Posted on 06/16/2006 7:08:01 PM PDT by RecallMoran
....Let me also say a word about the players. These students have lived through an extraordinarily painful situation for the last eight weeks. Whether or not the felony charges are upheld against the three indicted students, the fact is that members of the team engaged in irresponsible and dishonorable behavior on the evening of March 13, and those who were involved bear responsibility for their actions. For all that, few of us have suffered an ordeal like the one that unfolded as intense media interest turned this event into a worldwide news story. Setting aside the legal charges, which must be resolved in court, I am pleased that team members have acknowledged the error of their conduct and have made the commitment to create a new history for themselves and their sport at Duke.
We will take care to assure ourselves that these changes of heart and conduct do in fact happen -- but it’s important that we believe in their possibility. None of us is free from the liability to err: that’s why we need education. To make a mistake, to recognize it as such, and to take responsibility for making a change might be said to be the essence of education. That is the opportunity now available to our team.
We have work to do outside our walls as well. In the face of media accounts that tended to portray the university and the city of Durham, or Duke and North Carolina Central University, as antagonists, I’ve been grateful for all the Durham leaders who have recognized that truth and justice are common values, things we must pursue and uphold together. I said early on that this university will be judged not by the events that happened here but by how we face them and learn from them.
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Alexandria. Tonight we went to a lacrosse party at Fuddruckers. Guess who was there?
I would guess he is a Dim, but as you say Dim or not people who indict people on false claims to win elections need to lose. Cheek should be supported even if Nifong were a Republican, Libertarian, Constitutionalist etc whatever party one likes the best.
I'll guess Dan Evans or his family?
Now that is funny, did he beat up any young kids there?
From what I have read about this guy, and after reading his statement here, I agree, he has to go.
He was actually with young kids in the game room. They were playing some shooting game. I wanted to ask him his position on gun control.
Wasn't Moran the Congressman who push some kid?
Here's what Brodhead did at Yale
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTcyOTVmMTQ2ZGY4NzEzNzA5ZDEzNmQxMzIyMzYwZjE
Thanks LB. I had read that previously, but it is even clearer today. My previous description of him as "pond scum" is way to mild. Simply, he is an evil little man, and in this case I use the term man very, very loosely. Hopefully, the accused players will be able to find a way to OWN him someday. Only then would justice be truly served.
The above paragraph equally applies to Nifong as well.
ping
I accused a small black child (age 8) of car jacking him and pushed him. His now ex-wife summoned the cops because he was beating her up. He went nuts on a priest acting like he was going to hit him, becoming red faced and yelling because the priest asked him how he reconciled his voting record and taking communion. Two of his girlfriends got in a hair pulling match in his front yard. He chased a friend of mine down with his car and screamed at her (she had small children in tow) because she honked at him when he wasn't taking a clear right turn on red. The list goes on and on and on and on.
don't tell me Moran ?
He accused not I accused-whoops.
He's also a wife-beater and has been known to smack around other people's kids in public, and he runs around drunk with floozies.
Needless to say he's a typical Democrat.
Which reminds me, this is a thread about further matters in the Duke case so we probably shouldn't be hijacking it to remind folks of just how smarmy your typical Democrat politicians can be ~ ?
That's okay, muawiyah, there are so.ooo..ooo many scoundrals to talk about that it's easy to wander afar. I must say, Brodhead has the "party line" down perfectly -- so eloquently phrased, so little truth -- all style -- no substance, except this -- it is so pervasive I don't know how we're going to get it under control. We have discussed it, again, this morning before we all left for work that it has gone so far and the M.O. is so uniform. It doesn't seem to be organized, but it's a pervasive culture and it's being taught at every level. I think we have to pull out of the current system, but there's no where to go and it sounds like cutting and running which no child of God wants to do. Voting, seems to be our only defensive weapon, but it isn't much -- given what we have to elect -- they're products of the system we're trying to get rid of.
I also have to say it struck me as a justification of his superior intellect and moral authority, as if to say, "I'm okay. I did nothing wrong". I don't think he really believes it, but he'd like to.
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