Duke Rape Case
April 20th, 2006
The Drudge Report is displaying a picture of the so called victim in the Duke Rap scandal or better know as the Duke helps DA get reelected campaign. They also have a poll asking if they should release the name of the victim to the media. I voted, yes all the way. If you are going to call out two men for doing something and then plaster them all over the news and ruin there lives (if they did it or not) then the victims name should be released too (if she was raped or not). What do you think?
Nice Guy said:
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.
Until fair and equal treatment is obtained, we should be able to learn the “accuser’s” name!
farrelley said:
Nice Guy,
I agree. One thing that I am very confused on now is that the victim said she couldn’t identify the rapist if she saw all 47 of them in a line up. However, only white players where tested for DNA, and when presented with pictures of the players, she identified the ones with scratch marks on there bodies, let alone the ones that come from well off families. Now, these pictures that she used were days after the alleged rape. Think about this, Lacrosse is a full contact sport, how do you think those scratches got on their bodies. If she can’t identify the people that she says rapped her then test all players on the team, white and black and throw the pictures used to identify the alleged suspects out.
Tacopma said:
Whats up,
This girl is looking to blame her stupidity on. She was drunk when the officers found her. They said she looked dead, but was breathing. How does she know which alleged lacrosse player raped her (if it even happened) Seems like this is racial to me. She only picked white, well to do plaers, and why wasn’t all the players tested, and wait was it just a lacrosse party or was it party THAT OTHER PEOPLE COULD HAVE ATTENDED. Seems like a scam to me man, and I feel sorry for Duke University and the Lacrosse team.
Nice Guy said:
Don’t forget, she was arrested a few years back for larceny and trying to run over a police officer with a stolen car, in her drunken stupor, what if she thought the only way not to get her probation revoked was to claim she was raped! This whole mess is of her and the DA’s making, if racial riots results, they should be held accountable.
Betty Friedan said:
Ever since every sexist and racist group descended onto Duke to publicly condemn these boys, I went into over drive trying to make people consider that these boys wouldn’t have submitted to DNA testing if they were guilty, but since the 1st DNA evidence came back, I became more persistent and met equally persistent feminist (i.e. feministing, Rachael’s Tavern, Alas a blog, Tennessee Guerrilla Women, Justice4Sisters, Hazel8500 etc…) who adamantly insist these boys are guilty for no other reason than because a “woman” (i.e. the stripper) claims it so.
I’ve noticed since then that most of feminist blogs have fallen silent as new evidence suggests that the stripper’s claim to be false.
However, just when you think this case hit rock bottom, there’s about 50 feet of crap, then you find a sub-basement where in the corner Mike Nifong is hunched over clutching this dead case like “Gulum” (movie: Lord of the Rings) clutches the “ring of power”.
A great place to view that unbiased facts is:
http://www.dukebasketballreport.com/ourcall/index.cgi?501
http://johninnorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2006/06/duke-lacrosse-newsweek-abandons.html
http://commonsensewonder.com/?p=738
“If Mike Nifong doesn’t get disbarred after this, then there really is a corrupt system in Durham that protects rich white guys. In Nifong’s case - stupid rich white guys with transparent political agendas.”