Posted on 01/11/2007 3:37:41 AM PST by aculeus
The Duke rape hoax is redolent of past decades' phony child-abuse cases.
No one could have imagined, when the story began last March, how soon and completely that bit of shorthand--"the Duke University scandal"--would be transformed.
Scarcely 10 months after, the term is now almost universally understood as a reference to the operations of Michael Nifong, the Durham County district attorney (pictured nearby), whose abandonment of all semblance of concern about the merits of the rape and assault accusations against three Duke University students was obvious from the first. So was his abundant confidence while broadcasting comments on the guilt of the accused. He seemed a man immune to concerns for appearances as he raced about expounding on the case against the accused lacrosse players and calling them hooligans. He would hear nothing by way of concern from Duke administrators (seven months into this affair, the university president did find an opportunity to mention the accused students' right to a presumption of innocence)--and certainly none from the politically progressive quarters of the Duke faculty who lent their names to an impassioned ad thanking everyone who had come out to march in protest against the rape and assault of the exotic dancer; 88 faculty members signed it, among them such Duke luminaries as Alice Kaplan, author and student of fascism, and Frank Lentricchia, literary critic.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
Finally the truth comes out. The only just outcome of all this is for Nifong and the lying accuser to both be in jail for 5 years.
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"Soon after news broke of the Duke athletes' alleged brutish sex crimes against a black woman, the administration undertook a well-publicized campaign targeting the entire lacrosse team for offensive behavior. President Richard Brodhead was, it seems, barely able to recover from the shock of his discovery that a party thrown by male jocks could occasion heavy drinking. And related loutish behavior. Not to mention a stripper. Lacrosse was suspended for the season, and the team coach, Mike Pressler, was shortly after forced to resign. Mr. Brodhead in due course reinstated the team, but on probation, and with conditions, i.e., no underage drinking and disorderly conduct, and no harassment. The members of other Duke organizations, sports teams included, which had sponsored parties where alcohol flowed freely and which had featured strippers--an informal count reveals at least 20 known to have done so--no doubt understood that they faced no similar disciplinary action. The reason for the moral-cleansing program devised for the lacrosse team could scarcely have been missed."
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20 seconds - heh heh heh.
The only person in this whole mess who ought to be brought up on charges is Nifong!
I think the stripper should face charges for filing a fraudulent police report (or whatever terminology is appropriate). I don't know what her motive was in initially claiming rape because from what little I've read it sure sounded as if she was high on something after they left the frat house. I don't know if she'd have enough 'snap' while under the influence to think about possible large sums of money she might be able to sue for.
Who knows! She may have been motified by fear of some sort but even if that's the why part, she still needs to face consequences and responsibility.
motified = motivated!
Need coffee!
Need new brain!!!
Mr. Nifong should be prosecuted along with the idiots at Duke who were so quick to condemn because they are "rich white boys". I wish the LaCrosse coach would sue Duke then go after the individual professors who went ballistic and all agreed to the boys quilt. Being a rich, white boy sure allows many privileges, one of which is facing 30 years in prison and a destroyed reputation. What has all this "politically correct" nonsense brought us? An inability to address the real criminals, in this case, Nifong and the black stripper.
Nifong AND the two strippers who tried to scam money from the Duke boys. Guess they didn't feel they had been paid enough for their services. Nifong is an embarrassment. What really steams me is the irreperable harm he has caused to race relations in Durham. One good outcome is that grifters Sharpton and Jackson look stupid as usual.
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Yes, and yes.
And maybe the other lesson these boys learn is that hiring strippers and participating in other sleazy activities can cause you problems.
thank you so much for finding and posting a Dorothy Rabinowitz column. She's brilliant!
so anybody know which party this nifong is a member of?
And let's not forget the other "dancer" who was shopping for a New York literary agent within 4 days of the supposed event.
More importantly, which university he attended? I think some people take this rivalry thing a bit too far... ;-)
Wow! The great Dorothy Rabinowitz takes it on!
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