The Duke Non-Rape Non-Victim’s Story
How sad.
Honestly, I do feel sad for this woman, and find it hard to hate her for her deplorable actions. Someone who’s fallen so far in life (street prostitution is almost always a horrible thing, and drug addiction is a horror), and who has made so many horrible mistakes, is deserving of pity; I think the real monster here is still Nifong.
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I don’t hate her, but she should be prosecuted as should Nifong. Race relations are not helped by this sort of thing.
She destroyed the lives of innocent people with her lies. If that isn’t a case to be punished, I don’t know what is.
This is yet another time when I agree with Dennis Miller that we should bring back public shunning. There was once a time when having the public turn its back on you meant something. It kept people in line.
This woman should be shunned by the public because what she did was a direct attack upon the innocent public.
Feel sorry for her if you want. I say I can’t. I can’t because I don’t know how much of the wreck of her life she is personally responsible for and after this case, I have no reason not to believe she not.
She’ll get no pity from me until she personally apologizes to each and every one of those men she defamed, and she addresses the people that backed her without thought and helped her rip lives apart.
Pity is for those that seek forgiveness. Don’t waste it on the unrepentant.
Nifong and Mangum should both go to prison for as long as their victims would have if they’d gotten away with it.
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I hope no one buys that book. The idea that that woman might profit from what she did just sickens me.
I don’t care how shitty her life was.
Well, maybe I’m not the most insensitive guy in the world after all…
I don’t have a problem with her “writing’ a book, trying to get her word out, or just trying to make a buck.
IMO, she is a victim in this mess too. She was obviously drunk, obviously ignorant and oblivious, possibly high, and possibly stupid, when all this went down.
And IMO, she was taken advantage of, and used as a pawn by Nifong and the legal/medical/social services complex. It is a true show of compassion and understanding that the Duke guys (and their lawyers) didn’t lash out at her and demand criminal or civil prosecution. God knows, they had the right.
So good luck to her, and let’s see where she goes with her second chance.
Couldn’t the real victims make sure that she never profits via civil suit?
My only question is whether these three young college athletes had gang sex with her, using her in the manner sort of as a stand in for an animal, while she was drunk, stoned out of her mind, and already broken to the status of an abused subhuman being.
I don’t give a damn about their innocence, their reputations, their families, their careers or whatever.
All that I realy want to know about all this is how did they come to be involved with that woman in the first place?
And I think I know that already. I received the first part of my university education after I completed three years of military service from age 18 to 21, studying under what was then known as the GI Bill of Rights. That paid for my tuition, among a few other entitlements.
So I already was an adult when I started my university studies, and I got to know a lot of these well-connected rich white brats of the fraternity and intermural sports team sets. I was a guy who came out of a working-class background. I didn’t have much respect for them in 1956, and I don’t have much more respect for that crowd now, 52 years later.
So it makes me feel good when a bunch of them are busted for abusing some drunk or drugged out working girl whom they bring to one of their parties for a gang-fuck. It’s the working girl I feel sorry for. And if the facts don’t justify themselves to my mind, then I just butt out and mind my own business.
Most of you reading this know by now that I always write exactly what is on my mind, with no mincing or words and no apologies unless I think I spoke wrong. and in this case, I don’t think that at all.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Arnold, I’d say I love you, but you’re a guy.
Arnold,
The only problem with your statement is that there isn’t one shred of evidence that anyone at the party had sex with the girl or abused her in any way. Unless you consider hiring someone to strip to be a form of abuse. I’m sure some folks do, but I don’t.
Well, now that I’ve thought about it a bit, one other problem with your statement is that it is EXTREMELY prejudiced. You apparently had some bad experiences with some rich white boys years ago, and you are now assuming the Duke kids are guilty of the same offenses, just because they happen to be rich and white too.
All we know is what was established by trial. If we assume the results of the trial to be true:
She is a monster. She is not a victim.
So is Nifong. (He is the more dangerous monster.)
The boys are at the minimum young fools. They might also be trust fund trash, but who knows.
Sorry Arnold, you imprison people only when you have evidence that they commit crimes, not when they match a profile. And there are lots of kids of working class types that do exactly what you are accusing the rich kids of doing. (I grew up in Queens, and know plenty of people from Brooklyn…) So let’s leave class warfare out of this. Bad behavior and low character know no class boundaries.
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