Ron Collins
Sep 2, 2018 · 4 min read

Being too cash-poor to subscribe to various journalists’ forums just to locate contact information on them, I have been unable to find any means of contacting the intrepid Mr Carreyrou himself, with a tip I have striven for years to get somebody in the investigative journalism field to take seriously: the ongoing graft, fraud and abuse of federal power which are the net results of nearly a quarter-century of the Violence Against Women Act’s (VAWA) ignominious life span.

If your organization is what it says it is, and also has such access to Mr Carreyrou, you can tell him from me that in my fifty-seven years of life I could probably name all the genuine journalists I have seen the work of, on one hand and without bothering with my thumb. His name is on that very short list.

I have followed the Bad Blood saga since it broke, and was even skeptical before that when I began to see various memes of Ms Holmes and her moronic (and eerily prophetic) quote about not having a backup plan.

Before WSJ ran John’s story, this unstable overgrown little girl was in popular perception an untouchable media darling who could do no wrong; but had it not been for the coincidental timing of the Bad Blood story’s development at precisely the same moment in history as the race for the 2016 election began to heat up and claim the media’s full (obsessive) attention, the crimes and misdemeanors John revealed might well have transformed this counterfeit “self-made billionaire” into one of the twenty-first century’s great villains on the level of a Typhoid Mary or even a Lizzie Borden, for the psychotic negligence she exhibited and the extreme potential for suffering and even loss of life she came within a few breaking headlines of unleashing on an unsuspecting public.

The story of Theranos/Holmes, and the story of the Violence Against Women Act, bear many similarities:

the ongoing and largely ignored frauds and deceptions being carried out right in the open,

the gender-card factor of women’s involvement in a large-scale institutional undertaking making it a taboo to dig too deeply into their shenanigans even when practiced so brazenly (a thing this Mrs Clinton almost got herself elected President on the strength of, without much else going for her….),

and the potential in each instance for unintended consequences on innocent parties being very real, as is the involvement in and enthusiastic endorsement of each by high-powered political insiders.

Where Theranos once enjoyed a status as a sort of private-sector sacred cow owing mostly to its CEO being female, so does VAWA enjoy a parallel stature in public-policy circles due to the same ongoing unwritten rule that in the big leagues of both politics and business, what women want women are supposed to get because they are women, and woe to that man who questions their ways and means in getting it.

Simply stated, VAWA is a public-policy catastrophe of far greater duration and proportions, having created far more numerous victims of its failures than Theranos ever had time to accomplish.

The facts to substantiate such a summary of VAWA are in plain sight, readily accessible, primarily matters of public record available to all, consistent over the entire history of the initiative going back to 1994, and astonishingly, have NEVER been responsibly examined by any real investigative journalists at Mr Carreyrou’s level.

Not during its legislative hiatus of 2011–12 when it was at risk temporarily of not being renewed at all and for good reason; not following the landmark US v Morrison ruling of 2000 which dramatically curbed its powers but ultimately only toughened its supporters’ resolve to bypass due process of law for accused men by any means necessary; not when its intertwined relationship with Title IX administration in higher education was made into a comedy of tragic errors by the infamous “Dear Colleague Letter” fiasco from 2011 until the confirmation of Betsy DeVos under the new administration….

Essentially, VAWA has NEVER been a serious topic of serious journalism.

Which fact, alone, is a grave indictment of the profession in the USA as a whole: the largest-scaled feminist political initiative ever implemented has turned out also to be among the largest-scaled public-funding boondoggles in the history of this republic, and no reporter of serious news has EVER bothered to discover and disclose the obvious and ubiquitous facts to prove it.

John Carreyrou proved to me that after all of the literally hundreds of people in media, politics, academia and law that I have contacted, and failed comprehensively to inspire any one of them to follow up on the VAWA story on its merits as a real public-policy item of entirely newsworthy proportions, he would be one individual with more than the qualifications needed to do exactly that, if he were just to decide to.

Will you help me, help him do that?

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