Posted on 05/08/2006 1:57:24 PM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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A committee said Monday that Duke University administration was slow in addressing the alleged rape involving members of the lacrosse team.
It said key administrators relied too heavily on initial reports from Durham police that the alleged victim "kept changing her story and was not credible."
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I hope she will either back out of it, or the judge will dismiss it. Or, he could move the case to another jurisdiction within the state.
I feel that is true. He saw a political opportunity and seized it.
For some reason tonight, I am reminded of the old saying that if you lay down with dogs, you wake up with fleas. They dogs, I am talking about are the leftist at Duke.
These kids are too young, but their Moms, their parents arent. Black parent have long known that at times in their lives they would like to protect their kids from people who hate them.
Parents of young white males need to understand while a place like Duke is "top rated" it is also full of people who hate your child for who their are, their sex and skin color. If you send your daughter to such a place it is risky as they might brainwash her, but if you send your son to such a place, they might as in this case try to do great great harm to him, lock him up for a number of years.
The parents of these lacrosse players foolishly sent them off to study where a significant fraction of the academic community hates them and thinks any dirty thing they can do to them, they had coming anyway. So maybe there is a national issue that needed to come out in this case. That issue is should parent of white males risk sending them to an institution like Duke that has hired and tenured in people that hate their child for his sex and skin color?
I hear you.
I haven't heard anyone explain away the injuries and behavior the rape nurse said were consistent with rape. The behavior could be explained away by this woman being a nut, but where did the injuries come from? Could they be self-inflicted?
They could be self-inflicted. She could have had a job before the Duke Party and someone drove her to the Duke House. Was that man her boyfriend, as many beleive?
BUT, the biggest thing is that the SANE nurse may have said the injuries are consistent with rape - AND the injuries could've been blown out of proportion (no one has seen the report). Many, Many lawyers contend that the physical condition of the genital area that SANE nurses ID as consistent with Rape is also consistent with CONSENSUAL Sex.
Also, except for extreme cases (this woman did NOT spend much time in the hospital) - SANE nurses can't differeniate whether the tears were inflicted 3 hours or 30 hours ago.
To me that would be problematic. you would expect some DNA to belong to the other two.
THIS REPORT.. A Civil Rights activist was placed in charge of doing this report, formerly from NCCU, and I can't believe some of the comments/conclusions.
Finding: Broadhead was not made aware of the Race of the victim (racial aspect) and that was a major error.
My comment: I think Duke is saying, and the Media is accepting, that this would NOT have been handled as an URGENT matter is this had been a white woman. By saying they should've been made aware of the race of the victim, they are saying It would've been handled differently.
What a terrible thing that is .. Urgency in handling crimes should be ranked by the Race of the victim or racial aspect of the crime?
Finding: Duke shouldn't had trusted the information from the Durham police.
Comment: What? Police agencies communicate daily. If you don't believe the DPD, who are you going to believe, where are you going to get your information? Does anyone believe less communication would be a benefit?
Finding: Durham Police shouldn't have questioned the woman-
Or shouldn't have doubted the woman.
Comment: This committee Now knows Police work? They are not qualified in any way to judge Police and the judgements they make hundreds of times a day and we never hear about it. Why it it good enough for Police to assess people's stories in all other occasions, but not with this woman?
Finding: I don't know if this was a finding, but in the N&O
Chambers is quoted as saying that the Police should've believed the woman.
Comment: WHY? Every day, many times a time Police use their judgement and discretion. When they arrive and two people are fighting. Each says it was self defense. The Police check the records and one has 4 assaults on his record and a restraining order against him by a unrelated person, you see where I'm going. Police discretion is a practial necessity. Every Police officer can tell you stories of people that have called the police 300 times on a neighbor.
Are these people on the committee aware that ALL people should be afforded the same treatment as this woman, and if that is the case, then you'd need to build many more courthouses, hire many more policemen and expect major delays in Police emergency response times. But I think they are saying certain people should warrant special police treatment - and that is just plain UNAMERICAN!
Last Night on Rita Cosby - one guest asked the other guest, Is there ANYTHING that could come to light, that would make you NOT believe the accuser. The Female guest said, I would have to hear from her mouth that she was not improperly touched, she was not insulted, and.. (she was cut off)
So, there you have it. If her defenders are like this woman, they are NOT interested in Evidence - no matter what it is. The only thing that will change their mind is if the Woman comes out and says 'It NEVER HAPPENED'.
That's NOT going to happen, because they are too many incentives to continue this for her. She's now a symbol in her community and she's getting great support - and she has many future opportunites if she is the woman that the White boys from Duke raped.
The Lancastrates of old salute the new generation. Let us know what is the campus buzz when you get home. Safe travels.
We don't know that she had injuries consistent with rape, only that someone who works as a SANE claims she did. Unfortunately, many who are drawn to such fields invariably let their bias get in the way of their work.
If a woman claims she was raped, the SANE knows the pressure is on her to find evidence consistent with rape - which really doesn't mean a lot, since most sex can result in enough friction to produce "evidence consistent with rape."
There is no evidence to support her claim that she was raped, so it's highly probable that the SANE nurse is wrong, and why not? She's just a person, and they make mistakes or follow their biases.
I heard a woman claim that if she had sex with a guy because he told her he loved her, then later on she heard he was bragging to his friends about having sex with her - THAT was rape.
According to this hormonely challenged person, it's rape unless there is INFORMED CONSENT.
Isn't it amazing that the same people who constantly whine about women's rights always want to treat grown women like they're little children when it comes to making sex decisions? Grown men and women get drunk, have sex, and wake up to regret it. That is not rape, that's life's learning curve.
And yes, the Nifong was able to get elected via his miscarriage of justice. But the play is larger.
I smell Stinkin Dem hands all over this. I'd love to have access to Nifong's phone and email records...
""Alleged victims were, in effect, raped all over again in the courtroom".
So, someone asking her questions on the stand was RAPE! It was JUST LIKE THE ACTUAL ACT.
And so-called "intelligent women" at HARVARD swooned and "vomited in their mouths a little bit" when Lawrence Sommers merely proposed a topic for discussion.
Women feeling "raped" by mere words need serious help, like as in laudenum. These are the hysterics demanding to run institutions built by the productive works of MEN and the women who love them.
She's admitted to doing "about 3 one-on-ones" per week and she'd just fallen down about six steps worth of brick back porch with a wrought iron hand rail...
And since then, I've witnessed the Marxist assaults upon America's institutes of "highest learning" -- to dumb them down.
It's clear to me, the Marxists have found another way to ensure their low-scoring program spot holders will succeed at now "dumbed down" institutes of higher learning.
Princeton, Harvard.. and now the target is Duke.
If that's what the report says, it is wrong. This is not a civil rights activist -- but a RACIALIST rights activist.
There really is a huge difference. Racialists and Sexualists are not civil. Nor are they fair. These are elitists who herald themselves as a God.
There are many women who think just like that woman. And some call this "sisterhood". It's not. The evidence shows the AV is a liar. And this "woman" on TV says she'll believe any lie as long as its told by another woman.
It's the "one drop rule" in reverse.
I wish it were as clear as that; it's not. She can change her mind, 40 years from now and call it rape. If she changes her mind within the DNA-test sample period; regardless of how "informed the consent was" even in writing, she can still charge him with Rape. That's the fact.
In the 90s a number of men found themselves horribly placed in courts? How? The "consenting" female offered to get rid of the used condom but instead placed it in her purse.
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