Thursday, April 12, 2007
Duke
Just tossing in, for the record, a couple of comments on recent Big Stories.
The Duke mess has finally come to a highly satisfying conclusion. It was obvious to me from the very start that the accusation was false, as it was to anyone who has been on the wrong side of the law, or in fact to anyone who has lived a less-than-sheltered life.
Indeed it's amazing and refreshing to hear the NC Attorney General state openly that the 3 men are INNOCENT. I'm genuinely and thoroughly surprised. Lawyers usually stick together, and usually refuse to distinguish between "technically not guilty" and "factually innocent". We have fallen into a pit of stupidity wherein "we must always wait for the jury to decide" and "we must always respect the decision of the jury." Cooper pulled us out of that pit, and for the first time in recent memory acknowledged that TRUTH DOES EXIST, regardless of what the Trial Process finds.
Bravo, AG Cooper! Will you be running for President? Or will one of the candidates declare a willingness to hire Cooper as US AG if elected?
One thing that hasn't been said: Obviously Crystal knew with fair certainty that she could get Criminal Nifong to go along with her false accusation. I doubt that she knew Criminal Nifong; probably didn't even know his name. But she knew - from long experience with our court system - that her accusation would not be filtered or tested, and that she could destroy those boys and protect her pimp without any hindrance.
She would have been perfectly correct under normal circumstances.
This measures the depth and totality of the corruption in our court system. Thanks to Comrades McKinnon and Friedan, any insane female can do anything she wants to any innocent male, and the court system will take her false case all the way to its horrible conclusion with no interference from such trivia as facts, law or truth.
We finally have a large and well-publicized exception to Crystal's assumption. Let's hope the exception begins to spread, so that non-wealthy victims of false accusers can also have a chance.
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The Imus mess is hardly worth commenting, but again one thing that hasn't been said. Emperors Jackson and Sharpton are not elected officials. What is the source of their universal power? Simple. They are gang leaders. They can start a riot. So: by bowing down to Gang Leaders Jackson and Sharpton, the broadcasters are behaviorally stating that blacks are violent and undomesticated. If any public figure dared to make this statement openly and verbally, he would be defenestrated ten times faster than Imus, and quite possibly killed. Nevertheless, by acting on the implied threat, broadcasters are saying that gangs are the only meaningful segment of the black population. Does this help the non-violent and domesticated blacks? Not 'ardly, guvnor. They are the primary victims of the gangs, after all. ¶ 2:43 PM
The Duke mess has finally come to a highly satisfying conclusion. It was obvious to me from the very start that the accusation was false, as it was to anyone who has been on the wrong side of the law, or in fact to anyone who has lived a less-than-sheltered life.
Indeed it's amazing and refreshing to hear the NC Attorney General state openly that the 3 men are INNOCENT. I'm genuinely and thoroughly surprised. Lawyers usually stick together, and usually refuse to distinguish between "technically not guilty" and "factually innocent". We have fallen into a pit of stupidity wherein "we must always wait for the jury to decide" and "we must always respect the decision of the jury." Cooper pulled us out of that pit, and for the first time in recent memory acknowledged that TRUTH DOES EXIST, regardless of what the Trial Process finds.
Bravo, AG Cooper! Will you be running for President? Or will one of the candidates declare a willingness to hire Cooper as US AG if elected?
One thing that hasn't been said: Obviously Crystal knew with fair certainty that she could get Criminal Nifong to go along with her false accusation. I doubt that she knew Criminal Nifong; probably didn't even know his name. But she knew - from long experience with our court system - that her accusation would not be filtered or tested, and that she could destroy those boys and protect her pimp without any hindrance.
She would have been perfectly correct under normal circumstances.
This measures the depth and totality of the corruption in our court system. Thanks to Comrades McKinnon and Friedan, any insane female can do anything she wants to any innocent male, and the court system will take her false case all the way to its horrible conclusion with no interference from such trivia as facts, law or truth.
We finally have a large and well-publicized exception to Crystal's assumption. Let's hope the exception begins to spread, so that non-wealthy victims of false accusers can also have a chance.
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The Imus mess is hardly worth commenting, but again one thing that hasn't been said. Emperors Jackson and Sharpton are not elected officials. What is the source of their universal power? Simple. They are gang leaders. They can start a riot. So: by bowing down to Gang Leaders Jackson and Sharpton, the broadcasters are behaviorally stating that blacks are violent and undomesticated. If any public figure dared to make this statement openly and verbally, he would be defenestrated ten times faster than Imus, and quite possibly killed. Nevertheless, by acting on the implied threat, broadcasters are saying that gangs are the only meaningful segment of the black population. Does this help the non-violent and domesticated blacks? Not 'ardly, guvnor. They are the primary victims of the gangs, after all. ¶ 2:43 PM
