Posted on 05/03/2018 5:35:04 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
In the wake of Bill Cosby‘s conviction on three counts of sexual assault last month, his wife, Camille Cosby, has issued a lengthy statement defending her husband. In the nearly 800-word statement, she compares Bill Cosby’s accusers to Emmett Till‘s accuser, chastises the media, and calls the district attorney office’s campaign “unethical.”
Camille Cosby’s statement:
“We the people” are the first three words of our nation’s Constitution, but who were those people in 1787? Dr. Howard Zinn, the renowned, honest historian, states in his best selling book, A People’s History of the United States: “The majority of the 55 men who framed the Constitution were men of wealth in land, slaves, manufacturing or shipping.” Clearly, most people were not included in that original draft of the Constitution; no women, Native Americans, poor white men; and, absolutely, no enslaved Africans. What have the masses of people done who are treated as outcasts by “we the people”? They, through the purity of the unceasing human spirit, forced 27 amendments to the Constitution that have guaranteed fundamental rights to all people…finally doing what the framers should have done in 1787. Now enters an American citizen, Bill Cosby. The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so… period. And the media ensured the dissemination of that propaganda by establishing barricades preventing the dissemination of the truth in violation of the protections of the First Amendment. Are the media now the people’s judges and juries? Since when are all accusers truthful? History disproves that…for example, Emmett Till’s accuser immediately comes to mind. In 1955, she testified before a jury of white men in a Mississippi courtroom that a 14-year-old African American boy had sexually assaulted her, only to later admit several decades later in 2008 that her testimony was false. A more recent example is the case of Darryl Hunt, an African American who in 1984 was wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of a white woman, only to have DNA evidence establish in 1994 that he did not commit the crime. Nonetheless he was held in prison until 2004, serving almost twenty years behind bars, until the true rapist confessed to the crimes.
These are just two of many tragic instances of our justice system utterly and routinely failing to protect African Americans falsely accused in so-called courts of law and the entirely unfair court of public opinion. In the case of Bill Cosby, unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs, who publicly and privately coerced cancellations of Bill Cosby’s scheduled performances; syndications of “The Cosby Show”; rescissions of honorary degrees and a vindictive attempt to close an exhibition of our collection of African American art in the Smithsonian Museum of African Art. Although the Smithsonian’s hierarchy did not capitulate, a disclaimer was posted on the exterior of that Museum. And all of that occurred before the trial even started.
The worst injustices, however, have been carried out in the Pennsylvania Montgomery County Courthouse. Three criminal charges, promised during an unethical campaign for the district attorney’s office, were filed against my husband…all based on what I believe to be a falsified account by the newly elected district attorney’s key witness. I firmly believe her recent testimony during trial was perjured; as was shown at trial, it was unsupported by any evidence and riddled with innumerable, dishonest contradictions. Moreover, Bill Cosby’s defense team introduced the testimony of a witness who confirmed that the district attorney’s witness admitted that she had not been sexually assaulted, but that she could say she was and get money … which is exactly what she did.
I am publicly asking for a criminal investigation of that district attorney and his cohorts. This is a homogeneous group of exploitive and corrupt people, whose primary purpose is to advance themselves professionally and economically at the expense of Mr. Cosby’s life. If they can do this to Mr. Cosby, they can do so to anyone. How much longer will we, the majority of the people, tolerate judicial, executive, legislative, media and corporate abuses of power? We, the majority of the people, must make America what it has declared itself to be….a democracy…not to be destroyed by vicious, lying, self-absorbed paradigms of evilness. Once again, an innocent person has been found guilty based on an unthinking, unquestioning, unconstitutional frenzy propagated by the media and allowed to play out in a supposed court of law.
This is mob justice, not real justice. This tragedy must be undone not just for Bill Cosby, but for the country. I wish to thank the witnesses who courageously came forward at trial to testify as to the truth, as well as those witnesses who would have done so but for the judge preventing them from testifying. Someday the truth will prevail, it always does.”
You might be able to sneak a Placidyl Dill pickle in a martini /s
No one is taking these horse pills without their knowledge.
If things were like the old days old cosby the degenerate would have been strung up years ago. She shouldnt be comparing then to now lest we pine for the good old days when justice was swift and sure.
By “mob” does she mean the huge number of women her husband raped?
Camille is not too far off. The trial judge allowed irrelevant testimony of alleged similar unproven actions into evidence.It was character evidence when in fact the accursed’s character had not been placed in issue by the defendant.This is completely contrary to the rules of evidence.
Its unlikely that the conviction will withstand an appeal.
She’s confused about the pudding and the goodin and the money...
Well said.
NBC knew about these allegations but said nothing.
NBC is complicit. The Cosby Show was the biggest show of the 80s yet network suits did jack.
BILL COSBY DIDDLED WHITE WOMEN AND BECAUSE THEY WERE WHITE HE SHOULD BE EXONERATED!!
How much did you know, Camille?
At least one victim says you were there and excused yourself to go upstairs to bed.
Some rich and famous men like humiliating women.
Some like disgusting them.
Some probably like drugging them.
Just because it should be easy for a rich famous man to get laid doesn’t mean he goes for normal.
So because of that, we should let it pass?
Does she want to look at rape statistics?
Not sure what Constrand was, Looks like Keith Richards to me.
Dope is bad Mmmmkay?
Yes she did. He was changing a tire off the 405 freeway and a Russian thug robbed him and killed him. This old "racism" tune has about had its day. Cosby is guilty as hell and it's a travesty it took this long to convict him.
Lot’s of things I don’t understand, but it takes 2 to tango and 3 makes it worse.
And I find it odd that you slip a Rohr 714 or 2 in a drink unnoticed.
It happened to me as a young teen so it is possible. I was only told after I drank the drink.
And Cosby didn’t drug women to get sex. He drugged women for his kink of playing with unconscious female bodies without their permission. That was what got him off.
Seriously? Its a horse pill!
Dissolves instantly, no flavor.. /s
Yeah I don’t get that at all, but there are a whole lotta things I don’t understand.
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