Perhaps that would set a precedent that would require complaints against half their membership?
HS Letters
Where is the state bar?
Mike Nifong is holding on tightly to the lesser charges only to save face and in the hopes that a gerrymandered jury will give him a conviction to justify his irresponsibility and criminality. Back in the 1990's, United States District Judge Stanley Sporkin, having heard a series of savings and loan fraud cases, lamented, rhetorically and in hope, "Where were the lawyers?" It was his belief that lawyers for the fraudsters should have inserted themselves more aggressively into the process in an effort to mitigate the financial damage that was being wrought.
It is similarly fair now to ask "Where is the North Carolina State Bar Ethics Committee?" If a lawyer who happens to be a public official obstructs justice in violation of North Carolina law and in derogation of his oath of office, does that official have absolute immunity from ethical challenge -- or is the North Carolina State Bar just another political player and race pimp? Such are the government structure of Durham County and the Duke administration, which was politically constrained to sacrifice a few white kids' lives to mollify Rev. Al Sharpton and the other gods and demigods of racial intimidation.
JEFFREY MEYER
Clearwater, Fla.
December 29, 2006
Again, the left tries to define media coverage
W. Russell Robinson [Letters, Dec. 23] must be sleeping in class. As an "instructor of mass communications," he must be asking a rhetorical question. "What is so newsworthy about this story?" I can't believe he has to ask. Then again, the idea of mass communications, that is propaganda, is the extreme left's definition of the news media. As an instructor, does he promote the manipulation of news by the media to, as he writes "effectively [change] the relations along the divides of race, gender and class ..."? Is that a news media purpose?
Most of us in the uneducated multitudes somehow still think a "newspaper" does not have the responsibility or right to "effectively [govern] the daily course of our lives."
Try reading the coverage in The Herald-Sun once without your myopic view -- if only the poor were rich there would be no injustice. It takes me half a month to earn what the accuser gets paid for an hour of her "services." You do the math.
The events have happened to real people, their lives are changed forever, rich or poor, righteous or evil, true or false.
J. MICHAEL BONHAM
Timberlake
December 29, 2006
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