of the terrible assaults against me as there was a national tragedy the next day and many lives were lost. I can remember thinking at the time "I wonder why I don't feel anything". I was deeply traumatised and in shock but I didn't realise that. Nearly 35 years later I reported it to the police (after masses of therapy) but they dropped the investigation after several months as even though I had reported who the people involved were, and went though the awful process of doing a complete witness statement, and the police interviewed most of the assailants,) they decided that they wouldn't get a conviction so it was best to close the case. I was devastated by that. It probably would have been better for me not to have reported it all. However, I do have to say that another almost 15 years have passed and the wounds are healed to a remarkable extent, and I can write this without feeling shameful, guilt ridden and ugly. It is a very long journey.

Yes this has stirred up a lot of stuff, and it has shown me how far I have come in my survival. I feel a deep deep anger when I hear the 'boys will be boys' excuse. They have no idea.

Anyway I won't get worked up again. Cheers to all the survivors - we rock!! ! !