Duke Rape Suspects Speak Out - 60 Minutes' Ed Bradley Talks To The Accused Lacrosse Players

CBS News ^ | October 15, 2006 | CBS News

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[hnj_00]

the only thing one can say about nifong is that he has f'cked the 3 white male duke lacrosse students....and hopefully after nifong is tried for prosecutorial misconduct....the gets his!!!!

you are way too liberal....lets hope he CAN'T get the k-y jelly...why make it easy for him!!!!

[beyond the sea]

Laws need to be brought forward immediately to make these people who make false claims of rape to pay......... in some manner or another. If they can't pay with $$$$, they ought to find themselves behind bars for a good long time.

Accusing a man of this sort of thing is about the worst thing that one could do.

[Alia]

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[tioga]

-don't forget most of the nation thought OJ was guilty and he is a free man.........I am not so naive to think that if these boys go to trial they will be found innocent. This may not be over just because 60 Minutes exposed Nifong.

[submarinerswife]

Reminds me of Tawana Brawley and the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Nifong nor the police would even talk to the kid who had a solid alibi. That is mind blowing.

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Would that be, you know, like the path that lets you watch strippers with the team? Would the right things you speak of, you know, include bringing plenty of dollars for her? It wasn't just her fingers that were pointing that night, Seligmann. Hey kid - there's an even better path to take. Hopefully the saintly lacross players have learned not to place themselves in situations like this. It's a shame these guys have had to go through what they've had to go through and I hope if they are innocent they are exhonerated. And wouldn't it be nice if they could hit 'rewind' and make it all go away? But they can't and they do share some of the blame.

[TaxRelief]

I live in the Triangle area and even with all this coming out I fear those young men won't get a fair trial.

At least now, anyone who sends their white and straight child to Duke, UNC Chapel Hill or other schools in the area, will be aware of the risks they are taking. There is a lynch mob mentality out there, and straight, white males are the object of this lynch mob's hate.

[TaxRelief]

...they do share some of the blame.

??? If no crime happened (and it did not), then there is no blame. Are you suggesting these young men should become convicted felons and give up a normal life because they hired a stripper, or because one of their friends used racial slurs?

[oh8eleven]

And wouldn't it be nice if they could hit 'rewind' and make it all go away? But they can't and they do share some of the blame.
Share this - they did nothing illegal or wrong! Oh, that is, not living their lives according to your pious standards.

[isthisnickcool]

Would that be, you know, like the path that lets you watch strippers with the team?

Let's see what's worse:

1) The Duke players watching strippers and at least one of them using the "N" word.

2) The women becoming strippers in the first place.

3) The one stripper falsely saying she was raped.

4) The DA using the one strippers lies to pander to the black community to get votes to get himself re-elecetd. All the while knowing that no rape happened.

The person that needs to be slapped is the DA. He reminds me of a guy we have here in Texas named Ronnie Earle.

[PleaseNoMore]

I've said it from day #1. These boys are completely INNOCENT. The stripper is lying.

[ladyjane]

It's not just one kid with a solid alibi. Colin Finnerty also has an alibi. His lawyer wisely insists that he not divulge it since it will allow Nifong to change the timeline again.

Nifong has refused repeated requests to state exactly where and when the rape occured. He won't say what room(s) and won't give the time. At first he said it took place over 30 minutes. When Reade showed evidence that he wasn't even there during that time Nifong changed his story said maybe it only took five minutes!

Imagine being accused of a crime and the DA refusing to divulge when and where it happened.

Why is North Carolina allowing this fiasco to continue?

[Dante3]

I agree.

I am just wondering if there was something more involved than just getting reelected, like Nifong and Precious expecting a big payoff (only things didn't work out) or, like Greta once suggested, that Nifong is possibly mentally ill.

[RetiredArmy]

Take it from someone who has worked in legal for over 30-plus years. There has been something wrong with criminal JUSTICE for years. Just look at the number of people who get off, who get shorten sentences for horrible crimes, and how prisoners actually run the prisons. All these bleeding heart liberals are responsible for what is happening in the criminal justice system. Liberal judges who turn these thugs back on the public. These judges should have to keep these people at their homes.

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They put themselves in a stupid position that got completely out of their control. That happens in life sometimes, you know? And I'm not saying it's right - but that's the way it is. Go watch strippers - enjoy - but there are risks. At this point, whether they broke the law or not doesn't seem matter a whole lot - just ask the DA involved. Their lives have been changed for the worse and that change wouldn't have happened had they made a better choice. That's all I'm saying.

Ecc 10:1 - Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: [so doth] a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom [and] honour.

[Holicheese]

Ed Bradley was saddened that the other stripper said the rape didn't happen.
Poor Ed.

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Let us not forget that Nifong is a Democrat. And when those boys and girls play the race card, they will do anything to advance their own political interests. No matter if it is convicting three innocent white man of a crime that did not happen or trying to get a guilty black man a pardon from a crime that he did commit.

Fifty years ago, Democrat DAs in the Solid South did the exact same thing to blacks to advance their political interests. Democrat politicians have always relied on the race card and have shown that can easily deal from either side of the deck and to hell with justice.

[TaxRelief]

Why is North Carolina allowing this fiasco to continue?

Your state is run by the Democrat Oligarchy (DOoNC) of North Carolina which maintains power through various control measures established over the years:

1. Bribery of the black community including civil service jobs, fake non-profit jobs to black community leaders, paid board positions.

2. Majority control of all review boards including Election Boards in Democrat majority districts.

3. Immoral use of taxpayer funds to bolster Democrat name recognition. For instance, Insurance Commissioner Jim Long sends every taxpayer an insurance refund check signed by him right before election day only in the year he's up for reelection.

4. Control of highway funds that punishes conservative leaning areas of high growth, leaving folks in those areas in such dire congestion, that the electorate votes eventually vote for the DOoNC candidate just to get a reasonable commute time.

5. Control of members of the DOoNC established with classic scape-goating techniques. Anyone who gets too big for his britches will inevitably become a "fall guy". (Case in point: Jim Black)

6. Control of elected officials who refuse to join the DOoNC that renders their service useless. They are put in basement offices with no answering service, not allowed floor time during debates, are regular victims of the "mute button" which silences them when they attempt to get the floor and are generally find that their efforts to serve pointless.

7. Quasi-control of the MSM (mainsteam media) in the state which is maintained with wining, dining, priority press passes and brainwashing. (The N&O, in particular, loves to drink the Kool-aid.)