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Update III: I like this:
My recommendation to Duke: When they file the civil suit, do not back down. File a countersuit against the woman and the local abuse center for double the amount they are asking. You cannot stop the Lavender Mafia by paying it off.
My message to men and real women on college campuses everywhere: Stay away from feminists and strippers. The last thing you want to date is a girl who studies feminism. Be sure she believes in equal rights for men to be in the family. Make certain she rejects feminism before even asking her out on a date. Get to know her previous boyfriend to find out why they broke up. If she says he is a jerk but he isn’t, you probably have a feminist on your hands.
Start a men’s rights group on your campus. Insist on equal rights for normal heterosexual men to be politically organized and to have their views on social equality heard. Demand the creation of a men’s studies program that operates completely independently of the women’s studies department. Real women will support you in this. Be sure to include them in your work.
Update II (4/12): Throughout the day I’ll add links to this post. Scroll down for updates.
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DA Mike Nifong’s political rivals have criticism all around, but here’s an excerpt about his handling of the case so far. From the Herald Sun:
…Freda Black and Keith Bishop said Nifong misled the community by saying he believed a rape had occurred even before DNA evidence became available….Nifong would have been well advised to remain publicly silent about the case, rather than granting some 70 interviews — many of them to national media outlets — in one week, according to his opponents.
The district attorney’s office – in a written request for a court order to obtain DNA samples from 46 lacrosse team members — said the DNA testing would “immediately” provide “conclusive evidence” as to which three lacrosse players raped the dancer at a North Buchanan Boulevard house party last month. (Emphases added)
But we know it didn’t provide conclusive evidence. What now, Mike? In other news, families of Duke lacrosse players are fighting back. Based on the word of one woman, a university, its students, and its heritage are being vilified. The whole, highly-charged racial mess is supremely ignorant, but it’s good copy.
Mike Nifong said this investigation is still open, and as I wrote yesterday, it should remain open. At this point, we can only assume he’s investigating other possible suspects. Where was the stripper before she showed up at Duke? Can we assume he’s questioning and testing those people? If those people are black, his racial crusade is lost. We’ll see what develops in this sordid mess…
Nifong has been “overly vigilant” but has arrested no one.
Peter Bradley on fake-hating.
Here’s an earlier story about the strange 911 call.
Blogger Roscoe blogs about something I haven’t thought much about: potential witnesses at the party. Is Mike Nifong pressing anyone else who attended the party, aside from the players, about what happened that night? Surely, someone saw/heard something. It’s virtually impossible to keep that many people quiet, especially if the DA starts hinting about accessory charges. Until we know what the DA is or isn’t doing, we’ll have to assume. Step up, indeed.
In that regard, should we assume Nifong is doing something besides giving stump speeches to black groups who won’t be voting for him anyway? Whatever he’s doing, this is certain: Nifong has set race relations in Durham back 50 years. So much for the presumption of innocence and due process.
Double murderer O.J. Simpson got more respect.
Emerging details about that e-mail.
Editorial: “And after all the hyperbole, the DNA evidence, which the DA strongly hinted would be devastating, has come back negative, and he is scrambling to save face and keep the cameras rolling and pointed toward him. All of this has little to do, of course, with the question of whether a crime was commited and by whom.”
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Update: John Leo says, “Duke prosecutor should keep his mouth shut.”
The DA, who I hear is up for re-election, pandered to potential constituents at North Carolina Central University (NCCU), a predominantly black college in Durham. He said the stripper identified one of the alleged rapists. That only proves she was at the party. I imagine the stripper can and probably will identify several more people who were in the house that night. But hey, he’s the attorney; I’m just a J.D.
Marc Sheppard: “Conspicuously — yet not surprisingly — absent however, has been the Rev. Al Sharpton. I presume the Reverend is looking for a way to ease himself into this situation without reminding the world that he has yet to apologize for the Tawana Brawley hoax he was complicit in 18 years ago.”
Neal Boortz: “End of the Duke rape case? No way!”
From the Herald Sun:
Shirika Brammell [NCCU student] said the results left her “surprised and shocked.”
“I was expecting some DNA to be found with the fingernails,” she said.
The alleged victim said some of her fake fingernails came off as she clawed at one of the attacker’s arms. Police later recovered four nails in a bathroom at the party house at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd.
Gwen Ifill interviews a Durham journalist.
A criminologist says the DA is “selling scandal for votes.”
More from Talk Left: “He [the DA] can do DNA testing till the cows come home. If there was none in or on the accuser, none under her fingernails and none on her belongings, how will he ever prove a rape?”
While at Talk Left, I found a link (via this post) to a March 31 story that includes a timeline of events. This mess was strange from the beginning.
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As reported yesterday, no DNA match between 46 members of Duke University’s lacrosse team and the stripper was found. The following are my predictions and amateur analysis: 1-3 are what should happen; 4-6 are what will happen:
1) Evidence of Sexual Assault — Mike Nifong, the Durham district attorney, says he won’t drop the case. He should drop the case against the lacrosse players but not the sexual assault case itself.
I can’t remember which story I read this, but whoever examined the woman after the alleged attack found evidence consistent with a sexual assault. If the stripper had bruises when she arrived at the party, something obviously happened to her. That’s what the DA needs to investigate.
[Update: Hat tip to Different River for pointing me to the search warrant affidavit, which contains info about the "victim's" condition.]
Theory: As I wrote yesterday, if the stripper had sex that night, it wasn’t with any of the 46 lacrosse players. It’s possible that she had sex with the untested black player or someone else at the party, but I think the stripper was roughed up by her “boyfriend” or some “client” beforehand. She likely arrived at the party drunk and felt like causing a scene after one or some of the attendees insulted her. A house full of drunk white guys would only lend credibility to her fake claims.
She used the legal system and played on people’s resentment, envy, and anger to exact revenge against the “rich” college boys.
2) Prosecutorial Misconduct? — Wendy McElroy cites the Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
3) False Police Report — If the stripper wasn’t raped by three (four?) lacrosse players at the party and made up the whole thing, she should be charged with making a false police report. Duke University should file in civil court against the stripper for defamation, although they’d never see one red cent. By the way, has anyone tracked down the fake rape accuser’s name?
4) Conspiracy Theories — Get ready to hear some of the most absurd conspiracy theories since Katrina evacuees claimed they heard a bomb exploding near the levees: the lab technician (even if he/she is black) “fixed” the test and doctored the results; the white lawyers are lying about the DNA test results; some player’s rich daddy paid off the DA to bungle the case, etc.
Some of the stripper’s black supporters may doubt her story now, but cognitive dissonance or resentment (or boredom) will cause them to latch on to any plausible-sounding conspiracy theory instead of conceding the obvious.
5) The Stripper Who Cried Wolf — The next time a black woman cries white gang rape, people will be more skeptical because the fake rape allegations at Duke will be fresh in their minds. The next time any woman cries rape, people will be more skeptical because the fake rape allegations at Duke will be fresh in their minds. It’s not fair, but it’s human nature.
6) Victim Nation — This fiasco adds fuel to the victimhood fire in America that is already burning out of control. No one is responsible for his own actions, and it’s always someone else’s fault that we’ve made a sordid mess of our lives. If you’re black, all you need do is tell your sob story to bored, useless “civil rights” groups like the NAACP, and the jaded, left-leaning media will handle your PR.
You know what? I’d probably be more successful as a writer if I joined the victim horde. I could blame my former drinking habit on the chains that bound my dead ancestors. To excuse my previously promiscuous ways, I could point to the paucity of black faces on the idiot box. I could call the EEOC and file a race discrimination claim because my white competitor has more clients than I do. Or I could sue my favorite clothing store because the last time I was there, the saleswoman kept eyeing me and following me around. Oh…wait a second…she’s black.
This might work: I could sue the corporation and claim that since we’re both suffering from the “legacy of slavery,” we should both be compensated for racist store policies that force her to eye other black women who shop at the store.
A few wise words by an unknown author to women who take off their clothes for a living and men who give drunken parties and hire women to take off their clothes:
Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig enjoys it.
(Image by CBS/The Early Show)
