Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 375 Editor's Choice: 8
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Disrespecting the evidence
[Read the article: Duke women not innocent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reviewing the discovery documents already released by the DA, the alleged victim has at least three different versions of events of the night of the alleged rape which she offered to police and hospital staff: she was not raped but she was pulled from a car and groped, she was raped by three people at the party and she was raped by twenty people at the party. Each story has no corroborating evidence. She was demonstrably intoxicated and began telling these various stories after it was determined by police that she be taken to the city's drunk tank and locked up for 24 hours.
Four years ago, at an audition at a strip club, the alleged victim stole the taxicab of a guy she had been lapdancing with, took the police on a wild chase and tried to run over a cop after she drove down a dead end road and was cornered. She was also intoxicated that night. Last year the alleged victim was hospitalized for a week with a mental illness.
In the past ten years the alleged victim has previously made four charges of rape and attempted murder against men to the police and then failed to pursue them with the authorities.
In this rape charge, when no DNA from any of the forty or so lacrosse players was found on or in her and investigators asked who was the source of the semen collected, she offered the names of her boyfriend and two "drivers" who take her to her "one-on-one" engagements for Bunny Hole Productions, her employer. The semen matched to her boyfriend. By the way, the alleged victim told the nurse at the hospital that her attackers used no condoms.
We could talk about the misstatements of fact by the DA or his own estimated 50 to 70 interviews leading up to his primary victory, but why bother?
The women of the Duke lacrosse team have a right to hold an opinion and to show solidarity with their classmates rather than with a rather unreliable accuser. Maybe if Sweeney knew a little more about the case he would have a different opinion than the one he brandishes here. It doesn't promote the interest of rape victims to advance this case as an example of all rape cases. Any feminist who promotes a lie over the truth in a rape case is no feminist at all.
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A special place in Hell
[Read the article: Was the 2004 election stolen?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A special place in Hell is waiting for Manjoo. I hear that the fire there is started with eighty-pound paper weight combustibles.
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a history of conspiracy theory deniers
[Read the article: The 9/11 deniers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am old enough to remember the official and mainstream denunciations of anyone who questioned the two Kennedy assassinations, the King assassination, Watergate (early on, later it became part of the ceremony of the triumph of democracy), the October Surprise and other conspiracy theories which pointed to something other than the official version of history. In every case there has been evidence of official involvement not only in the event but in obscuring the facts around the event.
Napoleon, who in his last years had some insight into the process, said: "History is a series of agreed upon lies." I just want to know who specifically Manjoo is agreeing with and how much he's getting paid for his agreement. Surely, such dogged obeisance must be rewarded.
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Not denying, either
[Read the article: The 9/11 deniers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The most offensive thing about Manjoo's latest is the headline. It is an equation of people who mistrust the government's official version of 9/11 as equivalent to Holocaust deniers. No one's denying that 9/11 happened. THey're denying it happened the way the official report said it happened. The Bush Administration lied us into a war, probably two wars, over 9/11. Bush fought against an investigation, and then put Silberman, an old Republican operative who admitted to meeting with Iranians during the 1979-80 hostage crisis (the October Surprise), on the 9/11 Commission. If only Dulles and McCloy were still alive!
Manjoo's lack of skepticism always seems to go in the wrong direction. May he earn his begging bowl at the feet of his masters.
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Bonds, Durham, Feliz
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, three straight homers tonight.
I agree with your thought. I get tired of listening to sports talk that involves subpoenas and grand juries. And my guess is that after this year Bonds will be gone, indictment or not. If the Giants could get a decent batter with some power, I'd trade Schmidt if they think he's not coming back. But whatever, there'll be a lot of the fogeys gone by next spring. Maybe Felipe Alou too.