Posted on 08/11/2006 1:18:59 PM PDT by abb
This just in...
PAC Backs Cheek For Durham DA
http://www.wral.com/news/9678261/detail.html
Direct quote from a Duke student (mine): "Damn Duke! Everything has to be perfect!!" I went to Stanford, and I can't even say that about the Farm....
I am so impressed with the academics at Duke. My student has not had one, NOT ONE TA teach a class. Sure wasn't the case at LSJU. Don't know about UF, just sayin'. From what I have seen, everyone has to bust their buns, academically speaking, to make a go of it at Duke. Certainly, I have no experience with UF - but I must chime in to say Duke's academic standard is impressive.
New trash from Cash...
http://boards.courttv.com/showthread.php?s=706aabb4d17ad96af197074ce5e740ba&threadid=271963
CASH, and the ship I'm on!
javascript:smilie('')Everyone take a deep breath, please!
Yes, this is me. I've always had a membership on this board, and have been asked many times in the past to log on and weigh in, but I just didn't have the time.
I still don't, but for now, here i am.
So that you don't go off believing this stuff about me "jumping ship," let me make you aware of the ship I was always on -
The Black community was told that a brutal crime was committed against someone in our community. The police and District Attorney left no doubt that a crime had been committed. In their public pronouncements and official applications to the court, they cited "evidence" (medical report, etc.) to back up their claims.
Now, today, exactly five months to the day of the alleged crime, the Black Press is asking, "WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE?"
Chief Chalmers still insists that his investigators have done their jobs, and we will see the fruits of that at trial. But based on what the record shows thus far, given a sober, unbiased analysis of press accounts and what is now in the public domain regarding the 1800 pages of discovery evidence (we were not offered, nor did we ever have access to those documents), it is clear that the African-American community, and certainly everyone who supported the alleged victim early on, based on the assurances of law enforcement and D.A. Nifong, is deserving of a full explanation of these discrepancies, a few of which are outlined in my story (which was actually finished and distributed nationally a week ago BEFORE I got on the abc11tv forum).
Though I did share Chief Chalmers remarks on the TVD site, since he made them in answer to a question I submitted for the TV show i appear on, i could not talk about my story until the Journal posted it, and I had no idea when that would happen given that folks were out on vacation, plus I'm learning now, some computer problems they ran into.
So why the so-called "shift?" Because it isn't a shift. It is a DEMAND of the criminal justice process to be immediately accountable as to what is going on, and where is the evidence of a crime you insist you have.
As a reporter on this case, that has been my charge since the beginning - to monitor the process, and make sure that it is working. And if it isn't, ask tough questions why.
(My other charge has been to expose those who sought to destroy the alleged victim long before a trial, or conclusive judge's ruling, was had.)
That's what my story does, in the context of Chief Chalmers' most recent answer.
The Black community is not blind, or blinded. We want the truth too. But instead of distilling this case in bits and pieces, which is what the media in general have done (to their detriment), we look at it in context and much more deliberately, so that when we do publish a story like this one, EVERYONE knows we're about business.
Let me put this even more bluntly - if the state can't prove its case, which is what it promised (overpromised really), then it needs to be dismissed, because no one likes to be lied to.
Especially a community to whom fairness and justice in the criminal justice system has been few and far between.
Right now, I'm not planning to write anything this week (actually i might go after my friend Juan Williams and his new book), but next week, everybody's scheduled to be back in court.
As I write this message, the producers for Imhotep Gary Byrd's radio program on WLIB-AM in New York just booked me for an interview at 12:15 tonight - thanks to the story being published in the Amsterdam News there, so those who can listen in, are invited to.
So nothing's changed here. We just want answers.
Sincerely,
Cash Michaels
The Carolinian/Wilmington Journal newspapers
(rez and Harley's best friend - yeah right!)
This Cash Michaels thing is significant. They're throwing Nifong under the bus...
The author concludes the article with a statement that because the case is so poor, there may never be a trial and the "African-American community" will want to know why. Well, DUH! The statement itself explains WHY - the case is poor. It also assumes that blacks are so full of racial hatred of whites that, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that Mangum is a liar, Nodong is pandering to the black vote, and that Mangum and Nodong are both whores in their own ways, that the "African-American community" (gawd how I hate that stupid term) still wants these boys convicted evidences irrational racial hatred of whites by blacks. The statement basically amounts to a complete admission of this.
It's kind of funny that a no-account white dude like Nodong led them down a path where they now look like complete racist fools for continuing to back Mangum just because she's black and because Nodong managed to rope three innocent white guys into the defendant's chair in order to get their vote.
They got what they paid for.
I agree this article is very significant. I wonder how much steam will be left in this case after Monday?
I agree.
To bad he doesn't come over here to FR so we can have a discussion with him. I think that could be very interesting.
http://www.nbc17.com/news/9674350/detail.html
And Elmostafa's (cab driver) court date is for tomorrow.
Pinging the DukeLax List. Cash Michaels deserts Nifong...
So... The thieves fall out among themselves. Poetic justice...
"I wonder how much steam will be left in this case after Monday?"
Nifong will never dismiss this case. He is now DA Queeg and only a forum beyond his control - another court or the ballot box - can shut him down. He is a demented person elected largely by black Durhamites out of their racial hatred toward whites.
One can only hope that enough blacks speak publicly against what is happening such that it paves the way for the cowardly NC judicial establishment to dump the case without fear of backlash from blacks either in the form of riots or at the ballot box when s/he/they comes up for re-election.
Sure, and Nodong deserves it, but they're also trying to absolve the appearance of their racial hatred which bared its ugly teeth during the first couple months of this case and continued even as emerging evidence ruptured the underpinnings of their "Get whitey" bandwagon.
I will not forget, "They may not be guilty and it may not be fair, but it'll be even."
Hehehehe. Exactly. Now Nifong's paranoia will kick in full bore and he'll have to get even with Cash & Co.
Reckon we should email this article to Nifong? Or do you think he's read it already?
Why on earth does Elmostafa have a court date?
Who is the judge going to be?
Is it Stephens, or Titus,
or Bushfan?
This is just another outrage, and I hope Elmostafa sues the city for everything they're worth.
Indeed, although I think Aesop's famous line was from a parable more in line with 'what goes around comes around', if I recall correctly (and I may not, lol!).
I wish I could remember some of my Shakespeare. Nobody could write lines about the treachery of temporary bedfellows better than he. :>
The music's about to stop and folks are looking around for chairs...
I think he's read it but if asked, he would of course deny it. I think that, like Queeg, Nodong follows every bit of minutiae on this case and takes great offense (and revenge, when possible) against anybody he views as opposing his authority and position.
Perfect analogy. :>
IIRC, Mostafa was getting help through Reade Seligman's family. I hope that suffices. What happens to Mostafa may turn out to be a bellwether.
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