Posted on 05/03/2018 6:40:54 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Camille Cosby has spoken publicly for the first time since her husband Bill Cosby was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in a Philadelphia suburb in 2004 – calling it “mob justice”.
Camille Cosby, who has been married to The Cosby Show star since 1964, has gone after the Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, the media and Cosby’s accusers in a statement that alludes to racial injustice.
“The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so,” she said.
This comes after a jury of seven men and five women returned guilty verdicts last week on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for Cosby’s January 2004 sexual assault of Andrea Constand. Constand, a former Temple University employee, lost consciousness after a court found that Cosby gave her three blue pills and a sip of wine. She came to with Cosby digitally penetrating and groping her and forcing her hand on his penis.
“In the case of Bill Cosby, unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs, who publicly and privately coerced cancellations of Bill Cosby’s scheduled performances; syndications of “The Cosby Show”; rescissions of honorary degrees and a vindictive attempt to close an exhibition of our collection of African American art in the Smithsonian Museum of African Art,” she added.
She accused the district attorney’s office of an “unethical campaign” to destroy her husband and has called for a criminal investigation of “that district attorney and his cohorts”.
She evoked the trials of Emmett Till in 1955 and Darryl Hunt in 1994 in the near 1,000 rant.
“How much longer will we, the majority of the people, tolerate judicial, executive, legislative, media and corporate abuses of power? We, the majority of the people, must make America what it has declared itself to be…. a democracy…not to be destroyed by vicious, lying, self-absorbed paradigms of evilness. Once again, an innocent person has been found guilty based on an unthinking, unquestioning, unconstitutional frenzy propagated by the media and allowed to play out in a supposed court of law… This is mob justice, not real justice.”
The Official Statement From Camille O. Cosby.
“We the people” are the first three words of our nation’s Constitution, but who were those people in 1787? Dr. Howard Zinn, the renowned, honest historian, states in his best selling book, A People’s History of the United States: “The majority of the 55 men who framed the Constitution were men of wealth in land, slaves, manufacturing or shipping.” Clearly, most people were not included in that original draft of the Constitution; no women, Native Americans, poor white men; and, absolutely, no enslaved Africans. What have the masses of people done who are treated as outcasts by “we the people”? They, through the purity of the unceasing human spirit, forced 27 amendments to the Constitution that have guaranteed fundamental rights to all people…finally doing what the framers should have done in 1787. Now enters an American citizen, Bill Cosby.
The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so… period. And the media ensured the dissemination of that propaganda by establishing barricades preventing the dissemination of the truth in violation of the protections of the First Amendment. Are the media now the people’s judges and juries? Since when are all accusers truthful? History disproves that…for example, Emmett Till’s accuser immediately comes to mind. In 1955, she testified before a jury of white men in a Mississippi courtroom that a 14-year-old African American boy had sexually assaulted her, only to later admit several decades later in 2008 that her testimony was false. A more recent example is the case of Darryl Hunt, an African American who in 1984 was wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of a white woman, only to have DNA evidence establish in 1994 that he did not commit the crime. Nonetheless he was held in prison until 2004, serving almost twenty years behind bars, until the true rapist confessed to the crimes.
These are just two of many tragic instances of our justice system utterly and routinely failing to protect African Americans falsely accused in so-called courts of law and the entirely unfair court of public opinion. In the case of Bill Cosby, unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs, who publicly and privately coerced cancellations of Bill Cosby’s scheduled performances; syndications of “The Cosby Show”; rescissions of honorary degrees and a vindictive attempt to close an exhibition of our collection of African American art in the Smithsonian Museum of African Art. Although the Smithsonian’s hierarchy did not capitulate, a disclaimer was posted on the exterior of that Museum. And all of that occurred before the trial even started.
The worst injustices, however, have been carried out in the Pennsylvania Montgomery County Courthouse. Three criminal charges, promised during an unethical campaign for the district attorney’s office, were filed against my husband…all based on what I believe to be a falsified account by the newly elected district attorney’s key witness. I firmly believe her recent testimony during trial was perjured; as was shown at trial, it was unsupported by any evidence and riddled with innumerable, dishonest contradictions. Moreover, Bill Cosby’s defense team introduced the testimony of a witness who confirmed that the district attorney’s witness admitted that she had not been sexually assaulted, but that she could say she was and get money … which is exactly what she did.
I am publicly asking for a criminal investigation of that district attorney and his cohorts. This is a homogeneous group of exploitive and corrupt people, whose primary purpose is to advance themselves professionally and economically at the expense of Mr. Cosby’s life. If they can do this to Mr. Cosby, they can do so to anyone. How much longer will we, the majority of the people, tolerate judicial, executive, legislative, media and corporate abuses of power? We, the majority of the people, must make America what it has declared itself to be….a democracy…not to be destroyed by vicious, lying, self-absorbed paradigms of evilness. Once again, an innocent person has been found guilty based on an unthinking, unquestioning, unconstitutional frenzy propagated by the media and allowed to play out in a supposed court of law.
This is mob justice, not real justice. This tragedy must be undone not just for Bill Cosby, but for the country. I wish to thank the witnesses who courageously came forward at trial to testify as to the truth, as well as those witnesses who would have done so but for the judge preventing them from testifying. Someday the truth will prevail, it always does.
Interestingly, one thing lacking in her statement is, “My husband didn’t do it.”
She should be thankful it wasn’t mob justice.
You got to give Camille credit for one thing, she IS loyal. Whether that loyalty comes from blind love or for other reasons (he has dirt on her) I don’t know. But at this point, if she wanted to, she could divorce him and clean him out just with the evidence against him so far.
There appears to be universal condemnation of Cosby on these threads. I am not inclined to believe the rantings of prosecutors or of yellow journalists. Nor, for that matter, do the ravings of harridans about injustice back in the day carry any weight with me.
I do not seek to draw blood from those who stand for justice and fair play. The need to disparage good works is unseemly, nasty, and ugly.
In all Camille’s complaint does not fall entirely on deaf ears. There is substantial reason to approve of her sentiments.
Race race race. So sick of that card. If he was guilty, fry him. If not, let him go. That’s all I care about.
There's an old joke about the way to see if your wife or your dog loves you more is to lock them both in the trunk of a car for an hour and when you let them out see which one is happy to see you. Seems like in Cosby's case the dog would lose.
He should have never spoken out about the need for Black males to be responsible and help raise their children.
He could still be living in the lap of luxury.
This will teach him and others not to leave The Liberal Plantation.
I don’t really blame her, all the others got away with the same and even worse.
“There is substantial reason to approve of her sentiments.”
Was he denied due process? Did a mob actually break into jail and lynch him, or at least sentence him without evidence? Do you think all the women that accused him were lying? Do you think he was lying in interviews when he admitted to giving drugs to women to have sex with them?
I think your approval is misplaced.
I was talking to some folks who live near the Cosby’s Berkshire Hills compound who said all of the property and money is in her name.
Cosby admitted under oath that he illegally drugged women and had sex with them. All while married to the constitutional scholar, Camille:
In July 2015, some of the court records were unsealed and released to the public from Andrea Constand’s 2005 civil suit against Cosby. The full transcript of his deposition was also released to the media by a court reporting service. In his testimony, Cosby admitted to casual sex involving recreational use of the sedative-hypnotic methaqualone (Quaaludes) with a series of young women, and acknowledged that his dispensing the prescription drug was illegal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby_sexual_assault_cases
I tend to agree that this was akin to mob justice. The pile-on from all his accusers wasn't about justice, it was about a big payday in the form of civil lawsuits. Yeah, Cosby was a philandering pig, but I don't think true justice has been served in this case.
Sorry you married & stayed with a serial scumbag.
He was drugging women to have sex with them. Screw him.
As the audience applauded, the recipient of this tribute did not rise, did not wave, she did not even smile. She sat there stone faced, imperious.
I found it curious even odd. Had this ever been done for the spouse of a guest, particularly one not herself in show business?
Perhaps it was demanded by a woman scorned.
- Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1775
What good does putting him in prison at this point accomplish? Cosby is no threat to society. Probation should be enough or the very most a house arrest. Meanwhile OJ is a free man.
Or is it all about her?
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There are a number of things to consider about all this.
First is of course, why does it take decades to bring these accusations. I simply refuse to listen to a decades old accusation for a number of reasons, one is that after such a long time nobody remembers exactly what happened. Stories take a life of their own after a while. Second why is it that the Philanderer in Chief has never had to face any charges, because there is no evidence. Third, I could never convict someone if I were on a jury where it was his word against hers. Fourth, I would NEVER believe someone who drank wine and took pills without them being forced allowed something to happen to her that she didn’t expect.
As for his wife sticking with him, I will get flamed really bad over this but, the sexual standards of the black population are simply different than the white population. Many black people have exactly the same standards as their white neighbors but it you count how many unmarried men have children by more than woman and how many women have children by more than one man I think you will see a stark difference between the two populations. It is simply more acceptable in some societies for men to cheat on their spouses than it is in others.
Nothing I have said here means I support philandering, on the contrary, I abhor it. We do however have to realize that it is wrong for us to force our morals on others who have their own standards. It isn’t wrong to try to get them to change, only force them to do so.
I do believe that Cosby was targeted because he strayed from the liberal reservation. Until he strayed he was held in the highest regard.
So?
Not a crime. Not nice but not a crime.
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