“No Entry”… nice touch
The Duke lacrosse rape case has been like an ESPN instant classic, going back and forth in shifts in momentum between the two sides. For a week, public sentiment was on the side of the Duke players after DNA tests came up negative and a report that the police officer who found the accuser described her as ‘passed-out drunk’, further giving credence to the lax players’ assertion that the woman was already intoxicated when she arrived at the house. Things were looking good for the lacrosse players until early this morning, when two players, Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty were charged and arrested in connection to the rape. District Attorney Mike Nifong is collecting evidence for a third arrest, which means there’s a player out there who is peeing his pants.
Of course, the lawyer for Finnerty has maintained both players’ innoncence.
The (grand) jury only heard one side of the story. They almost always indict. The next jury will hear the entire story, which will include our evidence. We’re confident that these young men will be found innocent.
If you’re wondering where you’ve heard the name Colin Finnerty before, it’s because he’s already in trouble in D.C. for attacking a man and calling him gay. Oh, and before Duke takes it down, check out Colin’s personal page on the Duke website. Insert your own joke about Duke lacrosse players and cloning.
In a related development, the second dancer gave a silhouetted television interview on MSNBC where she said the alleged victim was coherent and not intoxicated when they first arrived at the house but upon leaving an hour later, “She couldn’t really walk on her own. She really couldn’t get her thoughts together enough to answer any questions. … She was a different person than I met at the beginning.” She also identified herself as the person who called 911 and pretended to be a pass-by who some of the players yelled the N word at.
We’ll keep you updated as this story develops but for now, here’s some of the reaction around the blogosphere:
[Liberally Conservative]: “What these irresponsible media outlets do is create guilt before a regular court trial commences, as they try the cases on national television. The person making allegations, the prosecutors seeking public approval get the benefit while the real victims are the person(s) charged with the alleged crime. They are guilty before having the opportunity to prove their innocence. This is due process, a constitutional right.”
[Plum Crazy]: “(Because Kids Never Lie to Their Parents) Well, I’m convinced the Duke Lacrosse team is innocent of all charges after reading comments from the father of one of the players.”
[The Passion of the Zanfardino]: “The DA in the Duke Lacrosse thing should be ashamed of himself. He granted 70+ interviews when the case first broke, all proclaiming that the complainant had been raped. For him to suddenly, upon hearing that no DNA evidence came back either on the victim, her clothing, or belongings, proclaim that the defense attorneys were talking too much is ludicrous. Ideally, of course, both sides would have stayed quiet.”
[Right in the Lumberyard]: “Jessie Jackson and anyone else stirring up the local populace, have already condemned the whole team, and not necessarily of rape. They’ve condemned them of being priveleged and white and if we can get a real crime in there along with that, all the better, but dammit, they need to be punished. They aren’t interested in justice. They want people sacrificed.”
Links:
[MSNBC]: 2 Duke lacrosse players arrested in rape case
[News & Observer]: Two arrests made in Duke lacrosse case
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She should be prosecuted for making a false claim — Stripper claims: She struggled so hard fighting off these three white men that five of her press on nails fell off.
Facts: nails were recovered and no DNA were found under the nails; no scratches were found anywhere on any of the boys. No scratch marks were found anywhere on any of the boys’ bodies.
Stripper claims: three men raped her on the bathroom rug,
Fact:
* No vaginal or seminal fluid, no skin, blood, or hair were found anywhere in the bathroom, bath towels, bath rug, door handle, bathroom floor, basin, water faucet handle, etc.
* A man cannot take off a condom and not get DNA from himself or the female on his hands and not transfer it to everything he touches?
* Accuser claims she was vaginally penetrated; accuser claims she was panicked and thought she was going to die; Where is her vaginal fluid, urine, or blood anywhere in the bathroom? Does her body defy basic physiology capable of keeping any ejaculate from spilling out?
* Accuser claims she was anally penetrated; Where’s her fecal material or scat smears in the bathroom? Does the accuser have inhuman anal sphinter control that prevented any of the ejaculate from dripping out?
* Accuser claims she was orally sodomized; where is DNA from her saliva and tears? Did she lick up every drop and swallowed any evidence?
DNA evidence not connecting the boys to the “criminal stripper” is significant enough, but absolutely no DNA at all is significant in suggesting the rape never occurred at all!
Stripper claim bruises were result of an attack from three boys:
Fact: Time-stamped photos prove stripper arrived bruised and cut while drunk.
Pictures show the stripper performed without the finger nails, and her knees were bruised before she arived.
Nifong stated that a condom was used, if this is true than where is the spermicidal lubricant evidence? Where are the condoms? Where are the condom wrappers? Where is the empty condom box?
If no DNA material were present on the stripper, than why were DNA samples taken? The District Attorney vigorously claimed that these DNA evidence will clear the innocent.
The second stripper stated that she didn’t notice any rape, and when they got back in the car the “accuser” didn’t mention anything about being rape.
Apparently the “second stripper charged with embezzling $25,000” changed her story to conspire with the “lying stripper under-probation-for-larceny-and-trying-to-kill-a-police-officer-with-a-stolen-car” as part of a deal with Nifong to get released from jail, also contacted a public relations firm to “not let this opportunity pas her by and to spin it to my advantage”.
This in the wake of pictures surfacing showing that the “lying stripper” had those fake finger nails missing before the time she lied that a rape occurred.
With the taste of his own foot still lingering in his mouth, District Attorney Mike Nifong has another piece of evidence blow up in his face, I wonder how’s his ulcer is doing?
So would it be his own aura or is it the universe’s way of getting back at Nifong for destroying these young boys lives?
It would be funny if Nifong’s ulcer leads to a colonoscopy, or would it be “ironic” or “poetic justice” that he screws 47 boys over a false rape claim and have to take a 36 inch colonoscopy tube up his @ss for his part in the fiasco he created.
Lets not forget that not only that there lacks any DNA evidence of the boys, but there’s an absolute absence of DNA from her who claims she was raped vaginally, anally, and orally… why wasn’t any of HER vaginal, urine, blood, sweat, fecal, saliva, or tears not found anywhere in the bathroom? Nifong claims that condoms could have been used, then where are the condoms? The condom wrappers, the condom box, the spermicidal evidence from the rape kit?
Some feminist claim the boys were drunk and where so overwhelmed with excitement that they couldn’t ejaculate- not even one, obviously these women have never had sex with a 19 year old male or any male.
Finally, don’t forget the three boys who lived in the house agreed to be questioned by the police for over six hours, and volunteered to a lie detector test. When the boys were told to surrender DNA samples, none called their parents r tried to block the order, they complied because they new the “stripper with the criminal record” was lying. These are not the actions of guilty boys, but Nifong claimed that they were all covering up for each other and will charge each of them with aiding and abetting because the only information they had is that no rape occurred.
These boys were and continue to be put through hell by these criminal strippers and an unscrupulous DA. Hopefully these three will be held accountable for the racial riots pending the acquittal of these innocent boys.
Below is the text of the e-mail sent by Kim Roberts to 5W Public Relations in New York. Roberts, an exotic dancer, accompanied the woman accusing members of the Duke University men’s lacrosse team of raping her the night of March 13.
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 2:21 PM
To: Ronn Torossian
Subject: duke lacrosse scandal
Hi!
My name is Kim and I am involved in the Duke Lacrosse scandal. Although I am no celebrity and just an average citizen, I’ve found myself in the center of one of the biggest stories in the country. I’m worried about letting this opportunity pass me by without making the best of it and was wondering if you had any advice as to how to spin this to my advantage. I am determined not to let any negative publicity about my life overtake me. I’m so confused as to who to talk to for relevant advice and I hope that you can return my e-mail. If you cannot help, do you know of any names and numbers I can call?
Thanks for your time,
Kim Roberts
Stripper, Model, Escort, Witness
Rape shields were created in the 1970s to protect the alleged “victim” from having her reputation ruined by baseless assumptions, unfair judgments, public humiliation, and character assassinations, but any of this could describe what’s happening to every member of the lacrosse team.
Irresponsible “special interest groups” have held protests everyday holding the name and pictures of anyone on the lacrosse team, to having their pictures and hate slogans pasted all over school. The actions of these groups against these men are nothing short of harassment and unfair character assassination.
Media hungry District Attorney Mike Nifong stated he is positive a rape has occurred, but he isn’t sure if it’s by the members of the lacrosse team, yet he obtained an order to get DNA samples from only the members of the team, then he stated on a national news program that the lacrosse team has a “rowdy” reputation on campus – obviously playing up to sexist stereotyping of jocks to further play his case for the media. As Nifong continues to publicly massacre the characters out his case for public consumption, he claims that the team is “stonewalling the investigation” because they claim not to have any knowledge of what transpired, but is Nifong now believing the men to be telling the truth as he recently changed his tune stating that even if the DNA evidence clears these boys that he’ll have other evidence.
Opportunistic political groups have descended on Duke’s campus using unscrupulous methods to get media attention at the expense of innocent young men who happen to be on the lacrosse team. Young men who were too recently, only boys not yet ready to handle this ugly side of the world. In today’s climate, we need the rape shield laws extended to protect all the innocent, including those who just happen to get in the way of media hungry district attorneys and opportunistic political groups.
District Attorney Mike Nifong’s should be held accountable for the irresponsible actions he’s taken in this rape investigation.
The boys are being tried in the national media before there is any charge are made. Nifong stated that someone else could have assaulted the 27 year old stripper, yet he publicly damned the men’s lacrosse team and only the men’s lacrosse team as gang rapist, and still not knowing whether or not the “alleged victim” was telling the truth, or if the three men sought are on the team, Nifong claims the team is stonewalling to protect its own.
In response, daily protest are held with hate comments made directly to the lacrosse teammates, pictures of the teammates with rape slogans are plastered all over Duke’s campus, and now gang members are driving by the east campus threatening students.
Nifong’s circus-like antics to perform for the national media has put the whole campus in danger.
Nifong proclaimed in the national media that the DNA sweep of 46 boys would find the guilty and clear the innocent. DNA tests prove that the boys of the lacrosse team were telling the truth, but Nifong wants to go ahead with the case only weeks before his election against a woman and a black man. There should be laws in place to prevent unscrupulous politician like District Attorney Mike Nifong from bulldozing over 47 innocent boys just to bask in the international media spot-light.