Again, many, many editorials and articles this morning.
Link to roundup:
http://z9.invisionfree.com/LieStoppers_Board/index.php?showtopic=3054
Brad Bannon and Jim Cooney - two of the defense legal team - posted last night on the LieStoppers board. Link to their comments here:
http://z9.invisionfree.com/LieStoppers_Board/index.php?showtopic=3047
This jumped out at me:
During the taping, Smith said the players could not accept Nifong's apology to them this week.
"I think that it's a very weak, tepid, Kool-Aid kind of apology, coming a year after these people started to endure the things they endured," he said. "It's just very difficult for them to accept it, to believe it's real. It doesn't seem real. It seems conditional."
From onset surreality ruled in this case. It was surreal. Over and Over and Over again. Over and again, and Over, and again.
There's a scene in the flick Poltergeist which so well captures what the young men must be going through. PSI Phenomena is happening huge with the loci in the girl's bedroom, the young daughter has been taken to "the other side", the family calls in a Parapsychologist from a local university. They are going to record the events and be in charge.
The mother of the missing young girl experiences a sense of normalcy and comfort, and taking a load of laundry upstairs thinks she must have imagined all the horror and surreality -- and places her hand on the doorknob of the door to girl's bedroom. She opens the door a crack, and utter psi bedlam is on full display. She slams the door shut, and immediately breaks into horrified tears.
Yes, it will take a while -- couple years for these young men to get beyond the initial sense and psyche memory of continual "surreal" assaults. They'll never forget what it looks like inside the surreality carnival.
That will never go away from memory. It fades in immediate memory. But!
These young men have now also a gift through this burden -- of being able to sense dark surreality -- in their midst, around them, far away.
And instead of, like many people, just sensing "something wrong", these young men are now gifted with being able to "see" as well as sense, exactly what is going on.
For years, and even many more years later, the rationalizing in quest for balance parts of their minds will occasionally bring up the question: "Did it really happen? Did it really happen like that? To me?"
Yes, it did.
And you and your lawyers really did walk through the Valley of Death. And came out the other side, still standing.