Posted on 06/30/2009 3:17:29 PM PDT by Maelstorm
We all remember the infamous Duke University rape frame-up case, in which three white lacrosse players were falsely accused of raping a black female stripper. It was front-page news coast to coast, as it had all the elements of a mainstream-media cause célèbre: the perfect victim and the perfect villains, a downtrodden black woman of modest means and three privileged white college boys. Thus did the hard-left alliance of media, academia, and a Democrat prosecutor try its best to lynch the three, and if the strippers story hadnt changed with the wind, the students could very well be sitting in prison currently.
But now we have a real Duke rape case, and one that largely conforms to the above narrative. Frank Lombard, Dukes associate director of the Center for Health Policy, faces federal criminal charges for offering his adopted five-year-old adopted son for sex. Where are the parallels? Lombard is white and well-to-do while his victim, the son, is black (Lombard also has a second adopted son, who is black as well).
Yet there are also differences. One is that, unlike the tenuous lacrosse-player case, authorities have Lombard dead to rights. Writes the blog Self Evident Truths:
The arrest warrant states that a person, later identified as Lombard, used video chat on the internet to perfom [sic] sex acts on a child under the age of ten.... The complaint says Lombard's chat room ID lists him as "perv dad for fun."
The warrant states that an astute police detective contacted Lombard through Yahoo! Instant Messenger. Lombard admitted performing sexual acts on his adopted five year old son. He wrote that he would drug the boy with Benadryl before molesting him. He admitted that he waited to molest the boy until his partner was out of town.
The warrant continues describing the next day, when Lombard offered his five year old to the detective to perform sex acts on him. The detective said he lived out of state, making the solicitation a federal offense.
There are also other differences between the cases. One is that there is no reason to expect the media to do anything but bury this story posthaste. Why? Because, despite the aforementioned parallels, it doesnt completely accord with todays favored victimizer/victim narrative, as Lombard is a homosexual, making the victim a child who was adopted by a homosexual. Thus, while Lombards sexual inclination alone is enough to make the effluent-stream media treat this case with the utmost discretion, there is an additional factor: disseminate the facts of the crime enough, and people just may get the crazy notion that its lunacy to let homosexuals adopt children, especially little boys. So youve just got to watch the information you put in the yahoos heads.
Not surprisingly, this double standard is already apparent in the reportage. In the Duke lacrosse case, not only was the story front page, but an accuser of the easiest virtue was painted in the best light. For example, the stripper was often called an exotic dancer, which is much like calling a prostitute an exotic blind date. In contrast, now the mainstream media seem most reluctant to reveal Lombards homosexuality or the adopted victims race.
So, as far as how this story will most likely unfold, there are four things I cannot envision happening. First, I dont foresee Dukes administration and faculty coming out as a lynch mob and convicting Lombard in the court of public opinion. Second, dont expect Jesse Jackson et al. to venture to Durham County and play the race card like a Vegas high roller, even though this case lends itself perfectly to it. A white man who adopts a black boy to keep as a sex slave, anyone?
Next, at risk of being redundant, dont hold your breath waiting for the mainstream stream media to get on board; like the National Organization for Women, with its deafening silence regarding the savaging of Sarah Palin and womens plight in Moslem nations, they care not about little victims but leftist agendas.
Lastly, the News & Observer tells us that Lombard is a licensed clinical social worker with a master's degree in social work, [and] is a health-disparities researcher who studies HIV/AIDS in the rural South (read: professional victimologist). So, not that any more evidence of his ideological persuasion was necessary, but its obvious that the man is thoroughly liberal in his professional life and libertine in his personal life. Yet dont expect the purveyors of pablum to be point this out, either.
Speaking of the race card, the hierarchy of victim groups is much like a deck of cards: black is a good hand, but its trumped by female. And, it appears, homosexual trumps everything.
I guess we’ll have to keep the story alive here on FR. The rest of the media have dropped the ball.
How many “gay” couples employed by universities are using the adoption scam to get themselves sex slaves for life?
Not true (with a very few exceptions). You may be welcome if you...
I guess if you arent old enough to send a few bucks to the NAACP, they arent bothered about lilttle black boys.
It makes me very angry that our local paper did several adorning full page stories about gay “marriage” and gays adopting kids. One story featured a picture of the two gay guys with a couple of kids (children of color).
This nauseated me and I called my local newspaper to complain. The woman who answered the phone was sympathetic and she said that many other people had called to complain. This type of big lie propaganda is hurtful to children. Unfortunately the children don’t have any political power. It made me really sick to think that those children had to live in this unnatural family just because these two gay guys had something to prove to the world.
This is hiding in plain sight. Because of all the pro-gay propaganda many people cannot see the obvious. Instead they go along with the rosey-hued picture of loving, wonderful gays who can do no wrong, showing their caring altrusitic natures by reaching out to children in need. You know, of course, that they are better than we are. They are so much more loving, tolerant and enlightened than we knuckle-dragging conservatives.
Victim rights groups could present an acurate picture of same sex child predators since, I would imagine that they would record the sex of the child and also the sex of the perpertrators.
Yes and it should. They hide this crap and a month doesn’t go by that homosexuals are behaving badly. Most child porn rings when you look behind the covers you find homosexual activists. Not all but far too many to be a coincidence. It has been the rise of the gay subculture that has brought with it a greater degree of disease and greater societal cost and chaos. As gender identity and the role of a Mom and Dad is being worn away children are being hurt some irreparably. It is one thing to have a child born into an unfortunate circumstance but today we have people celebrating those who create purposely the unfortunate circumstances.
This is a war. They intend to silence us and force the whole of society into submission of their sexual and political agenda. We want to live and let live, they want to have our children’s minds telling young kids that a Dad and Mom is optional and that two gay men and two gay women are just as good for the development of the identity of children. This debate is not over and we should not let the gay Al Gores of the world tell us it is.
The Catholic priest sex scandal are overwhelmingly homosexual. The church made a huge mistake when it decided to allow homosexual priests as long as they remained celebate. Yeah, right. You can’t take something that the Bible condemns as an abomination and put those who have those inclinations in the priesthood. This drastic mistake has cost many young children their innocence.
Some time ago I remember seeing a photo of a gay pride parade. Some of them were carrying a large banner that said NAMBLA - that is the North American Man Boy Love Association, a pedophile group. I think AP let that one slip, they probably didn’t know what the banner meant.
One of the posts mentioned the press sitting on this story. That is not surprising as the AP keeps stories like this at the local level. I have seen other stories that went against politically correct views being surpressed by keeping the story local. This keeps the nation from knowing what is going on.
>> The Catholic priest sex scandal are overwhelmingly homosexual. The church made a huge mistake when it decided to allow homosexual priests as long as they remained celebate. Yeah, right. You cant take something that the Bible condemns as an abomination and put those who have those inclinations in the priesthood. This drastic mistake has cost many young children their innocence. <<
One of the reasons there are so many homosexual catholic priests is that young gay men join the priesthood because if they don’t like women their families usually suggest the priesthood even if they don’t think they are gay. This happens with a lot of nuns by the way. The best thing the catholic church could do right now is to allow priests to marry and have wives and families. You see a lot less of this problem with denominations who encourage their priests and pastors to marry and have a family.
The Roman catholic church inherited a lot of the homosexual cabal from the Rome itself in it’s infancy and this is why it was only a few hundred years until the Roman Church banned priests from marrying and having a family so they could carve a niche “out” for themselves.
Celibacy was not the cause of the priest abuse scandal. The LACK of celibacy was the problem.
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