"I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids,"
Sorry I couldn't resist........ ;)
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.
I must say that I am not surprised in the least that Cash Michaels has come to this conclusion. In the past two weeks, he seems to have opened his mind.
This just in...
http://liestoppers.blogspot.com/
So if Nifong wouldn't lied about all he had Cash would be ok with the lynching?
Note to all the rogue prosecutors out there. If your going to try and railroad someone, it's ok as long as you don't lie to the press.
I am sure the paranoia has already set in, no need to send it. ;)
And likely Nifong would have gotten away with it had it not been for the internet...
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2006
Duke lacrosse: N&O columnist makes false statement, slimes players [Dennis Rogers]
http://johninnorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2006/08/duke-lacrosse-no-columnist-makes-false.html
"I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids,"
Sorry I couldn't resist........ ;)
Ah, the Scooby-Doo ending. Good call.
I'm amazed. Cash isn't fooling around with this. He seems genuinely put out. I think Nifong is going to go down at some point and I hope it's sooner rather than later. When people like Cash and Susan Estrich abandon you it's time to fold up your tent and go home. Now I just want the indictments dismissed.
I want Nifong to do time. Hard time...
100% B.S. Cash only started asking hard questions of Nifong when it became obvious he was losing....
(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.)
And who charged him? Was the only person of import who was being destroyed before a trial, the AV????
The Black community was told that a brutal crime was committed against someone in our community.
Terms like black community, black press, black business, Congressional black caucus, BET, black colleges, black this, black that are the vocabulary of bigots... If the users knew how shallow and small they make themselves in their use, I bet the would cease.
I have no use for anyone who uses race as a qualifier... I feel like I need to bathe after reading his tripe....
Who do you get madder at for lying to you:
1. One of your own, your kids, spouse, etc.
2. Some used car salesman, etc.
If I were a black Durmite, I certainly would object to being used by someone to win the primary. I certainly would not like to find the guy I backed is a win at all cost DA.
Scenerio ...
Nifong, needing the black vote, calls on the African American community to support the AV against the Duke LAX players.
Black vote wins Nifong the primary.
Durham powers that be, looking for case to go away, shop around for an out of court cash settlement; AV, NCCU and yet to be named black interest group to benefit. Pay back to the AA community for black votes for Nifong.
I agree. I think Cash is beginning to realize that he and the black community have been played by Nifong for political reasons. That's what I hope anyway. Hopefully that will make Cash and the black community very angry. They were lied to about this case and like you said, nobody likes to be lied to.
Makes perfect sense.
I, for one, would like to thank you for all the investigative research you have put into this. Had it not been for turning over all those rocks, these Durham insects would still be hidden.
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