[abb]

This brings up an issue that I'm very interested in. Who lit the fuse?

I didn't get interested and active on the DukeLax threads until about the time the DNA results came back negative, which was early in April.

Researching the earlier threads, it seems Howlin was just about the first person to call bullshit and say this was all a hoax. But that was after all the potbangers cranked up, on or about March 24.

Now from March 14 until the thing blew up on the national stage, someone or something precipitated the uproar and gave Nifong an election issue.

Now John in Carolina gives credit to a NandO news story on or about March 23, IIRC. He says they are to blame for pouring the gasoline. But who prompted them? Who convinced them to put up the vigilante poster? Was it the AA/CourtHouse Crowd/Lawyer axis that smelled money?

What say y'all?

[JLS]

I say the fuse was lit by the pot-banger too. This was a move by a PC bunch of Duke faculty and they are being rewarded by Duke moving in the direction they wanted.

The N&O did carry a little water for them. The pot-bangers lit the fuse. Of course like you I started following this far after the pop-bangers had played their role and retired to the sidelines.

[maggief]

Gottlieb posted a reported rape on the Trinity Park listserv on 3/17, IIRC, which stirred some of these folks into action.

TRINITY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION

Alice Bumgarner (presiding), Jen Minelli, Lee Ann Tilley, Bonny Moellenbrock, Lee Coggins, John Dagenhart, John Kirk, Lance Kimbrough, Emily Herbert, and Pattie LeSueur.
Dale Gaddis, Damian Makarushka and Stacy Murphy.

http://trinitypark.org/wp/index.php

[Locomotive Breath]

Now John in Carolina gives credit to a NandO news story on or about March 23, IIRC. He says they are to blame for pouring the gasoline. But who prompted them? Who convinced them to put up the vigilante poster? Was it the AA/CourtHouse Crowd/Lawyer axis that smelled money?

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See one of my posts last week or go look up the N&O on wiki. At one time the N&O was a racist organ of the NC Democratic party. They are still race obsessed but in the opposite direction, I guess, in order to atone for their past sins. They needed no prompting from anyone to jump all over this. They are horribly conflicted right now because they would love to jump all over the racist Durham cops but if they did so it would help the rich white Duke lax players.