This article from the college the accuser allegedly attends is very strange, if I am reading it right. The writer seems to be agonizing over damaging information about the accuser which she has learned. She is wrestling with her empathy for the young, black woman vs. her journalistic responsibility to report facts as they arise. Thus far the school paper hasn't printed what she's learned, but her final comments reflect her fear of what will happen if the truth is known:
"I have this sense of disaster." Bennett said. "I won't lie. If it does turn out that this is false ..." Tears hung in her dark eyes. The fan whirred overhead, and cars rushed past outside. "I don't even want to think about that."
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/04/04/Worldandnation/Separating_truth__con.shtml
That is disturbing, in more ways than one.
They know something relevant to this case and they aren't going to tell it, IMO.
This article from the college the accuser allegedly attends is very strangeActually the article was not authored by a journalist from the college. The author is Vanessa Gezari who is a Foreign/National Correspondent for the St. Petersburg Times.
Vanessa Gezari has been a foreign and national correspondent at the St. Petersburg Times since June 2004. She came to the Times after nearly three years freelancing in New Delhi and Kabul, writing about politics, conflict and culture for the Chicago Tribune, The (Baltimore) Sun, Slate and others. In 2004, she trained Afghan journalists with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Before moving to South Asia, she was a one-year resident at the Chicago Tribune and a general assignment and city hall reporter at the Toledo Blade.
Google and check out some of her other works like:
http://www.freesamialarian.com/media/media89.htm
Growing up Al-Arian
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It's still illegal to rape prostitutes. Character comes into play when the facts are not definitive. While a lot of the facts are still shrouded, the battle lines have been strongly drawn.
Her: Three men raped me.
The boys: Nobody here raped you.
Since they are not taking the Kobe "it was consensual" approach, the question is going to be whether she has a DNA match (in the areas where rape and sodomy occur) with any of the boys present. If she does, her story is largely true (perhaps embellished). If she doesn't, her story is largely false.
The question becomes "what if the story is false?". Can the Left deal with the truth or are they so invested in their outrage that they will continue pretending it is true even though it isn't (as in "Bush lied")?
What I resent is the MSM and the Left trying to turn this woman into Rosa Parks to further their own agenda. If they could just keep it as a rape case instead of inflaming the situation, people like this young reporterette wouldn't be troubled by the *political* implications of whether the accuser is truthful or not.