Why I think Blasey Ford lied under oath

Dr. Blasey Ford, whom we are expected to take as "highly credible", exhibits a typical expression during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Sept. 27 at which she accused a federal judge of attempting to rape her when she was 15 years old - 36 years ago.

UPDATE: Blasey Ford one of 11 authors of 2008 research article titled “Meditation with Yoga, Group Therapy with Hypnosis, and Psychoeducation for long-term depressed mood: A randomized pilot trial". Scroll down to end.

By Carolyn Yeager

I WROTE ON SEPT. 22 THAT I DID NOT BELIEVE Christine Blasey Ford's claims of attempted rape that she laid out in her published statement prior to the public hearing. Contrary to the Jew York Times editorial board, who lie unashamedly and without consequence, I still do not believe Blasey Ford's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee was credible. Yet everyone in media and politics, both liberal and conservative, proclaims her to have been very credible and also a very sympathetic witness (although some also believe Kavanaugh). It is fully accepted that she is a victim of something.

They cannot say otherwise. The reason is Political Correctness. Democrats and Republicans alike, CNN and Fox News alike, women and men alike, are under threat of losing their careers if they were to say otherwise. This is obvious.

Only independent people like me can say it. People with nothing to lose.

So how do they deal with the quandary that both Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh can't both be telling the truth? They don't … just like in all ultimate questions when people's beliefs conflict with other things they know or accept. They just ignore it. This breeds a certain amount of hypocrisy.

Blasey Ford will not ever be charged with lying under oath, or even with any morally wrong behavior in misrepresenting what she knows to be true because she was already cemented in the public mind as a VICTIM before ever showing herself in the Senate hearing room. If she herself BELIEVES it, it cannot be a lie. She learned this in her many years of study in the field of psychology, her many years undergoing therapy to uncover all the pain inflicted on her innocent self by the men of this world … beginning with her father. What about her father?

In a recent mainstream news story I read prior to the Thursday hearing (sorry, I didn't keep it and it may very well have been scrubbed by now) a 'good friend' in California described Christine as not being on the best terms with her parents, and that's why she moved all the way to San Francisco … to get away from the discomfort she felt with her own family. Her main complaint was that she had not been given the attention she wanted and felt she should have gotten, growing up. The family's attention revolved around her brothers, not her, she felt. This friend emphasized how important it was to Christine that she get respect and attention for herself. Maybe that's why she kept working on university degrees. It's not surprising she would choose the field of psychology.

When you're in therapy, everything is about you. Every feeling and fantasy you have is worthy of the undivided attention of you and your therapist. Not that I have ever had any therapy, but I have done a good deal of meditation and what I would loosely call 'channelling.' It is amazing what comes out of your mind in response to suggestion or prompts. But I have come to understand that it is all personal to you, and while it can seem that you are remembering events (sometimes you are), it can just as easily be scenarios that your mind creates as representations of feelings and/or beliefs you are currently focusing on for whatever reason. Just as your dreams tell you a great deal about yourself – they are not haphazard thoughts – that doesn't mean the events you see occur outside of your own mind. Another way of putting it – it is for and about you and you alone.

I want to emphasize that, as the creative mentalities we are, we can come up with many details that can mimic a physical life event. However, as in the case of Blasey Ford, exact physical placement like what house address, the date it took place, oftentimes what preceded or followed it, cannot be provided. Thus, what comes up in therapy can be discussed and taken seriously in that setting, but as for law enforcement or any physical investigation, it will not pass the reality test.

Problems in Ford testimony

Some of the things I noticed: First, it was well-prepared ahead of time that she would be treated as an extremely fragile being. She did indeed at times behave like a child, helpless and not understanding what was going on. Her facial expression changed rapidly from composure to fright, with her eyes darting around, and then back to composure again. She's over 50 years of age but she was treated as if she were a 5 year old child, and appeared to require that special treatment.

From her own testimony, the door of the bedroom had been locked by the boys. After the threesome fell to the floor, she said she “got away,” without explaining how, and ran out of the bedroom. She would have had to unlock the door, which would have given her at least a slight delay if indeed she was in the state of fright and panic as described. The questioner Rachel Mitchell didn't ask about that.

She said she then went into the bathroom across the hall and locked the door. The boys made no attempt to stop her or open the bathroom door – they simply walked back down the stairs, laughing. Even though the loud music was still playing in the bedroom, she said she could hear them talking again with the others down in the living room. When asked about that again, she said she couldn't hear them then, but only after she was back down in the living room. She at one time said she had gotten out of the house without being seen by anyone; but under Rachel Mitchell's questioning, she said she had to pass by them all when she left. Was the gathering taking place right at the bottom of the stairs? Earlier I read that it was in a small family room further back in the house. She was not asked to provide a diagram of the house as she remembered it.

Mitchell accepted without comment whatever answer Ford gave because, as it turned out, she saw her job as forming her own professional opinion as to whether Blasey Ford had a prosecutable case or not. (The next day, she informed the committee that it was not.) Her job was only to ask questions in a non-threatening manner so as not to make the quivering professional woman, flanked by two lawyers, uncomfortable during the hearing. In contrast, Judge Kavanaugh sat alone at the table, without a lawyer. He did not object to any questions from the Democrats, but Ford's lawyers did make some objections to Mitchell's questions.

Other discrepancies in Blasey Ford's story dealt with the alleged “fear of flying” (used to delay the hearing) due to her alleged claustrophobia caused by that few minutes in the room with “Brett and Mark,” which turned out not to have prevented her from extensive airplane travel throughout her life, including overseas flights! She admitted this with a shy smile, a smile she used often to disarm whoever she was speaking to. Then there was the extra front door she and her husband had added to their house in 2012 because of that same claustrophobia. The Gateway Pundit has shown in an updated story that the extra front door was already on her house in March 2011, and that it may have been done so they could rent out a portion of the house. Were they in need of money?

As already mentioned, she had a startled look on her face often. Was this to convey that she truly did suffer from PTSD? If Blasey Ford does suffer from some form of PTSD, it can't have come from 17-year old Brett Kavanaugh, whose character references from high school are numerous and convincing. The effort to portray him as some kind of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, who had a hidden, violent side that revealed itself after drinking beer with his school friends is a very hard sell to rational people. His entire life record belies this.

I think it's highly likely this whole story was invented in Blasey Ford's mind during her therapy sessions.

PC rules the day

It makes me a little sick to hear all these media personalities. even the popular Tucker Carlson, repeat how sorry they feel for the activist, super-liberal Blasey Ford, calling her a victim. I see her more as a perpetrator who is knowingly victimizing Brett Kavanaugh for political reasons. She could be somewhat victimized by her ultra-leftist lawyers. When she stated during the hearing that she was not made aware “clearly” that the Judiciary committee would come out to California to interview her rather than she having to travel to Washington, no Republican questioned her about that, which they should have. Grassley should have. This is all due to the spell of political correctness and radical feminism that's been cast over everything in and around our national capitol.

We are certainly in for a dramatic increase in the number of 'progressive' women claiming they were sexually assaulted years ago, or in their youth. This will require only the vaguest of 'memories' of something not being 'right' about this or that for many women to want to join the growing list of victims. “I was a victim” they will proclaim, and are already doing so. Who will have the courage to question them? To doubt them? The only possible route is to ignore them, and they make that very difficult.

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UPDATE 1/1/18:  From Prof. Margot Cleveland, Conservative, Catholic, law clerk-25 yrs 7th Circuit judge, Adjunct Prof Notre Dame, Lawyer, CPA

Blasey Ford is one of 11 authors of a 2008 research article titled “Meditation with Yoga, Group Therapy with Hypnosis, and Psychoeducation for long-term depressed mood: A randomized pilot trial".

Cleveland wrote on Twitter:

1/ Memory science is extremely complex and as expert witnesses will testify, false memories will seem real. Notwithstanding Ford's lack of credibility, I've equivocated between she's lying & she's having a false memory. 2/ memories retrieved during hypnosis are more suspect and more likely to create false memories. And if Ford used self-hypnosis to create alternative scenarios to treat her anxiety & PTSD, that creates risk of false memories. Ford's participation in study shows she KNOWS both 3/ as well as people trained in both. Her therapist's records would be very key...but haven't been turned over.