"Today, we start settling all family business. They all will be held accountable for their actions. All of them. So don't tell me you're innocent. That insults my intelligence and makes me very angry."
Posted on 01/03/2007 10:57:18 AM PST by abb
(01/03/07 -- DURHAM) - Duke lacrosse defendants Colin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann are both expected to be reinstated today as Duke students in good standing, two sources close to the case told ABC News. Also on abc11tv.com: Send us news tips | Desktop Alert | ABC11 AccuWeather | Pinpoint Traffic Defendant David Evans was allowed to graduate last spring, but underclassmen Seligmann and Finnerty were suspended from the University pending a resolution of the assault charges.
December 22, 2006, prosecutors dropped rape charges against the three Duke lacrosse players accused of attacking a stripper at a team party, but the three still face kidnapping and sexual offense charges.
According to court papers filed by District Attorney Mike Nifong, the accuser says she now does not know if she was penetrated during the alleged attack.
The accuser, a 28-year-old student at North Carolina Central University, has said three men raped her in a bathroom at a March 13 Duke lacrosse team party where she was hired to perform as a stripper.
The indicted players - Dave Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann - all say they are innocent, and their attorneys have consistently said no sex occurred at the party.
Evans graduated from Duke in May, the day before he was indicted. Sophomores Finnerty and Seligmann were suspended following their April 2006 indictments.
The Duke lacrosse team was also suspended from play, but was reinstated in June on a provisionary basis.
A press conference from defense attorneys is expected this afternoon.
Stay with abc11tv.com and ABC11 Eyewitness News for the latest on this developing story.
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Thank you very much.
While I agree with you that newgeezer is off the deep end concerning these men's reputations, I take issue with what you consider "normal behavior" for young American males. I'm sure quite a few men in this nation have not utilized the services of a stripper. I'm one.
What would you know about it? :)
Wow!
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RUSH: I want to go back to December 22nd. This story came out after the last broadcast of the year. The twenty-second was when I left for vacation. It came out that night, posted at 9:18 Eastern Time: " Brodhead Calls for Nifong to Step Down as Prosecutor -- In response to Mike Nifong's decision Friday to drop charges of rape in the Duke lacrosse case, Duke president Richard Brodhead questioned Nifong's conduct and called for the DA to relieve himself of his duties in the case." I thought, well maybe you should step down along with him, Mr. Brodhead! You're the guy that threw your players under the bus the first moment that an accusation. The coach? Nobody talks about the coach! The whole lacrosse program was shut down for a while, and the coach was canned, and now all this is utter BS.
It wasn't a piece by Susan Estrogen. I guess it was ran... Sorry. Estrich. Okay, anyway, it was about Nifong, and she was lamenting that Nifong made a mistake; he's gotta go, but couldn’t understand why do this! Surely he couldn't do this just to win an election. I was shouting to the column, "Susan, he's a Democrat! Of course he would do it to win an election!" But the point is, even she -- and she's a lawyer, and she is a law professor at USC, University of Spoiled Children. (Well, that's what they call it.) She proved the point that nobody thinks law enforcement would be corrupt. Nobody thinks law enforcement would do anything wrong -- other than Republicans members of Congress. They are lawmakers. It was amazing to read her piece about this. Now, Brodhead, the University president, the minute this allegation was thrown around, pshew!
These three kids may as well have been guilty. The lacrosse program had to be shut down; the coach had to be let go. I think maybe Mr. Brodhead is just hoping folks will forget his own despicable actions here by calling for Nifong to step down. Then there was a piece in the Los Angeles Times that ran on New Year's Eve ( a big news day, of course): "Duke's Recovery from a Rush to Judgment." Why do they have to put me in every story? There was a headline about Saddam's execution over the weekend about "Rush to Execute Saddam Considered..." I thought, jeez, I'm being blamed for that now. "Duke's recovery from a rush to judgment, what you read and hear about Duke University's out-of-control athletes and parties is far from the truth." It's by Michael Skube. Here's an excerpt:
"Privately, people who rallied to her defense [of the victim] tell you that they were snookered. As they do, a different posse prowls the airwaves and Internet. This one wants not the Duke lacrosse players brought to heel but Durham County Dist. Atty. Mike Nifong — and along with him, the highest stratum of Duke's administrative hierarchy, including university President Richard Brodhead. It was the university, these critics argue, that failed to stand up for its students," it's customers, if you will, and the story goes on to talk about all these people, all these great leftists who believed this accuser and Nifong now talked about how, "We just got a snookered, Mr. Limbaugh! We just got snookered." Here's a quote from somebody named Kennington -- and I'm sorry, I don't know the first name but it shows up earlier in the piece. Kennington, Kennington, Kennington.
Find out if this is a male or female. Why does it matter? It just does. I'm curious. Men and women think differently. Ned Kensington. It's a guy. "One who has come to understand the critics' distemper is Ned Kennington, who last March was among those calling for justice swift and certain. 'I am outraged,' he said back then, 'that 40 Duke students know what happened and won't come forward.' Today, he speaks in tones measured and a little rueful. 'I'll be frank with you,' says Kennington, a former faculty member who lives near the campus. 'I trusted that Mike Nifong was talking in a careful, judicious way when he called the lacrosse players hooligans. It wasn't long after that that I felt betrayed, and I regret what I said at the time.'" Huh. Well. I guess cleansing the soul is healthy. Another quote here from Ned Kennington, the former Duke prof.
"Duke is populated by a faculty that is very socially conscious. I think I am guilty of that. But this [case] was fueled by Nifong's assertions, which fit into our preconceptions." Exactly right! What are the preconceptions? Rich, white, brute, predator athletes, on the lacrosse team! Of course! Well, you can't get more elitist than lacrosse, and who was the alleged victim? A bedraggled, poor stripper trying her best to put herself through college and earn a living for her daughter. (Crying.) It's so demeaning she had to strip in the first place, and these white, elitist SOBs lured her into that little dump of a house! It fit the preconception. This is the way the liberal mind works. At least Mr. Kennington has had a soul cleansing about this and realizes that he got hooked and cooked and tricked by Nifong. Now, Nifong late yesterday... He was a sworn in yesterday, of course in private. There was no media allowed. But late yesterday had a press conference afterward I think in Durham, Nifong said this.
NIFONG: Durham has some healing to do, and I need to be part of that healing process, and I need to -- to have something to do with what -- how -- how we move forward in light of the events that have brought all of you here. Because you're not here today for a swearing in; you're here today because of things that happened over the course of the last year.
RUSH: This is akin to a star athlete spitting on an opponent on the field and after caught and fined, says, "You know, I apologize. That wasn't me. This is not who I am." Yes, it is! You did it! I'm not attacking T.O. I couldn't even think of who did it. T.O. is not the only one. Bill Romanowski. They all do it. Athlete punches athlete and says, "I'm sorry. That's not who I am." Yes, it is! You did it! Nifong is trying to take the third person. He's trying to assume the role of spectator here. "Well, I know you're not here for a swearing in, you're here because of what happened in the past year, and I gotta help with the healing process." Well, then resign! You are the wart! Nifong is the pus that is oozing from the wart! He wants to cause the healing?
He cannot be the wart and the Neosporin! You can't be the pus and the Neosporin at the same time. You are one or the other.
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Read the Background Material...
(DC: Brodhead calls for Nifong to step down as prosecutor)
(Fox: Duke Prosecutor's Fourth Victim - Susan Estrich: 01.01.07)
(Why Would Accuser in Duke Rape Case Lie? - Susan Estrich: 04.26.06)
(Los Angeles Times: Duke's recovery from a rush to judgment - Michael Skube)
I haven't either. But I'm thinking that it's common enough that it couldn't be considered abnormal.
I know I wouldn't. Not after the Women's Center types were fixin' for a lynchin' and the school's administration was all to eager to cave in to them.
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Holey Cow!!! I had no idea. I've been watdhing the Ford Funeral. Why isn't Colin going back???
Not just the Women's Center types. I don't think Durham would be safe for Colin or for anyone who even looks like him. Durham will be a dangerous place as this drama unfolds.
Abb -- you may appreciate this English to Sicilian translation:
From the Seligman statement, in English:
"We are not going to rest until Reade's good name has been cleared and those who have been responsible for this injustice have been held fully accountable."
Loosely translated to Sicilian:
"Today, we start settling all family business. They all will be held accountable for their actions. All of them. So don't tell me you're innocent. That insults my intelligence and makes me very angry."
Is that a known fact?
And, if so, will Duke pony up tuition and fees and a free kick?
Oh, and will the Trustees accept the Admininistrations' resignations and bring back the coach?
And why hasn't Nifong been charged?
Not sure I'd want to go back to a college that didn't have my back and cancelled the season because some hooker lied to KnifeLong and the Police. Not to mention ruined my life and will cost me a lot of $$$ to defend myself from a whore's accusations who just had a baby and doesn't know who baby daddy is. Where is Maury Povich for the Paternity test.
"Today, we start settling all family business. They all will be held accountable for their actions. All of them. So don't tell me you're innocent. That insults my intelligence and makes me very angry."
Thanks.
Based on his other posts on this, he could care less. I'll not say more, as it would get ugly, quick.
Maybe Brodhead can require the gang of 88 to attend sensitivity training.
OK, at least they hired an AMUR-CAN stripper, instead of those il-LAY-gul strippers that are removing the g-strings American girls refuse to remove...
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