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Duke Lacrosse Fallout: Nifong Out, 89 More To Go…

Posted by GayPatriot at 8:36 pm - June 15, 2007.
Filed under: Carolina News,Constitutional Issues,Leftist Nutjobs,Liberals,Living In Red State America,Media Bias

Disgraced Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong (D) will resign regardless of the decision of the North Carolina State Bar Association as to his future.

“It has become increasingly apparent during the course of this week, in some ways that it may not have been before, that my presence as the district attorney in Durham is not furthering the cause of justice,” Nifong said. “It is not fair that the people of my community to be representing by someone who is not held in high esteem by either the members of the community or members of the profession.

“It does not contribute to the cause of justice in Durham for me to serve as the sitting district attorney for every time I walk into the courtroom [there are] people pointing a finger at me and saying there’s the guy in the Duke Lacrosse case.”

Duke University President Richard Brodhead had the following reaction to Nifong’s announcement today:

“Mr. Nifong brought great harm to these Duke students and their families, to the Durham community, and to Duke University and all who care about it. Even though his decision to resign comes under threat of sanctions by the North Carolina State Bar, I welcome it. It sets the stage for a healing process to which we all are committed.”

However, on April 6, 2006, Brodhead seemed to forget about “innocent until proven guilty” when it came to the Duke students maliciously accused of rape.

Brodhead should be the next to resign. 

But closely far behind should be all 88 members of the Duke faculty who engaged in the most hysterical, race-baiting and disgusting efforts to convict the Duke players and the University itself in the public domain.  Here’s a sample of the so-called Group of 88′s “Listening Statement.”

We are listening to our students. We’re also listening to the Durham community, to Duke staff, and to each other.  Regardless of the results of the police investigation, what is apparent everyday now is the anger and fear of many students who know themselves to be objects of racism and sexism, who see illuminated in this moment’s extraordinary spotlight what they live with everyday. They know that it isn‘t just Duke, it isn‘t everybody, and it isn‘t just individuals making this disaster.

But it is a disaster nonetheless.

These students are shouting and whispering about what happened to this young woman and to themselves.

. . .We want the absence of terror. But we don’t really know what that means . . . We can’t think. That’s why we’re so silent; we can’t think about what’s on the other side of this. Terror robs you of language and you need language for the healing to begin.

Unfortunately these days, America’s universities rarely do the right thing and show accountability.  One can only hope there would be 89 more resignations following Nifong’s.  It would be true justice.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

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35 Comments

  1. None of these municipal or collegial mea culpas compensate the boys’ families for their legal expenses in excess of three-million-dollars; nor restores their and their familes’ good-names…the dark shadow lingers.

    Comment by Ted B. (Charging Rhino) — June 15, 2007 @ 9:25 pm - June 15, 2007

  2. If there is a way to sue Nifong, I hope the REAL victims in this case do it. If not, I’m satisfied with his public disgrace, loss of office and probably disbarment. As for Brodhead, that’s up to the alumnus to force him out as well as any of the other 88. Hope they get some scalps if not all of them.

    Comment by John — June 15, 2007 @ 10:51 pm - June 15, 2007

  3. Now if only that other abhorrent, bastardization of justice would come to a better conclusion.

    Comment by ThatGayConservatives — June 16, 2007 @ 1:28 am - June 16, 2007

  4. Oooh. Just noticed my name is plural.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — June 16, 2007 @ 1:28 am - June 16, 2007

  5. There’s one sure way to punish the 88: the student newspaper should publish the names, photos, and contact info of each one, and urge all students to a) refuse to take courses with them, and b) refuse to pay their tuition until each has been fired.

    Comment by PHL — June 16, 2007 @ 11:58 am - June 16, 2007

  6. You’re not holding your breath waiting for those 89 resignations, are you? I know one of the Gang of 88 — we were in grad school at the same time. She (and I suspect most of the others) is even more resolute, now that the whole thing is undeniably a disgrace.

    Comment by rightwingprof — June 16, 2007 @ 12:16 pm - June 16, 2007

  7. (I imagine them thinking…) The fact that people focus on the innocence of the players – the Stalinist, trumped-up quality of the empty charges against them – instead of listening to the wisdom of the Gang of 88, is in itself further proof of society’s racism and sexism.

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — June 16, 2007 @ 2:08 pm - June 16, 2007

  8. #7 – More like Maoist “self-criticism,” if you ask me.

    And not only should these members of the Gang of 88 (including the Duke prez) resign, but Reade, Seligmann et al should also sue the “Reverends” Jackson and Sharpton for unspecified damages.

    And maybe someone can answer this nagging question for me: exactly which churches are these “Reverends” the heads of? And who attends these so-called churches?

    Regards,
    Peter H.

    Comment by Peter Hughes — June 16, 2007 @ 3:50 pm - June 16, 2007

  9. Good questions :-)

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — June 16, 2007 @ 4:02 pm - June 16, 2007

  10. One lesson to be learned: Don’t pick a stripper / prostitute who has nothing to lose to entertain at your party.

    Comment by Kevin — June 16, 2007 @ 4:58 pm - June 16, 2007

  11. I can’t say that I’ve been paying real close attention to the aftermath of this case (are the ex-defendants suing?) but it seems to have parallels to past child “abuse” witch hunts (like Wenatchee, WA; the McMartin Presochool case and, I think, some victims of former Miami DA Janet Reno).

    Victims of malicious (bad faith) prosecutions should be able to sue the responsible governments for mucho dinero.

    I can imagine a case here and there where taxpayers faced enormous property tax surcharges to pay off a few of these judgements would cause an otherwise somnolent electorate to start paying attention to who they elect and what they’re up to.

    Holding the electorate responsible for its choices would probably change the political climate in (mostly) beneficial ways.

    Comment by Robert — June 16, 2007 @ 5:10 pm - June 16, 2007

  12. #10 – Kevin off on Planet Kevin, as usual. (Or maybe it’s that gay concentration camp.) Crystal Mangum had a very great deal to lose. And, sadly, through Nifong’s misconduct (and possibly hers as well)… she did.

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — June 16, 2007 @ 5:24 pm - June 16, 2007

  13. One lesson to be learned: Don’t pick a stripper / prostitute who has nothing to lose to entertain at your party.

    A better lesson would be not to attend a liberal run university where you can be thrown under the bus, libeled and slandered as a matter of course and for fun and profit.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — June 17, 2007 @ 12:37 am - June 17, 2007

  14. That or root out these disgraceful liberals and dispatch them to the nether-regions from whenst they came.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — June 17, 2007 @ 12:38 am - June 17, 2007

  15. 13: Give it a rest. I’m tired of people complaining about being forced to attend “liberal” universities. They should attend a conservative university if they have such a problem with it. Frankly, I’m on the side of these players who were railroaded at all turns and yes, I do agree people jumped to a lot of conclusions about these guys before the evidence was all in (let alone evidence had not been released by the slimebag prosecutor).

    My comment here just juxtapositons with other comments I’ve seen here about civil liberties. The point being that comments in other areas here point out that people who are innocent should have nothing to hide from the government that is attempting to stop further terrorist attacks. In conjntion with that, wouldn’t it be smart to keep your nose clean and not throw/attend parties with hookers/prostitutes/exotic dancers? There doesn’t seem to be anything too cleancut or wholesome about folks who do that; if you’re going to scrape the bottom of the barrel in life, then you should be prepared to fall in – and that’s a personal opinion, not a political one. Frankly, there’s nothing wrong with people engaging in prostitution, etc, but with the screwed up values in this country (people want it, but don’t admit it), then people involved in working in it are are going to be at the bottom of the economic/political/social ladder.

    Comment by Kevin — June 17, 2007 @ 7:26 am - June 17, 2007

  16. They didn’t accept it, and disbarred him.

    Comment by rightwingprof — June 17, 2007 @ 7:42 am - June 17, 2007

  17. Those 88 professors at Duke aren’t really liberals, though. They are Leftists, which is a whole different thing. I think this case has revealed to much of the country how many Leftist professors in the academic world genuinely hate their own students.

    Comment by MJ — June 17, 2007 @ 10:19 am - June 17, 2007

  18. #15 – “In conjntion [sic] with that, wouldn’t it be smart to keep your nose clean and not throw/attend parties with hookers/prostitutes/exotic dancers?”

    If you are going to be that much of a Puritan, Kevin, then I am assuming you avoid any gay bars with “go-go boys” who gyrate around in G-strings or boxer briefs? If not, then you are a hypocrite first class.

    “There doesn’t seem to be anything too cleancut or wholesome about folks who do that; if you’re going to scrape the bottom of the barrel in life, then you should be prepared to fall in…”

    Tell that to the folks who organize Gay Pride parades around these types of people. Does that mean we should judge them by the company they keep?

    Try again.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

    Comment by Peter Hughes — June 17, 2007 @ 2:41 pm - June 17, 2007

  19. Whether the victims are black or white it seems destined that the violation of their civil rights will be led by a white southern Democrat.

    Comment by VinceTN — June 17, 2007 @ 4:39 pm - June 17, 2007

  20. Frankly, I’m on the side of these players who were railroaded at all turns and yes, I do agree people jumped to a lot of conclusions about these guys before the evidence was all in (let alone evidence had not been released by the slimebag prosecutor).

    Then you spin around and state that they deserved what they got:

    There doesn’t seem to be anything too cleancut or wholesome about folks who do that; if you’re going to scrape the bottom of the barrel in life, then you should be prepared to fall in – and that’s a personal opinion, not a political one.

    This is what liberals do. These guys were rich, white kids who ganged up on some poor black woman who was just minding her own business trying to make money to go to school and/or feed her kids. She had no choice.

    Nevermind she lied about being raped, couldn’t keep her story straight and had the rest of Durham’s DNA in her knickers.

    They got first-class railroad treatment by the liberal media, liberal professors, Revs. Sharpton and Jackson, the Black Panthers etc. etc. etc. Their lives were DESTROYED by zealous liberals who ASSumed they were guilty just because they were supposedly rich, white kids.

    And libs on here have the audacity to snark that facts don’t mean a damn to folks on the right? Don’t make me laugh/vomit.

    I give you the Duke “rape” case and the whole Valerie Wilson cluster-fcuck as clear evidence that liberals wouldn’t know facts or reality if it bit them on the ass.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — June 18, 2007 @ 1:21 am - June 18, 2007

  21. Interestingly, if it had been a white woman accusing black students of rape, the libs would have most likely circled the wagons around the black guys.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — June 18, 2007 @ 6:28 am - June 18, 2007

  22. #21 – Right on, TGC. What if it were a rich white sorority girl who claimed she was raped by three members of the Duke basketball team who happened to be black?

    Not only would the NAA(L)CP and Reverend Poverty Pimps be out in full force, but the left would also go through the girl’s past history with a fine-toothed comb to see if she ever was “promiscuous” or “asked for it” from other guys.

    I mean, we’ve seen the GayLibLeft do it to people like Jeff Gannon and Matt Sanchez. The libtard “modus operandi” should really be called the “anus mundi.”

    Regards,
    Peter H.

    Comment by Peter Hughes — June 18, 2007 @ 10:20 am - June 18, 2007

  23. And just as a follow-up, I think Nifong’s in big trouble since the Duke players are going to sue him for damages.

    I would just hope they’d shake down Jackson and Sharpton at the same time. Anyone else notice that the Reverend Poverty Pimps are AWOL?

    Plus – anyone else notice that even though Nifong has a (D) after his name, nobody in the MSM has mentioned it? If he’d have been a Republican, the reporting on the case would have preceded EACH TIME by “Republican DA Mike Nifong….”

    Hypocrisy, thy name is liberalism.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

    Comment by Peter Hughes — June 18, 2007 @ 10:33 am - June 18, 2007

  24. Some of the disbarment “meat” – worth noting.

    The [State Bar] committee said Nifong manipulated the investigation to boost his chances of winning his first election for Durham County district attorney. In doing so, he committed “a clear case of intentional prosecutorial misconduct” that involved “dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation.”

    Appointed district attorney in 2005, Nifong was in a tight race for the office when a stripper told police she was raped at the party. …[The committee chairman said] “we can draw no other conclusion that those initial statements he made were to further his political ambitions.”

    During the ethics trial, Nifong acknowledged he knew there was no DNA evidence connecting [the Duke players] to the 28-year-old accuser when he indicted them…

    …“We acknowledge the actual innocence of the defendants…” [the committee chairman] said.

    …One of the most serious ethics violations Nifong was found to have committed involved his failure to turn over DNA test results that identified genetic material from several men — but no members of the lacrosse team — in the accuser’s underwear and body.

    …The committee found Nifong broke the state’s rules of professional conduct more than two dozen times.

    Crystal Mangum – who may have been mentally unstable before, during and after her bringing the charges, and who has kids to think about – has been put through the mill here. By Nifong. Not to mention the Duke students.

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — June 18, 2007 @ 11:43 am - June 18, 2007

  25. Source for above: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/19264396/

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — June 18, 2007 @ 11:44 am - June 18, 2007

  26. Clarifiying my last sentence: Not to mention the Duke students also being put through the mill, by Nifong.

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — June 18, 2007 @ 11:46 am - June 18, 2007

  27. I totally agree. I think the Duke players should sue Jesse Jackson, sue Al Sharpton, and sue the Duke student groups and faculty groups whose hatemongering and race-baiting ruined their reputations.

    Comment by North Dallas Thirty — June 18, 2007 @ 2:14 pm - June 18, 2007

  28. #27 – ND30, looks like Duke reached a financial settlement with the three accused players. I would assume that this settlement precludes them from suing the university.

    However, the students and their attorneys should now go after Sharpton, Jackson and Nifong in a civil suit. And the sooner the better.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

    Comment by Peter Hughes — June 18, 2007 @ 3:23 pm - June 18, 2007

  29. Also, Greta Van Susteren has a great op/ed piece about Nifong on her blog. Here is the link.

    Personally, I think it would be great if one or all the Duke lacrosse players would write a book about their experiences and do the talk-show circuit. Not only would they get boocoo bucks for doing so, but at the same time reinforce the fact that they were railroaded by a power-hungry DA and the perenially indignant Left.

    Don’t get mad. Get even.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

    Comment by Peter Hughes — June 18, 2007 @ 3:26 pm - June 18, 2007

  30. Even worse than Sharpton and Jackson, though, were the local Durham County activists (especially one group called Ubuntu). They are almost certainly responsible for the Wanted posters showing all 40 of the players that were plastered all over the campus, the potbanging rallies outside the lax house, and holding up a huge Castrate sign. The lawsuits are still not over, and it won’t just be the Duke 3 who will be suing. It will be all 40 of them.

    Comment by MJ — June 18, 2007 @ 7:53 pm - June 18, 2007

  31. The libtard “modus operandi” should really be called the “anus mundi.”

    My Latin’s rusty. Is that anything like Culo Grande?

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — June 19, 2007 @ 1:57 am - June 19, 2007

  32. At any rate, if through some misalignment of the stars, if the liberals were to win the WH, it wouldn’t surprise me that Nifong would be put up for SCOTUS. Any takers?

    That sort of activity would only pad any lib’s resume.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — June 19, 2007 @ 2:01 am - June 19, 2007

  33. #31 – TGC, the term “modus operandi” is “method of operation.” “Anus mundi” is a Latin term that a German doctor came up with to describe Auschwitz – it means “end of the world.” He also rightly called the genocide there “a glimpse into Dante’s Inferno.”

    I’m not even going to comment about Culo Grande. ;-)

    Regards,
    Peter H.

    Comment by Peter Hughes — June 19, 2007 @ 11:37 am - June 19, 2007

  34. #32 – It is going to be hard for Nifong to be any libtard’s choice for SCOTUS now that he’s lost his law license. And if the Senate goes GOP as I predict in 2008, his confirmation is DOA.

    Plus, I daresay that I don’t think either Senator from NC would offer senatorial courtesy for this pile of human debris, no matter which party they represented. They would all but doom their chances for reelection.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

    Comment by Peter Hughes — June 19, 2007 @ 11:39 am - June 19, 2007

  35. Nifong should be sued for all he has and the slut stripper who lied about the Duke players should be prosecuted and go to jail along with Nifong. As for the infamous 88, they should be fired, along with the dean and Sharpton and Jesse Jackson should also be sued for their part in geting the blacks all worked up over nothing. They spread hatred wherever they go and they definitly should not be called “reverend”!

    Comment by liontamer — June 28, 2007 @ 5:25 pm - June 28, 2007

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