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Farewell [Duke Lacrosse Windup]
The Chronicle ^ | 4/23/2007 | Stephen Miller

Posted on 04/24/2007 6:21:22 PM PDT by moneyrunner

Consider the realm of issues where political correctness most strangles the debate-race.

For many at Duke, the last year offered a horrifying tutorial in the moral bankruptcy of the left's politically correct orthodoxy and the corruption of our culture at its hands.

Three of our peers faced a devastating year-long persecution because they were white and their accuser black. Imagine that Collin, Reade and David had been black students, accused of raping a white girl and that they faced a witchhunt led by a prosecutor re-elected thanks to the overwhelming support of the white community. Then imagine this witchhunt was supported by hordes of student protesters, prominent white activists and a large portion of an elite campus faculty, many of them affiliated with the European Studies Department. Imagine also that the University president suspends the almost all-black sports team of which these students are members and fires their black coach. Further imagine that the accuser in the case has continually changed her story from the first night, that there is no evidence against the players, that they've cooperated with the police and passed polygraphs and that extensive evidence exists to prove their innocence.

You think that scenario would have lasted for a year? Try a week.

(Excerpt) Read more at dukechronicle.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dukelacrosse; rape

1 posted on 04/24/2007 6:21:24 PM PDT by moneyrunner
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To: moneyrunner
I have posted on this often at The Virginian. For the best coverage of all click Durham in Wonderland
2 posted on 04/24/2007 6:23:58 PM PDT by moneyrunner (I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed to its idolatries a patient knee.)
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To: moneyrunner

Yep, the left claim they hate lynch mobs and McCarthyism, but it is the left who has the lynch mobs and the ones who employ McCarthyism methods today.


3 posted on 04/24/2007 6:32:14 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: moneyrunner

That’s pretty good.

I thought Prager’s summation yesterday was pretty spot-on.

Duke LaCrosse Scandal: Eight Lessons
(Dennis Prager On Leftist PC And Moral Blindness Alert)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1822447/posts


4 posted on 04/24/2007 6:35:22 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: moneyrunner
Wow! I'm assuming this writer is a student. He is a not only a damn good writer, but he is exactly on the spot here. He doesn't mince any words and he calls it exactly right.

Inside our borders, the nation of E Pluribus Unum threatens to be fractured across ethnic lines by racial animus and divisive multiculturalism.

Divide and conquer has been a tactic employed by the radical left since the days of Stalin and the left have been relentless in picking at any scab on our nations body with the hope of promoting hatred. They don't want harmony. They want weakness through hatred.

This guy understands that fact. IMHO, he has a great future in journalism.

5 posted on 04/24/2007 6:55:50 PM PDT by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: Always Right

McCarthy was right.


6 posted on 04/24/2007 7:08:07 PM PDT by TweetEBird007
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To: Ditto

I too am impressed. Here’s how the column ends:

Ronald Reagan’s warning has never been more poignant-that if we should fail, “history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.”

From the green fields of Lexington and Concord to the distant shores of Inchon and the burning deserts of Iraq, the earth is stained wet with the blood of American heroes who died in defense of our people, our country and the cause of freedom.

And if the American nation is to survive, and the cause of freedom along with it, then her people must love and protect her. History is filled with great nations now long gone. Tomorrow is promised to no one.

We must remember that America is a living thing, with a beating heart. She is not simply some abstract ideal, but the very embodiment of the American people. Her greatness lies in us. Her perseverance, or her downfall, lies in us.

History has bestowed you and I with a great blessing. We live in a country many would-and have-given everything to be a part of. This blessing, however, comes with a burden, for it falls on our shoulders to preserve the “last best hope of mankind.”

Just as it was in our earliest days as 13 colonies, only united can we shoulder the burden. Only united, will our beloved republic endure.

And God willing, may it be so.


Stephen Miller is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Monday. This is his final column.


7 posted on 04/24/2007 8:18:55 PM PDT by Tirian
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To: TR Jeffersonian

ping


8 posted on 04/24/2007 8:26:53 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: Tirian
Nation Review or the American Spectator should get in touch with this kid.

He gets it.

9 posted on 04/24/2007 8:32:26 PM PDT by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: moneyrunner
This story hasn't stoppped being interesting; it's just about to get STARTED being interesting:

"...just got good news on this front from a lacrosse contact. first, be aware that this is 4th hand - its from Pressler to a head coach who's a good friend of his, to someone in the lax industry, to me.

the suits are going to start after memorial day, as no one wants to make it a distraction to the team while the season is still on. which also explains the june publish date of pressler's book. pressler himself will drop the first bomb, with a massive suit against duke (and others). most (if not all, but i have no idea) of the team will also be filing suits against various parties. i can only imagine what discovery from pressler's suit will turn up for the 2nd wave.

and the best part - despite being low key with phrases like "we haven't ruled out suits", etc since the charges were dropped, the families of the indicted three are going scorched earth. one of the fathers said (i'm paraphrasing) he doesn't care how much he has to spend in order to hold anyone and everyone accountable for their role in the hoax. anyone even tangentially involved in framing or slandering the three has a world of hurt coming.

the irony is too much for me to handle -- all of those abettors who wailed that this has to go to trial, with no concern at all for the costs (both in stress, disruption, and money) of defending yourself now get to see the other side of that coin. as long as the families' suits have any merit whatsoever it would be worth it just to put their sons' tormentors thru hell themselves. i can't imagine their firms aren't working on contingency, and those firms are going to get paid in a big way no matter what."


10 posted on 04/25/2007 6:54:30 AM PDT by jeddavis
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To: moneyrunner

Thanks, Miller, for all your good insights and keeping the fire to the feet of the miscreants in Duke Administration and faculty.


11 posted on 04/25/2007 10:22:10 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: Ditto

I was outraged by the arrogant and presumptive proclamation by 88 members of the Duke University after they took out an ad in a campus newspaper connecting the accused Duke La Crosse players with intimidation and racism.

Accordingly, I sent two group emails to the Duke 88. The only response I received was from one Paula McClain, who among her other offices is the Co-Director, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity
and Gender in the Social Sciences at Duke. Below is the second iteration of the two messages that I sent.

The Duke Rape case is a crystallization (pardon the pun) of all the corruption to the rule of law, linear reasoning and the presumption of innocence engendered by political correctness and Cultural Marxism (particularly that personified by campus professorial elites) .

It has added a new phrase to the lexicon: To be Nifonged. The egregious conduct of Nifong will be addressed in other venues. As an Illinois state policeman for 28 years, I can say with near complete confidence that a case like this with these facts would never have passed Felony Review with even the WORST State’s Attorney that I ever dealt with.

The most important lesson to be gleaned from this is that Tawana Brawley Syndrome is no substitute for a proper analysis of the objective facts. I LOVE to see liberals like you hoisted on the petard of Political Correctness, racial identity politics, gender determinint feminism and what I have coined as “Tawana Brawley Syndrome”.

TBS exists when one takes a historical reality such as the marginalization of innocent blacks within a once overtly racist criminal justice system or the past subjugation of women or any number of other offenses and attempts to apply that to a contemporary situation wherein the objective facts don’t apply; ala OJ Simpson, Rodney King, Anita Hill etc. In the Brawley case, Al Sharpton was continually referencing the “400 years” of unrequited oppression for black women and their inability to obtain redress within a racist criminal justice system. The fact is that had absolutely nothing to do with the Tawana Brawley case.

None of this would have happened if an unscrupulous DA had not chosen to exploit racial identity politics using an apparently mentally ill woman for his political gain, and if the Duke 88, the Durham black community, the radical feminists, and the racial grievance industry merchants had sifted thru the facts objectively and not attempted to stuff them into lurid post modern meta-narratives of privileged white male elites sexually exploiting black women. But than the attendant historical overtones of plantation sexual abuse were probably too much for them to resist. I have increasingly noted that fact and truth present no barrier to the fanatical Cultural Marxist.

My question now is this: Will all those who stampeded to rush to judge and vilify these innocent men now arrange a meeting with them, ala Imus to apologize and create a genuine aura of “healing”? I hope so but I don’t think so, because often being a liberal means never having to say you’re sorry.

Aside from the fact that petty tyrants like you have turned US college campuses into little ivy covered North Koreas, I suspect that you were seeking to appropriate PC bonus points and obtain instant moral authority by championing the cause of the “other” (marginalized black exotic dancer) against racist male chauvinist members of the privileged white elite. A case of cultural Marxist Class warfare that boomeranged. GOD how I love it so!!!!!

Even though I despise the racial identity politics that mindlessly multicultural cultural Marxists like you have fostered amongst my people to our ultimate detriment, I would like to state that I am a black man living in the heart of Chicago’s South Side ghetto, who values the rule of law and truth as best as it can be objectively and humanly determined.

It would be fitting if they get a pretty penny from you.

I got the response below:

Your continued messages have now moved into the realm of harassment and
I have reported you to your service provider for using abusive and
inappropriate language in your email which was sent through their servers.

Paula D. McClain
Professor of Political Science
Professor of Public Policy
Department of Political Science
Co-Director, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity
and Gender in the Social Sciences
Duke University

Accordingly, I responded as follows

I was unaware that the 2 emails that I sent to you had caused you such distress. I wish to tender my apologies and desire to assure you that you shall receive no further messages from me. But since you are a college professor I was acting upon the putative assumption that universities are about the exchange of ideas, and I thought that my admittedly critically gloating message might prompt a suitable rejoinder. My missive was harsh, yes even severe. But it does contain concepts and ideas that however offensive ought to provoke a suitably barbed retort rather than a threat of server censorship.

Alas, I shall have to reconsider the notion that the campus is about the free exchange of ideas. But this is precisely what I was getting at in my email. If you can ever manage to free yourself from leftist dogmatic doctrine maybe you will realize that.

This is the best evidence of the thought policing that must be extant on all too many college campuses. If she can threaten me with this, someone unconnected with Duke University, just imagine the ax that she wields over any dissenting students!!!! Political Correctness is the intellectual scourge of our time and the worst threat to academic freedom that I have ever seen.


12 posted on 04/25/2007 7:46:51 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: DMZFrank

Thank you for sharing these messages. Her reaction is not surprising. She invoked police powers to stop you from communicating. That is what totalitarians do. It is their nature.


13 posted on 04/26/2007 4:50:17 AM PDT by moneyrunner (I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed to its idolatries a patient knee.)
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To: moneyrunner

She invoked police powers to stop you from communicating.


The first and last refuge of a vacuous, bereft intellect.


14 posted on 04/26/2007 4:57:35 AM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: DMZFrank
Good e-mail, but one thing to remember about the left -— they never apologize.
15 posted on 04/26/2007 5:22:49 AM PDT by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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