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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The only person in this whole mess who ought to be brought up on charges is Nifong!
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.
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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.
Wow! The great Dorothy Rabinowitz takes it on!
Let's not forget that the Amiraults were never 'made whole' and Scott Harshbarger, the Prosecutor, has never been penalized for framing them. The federal government has done nothing about the Amiraults and probably won't do anything about the Duke situation either.
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He deserves all the attacks on his behaviour, and also deserves to be in jail alongside the whoring liar of an accuser.
Bingo!
I have absolutely loved Dorothy Rabinowitz for years. Another MUST READ analysis.
Scott Harshbarger, the head of Common Cause and a recent unsuccessful candidate for public office in Massachusetts, was the prosecutor who allegedly Nifonged the Amiraults: http://www.zpub.com/un/un-sh.html. Every potential donor to Common Cause should be reminded of this at every opportunity.
Per the Rabinowitz article,
"What did it matter that the child's testimony that resulted in Gerald's conviction had claimed rape with a large butcher's knife--one that had magically left not the slightest injury? The jury's most important duty was, the prosecutors informed them, to believe the children and show that they honored their testimony. The same young witness also testified that Gerald was accompanied by a green, silver and yellow robot, R2-D2, from "Star Wars."
A good defense attorney would have challenged Harshbarger to drop his pants, bend over, and have the proctologist of his choice show how it is possible to have a butcher knife put up one's kazoo without causing any injury.
Janet Reno was District Attorney for Dade County when Grant Snowden was Nifonged (he was later exonerated).
The verb "to Nifong" means, of course, to prosecute someone on criminal charges that one knows to be fraudulent, usually for personal political gain. It has not yet been proven that Mike Nifong Nifonged the Duke lacrosse players but, if it is, they should make sure the disciplinary action taken against him (e.g. disbarment) follows him around the country for the rest of his life.
Other examples of usage:
"The Spanish Inquisition routinely Nifonged people as heretics so as to confiscate their property."
"Several people were hanged in Salem Massachusetts after being Nifonged on charges of witchcraft."
"Despite the lack of decorum at Saddam Hussein's hanging, he was not Nifonged because he was actually guilty of the charges against him (and worse). He himself executed numerous political opponents after Nifonging them."
"Libya sentenced several Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death after Nifonging them on false charges of infecting Libyan children with AIDS."
"Australian tourist Schapelle Corby was allegedly Nifonged by corrupt Indonesian police and customs officials."