The Backlash! - April 1996

The heads of the false allegations beast are false rape, false child molestation, false battery, and, the greatest psychological hoax of the 20th century, false "recovered" memories of childhood sexual trauma. A truly evil scourge on our society is visited by those who insinuate that all alleged abusers proclaiming their innocence are liars and are simply trying to avoid their justly deserved punishment.

Discovering perpetrators has become a national sport, has created a sprawling bureaucracy, has institutionalized a shameful misandry (male hatred), and appeals to the lowest tastes of the public. Anderson says "feminists in their war against men and manhood are now and have been using scare tactics to frighten women into their own ranks in their battle against men." Feminism sees history and society as the oppression of females by males. Case closed. They automatically accept accusations against men because they confirm underlying assumptions. The rights of the accused and the details of the individual case are superfluous says Anderson.

Following are some examples of the hundreds of references. Citing a recent USA Today article, discussing the miracle of DNA and FBI studies of sexual assault suspect, "DNA testing exonerated about 30 percent to 35 percent of the more than 4,000 sexual assault suspects on whom the FBI had conducted DNA testing over the past three years."

"In the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit's study of False Allegations conducted in 1983 of 556 rape investigations, a total of 220 of these reported rapes turned out to be false. Over one fourth of these 556 turned out to be hoaxes. And yet, some feminists and rape counselors claim that only two percent of rape reports are false."

Linda Fairstein, who directs the prosecution of sexual assault in New York, said, "There are about 4,000 reports of rape each year in Manhattan. Of these, about half simply did not happen. ... It's my job to bring justice to the man who has been falsely accused by a woman who has a grudge against him, just as it's my job to prosecute the real thing."

"In New Zealand, police officials have stated that 64 percent of rape reports are false and that some women are making a business out of being raped, collecting sometimes up to $10,000 compensation per case."

"The FBI stated that in 1990 over 8,500 of the rapes reported proved to be false (and the false reports of child abuse were two times that). ... From 1988 to 1990, the number of sex offenders in our prison has risen 47 percent."

Scott Kuehl, one of the most astute and straightforward analysts of the gender wars, lists the responses of feminists when someone says a woman is making false accusations: "Why would a woman lie? Why would a woman put herself through such an ordeal unless she was telling the truth? Why would she subject herself to police interrogation, humiliating physical examinations, testimony in open court, cross examination by a defense attorney, attacks on her credibility and integrity and character, etc., simply to accuse an innocent man?"

Anderson answers, "Reasons and motives for lying include hatred and vengeance, an attempt to conceal pre or extra marital sex (especially if it results in pregnancy, as in the Dotson case, or venereal disease) and other activities, the elimination of a feared or despised male, the alleviation or exorcism of shame and guilt, the absolution of responsibility, money (extortion and civil suits), a desire for publicity and/or attention, and mental illness."

Children are often used as pawns by a vindictive parent. Anderson says, "My research into false allegations of child abuse has shocked even men. I have read studies that indicate 125,000 men each year are falsely accused by their wives of child molestation." Anderson quotes from Larry Wichman's work on framed fathers. "An estimated 40 percent of all reported incidents of sexual child abuse in the United States spring from hostile divorce/custody battles, with 80 percent of the allegations being vindictive hoaxes ... in addition to a vindictive ex-wife and a judiciary that errs on the side of the children, men face a potent child abuse industry."

You might conclude Anderson's portrayal of the criminal justice system is impossible in a country where civil rights are supposed to have made such great progress these past decades. You are wrong. You must read his book.

Anderson says, "False accusations of rape can only end when the media end their love affair with the man-hating and male bashing feminists and print the truth about the crises." Falling on the Deaf Ear, a major contribution to the study of false allegations, is the most complete reference source of its kind on the subject of false rape and false allegations. You can not deny this is widespread. The National Organization for Men will be formally calling this to the attention of the United Nation's Center for Human Rights in Geneva, and the problem has already been discussed with the Secretary of the Center, Dr. DeZayas. He told me that it is the unlikely victim from where human rights law develops.

The False allegations business is a scar on the heart of our collective soul.

Reprinted with permission from College News, May 1994

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