The Rights Of Man

SIGN THE PETITION ON RAPE ANONYMITY FOR MEN

This site has been long concerned about the terrible double standards that can blight the lives of innocent men.

A new Government e-petition has been published (link) and everyone is urged to sign it.

The petition states :- We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Assign equal anonymous rights to both rape victim and accused until verdict is given.

It is by no coincidence that the past week or so has seen three cases come to the fore where the men were falsely accused of rape.

Gemma Capon (link) blighted the life of one man and got a sick joke of a sentence - Instead of a six-month maximum jail term, Capon was given a 12-week suspended sentence and ordered to pay £95 costs.

Erin Casson (link) got 12 months.

This anonymous girl (link) got a 12 month referral order

Signing the petition, may go some way to stop the names of the male victims being tarnished in the future.

TWO MORE CASES THAT SHOW RAPE LAW MUST CHANGE

Rape is one of the worst things that can ever to occur to a woman or a man. Those who falsely accuse a man of rape not only let down those women who have been raped but also blight the lives of the accused.

Both Tracy Winfield and Erin Casson are two such women who made false rape allegations (link) ruining the lives of innocent men.

This site has long argued that men accused of rape must remain anonymous unless they are found guilty. They should not have their lives blighted by this and anonymity would give equality of treatment before the law. Importantly, there is no evidence that this would stop any women who was raped from coming forward.

BBC SUCCEED AGAIN, THIS TIME ON FALSE RAPE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST MEN

Often this site has been critical of the BBC and how they systematically ignore men's issues even when the evidence is staring them in the face.

Last Sunday, they ran an excellent feature on Radio Five Live (see previous post) on male domestic violence victims, now the Radio One (link) 1Extra production team have run a feature on men falsely accused of rape.

It includes a recorded feature as well as copy on their web-site:-

False allegations of rape may make for gripping headlines in the newspapers, but they can also ruin the lives of those men who've been accused despite being innocent.

It explains how the police automatically believe the man is guilty and that according to Home Office research, between 3% and 9% of all reports of rape are found to be false. Yet the lives of those men accused are often devastated. Some even commit suicide, so terrible is the stigma of being charged with sexual assault - even if subsequently cleared.

The most recent case that achieved notoriety was the Warren Blackwell case (link).

Margaret Gardener, the director of the False Allegations Support Organisation (Faso) receives over a thousand calls each year from men looking for help and advice. She is utterly convincing.

There are two problems:-

Firstly, the feminist fundamentalist lobby, having taken over the Government, keep ratcheting up the targets for rape convictions which means that the police in their target driven madness don't care whether a man is innocent or not. To them, he is simply another tick in the box and has to be guilty. There is no such thing in rape cases as innocent before proven guilty when a man is accused of rape.

The second issue is that men who are accused of rape are named, whether innocent or not. This is not equality. Rightly, a woman is not named but a man should only be named if he is found guilty in a court of law. That is equality.

The feminist fundamentalists often say that nothing should happen that would prevent female victims from coming forward and this is right, however, allowing a man to keep his anonynomity unless guilty would not stop women coming forward.

Male anonymity is a key plank in the Manifesto for a Minister for Men (link).

The Government did look at this, but unsurprisingly got beaten down by the fundamentalist lobby, so they have no plans to change the law.

All aside, congratulations to the BBC for making a start on redressing the balance by highlighting two vitally important men's issues.