These boys weren’t guilty in this instance. But, by golly, rich white boys at other times have been guilty of victimizing black people. Do names really matter when we are seeking to correct centuries of racist evil?

These kids weren’t prosecuted for a crime. They were effigies. This was the legal equivalent of those horrible lynchings. Their lives were derailed and their futures jeopardized to serve as examples to others like them. And, in Nifong’s case, effigies really served well as campaign talking points. Bonus!

Yes, I am sickened. I remain sickened. And everyone (black and white) should be sickened by this travesty. History has proven that anyone can become the victim of a legal autocrat that seeks to appease public sentiment rather than pursue blind justice.

And, when we have a system that pushes prosecutors to think that this is just one of the unpleasantries necessary for re-election, maybe we need to take a closer look at the system.

I keep repeating it because it is so true. Liberals are incomprehensibly stupid.

We may have to invent a completely new term to describe his cosmic levels of cluetardedness, because none of the ones I know seem to come close to adequately describing him.

He’s one teaspoon’s worth of Teh Stupid away from collapsing under his own weight and forming a Singularity of Snotwittedness.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/terrymoran/2007/04/dont_feel_too_s_1.html

Some of those comments made me laugh so hard my son came running in because he thought I’d found a funny cartoon… oh the irony.

Judgement day approaches mikey. You had 13 months to be sorry. This proves you are not.

What kind of “outrage” will there be?

There’s no remorse here…there is just a snake squirming.

Hey now, why insult snakes this way? I have a budding herpatologist son and I assure you that his snakes have fair more value than Nifong.

I like how he slimed Finnerty for no apprent reason in the explanation of his opinion.

What a jerkoff.

His statement includes the following “To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize to the three students that (not “who”) were wrongly accused,”

Look at the words “…were wrongly accused..” It’s the passive voice, which is used when the subject of the sentence is unknown, or irrelevant…OR WANTS TO HIDE HIS RESPONSIBILITY!!!! It should say “…the students I wrongly accused…” The fact that he seeks to dodge his role says to me that his motivations are not to apologize.

Could he have another motive? How about this further quote from Nifong: “It is my sincere desire that the actions of Attorney General Cooper will serve to remedy any remaining injury that has resulted from these cases.”

I’ll bet it IS his sincere desire. This seems to me to be framed as an answer to any potential defamation/slander charges brought against him for damage to the player’s reputation. Isn’t he saying that, with all the publicity, all the damages have been remedied? Ergo, no cause of action? You bet it’s his “sincere desire” that any remaining injuries have been remedied.

There’s no remorse here…there is just a snake squirming.

Sue like you mean it, sue like you want it, sue ’til you can’t sue no more. Then take the damages and buy an ad in every major paper in America listing the names of all the racist bottom-feeders in the media who demagogued you and are still demagoguing you even after you’ve been exonerated.

I’d like to second, third, fourth and fifth this motion. EVEN if I do live in NC. (Not in Durham.)