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Rape charges are being dropped, kidnapping and a sex charge of some variety or another are still in place.
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If "pro" is the opposite of "con", what is the opposite of "progress"?

...to get their honor and reputations back?

Will there be an official apology?

Madhouse Thought and The Minority Report

until these young men get their reputations back. They should sue the city and receive millions of dollars.

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

That he could not be here today, that is. He'd be in North Carolina this minute, walking up the steps to where the defense's legal team are headquartered. One of them - the one most in tune with the esoteric undercurrents of his profession - would have picked up his psychic vibrations, and turn, not knowing why. And they would have all turned at his intake of breath, and they would all stand there, quietly, at Mr. Cochran. And he would have taken that moment to smile.

And they would all know; they would all know that there are times, God help you, when you need a Johnnie Cochran to walk into your law firm and lead you out to war. It's not a nice thought, and you might lose a friend or two over the implications of it, but none the less. There are situations where a moment may be defined by a man, and this moment is defined by Johnnie Cochran. There would have been movies made of this. Real ones, with triumphantly moving cello pieces at strategic moments. Homespun wisdom. Pounding gavels and misty morning vistas. The capstone of a career, remembered for always.

The first man or woman who broke the silence and shake Johnnie Cochran's hand would have been assured a partnership. Not by Cochran's doing, but by the very nature of narrative causality itself. These things happen when you are in a moment defined by a man.

But, alas, the man is dead.

The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.

Perhaps because there were no details.

What charges, if any, can be brought against Nifong? Anyone know?

The initial charges amount to slander, in my view. Unfortunately, I think justice can only be pursued in a civil court, not a criminal one. There should be some lost jobs as well, including anyone who tries to protect the guilty. A good old house cleaning.

It's clear that Nifong can't possibly meet the burden of proof on a rape charge. Maybe by scaling back the charges he hopes to lower the bar in terms of the facts he has to prove, and to possibly make irrelevant to the actual charges some of the indefensible games he has played in terms of hiding DNA results, etc.

Since he has left some charges in place, I doubt very much that this is an instance of his starting to do the right thing.

is that they can't be bothered with actually pursuing wrongdoers like Nifong after he eventually drops all charges, as even Jeffrey Toobin thinks might happen.

Like George Allen walked away from his Senate race before the military votes from overseas were counted. Now some harridan from FL-13 wants to have a new election and the Repubs will probably assume the position on that case as well.

Nifong should be pursued half as relentlessly as the Left pursues its perceived bete-noires." We realize that the Left generates a mass psychosis among its most feverish adherents and the Conservatives and Repubs don't want to mimic that pathological habit.

But the WSJ types have money and don't really care about justice. The small-business types aren't organized or perfervid enough. And the religious types who might have the fervour are paralyzed by Christian charity.

So who is the enforcer among the elements of the Right? Is there no penalty for attacking white ethnics and provoking the politics of envy?

The MSM enforces or cheerleads for the leftist quixotic crusades. The right yawns and turns away.

I forget the quote about when good men do nothing, but it is very dangerous to let racialist demagogues like Nifong walk without some penalty.

It might be Nifong, or the Prosecutor who attacked Tom Delay on charges with no evidence, or that old bastard Jim Garrison who ruined peoples lives by linking them, with no evidence, to the Kennedy assassination.

I believe we have given prosecutors way too much power and not enough accountability.

"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle

That some reliable cultural commentator like Juan Cole is taking note of this. Maybe Duke should ask Harry Belafonte to use his key to the city to lock Nifong in his own jail. Cole is talking a lot about "natural rights" these days over at his blog and quoting Jefferson like there was literally no tomorrow -- so far nobody has falsely accused him of anything. Think of it: Juan Cole could unlock the chapel at Duke and Nifong could enter, confess his multitude of sins on the Altar of Diversity, and then Harry Belafonte could mete out Social Justice by locking him in the hoosegow.

Then Harry could offer to give a big opening concert for the next Duke LAX game, and donate the proceeds to NCAA Division I.

The most interesting media moment since Phil Donahue commented on his (failed) cable show, inre: the Washington Beltway sniper(s):

"When are we going to go catch this white guy?"

But nevermind that. What I'd really like to see over the next few weeks is a full accounting from the New York Times of how many articles they published about this case before and after the rape charges were dropped. Wait, wait: I can tell you -- now that the big charges have been dropped, it's no longer national news, and therefore...

Even the University president is bad mouthing the prosecution, after previously assuming his students must be guilty and taking it out on the whole lacrosse team. Accepting the possibility that a woman of color may have unfairly accused some white guys must be a bitter pill to swallow for a politically correct academic.

As for Nifong, it seems to me that even if his suppression of evidence doesn't constitute criminal obstruction of justice, it should at least get him disbarred. But I don't know what the N.C. bar association's ethical rules are - I suppose that a lawyers's organization might well operate as a mutual protection club.