Nat Hentoff was one of the few journalists who came to the defense of Kellly Michaels, an innocent woman who was given a 47-year sentence on false charges of child abuse in a day care center. (The charges were absurd. She was accused of doing terrible things to kids in a day care center where people were walking in and out all day with no eyewitnesses and no physical evidence.) Since the liberals were the ones pushing these cases, that took a lot of courage on the part of Hentoff to call B.S. and point out that the whole thing was a witch hunt.
Yes, I remember the Margaret Kelly Michaels case well—it was part of THE most shameful witchhunt in modern American History,which went on for YEARS and ruined the lives of numerous innocent people, a virtually satanic collaboration of the politic needs of Law Enforcement, the Judicial System and politicians all up and down the latter.That’s the way Hentoff characterized it: “the Salem Witch Trials are alive and well in New Jersey” he wrote.