Duke University and the Heroic Emile Zola of America

American Thinker ^ | January 17, 2018 | Randolph Parrish

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Lynch mobs are not a pretty sight. But what is a pretty sight, even a beautiful one, is someone standing by the side of the road trying to call halt.

In 2006, we saw the thronging of another lynch mob, this time in Durham, North Carolina. Three Duke University students were falsely accused of rape, in a case so flimsy that it should have been dismissed in five minutes.

Steve Miller, then a student-columnist for the Duke University newspaper, stood up virtually alone against the 300 articles of the Herald-Sun. He stood up against the satellite trucks parked bumper to bumper on Duke's campus. He stood against the national networks:

Like Zola, Miller found himself trying to yell above a hurricane.

It was his moment by default.

We owe Steve Miller a debt and an acknowledgement. Journalism owes him a debt. Justice owes him a debt. France was fortunate to have had a Zola. For America – or at least certainly for Durham and Duke University – Miller was cast in the part and played it admirably.

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Why we will always owe Steve Miller a debt of gratitude.

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[FreedomPoster]

Principaled journalism? It all seems so quaint today, that only a handful engage in it.

I wonder what Steve Miller is doing today? I’d be surprised if he went anywhere in the MSM. Which is a sad statement.

[Flick Lives]

I felt I was going to be real safe because once you walk in a courtroom you know then you’re safe ... and we sat down ... and there was a guy behind him me in the first row that kept leaning up[.] ... [H]e said, “You’re a dead man walking!” ... Mr. Nifong [the prosecutor] sort of smirked to himself at the other table ... at that point I think we understood where we were heading.”

–Testimony at Nifong’s Bar hearing, June 15, 2007

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A rare case where the scum D.A. Nifong got his due for his gross mishandling of the Duke Lacrosse case.

[Pamlico]

He is currently a rather prominent member of the Trump Administration.

[Dixie Yooper]

My son will be going to college next Fall. I will be going over this with him, so he knows what can happen when college boys(who think they are men) interact with people in the adult entertainment business.

[FreedomPoster]

THAT Steve Miller!? Excellent!

[jiggyboy]

He’s done ok, and not by way of the MSM :-)

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/stephen-miller-duke-donald-trump

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Stephen Miller’s brash path from Duke campus to Trump White House

Interesting article confirming your point.

[FamiliarFace]

He didn’t go anywhere in the MSM, but has been part of Trump’s team. Maybe you missed his interview with Jake Tapper on CNN recently. Tapper was so angry that Miller didn’t cave to him, he cut his mike and broke to a commercial.

[yldstrk]

article removed at link

[FreedomPoster]

It’s there, but there’s an extra quote in the HTML. Here’s the link.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article130428894.html

[moovova]

What a great article. Thanks.

[Albion Wilde]

How I Changed My Left-Wing High School
By: Steve Miller
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, July 08, 2003

[Albion Wilde]

Here's something Steve wrote in the Duke University newspaper when he was a student there:

Dec. 4, 2006
“It’s the most wonderful time of year – but you wouldn’t know it looking around Duke’s campus. ... You’d probably find more Christmas decorations at your local mosque. ... There is absolutely no single logical reason why we shouldn’t have a Christmas tree on the quad and a Nativity scene in the Bryan Center. Eighty-five percent of our nation is Christian and every single one of us, Christian or not (I’m a practicing Jew myself), is living in a country settled and founded by Christians and benefiting daily from the principles of Christian philosophy on which our forebears relied.”

[FreedomPoster]

Wow! I hadn’t realized what a “rock star” this Steve Miller is! He’s up there as a political rock star at least where the music Steve Miller is in his field.

[Albion Wilde]

How a liberal Santa Monica high school produced a top Trump advisor and speechwriter

Stephen Miller when he was a student at Santa Monica High.

Quotes from the above-linked article:

As he was finding his voice at Santa Monica High, Miller bemoaned the school’s Spanish-language announcements, the colorful festivals of minority cultures, and the decline, as he saw it, of a more traditional version of American education....

Latino students recall Miller telling them dismissively that they would do better to work on their English language skills rather than spend their time forming clubs based on ethnicity. Some called him racist...

But in Miller’s telling of those days, he was trying to unify the campus, by resisting defining students by their differences and instead by their commonality as Americans. He said he advocated for the reinstatement of the pledge of allegiance as part of that...

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Thanks for the link. I certainly did not realize that Miller had held for truth and justice in the Duke LAX case. I am doubly impressed.
What is infuriating is the Wikipedia entry on him - that completely omits this event and reads like a hit piece, IMO. If there is someone who knows their way around Wikipedia, an edit to reflect this story would help.

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FYI, Randolph Parrish is a fellow FReeper.

[bjc]

A comparison to John Adams’ controversial defense of the British soldiers charged in the so-called “Boston Massacre” would be in order as well.