Duke Faux Rape: Charges to be Dropped

Lara Setrakian, ABC News, reports, “Duke Lacrosse Case Charges to Be Dropped:”

April 10, 2007 — The office of North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper will announce that he is dismissing all charges against three Duke Lacrosse players, ABC News has learned from sources close to the case

Dropped but I hope not forgotten.  Over the couple of days, I have heard professional race huckers moan about how bad if feels for your daughter to called a ho.  True, Yet Cyrstal Gail Mangum and Mike Nifong collaborated to call Reade Seligmann, David Evans and Collin Finnerty rapists, with utter disregard for the truth and the feelings of either the young gentlemen or their families.

Don Imus has indicated that he will personally apologize to Rutgers girls basketball team, as he should.  Now I call for Mangum and Nifong to personally apologize to Seligman, Evans, Finnerty and the entire Duke lacross team.  Nothing less will be acceptable.

Addendum:(Bit)

Call it venting, if you like, But I’m going to invoke editors’ privilege, in agreement with David’s post, and I’m even going to flesh it out some, because I think he’s hit on something important.
We all know about Don Imus, who opened his mouth and made a couple of comments, and in truth hurt nobody but himself with those comments, and yet he spends an awful lot of time of late on the “white man apology tour”.

At the same time, we have the Duke lacrosse team , three members of which have had their lives stolen from them by an overzealous prosecution, and by news agencies who apparently took the attitude of “there are a rich white boys who inflicted themselves on a poor black woman, they must be guilty, shut down the Lacrosse team, jail the suspects:, etc..” Do you understand what I'[m saying here? An entire year has been stolen from the lives of these boys, along with their reputations.

I understand that sometimes legalities being what they are, these things move slowly. But why is it the people responsible for what these boys went through are still on the street? Why did they still have jobs? Why are they not in jail? I’m not just talking about the criminal justice system which was abused by Mike Nifong in his efforts to appear the hero, and thereby get reelected; I’m not just talking about the fools who elected Nifong…. I”m also also talking about the local and national newspapers who treated these boys as guilty, I’m talking about the local and national talk shows which did precisely the same thing… all of whom did so despite what little evidence there was pointing away from the boys being guilty.

I am certain there are civil suits to follow in this, richly deserved. The woman making the accusation deserves jail time, as well, as do the responsible or, should I say irresponsible, elected officials. Jail time for these people, is certainly less than they deserve, but they probably won’t get it. I’m enough of a realist to understand that part of it.
But the obvious question is, where are the apologies to these boys ? I mean, would it be too much to also ask, for a public apology from each of these people, to the city, the state, the country… and those boys? Seems to me, that they were hurt worse by this affair, than anyone could be hurt by anything a shock jock is going to say.

Priorities.  What is of greater importance?

Afterthought: (Bit)

Or, strangely enough, do they both spring from the same ideals? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s character, Sherlock Holmes, used to say that if all credible options have been exhausted, then the answer must lie in the incredible.  Well, let’s consider; What do these instances have in common?

In both cases, blacks were supposedly on the fuzzy end of the stick.  In both cases these wrongs were supposedly inflicted by “privileged, rich whites”.  In both cases the “black leaders” such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton , leaped into the fray, with mouths ablazing, claiming “racism”.  Although, at least in the Duke case, the trace hucksters had the good sense to shut up about it, because it looked like it was starting to go all wrong.  We never heard an apology from them, however.
I find myself in an awkward situation; I find myself forced by logic to present a limited defense for Imus, against a goodly amount of his accusers.  True, he’s an idiot, and I’ve called for him to be gone.  But not because he’s a racist, because I don’t think he is.  But because he’s an idiot. He mishandled the entire situation.  First thing out of his mouth should have been “Hey, look, I’m just echoing what I hear on black radio stations day in and day out.”  Instead, he gives his attackers credence.  Like I said; Stupid. REAL Stupid.  But in the end, Imus does not deserve the treatment he’s getting over this. He’s a convenient target for the leftist mantra of white guilt.The reason I think he’s an idiot, is he bent over and took it.  He should not have.

Well, funny thing, so were the Duke players…  Seligman, Evans, Finnerty and for that matter, the entire Duke lacross team. they, too, were the victim of the leftist mantra of white guilt.

Another description for it is reverse discrimination.

The really frightening thing about all of this is, that until that situation is brought under control these two situations are going to be merely the starting point.  These double standards, so long as they’re allowed to continue, will.  As Boortz said the other day, the price on this stuff keeps going up, too.