It is not good to pray for some one’s trouble, but it is ok to pray for justice. God, give Nifungu a good job in the para legal pool in Kansas.

Comment by kempermanx

Yup, bums me out. Last time the ‘Heels played in Durham, Bunting was awarded a contract extension.
I have a sense that won’t be happening again this year…..

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My friend seemed to imply that he thinks Nifungu is going to trial, even if the photo Id is thrown out and he was worried about our own “OJ” trial where the jury is packed with folks who want to get whitey. He also said Nifungu would have to resign if he loses his license, even for a short period. DA jobs requires you to be a LICENSED attorney in NC.

And Duke lost another game, but UNC is coming up. The Battle of the bums?

http://www.heraldsun.com/sports/18-780800.html

“Duke athletics director Joe Alleva said that if Finnerty and Seligmann were cleared of the charges, it first would be up to the university to decide their fate.

“The key word there is ‘consider.’ “

Very politically correct.

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I suppose I ought to repeat this (from the report of the commission on the team’s conduct to Brodhead), just for the record :

1.”None of the misconduct involved fighting, sexual assault or harassment, or racist slurs.” There was no evidence “that the cohesiveness of this group is either racist or sexist.”

5.They are polite, non-disruptive students who have “performed well academically.”

Of course, this leaves us incredulous, because we all know that it is not possible for athletes, especially those engaged in helmeted sports who come from well-to-do backgrounds and went to prep schools, to emerge as anything other than hubris-laden thugs.

I’m sure the commission will be revising its report to be more in line with correct thinking, just as soon as they return from their stint in the re-education camp.

My other concern for the three young men and their families: How likely is it that Nifong has some kind of serious unknown (but manufactured) evidence that he will spring only at the trial? He’s ignored most of the prosecution rules of conduct to this point, so why would he worry about NC’s evidence/discovery law? If he drops the case anytime prior to trial he’s in trouble legally. So why not keep exploiting the obviously weak oversight system in place that has not stopped him to this point. And Nifong probably knows of the low likelihood of the judge throwing out this surprise “evidence” if it could significantly support Nifong’s charges. Judges are elected officials also…

Of course in the end, the argument will be: “It would get overturned on appeal.” But by then Nifong escapes any legal or criminal liability (he got the conviction, after all). In the meantime, the lives of these boys are surely ruined–literally destroyed–manipulated by a seriously corrupt individual and government who are willing to sacrifice lives in the name of politics…

It really is hard to believe that anyone with some authority at the state or federal level has not at least taken a hard look at this. Have politics really screwed up the values of elected officials and government agencies that badly?

And where is the outrage from the ACLU? (no need to answer–it is simply a rhetorical question about these ‘fair-weather’ folks).

The Duke case made news BEFORE (almost) anyone realized that the allegations were actually false. Normally, the first time we learn that someone has been falsely accused (or even accused in the first place) is when they are released from prison or the charges are dropped and the obligatory newspaper article appears.

Here, the Duke case was already in the news. The allegations were spoon fed to a complicit media that adopted the allegations unquestioningly and splashed those allegations as the lead story on nightly TV shows and on the cover of newspapers and magazines. But for the initial media attention, this injustice would be like so many others – ignored and unknown. To me the initial media attention is ironically the very thing that may do the most to now save those accused.

Translation: Shade I don’t like your point of view but I don’t have an intelligent counter point so I will resort to childish name calling.

Corey Maye is a black man, who shot a southern white cop during a SWAT type middle of the night raid, who claims to have thought to have shot a home intruder in self defense.

The case is supported by the extremely conservative Cato Institute, gun rights crowd (we can fatally shoot anyone who comes in our house), and by blacks who think he was convicted of murder because he was black.

IMHO Cory Maye demonstrates the risks of both middle of the night SWAT raids AND using a gun for self defense. Any mistake can be fatal. Maye could have been sleeping when the police announced they were police and not have heard.

My guess is that there is more to the story. I don’t know what Corey Maye’s legal strategy was, but he may have turned down a plea of manslaughter or something and rolled the dice saying he had no responsibility for any mistake – he could have just been stupid, but if you are stupid don’t use a gun for what you think is self defense.

Also odd is that Maye had the trial location changed from his home black-majority district to a neighboring white-majority district – usually a stupid thing for a black man to do – UNLESS your black neighbors know you are a dumb thug and would be happy to send you to prision to get you out of the hood.

Donna Shalala on the Florida football fracas :

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/NCAA/2006/10/17/2051478-ap.html

“This university will be firm and punish people who do bad things,” Shalala said. “But we will not throw any student under the bus for instant restoration of our image or our reputation. I will not hang them in a public square. I will not eliminate their participation at the university. I will not take away their scholarships.”

and :

“It’s time for the feeding frenzy to stop,” Shalala said. “These young men made a stupid, terrible, horrible mistake and they are being punished.”

(There’s a university president acting like a university president, with the best interests of the students in mind.)

If Precious was accusing Bill Clinton of ripping off her pants to make her his cigar humidor for the evening, there would be nary a word of the incident in Newsweek ….