False Allegations Watch (FAW), a division of Michael Naughton's Empowering the Innocent (ETI) project, has only been operating in the latter part of 2022, but we've fit a lot in.
Intended as a voice for defendants and their loved ones when the mainstream media seems disinterested in those voices at best, there has been scope for personal testimony, analyses of what has become an ideologically dysfunctional justice system, and some brilliant, forensic exposes of transatlantic legal-financial corruption.
FAW has covered the cases of Julian Assange, Jeremy Bamber, Father Gordon McRae, Andy Malkinson, Eric Montgomery, John Osbourne and more, and featured detailed exposes of Soteria Solutions and other civic/corporate corruption by journalist and filmmaker Claire Best.
There is a mismatch between the mainstream media/toxic feminism 'rapist, murderer, paedophile, monster' narrative and the increasing number of false allegations being revealed - for example, the cases of Cliff Richard, Paul Gambaccini and Neil Fox. Being confronted by the fact of false allegation seems to cause most woke activists and MSM journalists extreme anger. In the trade we call this cognitive dissonance.
Almost no one comes out in support of the falsely accused or their families, as it seems you have to go through it to empathise. Other 'culture war' subjects seem to occupy bandwidth, yet the ever widening definition of what constitutes 'rape', a most serious of historical crimes becomes more like the 'new car stereo thieves or street corner dope dealers' in terms of prevalence in prison populations.
With 25% of young Americans knowing someone falsely accused or a false accuser, and 1,400 wrongful convictions acknowledged by the CPS every year in the UK, the situation is becoming a parody. Staring meanwhile is soon to be made illegal.
Joseph Neuberger and Diana Davison of Neuberger's law have kept us up to date with all the latest goings on in the world of 'believe the victims'-era sexual assault law in the US, and guess what? The whiskey-quaffing lawyers are just as infuriated by the identitarian bias innate in the Anglospherical justice system as anyone else.
Yes they get paid our money, but doing a job with both hands tied behind your back and only eight fingers working must be excruciating for those lawyers who do actually care about the so-called golden thread of justice - the presumption that an accused is to be regarded as innocent in the face of alleged crimes and that the burden is on the prosecution to prove that they committed the alleged offence with evidence that is beyond a reasonable doubt. Have a read of their running blog (and enjoy Joe's swearing (!) on their genuinely entertaining podcasts).
So into 2023 we fly with articles by Felicity Stryjak, Michael Naughton, Enesa Ibrahimi (taking a well-deserved break between criminology masters degree and PhD), Emma Wells, Mike Buchanan and many more. We're not going anywhere.
One last point: Claire Best has done sterling work in alerting us to Soteria Solutions, a for-profit US company who specialise in exploiting sexual assault allegations on university campuses and beyond. We hear that Operation Soteria is being launched by that bastion of integrity the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). This means we can expect an increase in the number of false and spurious allegations fuelled by potentially lucrative compensation claims, while the media's demonisation of those accused or convicted of what are so often misunderstandings if they even happened at all, as the victims industry rolls on.
FAW will report on every movement – because as Michael Naughton says, 'the truth will set you free'.
By Sean Bw Parker
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