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Recall Nifong - Vote Cheek (DukeLax Developments)
RecallNifong.com ^ | August 10, 2006 | Staff

Posted on 08/11/2006 1:18:59 PM PDT by abb

Thursday, August 10, 2006 Dear Friends and Neighbors,

The Committee to Recall Nifong - Vote Cheek was formed on August 9, 2006 as a political action committee to campaign for Lewis Cheek in the upcoming election for District Attorney. While Mr. Cheek has declined to campaign for this office, and has stated that he will not accept the position if elected, we believe that this election, and the referendum on Mr. Nifong that it has become, is not about politics but rather about Durham and what Durham stands for.

The Committee to Recall Nifong - Vote Cheek (RNVC) is not comprised of politicians in any way, shape or form. The people who have organized and will direct this campaign over the next few months have no personal political ambitions and no affiliation with any of the parties involved in the drama that has shed such a bad light on the community of Durham. RNVC is not a movement born of political ambition, nor is it only about the Duke drama. RNVC does not campaign on its own behalf, nor on behalf of any person with ambitions to be the District Attorney of Durham County. RNVC will campaign on behalf of the entire Durham community, save one.

Our movement was born in Durham homes by Durham citizens and for the Durham community. This Durham community, to which the participants in RNVC proudly belong, has become the target of nationwide ridicule and scorn. Durham County has been manipulated, deceived and divided by inflammatory, ambition-serving words uttered by the man entrusted to protect it. RNVC believes that the role of the District Attorney should be that of a protector, and not that of a divider. RNVC believes that the community deserves a District Attorney that inspires trust and not fear. It is the fear of Mr. Nifong and distrust of his words, motives and competency for office that has inspired this movement.

If one of our daughters were the victim of a violent crime, we do not want the person pursuing justice on her behalf to be one who compromises the pursuit of justice either by serving his own self interests, or by his own failure and unwillingness to follow procedure. If one of our sons were to be accused falsely, we do not want a District Attorney who would see those false accusations as an opportunity to defeat a bitter rival in a primary election. We believe that our justice system must not be compromised by misdeed or willful mistakes.

We believe that our district attorney must be one who allows a thorough investigation to precede his public proclamation of guilt or innocence. We believe that indictments should be brought based on evidence at hand, and not evidence hoped for. We believe our District Attorney must value procedure, due process, the rulings of our state’s Supreme Court and the constitution this nation was built on. We believe that our District Attorney must not be allowed to interject himself into a Police investigation in such away that he instructs them to disregard the recommendations of the North Carolina Actual Innocence Commission, as approved by the NC Supreme Court. We believe that our District Attorney must not be a man who manipulates our law enforcement investigators into violating the Department’s own written policies simply to secure indictment before election.

We have heard Mr. Nifong ask Durham to consider the entirety of his career in the District Attorney’s office. We fail to see the relevancy of his performance in lesser roles within the office as an indicator of how he will perform when holding the power of the Office of District Attorney. We ask all of Durham to instead inspect his actions, his words and his motives while he has briefly served as District Attorney. We believe it is far more relevant to this referendum to inspect his conduct, questionable ethics and lack of performance in the short time that he has held the extensive powers and responsibilities of District Attorney.

Of all that we believe in, and of all that we ask of our community, with regard to this referendum on Mr. Nifong, what we hold most dearly is the notion that we all must speak. We believe this election is what the Durham that we love is about and, as such, requires a true and full measure of consideration by each of its citizens. We ask that Durham show, not only to Mr. Nifong, but also to Governor Easley and to the nation that watches, that Durham cares, that Durham has pride and, most importantly, that Durham has a voice.

We ask that you add your voice to ours.


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To: I want to know

Ok, delete history on the computer....explain to me who Shanon is?


101 posted on 08/13/2006 10:51:38 AM PDT by old and cranky (You! Out Of The Gene Pool - Now!)
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To: I want to know

She's into porn. After looking st those posts, no question about it. My God. I am no prude either when I see how "normal" this is for many, I am speechless.

Funny that Jazz is gone and his picture is gone. They must have FReep Monitors, LOL!


102 posted on 08/13/2006 11:09:03 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: old and cranky
Shannon is Kim Roberts (the second dancer) sister-in-law. She is married to Kim's older brother Cliff. Just adds some insight into Kim's bio, especially when you read Shannon's myspace page - Kim isn't as innocent and naive as she portrayed herself to be.

FReepers have found various connections to Kim and Crystal via some myspace pages and other sites which are of a questionable nature.

103 posted on 08/13/2006 11:32:09 AM PDT by I want to know
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To: Locomotive Breath
... but only goes to show that Duke is serious about graduating athletes across the board.

It is not up to Duke to graduate ANY of its students. It is up to its students TO DO WHAT IS REQUIRED to graduate IF THEY SO WISH.

If someone comes to a major university to play sports, to work on their creative writing, to work on their acting skills, to work with a particular artist ect, and does not chose to graduate that is their business. It is not Duke nor ANY college's job to graduate any particular student or class of students.

This do you graduate your "players" is leftist bilge. It runs against individual responsibility. Its most likely result will be to corrupt the academic side of universities as coaches, boosters or players pressure profs to give away graded or adminstrators to change recorded grades without the profs knowledge.
104 posted on 08/13/2006 11:56:05 AM PDT by JLS
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To: JLS

It's Duke's choice who they admit. Would you be in agreement if I rephrased to say that Duke admits, as athletes, only students who take their classwork seriously, are capable of doing the classwork, and are required to complete classwork at the same level as non-athlete students? If Duke and its coaches didn't take seriously the academic success of its student athletes then it would not matter what the student athletes did. There's a reason some schools are known as "football factories".


105 posted on 08/13/2006 12:23:20 PM PDT by Locomotive Breath (In the shuffling madness)
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To: Locomotive Breath
It's Duke's choice who they admit.

Actually the NCAA set the lower limit below which Duke nor anyone else can admit a student on athletic scholarship. So Duke can admit whomever they wish. But only people admitted who meet NCAA minimums can be on an athletic scholarship. [There are partial qualifiers but I do not want to get into too much detail.]

Would you be in agreement if I rephrased to say that Duke admits, as athletes, only students who take their classwork seriously, are capable of doing the classwork, and are required to complete classwork at the same level as non-athlete students?

Nope. Duke admits some maybe many student athletes, heck it could even be most athletes who are interested in getting a degree. But the better the University, and I will admit Duke is decent, the further behind the athlete is. Athletes who qualify by NCAA standard may in fact be among the upper half of all admitted at NCCU. Duke has to look for high level athlete who are maybe better students than the average high level athlete, but the average Duke athlete maybe still be further from the average student than say the average NCSU or UNC athlete.

For example the average NCCU student may have an 800 SAT while the average NCCU athlete might have the minimum 840 on the SAT making the athlete better than the average NCCU student. The average NCSU student might have a 1200 SAT while the average NCSU athlete might have a 900 SAT making them a good bit behind the average student. The average Duke student might have a 1350 SAT while the average Duke athlete [or money sport athlete] might hve a 950 SAT making them the cream of the crop of athletes but further behind the student body that the athlete at either NCCU or NCSU.

If Duke and its coaches didn't take seriously the academic success of its student athletes then it would not matter what the student athletes did. There's a reason some schools are known as "football factories".

And there are reasons some schools are known as basketball factories. You don't compete for a national championship in basketball without stressing basketball ability first in recruiting.

I am a second generation University of Florida graduate. UF is known for many sports. UF may be harder for an athlete to get into than Duke. UF certainly has standards higher than the NCAA minimum as does UND. [UF just had a basketball signee go to Memphis instead because UF did not admit him despite him meeting the NCAA qualifying minimum.] But UF is very hard for undergrads to get into these day, someplace in the UNC range, harder than NCSU but probably not quite Duke admission. Which just goes to show you that "football factory" reputations are not necessarily based in reality.

BTW, much of this is moot for anything but revenue sports. So it may not be as germane for lacrosse as for football and basketball.
106 posted on 08/13/2006 7:19:41 PM PDT by JLS
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To: Jezebelle
That is weird.

I just pulled up his myspace again and clicked pics and she is still there.

107 posted on 08/13/2006 8:40:59 PM PDT by Repub4bush (Congratulations Tony!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

I was just on Shannon's page, and do not recall seeing on her favorite Tv shows the other day that court tv is listing and with a "wink" beside it...hmmmmm


108 posted on 08/13/2006 8:53:38 PM PDT by Repub4bush (Congratulations Tony!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: abb

Raising the NAACP'S voice, Anne Blythe, Staff Writer
N&O, Aug 13, 2006. -excerpts-

The Rev. William J. Barber II has a colossal physical presence. People take notice when the 42-year-old preacher lumbers into a room, hunched over his walking stick, a righteousness weighing on his enormous shoulders. Now, midway through his first year as president of the state NAACP chapter, Barber is gaining a reputation for having a mighty big voice, too. --cut--

Irv Joyner, a law professor at N.C. Central University, remembers seeing Barber following in his father's footsteps, noting even then signs of a budding leader.

"I admired his understanding of the issues we were discussing," Joyner said. "He has charisma. He's an organizer. I really see him becoming more visible on the national scene."

Barber was not always certain the ministry was his life ambition.

"For me, high school was a combination of trying to navigate through the reality of being a preacher's child and sometimes being a little rebellious about that, and sometimes struggling with the notion that to be academically excellent was to be non-black," Barber said.

But he got over that as he headed from Plymouth to N.C.Central University in 1981.

At NCCU, Barber started out studying political science and public administration, with an eye toward law school. But by his junior year, he had preached his first sermon and was hooked.

Barber did graduate work at Duke Divinity School. His dissertation was on churches, theology and community development -- a sign of the life he would build for himself.

After his first pastoral job in Martinsville, Va., Barber did a brief stint as campus minister at NCCU before moving to Goldsboro and Greenleaf. -cut--

DURING HIS PRESIDENCY: He located NAACP offices to Durham, departing from the tradition of keeping them in the town where the chapter president lives.

** Recently sighted in Raleigh, hunching over the Governor.

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/470477.html


109 posted on 08/13/2006 9:51:59 PM PDT by xoxoxox
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To: All

I have to wonder if the "results" of the Durham PD internal investigation on the Blinco's Cook beating (alleged) aren't coming out in the next 7 days.

Barry Saunders did a piece this past week defending Police in general and going on about how hard of a job they have. The piece was very UNlike Saunders. The article doesn't fit with his past diatribes.

The Durham Herald today had a prominent story by BriAnne Dopart on Durham Police officers taking underprivileged Durham kids camping. BriAnne Dopart did some of the sympathetic (sympathetic to AV) reporting early on in the duke case. She also did a couple stories on what the family thinks and what they've gone through, etc.

I think these articles may be preemptive and ammo for those that say that will invariably defend the DPD when the "results" are released.

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110 posted on 08/13/2006 11:52:33 PM PDT by Mike Nifong (Somebody Stop Me !)
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To: Mike Nifong

Another DPD Puff Piece this morning...

http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-760938.html
Durham police officers give kids from pubic housing trip with father figures

By BriAnne Dopart : The Herald-Sun
bdopart@heraldsun.com
Aug 13, 2006 : 11:58 pm ET

DURHAM -- Rashad Higgs won't forget the first time he went camping.

Perched on the roof of an out-of-commission National Guard tank, taking in a night sky sparked with thousands of stars, Higgs, 13, and friends Algie Burch, 13, and Adrian Perry, 12, were far from the Durham housing projects they call home.

Seven of the eight boys Durham police officers took camping this weekend at Camp Butner in Granville County don't have father figures in their lives.

In fact, most of them don't have any male authority figures to look up to or to go to when they have a problem, according to Durham police officer Ben Parrish.

"Streetlight to Starlight," a program started years ago by former Durham Public Housing officer Steve Hall and restarted this summer by Parrish and housing officers Jerry Elliot, Nate Thorpe and Shawn Bromell, is intended to provide the boys with just that.

The National Guard allowed Parrish, also a National Guard sergeant, access to camping space, as well as tents and bathroom facilities. Durham Parks and Recreation donated some dining equipment and neon-colored T-shirts for the kids. Additional expenses are covered by the officers, who don't hesitate to pay out of pocket for what they feel the kids need.

Parrish said officers also paid for the propane grill on which they cooked the boys' meals.

"These kids have tried us all weekend," Parrish said proudly while arranging dinner for the eight sweaty campers Saturday night. "Rough-housing, wrestling, stuff like that. The thing is, a lot of the males in their lives are like grandfathers or an uncle, but for the most part, they don't have anyone."

A father himself, Parrish said he recognized the need for father figures in the lives of many of the children he saw on a day-to-day basis patrolling public housing communities like McDougald Terrace.

"My personal perception was, they were reluctant to speak to us at first," Parrish said. "But since we've gotten this off the ground, we've seen more kids in the park, more kids just coming up to officers in general just to see if it's one of us."

The camping trips, three of which the officers have held for different groups of children this summer, are the main event of a program the unit would like to continue year-round, Parrish said.

In the spring months officers take the kids to dinner and a movie. The officers hope to arrange more events for the kids this fall.

During the camping trip, which lasted from Friday night until Sunday morning, Parrish said he and the other officers tried to emphasize discipline as well as basic social skills.

As the boys got ready for a dinner of grilled hamburgers, hot dogs and Gatorade Saturday night, Parrish and Elliot could be heard coaching them on basic etiquette.

"What they're exposed to [in public housing] is so negative," Elliot said. "Every other word they hear is the f-word. They're calling each other n-word this and n-word that."

Elliot, who first joined the housing unit in 1995, when he said there were no programs offered by the police department for needy kids, said he was skeptical about the needs of children in housing projects until he began working in one himself.

"When I came I saw what they went through and I just got a soft spot -- I'd do anything for these kids now," Elliot said.

Not a fan of rap music, Elliot brags that he now has some of the boys listening to Elvis.

"I want to take 'em to a NASCAR race next year," he grinned.


111 posted on 08/14/2006 1:47:33 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: abb

They're gearing up with all these PRO-DPD stories. Preemptive Damage control.

Thanks abb


112 posted on 08/14/2006 2:09:28 AM PDT by Mike Nifong (Somebody Stop Me !)
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To: All

This slipped by me. I read it, but didn't make the connections.

The DPD/Durham DA asserted that the players were using false names. Joe Neff adroitly laid out how this assertion of false names allowed them to get the highly unusual order for pictures and DNA of all the white members of the team (46).
Neff also pointed out how Police notes aren't consistent with them using false names or claiming they were another sports team. Neff also reported that Kim Roberts checked at least one player's Driver License when she collected the money.

But, this slipped by me, the DPD placed Adam, Bret, and two Matts (in 4 different groups of photos). They placed a player named Adam in Set 1 - a player named Bret in the second group, etc. All the earlier lineups were based on this premise. Why were the Police/DA proceeding in this manner IF they believed the players used false names? It makes absolutely no sense.

In fact, only after the AV was presented with multiple of these type lineups were Matt(s), Bret, and Adam were hidden among others inserted for control purposes - and did NOT identify ANYONE did Nifong change direction and use the false name theory.

"She did not identify any assailants. She did not recognize any of the players named Adam, Matt or Brett.
Two days later, the district attorney's office asked a judge to order all 46 white players to sit for mug shots (for current hair styles and complexion), upper torso photographs (for evidence of scratches from the accuser) and mouth swabbings (for DNA testing). "
http://www.newsobserver.com/141/story/468272.html


I know Neff tied together that false name theory (contradicting Police notes) and getting approval for the Large Dragnet DNA samples and pictures - but how does the DPD/DA explain organizing and executing the early lineups around players named Matt(2), Bret, and Adam?

From the N&O:
"That evening, two officers -- Michelle Soucie and Richard Clayton -- showed the accuser photos of lacrosse players taken from the goduke.com Web site, according to notes taken by both officers.

The police had organized 24 photos into four sets of six photos each. The sets were labeled A, B, C and D. The police had put one named suspect in each group: Matt in A, Adam in B, Bret in C and a second Matt in D.

After each photo, the police asked: Is this the person who sexually assaulted you?

She did not identify any assailants. She did not recognize any of the players named Adam, Matt or Brett."
http://www.newsobserver.com/141/story/468272.html


113 posted on 08/14/2006 2:27:08 AM PDT by Mike Nifong (Somebody Stop Me !)
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To: JLS
Duke's minimums are way way above the NCAA minimums and always have been and have always had to be. To do anything less would result in a 0% graduation rate. For example, if Pressler had been a screw-your-studies-you're-here-to-play-ball kind of coach there's no way the lax players would have 100% graduation.

UF may be harder for an athlete to get into than Duke.
But UF is very hard for undergrads to get into these day, someplace in the UNC range, harder than NCSU but probably not quite Duke admission.


The fact that you could even make this comparison says you don't know what you're talking about. There are a ton of players that go to large state schools that Duke cannot even begin to consider for the simple reason that there are no crip majors in which to hide the jocks.
114 posted on 08/14/2006 3:40:43 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath (In the shuffling madness)
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To: Mike Nifong

That's a really good point. On the one hand the cops are saying the guys used false names but on the other they made sure to show her lineups that included Bret, Adam and the two Matts - one in each group. So which is it - Bret, Adam and Matt are the suspects or those were false names used by the actual "rapists"? They seem to be trying to have it both ways.

Good thinking, Mike.


115 posted on 08/14/2006 3:49:27 AM PDT by SarahUSC
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To: Mike Nifong
on Durham Police officers taking underprivileged Durham kids camping. Anybody have an article on how the lacrosse team used to coach underprivileged Durham kids on weekends, and even provided the equipment for them?
116 posted on 08/14/2006 5:18:09 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: xoxoxox

"Raising the NAACP'S voice"

Well, the last time I checked the NAACP's North Carolina site, it was still prominently featuring a link to a defense of the AV and her false accusations.

"When religion is used to divide and destroy, that is not what Christ wanted," Barber said in measured words. "Prophetic religion says there's something beyond personal piety. There's something called public morality."

Imagine : a church meeting in which the Aryan nations and the White Power movement share the rostrum with the ACLU and the Democratic and Republican state chairmen, and the keynote address is given by a neo-Nazi leader. Imagine that all present shout, dance, and sing, and hold hands and call one another "brother" and "sister", based upon the random accident of their skin coloration.

Imagine: a district attorney goes beserk and violates every ethic of his profession to railroad three innocent black students on a charge of rape; he continues his persecution with fanatical devotion,
even after DNA results provide proof in the most absolute sense of their innocence. The white community continues to support him and demands only white jurors for the trial; the Klan marches through the town threatening the defendants' lives; the Klan leader holds a private meeting with the DA
(the details of which are not revealed to the public); white student leaders demand the defendants be convicted anyway "because of what has gone on before", and the need to "send a message"; and the ministerial council of white churches offer their pulpits to the Klan leader and other white cult leaders (some of whom call openly for the complete extermination of blacks).

Impossible?

But try reversing those colors, and then see where the NAACP has been and what it has done.

"Barber incites people with his rousing appeals for action, often reciting Scripture or invoking the words of Martin Luther King Jr., the old family favorite."

What words, these?

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"A right delayed is a right denied."

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
.
"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."

"The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice."

"The time is always right to do what is right."

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."





117 posted on 08/14/2006 5:23:16 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: CondorFlight

Apparently the Recall Nifong campaign now has a PAC
to which others can contribute funds :


www.recallnifong.com.


118 posted on 08/14/2006 5:42:56 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: CondorFlight

http://recallnifong.blogspot.com/


119 posted on 08/14/2006 6:28:17 AM PDT by GAgal
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To: GAgal

Mr.Vaden of the N & O has responded to an email of mine,
stating that
"you'll see that the paper uncovered most of the information that has come
out about Nifong's case and his performance."

Uncovered?

My mind is still a bit catatonic from shock; so can anyone suggest any examples to help me refresh Mr. Vaden's memory?
(You'll probably have to think long and hard. . . )

Thanks.


120 posted on 08/14/2006 7:09:01 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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