[bjc]

Useful post. The author, Robert Zelnick, gets the general point right. Unfortunately he understates and underreports the travesties that accompany this case and the malevolence of Nifong's actions. Interestingly, however, the net result is that the bleeding hearts that are the Guardian's main readership, as represented by the commentators on this piece, essentially prove his point on the racial paradigm by excusing the prosecution of what are in all likelihood innocent young men.

[abb]

From the article...

Under American jurisprudence, a whore has as much right as a virgin to say "no", and a man who rapes her is every bit as guilty as one who rapes the pure of heart and body.

A careful prosecutor, however, chooses his cases with discretion. He does not ruin lives with charges that will die in any courtroom in which they are tried. .He does not rely on discredited witnesses whose stories have changed or gone south. He does not blindly label 42 men "hooligans" and then hide in his office when the evidence starts to stink.

To my knowledge, this is the first time anyone in the Drive-By Media has used the term "whore." Can anyone else recall the term used anywhere?