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by now, everyone knows they're not rapists

I have been trying to see your point through all your posts, but believing that "everyone" knows they're not rapists is incredibly naive. There are a whole bunch of people who still think that these boys are guilty of rape, and that the DA has pressured Mangum into recanting her story. That's where the damage to their reputations comes in. There are those who will think that getting the IDs tossed is just a "technicality". There are people out there who STILL believe that Mangum was raped, sodomized, and beaten at a privileged white boys' party. That these people are ignorant doesn't matter. The accused rapists' reputations have been permanently marred by this, in much the same way as someone who has truly been raped suffers (one of the reasons for the rape shield laws).

244 posted on 01/03/2007 2:24:12 PM PST by Ohioan from Florida (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)

To: Ohioan from Florida; newgeezer

Not only are the boys not rapists, they are not whore mongers according to the definition that was posted. So - NEWGEEZER - will you agree that they are not whore mongers either?

258 posted on 01/03/2007 2:48:47 PM PST by Enterprise (Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)

To: Ohioan from Florida

According to South Park [ ;-) ], 25% of Americans are retarded and think 9/11 was an inside job.

360 posted on 01/03/2007 7:35:58 PM PST by Paladin2 (Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)

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