Posted on 10/15/2006 5:52:10 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath
(CBS) The three Duke lacrosse players indicted for a rape they say they didn't commit are indignant over the effect the charges are having on their lives and their families.
In their first interviews, they speak to Ed Bradley this Sunday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
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Oh. My. God.
And they're all here with fat salaries enjoying the American dream. They probably drive SUVs, have a mortgage, watch cable TV, go on vacations, and do all the normal consumer stuff of the middle-class. I expect they spend money on hobbies, recreation, sports, clothing, restaurants, theater and concerts, energy, tech goods, and generally whatever suits their fancy. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds. I wonder how much they actually give to the causes they claim to support - probably some number closely approaching zero.
Cash doesn't believe in Liefong, but Cash is about throwing off any of the blame obviously due black Durhamites for voting for Liefong in the first place. It was their group-thin votes that put him over the top. They wanted to see whitey have to suck it up, and some came right out and said they didn't care if the boys were guilty or not - they just wanted to "get even." Cash's theme has been how does Liefong explain to the "black community" that there isn't going to be a prosecution, assuming that time comes.
Excuse me?
Yep. And Durham has nobody but their own bitter selves to thank for it when they become a convenient tool or scapegoat in a serious criminal case. This is what happens when you have one-party rule, be it the Soviet Union or Durham. No oversight, no accountability, no checks and balances.
Excellent!
Fired deputy tied to counterfeiting
By BriAnne Dopart : The Herald-Sun
bdopart@heraldsun.com
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-779588.html
Oct 18, 2006 : 12:09 am ET
DURHAM -- A Durham sheriff's deputy fired after being charged with selling cocaine at his bar was involved in a counterfeit money scheme, according to legal documents that allege hit men, prostitutes, drug dealers and people involved in human trafficking frequented the now-closed establishment.
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Not me. Hat's off to Neon.
Good job! Not my kind of music, but the smirk on Nifong's face at the close is chilling. "Comfortable liar", indeed.
Actually they were generally grody bohos - which they were free to do because it was their own particular version of the American dream.
Were she at Duke, I'm sure Shalala would have been every bit as ardent in defending the Duke 3 as she was in defending the street fighting thugs in Florida. /sarcasm
Great job. Mind if I permalink it to the Mess?
marky
"In the course of a case, the assistant district attorney and district attorney just don't talk to defendants. They just don't." Clark said. "Not in this case, not in any case."
Nifong's admin claiming strongly that DA's don't speak to defendants.
http://www.dukechronicle.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&ustory_id=cb89004b-848b-4c96-bff9-84579bf63003
And that she speaks to Crystal regularly....
To kill the Duke lacrossemockingbirds
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
BY GENE SAPAKOFF [Post & Courier, Charleston]
Harper Lee's classic novel, published in 1960, cut brilliantly deep into the tragedy and heroism of bygone Southern culture. It's hard to believe that, all this time after the release of "To Kill a Mockingbird," an extensively documented case in which members of the Duke University lacrosse team are charged with rape brings similar infamy upon a real Southern town.
To be sure, there are differences.
No one has died. Yet.
This is not small-town Alabama of the last century, but instead the South's most prestigious academic beacon.
In this story, which might endure as long as a favorite tattered paperback, the rich white kids from out-of-town are charged with assaulting a black woman from Durham.
But the likenesses are chilling.
Tom Robinson was the victim of a rush to judgment and, if you believe the extraordinary "60 Minutes" piece that aired Sunday night, so are three Duke lacrosse players. -more- cut-
http://www.charleston.net/assets/webPages/departmental/news/Stories.aspx?section=sports&tableId=113709&pubDate=10/18/2006
* The DA's favorite book?
2 tied to device at anti-Nifong dinner
By Ray Gronberg : The Herald-Sun
Oct 17, 2006 : 11:10 pm ET
DURHAM -- Two men tied to a Brevard firm that markets a controversial alcohol-monitoring device to the state's courts were involved in a recent political dinner called to persuade one of the challengers in Durham's district attorney's race to drop out so another candidate would have a better shot at defeating incumbent Mike Nifong.
The dinner's sponsor, former state attorney general, gubernatorial candidate and N.C. Secretary of State Rufus Edmisten, is a registered lobbyist for Rehabilitation Support Services Inc., the western North Carolina company that's selling the so-called SCRAM ankle bracelet.* -cut-
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-779571.html
* Isn't that what Kim is wearing these days?
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