Ping. Will be posting the rest of today's new stuff shortly.
Superb summation.
The cream of the crop. The facilitator/author/mother of a murdering rapist who has published a book in memory of said rapist murderer. Even after her son had murdered, raped and disemboweled his victims, she went to work on the book describing how black folks memorialize their dead and how blacks are/were victimized in death as they are in life by white people.
To my knowledge, none of her son's victims were black. What a slap in the face to the families of those killed by the son of this racist wench. Incidentally, her "professorship" at Duke is funded from the trust of the son of a decorated civil war veteran. Gray side.
I am struck by the dangerous Groupthink that is so well exposed by this article. The left wing faculty of Colleges of Arts and Sciences across this country are hopelessly infected with it. The parallels with the Nazis are quite disturbing.
Right now, these are just the rantings and ravings of a group of societal losers. However, if they ever rise to power through the Democrat Party, we are all in very serious trouble. They are only a few botched elections away from achieving that goal.
Two or three times a year they call my home and a$k for donations. (I am, shameful to admit, an alumnus).
I wonder what I can say when they call again?
How about: "Put me on your do not call list"?
I am as likely to give money to Planned Parenthood or Hillary Clinton as I am Duke University.
GREAT SUMMATION OF EVENTS.
One of th best and most comprehensive stories I've read on this issue. Nifong's judgement was stunning the flawed from the outset. For a prosecutor he didn't exercise a single ounce of skepticism about his "victim's" story or even attempt to discern the facts before charging. He went straight to a malleable grand jury. His victim's story began changing almost immediately and that should have alerted Nifong to the problem.
Keeping hope alive.
Marxists are NEVER repentant. That is because the truth of any matter or the consequences of any of their positions are irrelevant; all issues are simply tools to be used in their attempt to gain power.
If classism doesn't work, then racism; if not racism, then sexism; if not sexism, then environmentalism; and on and on. Engender and exploit any differences between people that one can; try to separate society into groups and pit one group against another ("maximize the contradictions") in order to create conditions favorable for the Left to take control.
As with a vampire, to defeat them one must drive a stake through their very heart.
A lot of work went into this & she did a magnificent job of collating all the craziness over the last year & turning it into a coherent indictment of all the guilty participants in the mob-led 'salem witch trial' hysteria this disturbed woman's completely unfounded, wholly untrue & obviously completely concocted accusations generated. Allen's managed to nail just about everybody except possibly the utterly excrable Nancy Grace of CNN.
Allen's certainly correct in this: while a clearly crooked NC DA abused the power of his office to serve his own thoroughly corrupted political ambitions, he could never have committed this frightening miscarriage of justice and the deliberate oppression of those students' civil rights without the help of a lot of corrupt people elsewhere including many of the now thoroughly discredited legal analysts put forth as 'experts' by the US media, but more importantly, the (also now thoroughly discredited) members of Durham's faculty & administration whose own 'meta-narratives' have culminated in them being hoisted by their own tattered postmodern petards here.
Bravissima! Somebody give this girl a raise!
The sorry Duke farce should make it plain that leftist "thought" should be outlawed on campi across the country. Undoubtedly the great majority of leftist profs, that is most professors, in the U.S. agreed with the original charge and were salivating awaiting the certain conviction of the Duke lacrosse players. Imagine their disappointment at the final result. After this no one should take leftists seriously anymore. But we don't live in a sane society anymore. Those eightyeight profs who signed that statement should be severely punished for their part. But I'll bet nothing will happen to them.
Soon after the allegations were made, 88 Duke professors (commonly referred to as the "Group of 88") from the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences placed an ad in The Chronicle supporting the alleged victim and quoting individuals citing racism and sexism in the Duke community.[129] In three departments, more than half of faculty signed the statement. The department with the highest proportion of signatories was African & African-American Studies, with 80%. Just over 72% of the Women's Studies faculty signed the statement, Cultural Anthropology 60%, Romance studies 44.8%, Literature 41.7%, English 32.2%, Art & Art History 30.7%, and History 25%. No faculty members from the Pratt School of Engineering or full-time law professors signed the document. Departments that had no faculty members sign the document include Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Genetics, Germanic Languages/Literature, Psychology and Neuroscience, Religion, and Slavic and Eurasian Studies.Wiki
Just Arts and Fuzzy studies. No Science.
Rhymes with "DailyKostitutes".
great article bump
The quoted authors' and professors' self-loathing and obvious self-contempt is the most poignant thing in this essay, since they are all upper middle class themselves. Folks in the upper middle class earn their own livings and got there for the most part by rising in their own professions through hard work. In their efforts to arouse class jealousies by pointing to the so-called unearned privileges of hereditary wealth, they pick the wrong target and then fail to hit it. For the most part the denizens of the upper middle class is not a bastion of unearned privilege, whatever your political beliefs.
These folks are insane.
This guy needs a really really good lawyer to tell him to just clam up. If it is not disciplinary, then it is simply intentional infliction of emotional distress, which is even worse.
But nothing will happen. It will be business as usual in Liberal La-La Land.
Nifong will get off with an apology, tuition rates will rise, like-minded Professors will continue to pollute the minds of America's students, all salaries will be raised, and we will continue to subsidize Duke (and like minded Liberal infestations) lavishly with our tax dollars. And the media will go back to endlessly wondering about Natalie Holloway.
As I say, it will be business as usual.
Indeed, Lubiano, in her online article, dismissed the whole idea of evidence--and thus legal guilt or innocence--as just another set of socially constructed "narratives" to be deconstructed by her. The accused were apparently guilty by reason of their "dominant" social position, which made them "perfect offenders" in Lubiano's eyes.
...Estrich harped on the theme of stonewalling and wondered why no lacrosse parent had said to her son, "you go in there and tell the police the truth about what happened." It is hard to believe that Estrich was not aware by that date of Seligmann's airtight alibi, the procedurally flawed April 4 photo lineup, the negative DNA results for the 46 players (those were released on April 10), and repeated efforts by lawyers for the accused to present Nifong with evidence of their clients' innocence, including an April 18 meeting with Seligmann's attorney that Nifong curtly cut short. Instead, Estrich, taking an odd stance for a professor whose specialty is criminal law, castigated the three young men for having the audacity to "hire . . . lawyers."
Poor Susan was simply demonstrating how the left is moved by their agenda and their template of non-liberals...and not by logic, evidence or facts.
Ms. Lubiano's quote demonstrates the basis for Susan's opinion -- guilt or innocence is to be decided by one's place in the "social construct". What's more, it's a judgment that only liberals are capable of making.
Recall that both of these phenomena ran rampant through the Drive-by Media -- still the most powerful instrument of persuasion in the country. They are, of course, understandably loathe to remind us of this fact -- since it exposes such egregious, irresponsible behavior on their part.
The Duke rape case is thus a microcosm of the divisions in our society -- but not in the way they would have us believe. If this case -- and the artifacts it generated -- doesn't conclusively prove why the left is supremely dangerous when they are granted power, what does?
Innocent Duke lacrosse players stuck in P.C. nightmare
(http://www.suntimes.com/news/laney/222495,CST-EDT-LANEY22.article)
January 22, 2007
BY MARY LANEY
If I were one of the parents of the Duke lacrosse players I would be mad as hell right now. Those parents have been put through the wringer for seven months -- and forced to come up with God knows how many hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to protect their sons from what appear to be made-up accusations.
Their sons have been called racists and rapists and violent spoiled frat boys and more. Why? Because a black stripper accused the white boys of rape and an ambitious district attorney, running for office in Durham, N.C., saw the case that could bring him the winning votes from African Americans.
I have two sons and, had this nightmare happened to them, I would be going after not only the district attorney but some Duke professors and the university president as well. They put political correctness before due process in the railroading of these young Duke students.
Charles Osgood of CBS News once said, "Being politically correct is always having to say you're sorry." And some members of the faculty of Duke University were very politically correct last year. As soon as the now dubious claims of rape were leveled, 88 professors wrote an open letter decrying racism, sexism and sexual violence on that campus. They urged the student body to get out and let their voices be heard.
The president of Duke, being equally P.C., fired the lacrosse coach, suspended the players from school and canceled the rest of the championship lacrosse season -- all before a trial was held.
Meanwhile, the alleged victim was telling various stories. First, she told police she had been raped by a big group. Next, she told a nurse it had been three or five men.
The event hit the airwaves with the speed of a raging fire.
Well, the Durham district attorney set up a "lineup" of pictures for the alleged victim to identify those who she said raped her. Such lineups, by law, are supposed to include some pictures of uninvolved people. But that's not how the acting district attorney of Durham did it. You see, Mike Nifong was running for election to the office, and wanted a strong case. So he gave the woman only pictures of members of the Duke lacrosse team -- in effect, a multiple choice test where there could be no wrong answers.
She picked three of the lacrosse players.
Nifong then sent all fluids taken from the woman at the hospital, along with her clothes, to a lab for DNA testing. The lab technician told the district attorney that he found DNA from several men in the woman and in her pants, but that none of it matched any Duke lacrosse player. In fact, there was no DNA from any lacrosse player anywhere in or on this woman nor on her clothing. Despite this, the district attorney kept the information secret even from defense attorneys, and days later indicted the three Duke players for rape.
Last month, the victim told the district attorney that she couldn't tell if she had actually been raped. Nifong then dropped the rape charges, but held that the three Duke players would still be tried for kidnapping and sexual charges.
To recap, the victim has changed her story several times and now says she isn't sure she was raped. The "lineup" where the lacrosse players were identified was illegal. The DNA taken from the woman excluded all Duke lacrosse players. The district attorney had the DNA evidence before he indicted the players, but withheld this evidence from the defense, and later lied about it in court, but still refused to drop all charges against the players.
Now Nifong has recused himself from the case and the North Carolina attorney general has appointed a special prosecutor to take his place. Meanwhile, the parents of the young men still have to pay lawyers to represent their sons against charges that should have been dropped months ago or never brought at all.
I'd be mad as hell if I were one of these parents. I hope they sue everyone involved in this railroading of justice.