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Eh. I was accusing the lawyer of playing with words, not playing with them myself.

Now I don’t think the cadet was guilty of anything more than at most wandering around aimlessly while under the influence, when he wandered into what Ms. LaBelle’s people perceived as her space.

The police saying “We don’t have any evidence that he picked a fight,” is not the same as saying, “The evidence shows that Ms. LaBelle’s bodyguards made an unprovoked attack upon him.” Which is what exoneration would be, and should be followed by criminal charges against the bodyguards.

We’re not really talking about the criminal law standard of presumed innocence here. We’re talking about West Point judging what conduct is befitting an officer and a gentleman, and their standards are not nearly so protective of the accused as criminal law is.

And that said, I think anti-white pro-black PC racism and Ms LaBelle’s celebrity influenced West Point’s original decision and I am glad the cadet has been reinstated. I just do not care for attorneys’ weasel wording even though that is their job.

Eh. I was accusing the lawyer of playing with words, not playing with them myself.

Here's your original comment, the one I responded to:

When your attorney says the police have not implicated you, that's not the same as the police saying they have exonerated you.

Now you're saying that this statement was meant as an accusation against the attorney who made the statement. What are you accusing him of? You're not making sense.

We’re talking about West Point judging what conduct is befitting an officer and a gentleman, and their standards are not nearly so protective of the accused as criminal law is.

I'm wasn't talking about that. I was talking about what looked to me to be a statement of fact, written by you, to the effect that stating that someone is not implicated of wrongdoing is not identical to stating that the person is exonerated of the accusation of wrongdoing.

You may have been talking about something else, and you have a perfect right to do so. But you don't have the right to tell me what I was talking about, which is what you did when you made your condescending statement about "what we're talking about." More word play on your part.