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This week's cover story

[AnnaZ]

What a thorough, and thoroughly well-written, piece. Thanks for posting it.

[Political Junkie Too]

Mike Nifong's handling of the case was clearly outrageous. But he would probably not have gone so far, indeed would not have dared to go so far, had he not been egged on by two other groups that rushed just as quickly to judge the three accused young men guilty of gross and racially motivated carnal violence. Despite the repeated attempts by the three to clear themselves, a substantial and vocal percentage--about one-fifth--of the Duke University arts and sciences faculty and nearly all of the mainstream print media in America quickly organized themselves into a hanging party.

Can there be another Richard Jewell type lawsuit against the MSM print media, the way that Jewell won a settlement from the TV networks after being accused of being the Olympic bomber?

-PJ

[Eva]

This case should be the beginning of the end for these ethnic studies classes at all the universities.

[Eva]

There was a fascinating irony in this. Postmodern theorists pride themselves in discerning what they call "metanarratives." They argue that such concepts as, say, Christianity or patriotism or the American legal system are no more than socially constructed tall tales that the postmodernists can then "deconstruct" to unmask the real purpose behind them, which is (say the postmodernists) to prop up societal structures of--yes, you guessed it--race, gender, class, and white male privilege

I think that this might be the theory behind what O'Reilly called "judicial restoration" in Vermont. It may be what was behind the Lacrosse prosecution as well. It seems that these people think that they can bend the judicial system to right what they see as social wrongs.