Breaking: Durham D.A. drops rape charges against Duke lacrosse players; Update: Press conference video added
posted at 12:55 pm on December 22, 2006 by Allahpundit
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But the kidnapping and sexual offense charges remain.
Joseph Cheshire and attorneys for the other players have said for months the woman told several different versions of the alleged assault.
Cheshire said Friday that the accuser now says she does not know if she was penetrated, which he said led District Attorney Mike Nifong to dismiss the rape charges.
I haven’t followed the case at all and was planning to ignore the news, but then I got an e-mail from the boss reminding me that the story was breaking. Hint hint.
And so here we are.
Have any of you followed this closely? All I know is that apparently DNA from a number of men was found inside the accuser after the attack; that none of it matches the defendants’; and that D.A. Nifong allegedly conspired to cover up that fact. Susan Estrich calls it an “extreme case of lawlessness by the prosecutors” that warrants Nifong being replaced by the court.
In other words, they’re being railroaded. Anything else I need to know?
Update: Wikipedia to the rescue. Start here and keep scrolling.
Update: In the comments, Slublog questions the timing. Me too.
Update: Betsy Newmark asks a good question — after all that’s happened, how does Nifong expect to prove the remaining charges beyond a reasonable doubt? Does he have smoking-gun evidence of kidnapping and sexual battery? If not, they’ll walk for sure.
Durham native Mary K thinks it’s all about the politics:
It’s Durham. It’s full of a bunch of liberal white people who love to get yelled at by black people and a bunch of liberal black people who are happy to oblige them. This story scratched that white guilt itch soooo good, they just couldn’t let it go, even though it was pretty clear from the beginning that the story was a little off.
The national media liked the white, privileged lax boys rape hard-working exotic dancer single mom story, and they ran with it, too. As a result, many lives, seasons, careers, and a successful sports program have been seriously messed with by a D.A. who couldn’t back off on the narrative, either, lest he feel the wrath at the ballot box from those whom he denied their white guilt orgy.
Slublog says Duke’s president is finished.
Update: The defendants’ lawyers held a press conference late this afternoon. One of them addressed Nifong directly.
Update: The video’s not working as I write this. I apologize for that. It’s because our hosting company is unreliable. The problem should resolve itself in a few minutes.
Update: The heat is on and Duke’s president is getting out of the kitchen: he’s called for Nifong’s resignation.
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Nifong needs to spend some time in jail over this.
p0s3r on December 22, 2006 at 12:57 PM
Whether you need to know or not, Nifong used this case to get re-elected, which makes it even more crass.
Also, while I don’t often agree with Susan Estrich, she is one of the more balanced, fair and likeable liberal personalities. She often points out the wrong, wherever the chips fall and doesn’t make excuses.
Entelechy on December 22, 2006 at 1:01 PM
I hope these kids get fat off of the lawsuit they’re going to start.
Mortis on December 22, 2006 at 1:03 PM
Interesting timing on the announcement.
Slublog on December 22, 2006 at 1:05 PM
This has been a case of malicious prosecution from the get-go. Nifong violated established police procedure during the line-up when he didn’t put anyone in there who was known to be innocent. He further brought charges against one of the accused even though he had an airtight alibi, with ATM records to prove it.
These charges were brought solely on the word of the accuser by a malicious and opportunistic proscutor. Something to remember when thinking about the Lewis Libby case (where charges of perjury are leveled largely based on conflicting testimony) and the Haditha case, where charges are brought largely on the word of Iraqis who refuse to allow the bodies to be exhumed to provide physical evidence.
If there is any justice in this world, Nifong will be raped in prison someday.
thirteen28 on December 22, 2006 at 1:06 PM
LOL. Typical AP subtitle on the main page.
amerpundit on December 22, 2006 at 1:07 PM
From the various shows I’ve watched with legal talking heads (Napolitano, Greta, et al.), nobody seems to think this case will ever hold up and Nifong should at minimum be removed from the case.
Kidnapping charges? They’re got to be kidding. Whenever this case is resolved, and I have no doubt it will be in the defandant’s favor, I hope they’re able to seek damages against Nifong.
Sure, they were probably acting like punks at their party, but boorish fratboy hijinks do not mean their lives should be ruined by a overzealous prosecutor.
JammieWearingFool on December 22, 2006 at 1:07 PM
Is this Nifong’s strategy for retreat? Haggle his way out of the situation by making the defense bargain and fight to exhaustion for every step out, 1) drop rape charges; haggle haggle stall, then 2) drop kidnapping (what’s the definition of that? thought one had to be moved from point A to point B, at a minimum) haggle haggle stall, drop 3) sexual assault. Won’t that kick the can into 2050? What’s it called? Cooling?
naliaka on December 22, 2006 at 1:08 PM
The repercussions on this are going to be interesting. Expect to see Duke President Richard Brodhead offering his resignation soon. Alumni money may dry up if he doesn’t, and no president wants to see that happen under his watch.
Slublog on December 22, 2006 at 1:16 PM
Expect to hear about this letter, for instance. Note the criticism of the alleged crime comes before the reminder that the players were innocent until proven guilty.
Slublog on December 22, 2006 at 1:26 PM
I would like to hear from the poor lacrosse coach who lost his job over this mess. He was forced to resign from coaching one of the best lacrosse teams at one of the best schools in the country and it turns out it’s all for naught. That sucks, and I would be seething and cursing Nifong’s hatchet job.
JaHerer22 on December 22, 2006 at 1:28 PM
It’s been crap from the get-go. Numerous problems in the exotic dancer’s original story, good alibis for several of the boys (including ATM receipts), pictures showing her bruised and intoxicated BEFORE the alleged rape took place, all of which ended up narrowing the window for the alleged, brutal gang rape to about 5-10 minutes, last time I remember.
It’s Durham. It’s full of a bunch of liberal white people who love to get yelled at by black people and a bunch of liberal black people who are happy to oblige them. This story scratched that white guilt itch soooo good, they just couldn’t let it go, even though it was pretty clear from the beginning that the story was a little off.
The national media liked the white, privileged lax boys rape hard-working exotic dancer single mom story, and they ran with it, too. As a result, many lives, seasons, careers, and a successful sports program have been seriously messed with by a D.A. who couldn’t back off on the narrative, either, lest he feel the wrath at the ballot box from those whom he denied their white guilt orgy.
Does that help?
marykatharine on December 22, 2006 at 1:29 PM
There will be a lot of lawsuits filed in this case, I’m sure.
Slublog on December 22, 2006 at 1:31 PM
I remember when this story was new she assumed the guys were guilty, now she’s listening to reason.
Nifong should be disbarred and prosecuted for this.
infidel4life on December 22, 2006 at 1:31 PM
That stripper still owes those boys the 400 bucks she took from them for not putting on a show. But now that the news came out that she had several men’s semen in her, none of which belonged to those Lacrosse players, it could explain why when she danced it sounded like someone shaking a carton of egg nog.
BelchSpeak on December 22, 2006 at 1:34 PM
This is an extreme case of prosecutorial misconduct. But such bad behavior is not as rare as we would like.
There was the bogus prosecution of Rolando Cruz in Illinois. In that case, the prosecutor (J. Michael Fitzsimmons) and several cops WERE put on trial, but were acquited by a jury that didn’t quite have the guts to send a bad prosecutor to prison.
Prosecutorial misconduct is commonplace in some jurisdictions, especially in Illinois.
I have personal knowledge of another case of prosecutorial misconduct in Lake County, IL in which my wife was defendant’s interrim counsel.
It started as a messy divorce where the woman accused her soon-to-be-ex of molesting their infant daughter. A “women’s advocacy group” picked up the accusation and pressed the States Attorney of Lake County to file 13 child molestation charges against the husband, despite the lack of evidence, just the wife’s word.
BTW, this tactic is referred to by some divorce attorneys as “deploying a tactical nuclear weapon” that is intended to blackmail the husband into giving the wife everything she wants. In this case the husband refused to knuckle so the wife made the accusation in divorce court proceedings.
After pressure from this “woman’s advocacy group” — representatives of whom attended each and every court hearing, as “support” for the wife — the States Attorney brought 13 indictments.
It took 6 years for the case to come to trial. One judge dismissed the case but “without prejudice” which meant the charges could be reinstated — which they were 8 months later after the “women’s advocacy group” threatened to publicly oppose the States Attorney in the next election. There was a jury trial, where the jury was out just long enough to fill out the jury verdict forms, and the defendent, my wife’s former client, was acquitted on all charges.
I would not be surprised that in the Duke case, another “woman’s advocacy group” is deeply involved in “supporting” the woman. Just because.
Nifong should be brought up on charges and prosecuted as well as permanently disbarred as an attorney. Hopefully, he’ll learn a new trade in prison.
georgej on December 22, 2006 at 1:36 PM
Well that was unncessary.
Slublog on December 22, 2006 at 1:36 PM
I couldn’t agree more.
Cary on December 22, 2006 at 1:38 PM
Not you, georgej. Just to clarify - I was speaking of the crudeness in the post just before yours.
Slublog on December 22, 2006 at 1:40 PM
I want to see that loudmouth Wendy Murphy, who never saw a rape accuser she didn’t believe, eat some crow.
eagles5 on December 22, 2006 at 1:41 PM
Does anyone know if Nifong’s position is subject to recall petition?
eagles5 on December 22, 2006 at 1:47 PM
Forgot to mention, I’m from Durham.
marykatharine on December 22, 2006 at 1:48 PM
Yes, Nifong is a worthless liberal Democrat who I hope is impeached and/or prosecuted and disgraced after the USATTY General’s office investigates his Progressive ass into oblivion!!!
Theseus on December 22, 2006 at 1:50 PM
I’d also add that I think that the city of Durham itself needs to be sued and forced pay a king’s ransom in compensatory and punitive damages for this. After all, they re-elected Nifong after knowing that this case was bogus. They were enablers of Nifong’s prosecutorial misconduct.
thirteen28 on December 22, 2006 at 1:55 PM
I remeber when the charges were first announced, there was a crowd of white people on hand cheering the news like their favorite team just won the Super Bowl. It was a very odd thing, like some kind of release that there was finally going to be a criminal prosecution that these white liberals could get behind.
Perchant on December 22, 2006 at 2:01 PM
Quote courtesy of FOXNews.
This case has been a travesty from the get-go, and Nifong deserves more than just a slap on the wrist for ruining these young men’s lives for political purposes. Sure, they aren’t choirboys, and if they were guilty I’d be the first one to want them punished. But it’s been obvious from the beginning that the accuser wasn’t credible and the DA had no case.
ReubenJCogburn on December 22, 2006 at 2:02 PM
I guess that the paternity test must have come back on her baby.
Durham is a disgrace to our fair state (along with the pony-tailed shower-phobes in Chapel Hill).
UNCDoc on December 22, 2006 at 2:07 PM
I imagine Wendy “Hang ‘em high” Murphy is sitting slack-jawed in from of some computer thinking, “How the hell am I going to spin this?”
G_d I hope Tucker Carlson rips her a new one.
Bill C on December 22, 2006 at 2:09 PM
That explains the NASCAR thing. ;-)
Bill C on December 22, 2006 at 2:11 PM
The case even has libertarians calling for federal intervention.
Slublog on December 22, 2006 at 2:19 PM
A little — but not a lot. (Sorry. I don’t mean to be rude. BTW, loved your “Don’t say Obama” clip.)
I suppose that you can make your case that it is important to understand “what happened.” I wouldn’t disagree. But let’s face it, the so-called “criminal justice” system in the United States is totally disfunctional and flat-out broken. I am MORE interested in hearing people’s ideas on how to fix it. So that this kinda’ stuff just doesn’t happen.
CyberCipher on December 22, 2006 at 2:24 PM
Three lives destroyed, a D.A.’s career in shambles, a prestigious university tainted and a baby on the way.
Americana. Willy and Waylon would be proud.
spmat on December 22, 2006 at 2:27 PM
More on Duke and Brodhead at the American Thinker. Quote:
It’s going to be interesting to watch.
Slublog on December 22, 2006 at 2:29 PM
You have to love President Brodhead and his little letter. I wonder if he plans on following through with his commitments.
Well the truth is the defendant is a vindictive liar. How will you respond President Brodhead?
You mean using race as a sword to smite those evil white males?
I’m not expecting any recriminationfrom Duke anytime soon.
The race baiters will get away with it again….
I do not know how many readsers are familiar with the Teddy Pierce case (content warning: fawning puff piece by the LAT for an obvious opportunist) , but it is along the same racial lines.
Theworldisnotenough on December 22, 2006 at 2:41 PM
When you establish laws and rules of quotas; gender, race, sexual orientation protection laws; rape shield laws, failure to prosecute those making knowing false allegations of rape, etc you reap what you sow.
We don’t need lawsuite, we need justice.
MarkB on December 22, 2006 at 2:44 PM
Are there any lawyers that post here that can confirm a suspicion of mine? I’m thinking that the rape charge was dropped in order to keep the DNA report out of an eventual trial (assuming Nifong doesn’t drop all of the charges). If there is no charge that the players vaginally penetrated her, the DNA report would seem to not be relevant. That of course assumes that shield laws are still in effect without an actual charge of rape.
mhexel on December 22, 2006 at 2:52 PM
It is now time for these “priveileged white boys” and their monied parents to sue Nifong’s a** off!!! while the NC Attorney General looks long and hard into having Nifong disbarred and/or brought up on criminal charges.
Just a thought.
Jack.
Jack Deth on December 22, 2006 at 2:53 PM
Unfortunately, Nifong can’t be prosecuted criminally.As a D.A., he has some kind immunity, per Fox News legal analyst Kimberly Guilfoyle. I caught a portion of her show last weekend so i didn’t get all the information but I think she said he could be disbarred and sued in a civil action.
SAM 1X on December 22, 2006 at 2:54 PM
i would love to be the lawyer who gets to sue Nifong, the city of Raleigh and Duke University for violating the boys civil rights. That’s a case that’ll win itself. He can’t be prosecuted criminally but in civil court there’s a ton of torts you can sue him and the school for
Defector01 on December 22, 2006 at 3:02 PM
I know the father of one of the young men. What a beating that family has taken. But my friend is a very good lawyer. There will never be justice, but there will be pain.
spd rdr on December 22, 2006 at 3:15 PM
Nifong
Berger
Both will get away scot free. Nifong will have the full support of Duke and the community and Berger will have the full support of the media and legal community.
Must be nice.
I wish someone would sic Phil Beck on those two jagoffs.
benrand on December 22, 2006 at 3:17 PM
I can’t believe we have a judicial system wherein a prosecutor is above criminal liability for gross misconduct like this. Maybe that’s what leads to these sort of problems in the first place.
thirteen28 on December 22, 2006 at 3:33 PM
Nifong needs to be drawn and quartered for this cluster-f*@k.
x95b10 on December 22, 2006 at 3:42 PM
Defector01…..I don’t think you’ll see the city of Raleigh catching much flack over this.
firegeezer on December 22, 2006 at 4:00 PM
Your keyboard to God’s ears, Slublog.
Trinity ‘83
Quisp on December 22, 2006 at 4:10 PM
My heart goes out to the young men and thier families. This will hang over thier heads for the rest of their lives, they are the true victims here. The accusers will walk away free of guilt.
ChrisIansNana on December 22, 2006 at 4:10 PM
The news conference and subsequent analysis on the cable news channels sounded like a Penthouse Forum letter..
madmonaco on December 22, 2006 at 4:20 PM
Sure does. Am steering every single one of our kids, male and female away from Duke. Not one red cent will come out of our family pocket to go to that venal institution. Just would like to let Duke know that, for the appalling way they kangaroo courted the entire men’s lacrosse team and the program, coach included. Maybe it was Duke’s innovative way to put a stake into a men’s sports progam to comply with Title IX.
Anyone with college males wanting a more male-friendly school? Two hold-outs for all men: Hampden-Sydney College (established 1775), Virginia;and Wabash College, Indiana.
naliaka on December 22, 2006 at 4:24 PM
not from hte MSM but this will not be forgotten by any of us
Defector01 on December 22, 2006 at 4:25 PM
Fat Lady stands up and begins to clear her throat…
JayHaw Phrenzie on December 22, 2006 at 4:33 PM
And if you’re an alumni of Duke, stop paying the alumni association fees, and stop giving to the university until they make the situation right. Brodhead allowed 88 members of the faculty at that school to slander the players and did nothing. He should not get out of this scot-free.
Slublog on December 22, 2006 at 4:39 PM
Heh. C.Y.A.
Slublog on December 22, 2006 at 5:12 PM
I lived in Durham when this lie started (have sinced moved to Raleigh). I can tell you that MKH has it exactly right. The Durham liberals LOVE to be chastised by blacks. It’s the whole White guilt thing, ya know!
I must also say that FOXNews (especially Greta) has been disappointing with this case. The facts and media sound bytes are all wrong. I suggest that if anyone wants to know the fact on this case to go to LIESTOPPERS.
SouthernGent on December 22, 2006 at 5:23 PM
Resignation of Nifong? How about one of those good, old-fashioned civil rights lawsuits? Amazing that those laws sometimes work for folks not in an pre-ordained victim class. Lawsuits against the State, disbarment (and possibly a little time in the gray bar hotel) for Nifong, and a cold slap in the face for those so willing to believe this obvious political stunt would make me feel a little better.
As for the university president, does anyone not know of one with cranial/rectal juxtaposition these days?
SailorDave on December 22, 2006 at 5:24 PM
infidel4life on December 22, 2006 at 1:31 PM
Thanks for pointing this out infidel. Better later than never, then. Also, S. Estrich is a rape-victim herself…thus, more personal for her…not an excuse, just for the record.
Entelechy on December 22, 2006 at 5:25 PM
President Brodhead is in hiding, all of a sudden the universtity has found a use for a Christmas Holiday. Nifong releases this on a Christmas Holiday. They have finally found a use to celebrate Christmas.
Nifong should rot in hell, purposely destroying young mens lives to win an election. Only a democrat would be so crass. Most of us here in NC knew this was a farce within weeks of the “investigation”. If he is not punished, to the fullest, than this will go down in the democrats playbook as the “rape a black stripper” option. Just below the break the law, than call them a racist option.
The black society is being played as a patsy for democratic votes, they (minorities) are treated like uneducated slaves.
Your masters will feed you, protect you, give you jobs, give you poor schools (but hey, your black you are not expected to perform even average), pander to your dreams, never give you a high visible government position, never give you a high earning powerful union position, listen to unelected “leaders” like Jackson and Sharpton set the tone for your future…you are not smart enough to do these on your own, the Dems consider you their slaves. And something like Nifong is just one example of the manipulation of the black society. He is shameful, and the democrats are shameful.
Whew, where did that come from? Time for a little beverage to take the edge off.
right2bright on December 22, 2006 at 5:40 PM
Defendant? opps I meant accuser.
*proof read*
Anywho.
At this point why not go to trial as quickly as possible? The defense can demand a speedy trial, having waited 9 months so far. Use the current publicity, don’t let Nifong sit on it and wait for it to blow over. Nifong put himself in a vice, the defense needs to turn the handle…
Theworldisnotenough on December 22, 2006 at 6:18 PM
We are not being played for patsies. That would infer that Black people do not know any better. Black people do know better, but a great many of us are complicit in perpetuating the disadvantaged/victim dogma. Moving away from that and admitting the truth would mean having to collectively acknowledge afore mentioned complicity; Black people would have to admit that being able to make excuses and blame whites was more important than actually succeeding in life….(a big reason why Black conservatives are so vehemenantly fought against by any and all means especially by the Black community) That is the lynchpin that holds that dogma in place. Only Black people are going to be able to change that. Something white guilt liberals will never understand, there aren’t enough special programs to change the Black community.
Theworldisnotenough on December 22, 2006 at 6:33 PM
OT - but Duke’s own webite is marbled with Leftie lard:
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2006/12/iraq_calculator.html
“Millions of Americans know someone who has died in Afghanistan or Iraq”. The social impact in America of war. Just an anti-war screed, disguised as actual research - with the Left’s favorite tool - the “calculator projector”.
Maybe we can use their own tactics on them:
Using the calculator projector, extrapolate the dollar costs of the civil suits against Duke until the next millenium, to answer will anyone be able to afford the tuition necessary to cover Duke’s costs of tuition, room and board, student fees and lawsuit damages? Variables: number of players who might sue, lawyer’s fees, defensive advertizing costs … all sorts of inputs.
naliaka on December 22, 2006 at 6:39 PM
Good point. He could easily sue Duke for millions.
Talk about a backstab. The school refused to stand behind their coach, and refused to stand behind their players with the presumption of innocence. Duke deserves to go down with Nifong.
infidel4life on December 22, 2006 at 7:09 PM
Don’t forget the faculty’s role in all this, the “gang of 88″
who took out an ad in a newspaper condemning the players back in April, way before any facts were known.
Losers.
reaganaut on December 22, 2006 at 8:31 PM
forgot the link
reaganaut on December 22, 2006 at 8:32 PM
reaganaut,
I can’t find the ad itself. Link from the site you listed seems to be down.
mikeyboss on December 22, 2006 at 8:57 PM
The ad has not been on the Duke site for awhile. It was…quietly…removed.
Slublog on December 22, 2006 at 9:08 PM
The moral of the story consists of 2 things:
1- Before this “strpper” falsely accused her clients of raping her, she should’ve douched so the semen of her 6 boyfriends would not have shown up on the DNA analyses.
2- Wash her panties after having sex with her 6 boyfriends so their semen wont show up on the DNA analyses.
Doctorted on December 22, 2006 at 9:09 PM
mikeyboss, if you follow the link that reaganaut posted, in the middle of the article, there are two small links. One says “the ad in question”.
serpentineshel on December 22, 2006 at 9:21 PM
Thanks serpent. Unfortunately, though, the link to the ad itself is busted.
mikeyboss on December 22, 2006 at 9:31 PM
What is the status of the two current students who remain under indictment? I understand that they were suspended from the school when they were indicted. Is that true? If so, on what legal grounds did Duke University base the suspensions? Isn’t one still considered innocent until proven guilty, since indictment is not the same as a verdict? They weren’t allowed to continue their studies, for which they had paid? And if the grounds for suspension include trashy and tastless frat house partying, wouldn’t all the other frat party-goers have to be suspended for that, too? Duke University has a Law School for crying out loud. Are they providing pro-bono legal defense to their underclassmen or are they so corrupted by Leftie Theology, they are crafting arguments for the prosecution? On what side was Duke U Law School in the Military JAG recruitment on law school campuses? James Taranto noticed that only George Mason University Law School was on the winning side of the decision, with a couple dozen once prestigious law schools all on the losing side. Was Duke one of them, too?
naliaka on December 22, 2006 at 9:33 PM
That’s assuming intelligence and sanity, neither of which the accuser has shown.
infidel4life on December 22, 2006 at 9:40 PM
They got rid of it alright - here’s the web archive version with the link at the top of the page. You can still click on the list of supporters and see who signed it though. Let’s see how long that lasts.
archive
reaganaut on December 22, 2006 at 9:43 PM
found the ad
reaganaut on December 22, 2006 at 9:52 PM
Well, checked FAIR’s (Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights) listing of schools that opposed military recruitment and Duke is not listed. However, it’s not a complete list, it’s only of the schools that were willing to be publicly identified. There are other schools that didn’t want their names listed publicly, so have to find out by other means whether Duke was one of those schools or not.
naliaka on December 22, 2006 at 9:57 PM
I’m shocked they dropped the case. BWAHAHA!!
Is there anything more despicable than playing the race card for political gain? I think blatant racism is less offensive at this point. In a twisted way, it’s more honest than Nifong and every other dipsh*t who pulls crap like this.
See you in hell, Nifong.
Metro on December 22, 2006 at 10:20 PM
reaganaut -
Did you save that? Hope the lawyers for the civil suit against Duke have a few nice copies of it. THe stupid thing is barely readable. ALso, save the list of signers.
“I can’t help but think about the different attention given to what had it would have been if the guys had not been just black but participating in a sport like football, something that’s not so upscale.”
The whole thing, garble garble, irate gag, whinge. Big font little font, BOLD font. More whinge, but no doubt.
“If it turns out these students are guilty, I want them expelled. But their expulsion w(—-) case and not the bigger problem. This is much bigger than them and throwing them out (–) problem. I want the administration to acknowledge what is going on and how bad it is.”
Gee, how bad is it? Students, black, white, brown, whatever, live in dorms, or off campus, have access to stupendous foodcourts and latte all day long, use top notch facilities … waaaaahhh waaaah.
“This is not a different experience for us here at Duke. We go to gym with people who are racists.”
A shocking number of English professors signed on to this hachet-job on the English language. Have they no professional pride or standards to make sure it read coherently before they whizzed it off to the printers?
We go to gym … with people who are racists.
Go to the gym .. what in the company of rascists as you slog along or there are racists already hogging the court but the time you arrive?
If the students are guilty, I want them expelled. Sweeties, that won’t be a problem, they’ll be in prison.
I’m beginning to believe that the state of US universities is such that they have become simply wealth-takers, not wealth-makers, charging outrageous tuitions, and delivering a worthless product. You can’t take that luxurious food court or student union with you, only the degree - and the taste for luxuries, which you won’t be able to afford thru your next four jobs.
naliaka on December 22, 2006 at 10:29 PM
It’s archived by Google actually, and a few other people. It looks weird (fonts)because they converted the .pdf into a web page.
I think the quotes are phony - at least the ones that are coherent. They remind of some of the quotes from a certain controversial 9/11 memorial.
I think there is some leftie “rent-a quote” think tank out there. In this case, I think they got some quotes wrong - although the we can’t think part is dead-on;
Huh -Wha? ….robs you of language - …terror, huh, hello?
reaganaut on December 22, 2006 at 10:42 PM
At least there’s still Notre Dame, and the service academies.
mikeyboss on December 22, 2006 at 11:18 PM
mikeyboss -
You’re not the only one who thinks so - the service academies are getting applications at rate of ten for every available slot - and that’s hard work just to apply, with the kind of recommendations they require, not to mention the SAT combined scores they want to see. I mentioned earlier today, two private men’s colleges that are holding up just fine: Hampden-Sydney and Wabash.
naliaka on December 23, 2006 at 12:19 AM
reaganaut -
I thought the fonts were deliberate - making their point in a visual kind of way. Too influenced by advertizing gimmicks. “But worse, I wonder now about everything …If something like this happens to me …What would be used against me - my clothing? Where I was?”
Now that quote was right on the money; it was such a random thing could happen to anyone, anytime, anyplace … don’t lots of women out there rent themselves out to frat parties as strippers, show up plastered and then have to retract every accusation because their own clothes testify against them? So, so … unknowable!
naliaka on December 23, 2006 at 12:29 AM
Nifong… is an evil man.
Christoph on December 23, 2006 at 12:29 AM
I think the University of Colorado still has a few
openings if any of these guys end up needing new jobs…
Scotsman on December 23, 2006 at 2:13 AM
The treatment of these white-skinned men has been bad enough. Imagine how much more frequent such cases will be, and how much worse their outcomes, as the Americans’ envied, hated majority becomes an envied, hated minority.
Kralizec on December 23, 2006 at 2:39 AM
Oh ya, you’re right about that, I was just saying they were off a little because it was in a different format than the original pdf file.
reaganaut on December 23, 2006 at 3:48 AM
“Nifong can’t be prosecuted criminally”
NOT TRUE!
18 USC 242, “Deprivation of rights under color of law” provides criminal penalties for malicious prosecution, including 1 year in federal prison. Willful witholding of evidence (the DNA) is a willful violation of the Sixth Amendmentment (”to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor”) ought to qualify in my uninformed opinon.
The punishment for a “color of law” violation is a find and up to 1 year in prison, provided no bodily injury has occurred as a result. Then penalty can include death if a homicide was the result of the “color of law” violation.
See also: http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/civilrights/color.htm
Nifong can be tried in federal court and if convicted, go to the federal pen for up to a year.
georgej on December 23, 2006 at 8:28 AM
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