Letters to the Editor
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Kevey Sweeney has no testicoli (nor a leg to stand on)
Kevin,
Get a couple of those superbounce rubber balls, hold 'em between your legs, and pretend you're a man for a minute...
Okay, now, can you see the possibility that the accused ARE innocent? That the women's team is better informed than you?. That if you may accuse the men of being guilty others may support their innocence?
No, didn't think so. So give those balls to someone who can do something with 'em.
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Re: I can't imagine I'd ever send my children to Duke...
Because the women's lacrosse team probably knows a helluva a lot more about this than you do as a flag waving feminist who naturally assumes that false rape claims don't happen. Let me clue you in, they do happen. Wake up.
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Disrespecting the evidence
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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idiotic comments
vending machine and no name those are some pretty impressive idiotic comments you guys made. flag waving feminist, I didnt realize feminists had a flag, where can I buy one. Yes, there are false allegations amde but there is a higher percentage of insurance fraud than of false rape allegations (bit of a non sequitur but comparison made for point of reference). Again this is not about the case itself but of the propriety of wearing the bands saying innocent. As for vending machine wow what satire! I get it, you said he wasnt a man, and therefore had not balls, how fresh and new, never heard that one before. And even your handle, wow how ingenious, I laughed and laughed for hours on end. I havent seen humor like that since Mel Brooks and Monty Python. Seriously, the comment that hes not a man because he doesnt immediately believe people accused of rape is so tired; grow a pair and come up with a new joke.
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Sweeney's Duke opinion moronic
Mr. Sweeney is as dumb as they come. To accuse the Duke women's lacrosse team, let alone the male lacrosse team, of anything other than standing up for themselves under the gauntlet of racist media jackels is insane.
ANY reasonable person can see, from the public facts known to date, that the case against the lacrosse team is shakey at best. Add in the politics, incredible media race and class baiting, race pimps (J. Jackson for example) and the extreme lobsided nature of anti-male rape accusation statues and you have a modern day lynching.
Are the boys guilty? Either this was potentially the most efficient and cleanist rape in history or there's some lying going on. We do know every last detail of the accused but only scant details of the accuser. The media somehow restrains itself about the accuser - things such as the boyfriends DNA, existent bruising, drunkeness are meaningless to clueless souls such as Mr. Sweeney.
The fact that the women's lacrosse team is so self-lothing and thus standing up for their friends and classmates (according to Mr. Sweeney's brain cells) is just too funny. Maybe, they see the facts, know their friends and came to the conclusion their friends deserve nothing less than to be treated as INNOCENT until proven guilty. Yes, a crazy concept indeed unless one lives in Mr. Sweeney's brain.
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A bit unfair
Sure, someone declaring that they believe their friends are innocent when those friends are accussed of a crime is not a balanced statement. Would you not stand up for your friends though? Certain parties can be reasonably expected to make balanced statements - the press, the prosecutors, public officials. The friends of the accused, however? That seems a bit much to ask. Quite apart from the fact that the accused have already been punished in many ways. If the women's team had started to wear those bands right from start you'd have a slightly better case, but this in an atmosphere were the public has not displayed much fairness.
You use a rather mean-spirited and absurd rhetorical trick with your definition of "innocence". It's quite obvious that the women are stating that they believe the players to be innocent of the crime they are accused of, not that they believe them to be model citizens.
Similarly it's not correct that saying the accused are innocent automatically means the accuser is guilty. If you want to wildly speculate you could just a well claim that they think she made a mistaken because she was under the influence of drugs. Those women make a statement about the accused, _not_ about the accuser - to wildly infer other statements from that is unfair.