Posted on 04/16/2006 12:41:53 PM PDT by ncountylee
'We don't know all the facts about the alleged Duke lacrosse rape, but . . ."
That's more or less how most commentators have introduced their remarks on the case that has reduced the Durham, N.C., community to prayers, tears and recriminations.
Let me interpret the code for you: Men are bad.
Even though we don't know what happened, we're not going to let the absence of facts interfere with our indictment of a team, a coach, a school, but more to the point -- of boys.
About the only thing to emerge with any clarity since a black exotic dancer claimed that three white lacrosse players raped her last month is our willingness to believe the worst about males.
That belief is all the more rewarding if the males happen to be white, as well as athletes, and especially if they're perceived to be privileged. If there's one thing we can't bear in this country, it's spoiled white boys who think the world owes them a good time.
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While we wait to hear what the grand jury decides, we might turn our harsh judgment inward and recognize that the anti-male groupthink that permitted a presumption of guilt in Durham is little different than the lynch-mob mentality that once channeled rage against blacks.
Obviously, no woman deserves to be raped for any reason, under any circumstances. But nor do men deserve to be presumed guilty just because they're men.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
i think you mean BOB Bennett, Bill Bennett is his brother, the conservative, and former Secty of Education, etc.
Whatever. Nit picking ain't gonna help your argument any.
my argument? who's arguing?
lol I read that . . . the stuff people come up with!
There was a case some years back in Illinois where a man spent several years in prison before his supposed victim came forward and admitted that she had made the charges up--that no rape had occurred and she had had no contact with the man before she picked him out of a lineup. I think the man's name was Gary Dotson, or something like that. It took some months longer before the governor pardoned him. I don't think the woman involved suffered any consequences. He wasn't exactly a choirboy--he was brought in for the lineup because he had some previous run-ins with the law--but he hadn't raped that woman.
Fox News reporting that Nifong will NOT ALLOW THE PLAYERS TO TURN THEMSELVES IN VOLUNTARILY IF/WHEN THE INDICTMENTS COME DOWN!
What? My mum was playing LaCrosse in Canada in the 20s.
I think that pretty much sums it up. And for that I'm being villified and called a troll and whatever.
Man, he's scared. He's quaking.
It appears to be the latter, the DA didn't like the results of the DNA test so now he's saying the DNA test is not very important.
What appears to have happened is the swab samples of the accuser were sent to the lab followed by the samples in the bathroom and the swabs of the 46 players.
After running the tests, the lab determined there was no DNA (other than her own) on the samples taken from the woman. Therefore, there is no foreign DNA to match to anyone, not just the 46 players.
So it appears the DA didn't know that the lab would find there was no foreign DNA on the woman when he asked for the players' DNA. From his various public statements he seems surprised by the result of no foreign DNA and no matches, so is now backpedaling from his earlier statements about the importance of the DNA test, such as the sworn statement you cited in your post.
You brought up on another thread something I wish you would have data for: It's something the DA said too: That in most instances of rape there is no DNA. Do you have an url for this, pls? I'd like to study this allegation and its data. In fact, there's quite a few of us who would like to study this data.
Thanks!
"...a presumption of guilt in Durham is little different than the lynch-mob mentality that once channeled rage against blacks."
This column uses for the first time an appropriate term for what's happening in Durham - LYNCHING. Instead of rope and a tree, they perps are using ink, paper, videotape air broadcast airwaves....
Since everybody who goes to Duke is from New Jersey, I consider this incident a slap at all Garden Staters.
I don't know. Anybody here know?
Found out the prosecutor is white and running for reelection against a black guy. There's a lot of pandering to the black electorate by all of the candidates.
This discussion is pointless. She wasn't raped by those she accused anyway.
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