Posted on 05/03/2018 6:40:54 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Camille Cosby has spoken publicly for the first time since her husband Bill Cosby was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in a Philadelphia suburb in 2004 – calling it “mob justice”.
Camille Cosby, who has been married to The Cosby Show star since 1964, has gone after the Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, the media and Cosby’s accusers in a statement that alludes to racial injustice.
“The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so,” she said.
This comes after a jury of seven men and five women returned guilty verdicts last week on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for Cosby’s January 2004 sexual assault of Andrea Constand. Constand, a former Temple University employee, lost consciousness after a court found that Cosby gave her three blue pills and a sip of wine. She came to with Cosby digitally penetrating and groping her and forcing her hand on his penis.
“In the case of Bill Cosby, unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs, who publicly and privately coerced cancellations of Bill Cosby’s scheduled performances; syndications of “The Cosby Show”; rescissions of honorary degrees and a vindictive attempt to close an exhibition of our collection of African American art in the Smithsonian Museum of African Art,” she added.
She accused the district attorney’s office of an “unethical campaign” to destroy her husband and has called for a criminal investigation of “that district attorney and his cohorts”.
She evoked the trials of Emmett Till in 1955 and Darryl Hunt in 1994 in the near 1,000 rant.
“How much longer will we, the majority of the people, tolerate judicial, executive, legislative, media and corporate abuses of power? We, the majority of the people, must make America what it has declared itself to be…. a democracy…not to be destroyed by vicious, lying, self-absorbed paradigms of evilness. Once again, an innocent person has been found guilty based on an unthinking, unquestioning, unconstitutional frenzy propagated by the media and allowed to play out in a supposed court of law… This is mob justice, not real justice.”
The Official Statement From Camille O. Cosby.
“We the people” are the first three words of our nation’s Constitution, but who were those people in 1787? Dr. Howard Zinn, the renowned, honest historian, states in his best selling book, A People’s History of the United States: “The majority of the 55 men who framed the Constitution were men of wealth in land, slaves, manufacturing or shipping.” Clearly, most people were not included in that original draft of the Constitution; no women, Native Americans, poor white men; and, absolutely, no enslaved Africans. What have the masses of people done who are treated as outcasts by “we the people”? They, through the purity of the unceasing human spirit, forced 27 amendments to the Constitution that have guaranteed fundamental rights to all people…finally doing what the framers should have done in 1787. Now enters an American citizen, Bill Cosby.
The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so… period. And the media ensured the dissemination of that propaganda by establishing barricades preventing the dissemination of the truth in violation of the protections of the First Amendment. Are the media now the people’s judges and juries? Since when are all accusers truthful? History disproves that…for example, Emmett Till’s accuser immediately comes to mind. In 1955, she testified before a jury of white men in a Mississippi courtroom that a 14-year-old African American boy had sexually assaulted her, only to later admit several decades later in 2008 that her testimony was false. A more recent example is the case of Darryl Hunt, an African American who in 1984 was wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of a white woman, only to have DNA evidence establish in 1994 that he did not commit the crime. Nonetheless he was held in prison until 2004, serving almost twenty years behind bars, until the true rapist confessed to the crimes.
These are just two of many tragic instances of our justice system utterly and routinely failing to protect African Americans falsely accused in so-called courts of law and the entirely unfair court of public opinion. In the case of Bill Cosby, unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs, who publicly and privately coerced cancellations of Bill Cosby’s scheduled performances; syndications of “The Cosby Show”; rescissions of honorary degrees and a vindictive attempt to close an exhibition of our collection of African American art in the Smithsonian Museum of African Art. Although the Smithsonian’s hierarchy did not capitulate, a disclaimer was posted on the exterior of that Museum. And all of that occurred before the trial even started.
The worst injustices, however, have been carried out in the Pennsylvania Montgomery County Courthouse. Three criminal charges, promised during an unethical campaign for the district attorney’s office, were filed against my husband…all based on what I believe to be a falsified account by the newly elected district attorney’s key witness. I firmly believe her recent testimony during trial was perjured; as was shown at trial, it was unsupported by any evidence and riddled with innumerable, dishonest contradictions. Moreover, Bill Cosby’s defense team introduced the testimony of a witness who confirmed that the district attorney’s witness admitted that she had not been sexually assaulted, but that she could say she was and get money … which is exactly what she did.
I am publicly asking for a criminal investigation of that district attorney and his cohorts. This is a homogeneous group of exploitive and corrupt people, whose primary purpose is to advance themselves professionally and economically at the expense of Mr. Cosby’s life. If they can do this to Mr. Cosby, they can do so to anyone. How much longer will we, the majority of the people, tolerate judicial, executive, legislative, media and corporate abuses of power? We, the majority of the people, must make America what it has declared itself to be….a democracy…not to be destroyed by vicious, lying, self-absorbed paradigms of evilness. Once again, an innocent person has been found guilty based on an unthinking, unquestioning, unconstitutional frenzy propagated by the media and allowed to play out in a supposed court of law.
This is mob justice, not real justice. This tragedy must be undone not just for Bill Cosby, but for the country. I wish to thank the witnesses who courageously came forward at trial to testify as to the truth, as well as those witnesses who would have done so but for the judge preventing them from testifying. Someday the truth will prevail, it always does.
One of the jurors spoke out about the conviction and said that Cosby's own words convicted himself.
From: Bill Cosby juror speaks on convicting legend:
Harrison Snyder, who was juror No. 1, said Cosby’s deposition from 2005 and 2006 in which he admitted giving Quaaludes to women he wanted to sleep with was the damning evidence that ultimately convinced the jury he was guilty.
“I think it was his deposition, really. Mr. Cosby admitted to giving these Quaaludes to women, young women, in order to have sex with them,”
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Snyder also said he believed testimony from Cosby’s chief accuser, Andrea Constand, who recalled for jurors in graphic detail how the now-80-year-old comic gave her pills that made her pass out and how she woke up to him sexually assaulting her at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004.
Five other accusers who took the stand, even though Cosby was not criminally charged with attacking them, were also credible, Snyder said. But he would’ve convicted Cosby without their testimony.
“If you hadn’t heard from the other five, and you just had her word, would that have mattered to you?” asked ABC News reporter Linsey Davis.
“I don’t think so because in the deposition, he stated that he gave these drugs to other women,” Snyder replied. “I don’t think it really necessarily mattered that these other five women were here. Because he said it himself that he used these drugs on other women.”
“So you found it to be his words that were the most damning of all?” Davis asked.
“Yeah,” Snyder answered.
What part of this story do you agree with, as to Cosby being maligned and being a victim in this process?
He seems to have admitted to drugging women to take advantage of them in sexual ways, over many months or years.
What “good works” are you defending from disparagement?
How do you feel about the hypocrisy of Cosby trying to be an example of an exemplary lifestyle, but having these sexual assaults in his past?
“He was drugging women to have sex with them. Screw him.”
From the testimony I’ve heard, the women were offered the drugs and took them willingly, along with the alcohol.
He was drugging women to have sex with them. Screw him.
And you know this how? Saying he gave women recreational drugs is not drugging them! Did they voluntarily take the drug to get a high? Honestly, do you also believe that when women go to college parties and drink to much, and then willingly have sex, they should the next day cry rape? Cause that’s what is happening right now. i don’t think we should encourage that type of behavior, and this Cosby nonsense does exactly that.
Written by Cosby’s lawyers, not his wife.
after he made conservative political statements.
Yep, you do not go off the plantation without consequences...
Maybe she wants him to screw around so he leaves her alone. The pay is good!
“And weren’t there DOZENS of women accusing him?”
Yet this is now SOP for a certain type of character assassination. We’ve seen it used against Herman Cain, against Roy Moore, and against Donald Trump. If there is one accuser with an unprovable accusation, the public will think “well it’s he said, she said”. If a half dozen, or a dozen, or two dozen accusers are found and trotted out with the same unprovable accusations, the public opinion can be swayed.
We know the left uses that tactic to destroy political opponents. Gloria Allred specializes in it nowadays. Why shouldn’t we be extremely skeptical when we see the tactic being deployed?
Camille Cosby = Enabler of a sex predator for 6 decades.
“Cosby admitted under oath that he illegally drugged women...”
He admitted to obtaining the drug, and he admitted to giving the drug to women, but he certainly didn’t admit to “drugging” them, which implies that he gave it to them unknowingly and without their consent. Perhaps he did, but he didn’t admit that.
Totally delusional.
When Mrs. Cosby is in crisis, she says the darnest things!
Wonder who wrote this for Mrs. Enabler?
That is so true. Disgusting.
Louis, Louis, Louis. White guilt does not become you.
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