Nifong lynched these students in a trial by media as a successful re-election campaign strategy.
The prosecuter was GUILTY of abuses too. Don’t pin all the blame on the woman who is STILL not being prosecuted.
Frist was tried by media (and after he was hounded out of office the charges were dropped). Tom DeLay was tried by the media and the prosecutor is STILL holding off on the trial years later.
Our legal system is corrupt.
That's true. I should have mentioned him.
But he's "in the system", and when that's over, he'll be garden fertilizer. He'll be recalled among one of a handful recent additions to the vocabulary: nifong: verb, meaning to maliciously prosecute innocent people for political and personal advantage, etc. We'll have this along with 'Lewinsky,'noun or verb, and 'bork,'a verb. 'Bork' should be 'kennedy.'
It is distressing that Crystal has avoided prosecution. I suspect that it's because she considered insignificant. This is also disturbing:it implies a stark social and economic class division. It implies that those on the lowest tier are held to lower standards; less accountable for their acts. This defines them as less than human. Once again good intentions have paved the road to hell.
The do-gooders who created this mess, slowly, incrementally, and again, with the best of intentions, were trying to fix what they perceived to be a problem.
Now somebody is saying there's another problem. Who do we think is going to fix that?