Posted on 07/31/2007 5:21:41 AM PDT by Renfield
In stark contrast to its position on last year's Duke non-rape case, the NAACP has urged the public not to judge Michael Vick before he has his day in court.
In a news conference early this morning, Atlanta NAACP President R.L. White charged that the Atlanta Falcons star quarterback's suspension and sponsor desertion amounted to premature punishment, adding that,
"If Mr. Vick is guilty, he should pay for his crime, but to treat him as he is being treated now is also a crime. Be restrained in your premature judgment until the legal process is completed."
And, while one can't deny the merits of avoiding yet another trial by media, neither can one deny the duplicitous nature of White's "premature judgment" words.
After all, wasn't it "premature judgment" that motivated the NAACP to launch their campaign to assure the trial and rape convictions of three Duke Lacrosse players in March of last year?
And while we're at it, just how did the organization's web page proclaiming no fewer than 82 Crimes and Torts committed by Duke Lacrosse Team Players on 3/13 and 3/14 as Reported in the press, mainly from the Three Players' Defense Attorneys help complete the legal process?
Yet, those charges - which smelled fishy right from the start and were ultimately revealed to be stinking lies -- were rooted entirely on the allegations of one person and the disbarable malfeasance of another.
The far more credible indictment against Vick, on the other hand, accuses him of being involved in virtually every aspect of a hideously inhumane dogfighting operation for more than six years.
As described by Lester Munson at ESPN.com:
"The charges are serious, and the evidence against Vick presented at trial will be nasty. The government's case includes evidence that Vick and his cohorts ‘tested' pit bulls for ferocity. If the dogs failed the test, the indictment charges, they were executed by hanging or drowning. In one case, with Vick present, the indictment says a dog was slammed to the ground until it was dead. In another incident, a dog was soaked with a hose and then electrocuted."
Add the fact that the federal indictment disclosed four ready to testify witnesses plus co-defendant Tony Taylor's Monday morning plea agreement, and it's difficult to understand why the NAACP would afford Vick greater doubt benefit than it did the victims of Crystal Gail Magnum's vile false-witness.
Nonetheless, Georgia NAACP President Edward Dubose never complained, as he did this morning about Vick, that any of the Duke 3 was "being prosecuted in the court of public opinion before he has had a chance to defend himself."
Of course, the fact that Reade Seligmann, Colin Finnerty, and David Evans are white and both Magnum and Vick are black could never influence the actions of an organization promoting itself as a champion of social justice, could it?
Aside from everything else, Duke university has to move. No parent in his right mind would send a kid to ANY school within 30 miles of Durham NC at this point.
Desperate for attention.
I was waiting for the race card to come up and I’m surprised that it has taken this long. This guy is just a worthless POS no matter what color he is. At least Nifong was trying to win an election on other peoples obvious stupidity.
The whole premise of the NAACP is a double standard.
The NAACP just needs to relax-Vick won’t do a minute of day for this thing. He will be tried by a jury of his “peers” and he will be found not guilty. “this is just another case of the man trying to keep a brother down”. It’s just a shame for Vick’s sake that Johnny Cochran is no longer around.
Vick will never play in the National Felons League (NFL)again.
DO NOT piss off PETA. That is the lesson here.
The NAACP is a racist group. Plain and simple. They tried and convicted the DUKE 3 before the stripper had her panties cleaned.
No need to fret: Billy Martin is Johnny’s twin, so Vick will do just fine.
http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/07/martin/index.html
The ever-changing stories of Billy Martin
He’s done a great job keeping Chandra Levy — and Gary Condit — in the headlines. But why are reporters ignoring the way the Levy attorney constantly twists the truth?
Despite the obvious discrepancy between what Martin had actually been asked and what he now claimed, Koppel let the explanation slide. The next morning, Martin was on “The Today Show,” where host Matt Lauer asked about the same “specific request by the Levy family.” Once again Martin simply recreated the CNN interview to his liking, telling NBC viewers, “I was asked on the Wolf Blitzer show, ‘What would the Levys personally ask of the congressman if they could?’”
That was good enough for Lauer:
Lauer: So at the very least, he took what you said and used it out of context?
Martin: Absolutely.
Yet good luck finding the back-and-forth Martin described in any CNN transcript, because it simply never took place. Instead, Martin invented dialogue to cover up his obvious strategic error. Of course, mainstream journalists covering the story, the same ones who spent the entire summer chewing over endless Levy minutiae, were free to check Martin’s version of events. To date, not one has pointed out Martin’s obvious, and clumsy, deception.
On the contrary, the press, pretending to objectively cover a missing person’s case, rewarded Martin’s bold-face dissembling. Time magazine wrote that Martin “appeared on Nightline to shred Condit’s claim that the Levys made a ‘specific request’ that he not discuss the details of the relationship.”
“Shred”? The only thing Martin came close to shredding on “Nightline” was the truth.
Racism against whites and double standards for blacks form the core values of this stupid organization. Until they get rid of that jackass Andrew Young things will never change either.
Any group in the US that is considered by the Leftists in the MSM/Hollywood to be a “victim group” are continually inculcated with the idea that their victim hood confers a legitimate sense of aggrieved entitlement, and that gives them carte blanch to do as they wish without any having to give any consideration to their own responsibilities to the society at large. Their only responsibility is to their own “victimized” tribe.
As trite as it may sound, the old Leftist tactic of divide-and-conquer applies today more than ever. Their efforts are aimed at inculcating everyone in society to identify themselves as members of ever smaller victim groups - groups which need the Leftists in government to GIVE them their supposed fair share of the societies wealth without any efforts beyond simply belonging to that approved victim group.
That leaves every group fighting every other group for their supposed fair share, while it promotes the Leftists to be the master arbiters and providers.
On second thought, that all sounds more like a criminal racket than a philosophy.
The answer to why the NAACP double standard is obvious...Vick is Black and the falsely accused Duke students were white.
She was convicted, fined $50 and the NAACP is still screaming for appeal and boycotts.
The Vick story asside: PETA can kiss my @ss.
Going by past standards the NAACP has been rather tepid. I suspect that even they recognize that this is beyond the pale.
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Exactly, it is an organization based on race, but it's very existience is the definition of racism.
I didn’t prejudge the Duke lacrosse players, and I’m not pre-judging Michael Vick. It’s the liberals like the NAACP who think everybody’s guilty until proven innocent.
BYW when I was in NC for the first time last week I visited a Duke gift shop and bought a Duke Lacross jersey. They don’t have them with players names though, I asked.
Wearing it now back in Michigan.
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