Posted on 11/08/2006 2:41:16 PM PST by CondorFlight
Now that the election is over and this can't be considered just an election ploy :
Rumors are said to have been circulating in Durham to the effect that Nifong might consider (legally) going after a couple of bloggers; that if he deals with a couple of them the rest will be intimidated and fade away.
This is just a heads up; so that if anything untoward happens, everyone will know about it in advance and be able to make the connection. The rumors are well-sourced.
"Rifts are rarely created," said sociology professor Andrew Perrin. "They're just exposed."
Oh my, how deadly accurate this is in this case. The rifts include Brodhead, the gang of 88, and the reality disconnected race mongers in the Durham community who want the white boys convicted regardless of the evidence. Yes, this case did indeed bring out some rifts.
"I believe the right person won," attorney Kerry Sutton said of the local campaign. "While I disagree with Mike's handling of the lacrosse case, he had a right to take the stance he did, and he is doing his job. If I ever mess up a case myself, I hope people won't judge my entire career based on that case alone."
And I believe Kerry sucks, well, this Kerry and the other Kerry too! Hey Kerry Sutton, do you have a "Come get some" page on myspace too?
Maybe Cheshire is not too worried about Nifong being DA for the next 4 years....as in, Nifong won't be DA.
I've seen this referred to as "crab theory". In a given bucket of crabs, one crab may try to climb out but you can count on the other crabs pulling him back down. I wish I knew where this analogy originated. Any ideas?
I really like Cheshire's precision in the use of language.
Started by the 1st crab that tried to climb out of the trap, no doubt. ;>)
Someone once told me they saw this in a movie 30 years ago but couldn't remember which one.
"Someone once told me they saw this in a movie 30 years ago but couldn't remember which one."
Macon County Line
In Macon County Line, producer Baer doubles as star, playing the redneck sheriff of a mangy little Southern town. Baer's wife Joan Blackman has been murdered, and the sheriff decides that the killing was the work of two strangers, Alan and Jesse Vint. This is excuse enough for a film-length game of cat and mouse between sheriff and suspects. When deputy Sam Gilman learns the identity of the real murderers, things have gone too far to accommodate a happy ending.
Return to Macon County
In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job and hops in their car--and turns out to be more trouble than they thought--drag-race a gang of town punks who lose to to them and then accuse them of cheating, and come up against a local cop who is obsessed with putting these two "juvenile delinquents" in jail.
"Well, I’ve caught thousands of crabs in my lifetime and I swear to you that’s 100% true. Crabs in a bucket will grab onto each other with their claws and they will hang on and not let go. They will continually keep pulling each other back down into the bucket and will not allow each other to escape."
"The Crabs of this world have a deeply ingrained welfare mentality; they’re spiteful and envious…petty little people with petty little meaningless agendas."
You all who are wearing the Duke wrist bands, like I am, be aware that somebody else has co-opted the idea and people may not realize what we're supporting.
https://www.kintera.org/site/c.hkIUL9MVJxE/b.1233001/k.97A9/Online_Donations/apps/ka/sd/donor.asp?c=hkIUL9MVJxE&b=1233001&en=idKGJFPoG8LDITPlH2LGJONsHnLMLNPkHbJLIOMnE6IJL4J
I officially switched over to the ones with the white print today..........LOL.
Willie Stark, 1933 :
"Now, shut up! Shut up, all of you! Now listen to me, you hicks. Yeah, you're hicks too, and they fooled you a thousand times like they fooled me. But this time, I'm going to fool somebody. I'm going to stay in this race. I'm on my own and I'm out for blood."
(after surviving impeachment)
"They tried to ruin me, but they are ruined. They tried to ruin me because they didn't like what I have done. Do you like what I've done?"
"Jack, there's something on everybody. Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption. He passes from the stink of the dydie to the stench of the shroud. There's ALWAYS something."
"I'm going to run. You can't stop me. I'm going to run even if I don't get a single vote!"
"Here it is, you hicks! Nail up anybody who stands in your way! Nail up Joe Harrison! Nail up McMurphy! And if they don't deliver, give me the hammer, and I'll do it myself!
You wanna know what my platform is? Here it is. I'm gonna soak the fat boys and spread it out thin."
Sadie Burke (about Willie Stark)
"He'll ditch everybody in the whole world, because that's what Willie wants. Nobody in the world but him!"
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/11/13/Opinion/Prosecutor__step_down.shtml
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/11/13/news_pf/Opinion/Prosecutor__step_down.shtml
tampabay.com
Prosecutor, step down
A Times Editorial
Published November 13, 2006
In the case involving gang-rape allegations against three members of the Duke University lacrosse team, the central characters couldn't have been better scripted for social combustibility. On the one side was the accuser, an African-American single mother who stripped for money while trying to earn a degree at a predominantly black university. On the other were the accused, three white athletes from privileged families who attended a prestigious school and played for a team with a reputation for big-men-on-campus attitudes.
So it is not surprising that the rape charges emerging from a team party in March that included underage drinking and strippers performing became a national cause and have riven the Durham, N.C., community along racial, gender and class lines. The surprise has come from the irresponsibility of the district attorney. Michael Nifong first tried the case in the media, fanning the flames of social discord, and has refused to reconsider the case as evidence emerged that strongly pointed to the innocence of the accused. Nifong has behaved irresponsibly and significantly compromised this case. He should hand it off to an impartial prosecutor.
From every vantage it appears that Nifong grandstanded this tragic case as a way to build voter support in Durham's African-American community. When Nifong told a local television station that the lacrosse players were "a bunch of hooligans" whose "daddies could buy them expensive lawyers" when they got into trouble, he was pandering to a set of well-established prejudices that local Durham residents have about Duke University athletes. Nifong won a full term in office in Tuesday's election.
The CBS News show 60 Minutes recently did a thorough review of the evidence available and found that there is little to corroborate the accuser's story. The DNA of the three accused men failed to match that found on the accuser's body. One of the accused, Reede Seligmann, has cell phone records that show he made nine phone calls when the crime was alleged to have been committed. He was also photographed by a bank security camera at an ATM machine about that time. The other exotic dancer at the party that evening says that she didn't see an attack and was with the alleged victim nearly the entire time. The accuser has apparently changed her story a number of times and reportedly went back to performing even while going to hospitals to say she was racked by pain from the attack.
The lives of the three young men accused, Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans, are on hold until their trial next spring. Yet Nifong, the man who has upended their lives, seems increasingly uninterested in the facts of the case. He recently said that he has not ever talked with the alleged victim, and he has refused to consider the alibi evidence from one of the accused.
Nifong has a prosecutor's obligation to be open to new evidence that might challenge original conclusions. His primary goal should be to seek justice, not keep his job by fanning public outrage and playing on racial and class bias. Only an outside, independent prosecutor can bring some sense of fairness to a prosecution that has been terribly mishandled from the beginning.
Thank you both. Gawd I love the internet.
You almost gave me a heart attack. I thought this was a NY TIMES editorial. My world was about to be turned upside down. Then I realize it is the St. Pete Times. I should have looked at the URL. I guess we will have to wait a bit longer for the NYT and HS to see the light.
[snip]
It takes a corrupt village to charge, try, and then burn witches. A voracious 24-7 international news cycle will take delightful notice of the circus trial in Durham village. Durham's corrupted system of law and order will now put on a show in the big top.
Durhamites, put your pancake makeup, practice your stupid human tricks, light your witch burning torches, and send out a casting call for all the local racists. Get ready, the world is coming to Durham.
http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2006/11/group-of-88s-three-d-response.html
Event told of accuser in lacrosse rape case
Former strip club manager says woman had a blackout
Benjamin Niolet and Joseph Neff, Staff Writers, N&O, Nov 14, 2006 02:53 AM
DURHAM - Days before a woman said Duke University lacrosse players raped and beat her, she was passed out cold at a Hillsborough strip club and had to be carried to the parking lot, according to the club's former manager.
In that gravel parking lot on the night of March 11, the four people carrying the woman accidentally dropped her, said Yolanda Haynes, the club's former manager.
Haynes' account of that night at the club offers a possible explanation for the scratches doctors would later note on the accuser's body. The story adds potential ammunition for the lacrosse players' lawyers who say the allegations of rape are lies. The account also describes behavior, including incoherence and unconsciousness, that is consistent with how the woman was acting the night of the lacrosse party.
Based on the woman's account to police, District Attorney Mike Nifong had three players indicted, accusing them of rape, kidnapping and a sexual offense. The players, Dave Evans, 23, of Bethesda, Md.; Collin Finnerty, 20, of Garden City, N.Y.; and Reade Seligmann, 20, of Essex Fells, N.J., say that no rape or assault occurred at the party. Nifong has not discussed the facts of the case for months.
Haynes, 34, has not spoken to authorities and said she has no reason to, because she wasn't at the March 13 party and doesn't know what happened there. In an interview Monday, she described the accuser as a club employee whose problems with other dancers and customers sometimes made it hard for her to make money.
The News & Observer generally does not identify the complainants in sexual assault cases. The accuser could not be reached.
On March 11, Haynes said, a couple came into the club and the accuser, who danced under the name "Precious," started pulling the female customer's hair. Someone complained, and Haynes said she told the accuser to go to the bathroom. When Haynes followed, she found the accuser naked and passed out cold, she said. Someone called the woman's boyfriend, and it took four people to get her outside to the car. The accuser had vomited, but Haynes said she did not smell alcohol.
Haynes said she often worked the bar at the club and never saw the accuser drink.
The woman and another dancer were hired to perform for the party which began March 13 and broke up shortly after midnight. After the party, a Durham police officer noted that the accuser appeared to be passed out in the passenger seat of a car. The officer wrote in his notes that he thought the woman might have been feigning unconsciousness. When he tried to remove her from the car, she resisted by grabbing the handle of the emergency brake.
Later when she told police she had been raped, doctors at Duke Hospital noted that the woman had two scratches on her right knee and a short scratch on her right heel. None of the scratches were bleeding. Other than diffuse swelling in her vagina, the doctors documented no other injuries.
http://www.newsobserver.com/145/story/510272.html
I agree it was a beautifully crafted response.
Liefong must be gnashing his teeth big time, lol!
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