After a brief reprieve your author was pleasantly surprised to see genuine justice and an appropriate course of action materialize regarding the Duke Universitylace rape scandal. Your author believes it is important to show how some used what could have resulted in a lengthy prison sentence for a moment of self grandiose and political gain.

As we all know three players for the Duke Lacrosse team were arrested for rape and assault charges stemming from when they hired a stripper named Crystal Mangum to perform a dance routine for them. Here is a good lesson for the reader-if you don’t hire strange women to come dance for you, chances are you won’t be facing rape and assault charges. Likewise if you don’t earn your living from dancing nude for strange men, you guessed it, the probability of being raped and assaulted greatly diminishes. This is the message that you won’t read or hear but yet it is elementary.

Furthermore the minute this story broke the accused were convicted, at least in the quick reactionary media machine and the likes of the so called civil rights activists such as Reverend Jesse Jackson. During the investigation’s earliest days a witness and fellow stripper to the allegations even confessed that the story was a fabrication. By now individuals such as Jackson and his lapdog Al Sharpton had bowed out of what was becoming a media spectacle and signs of a debacle. This of course was after they hurled such words and phrases as class warfare and racism in front of the television cameras. The media machine even gravitated towards the idea that the players were rich white kids and this poor single mother was forced to strip naked for needed cash. It was never suggested, not at this juncture, that these claims may be false and that the woman in question actually took up stripping by choice. Yet none of this mattered and elements of the investigation were showing signs of lunacy. It also seemed irrelevant that Ms. Mangum’s story was falling apart as her recollection continually changed.

Then there was Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong, behind in a political race with challenger Lewis Cheek. During the campaign Nifong vowed to prosecute the lacrosse players to fullest extent, by now Jackson and The New York Time had caused a near frenzy to erupt within Durham’s Black community. Nifong got his election with a 51% victory margin. After the November election a bombshell dropped and it became quite apparent what Nifong’s intentions were with the case. Just before Christmas the charge of rape was dropped because DNA evidence was unable to link the accused to the victim. Shortly after the announcement the North Carolina bar filed charges of ethic violations against Nifong, who by now was the disgraced DA. Nifong has since requested to be dropped from the case.

Meanwhile the Duke Universitylace replied in kind by canning the coach. Then faculty and staff came out with claims of rampant sexism and racism on the campus, surprisingly they forgot to mention ‘homophobia’. This was known as the ‘Group of 88’. Not surprisingly seventeen members of the economics’ department faculty supported the players. Student groups got together and urge fellow lacrosse players to come forward. The University President Richard Brodhead in April stated the following, "If our students did what is alleged, it is appalling to the worst degree. If they didn’t do it, whatever they did is bad enough." He had already contradicted himself when he previously spoke of the players by saying they were presumed innocent until proven otherwise.

Well folks there you have it a case that never was with serious long term implications against the accused. Who will be paying for their legal defense? Will Reverend Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton offer their apologies, assuming that the remaining charges will be dismissed? Will The New York Times take a closer look at what type of precedence takes place when an overzealous prosecutor is allowed to run wild while in the midst of a big media machine blitz?  Unlikely.

Unfortunately the left leaning media machine and their social activist colleagues made a fool of themselves. Oh your author has to laugh at their foolishness but it is unfortunate that self-described liberals, who if the reader ever comes in contact with them are often the complete opposite, once again came up with a dud. Strangely enough they show no remorse nor seem to comprehend their actions in light of their ignorance. Your author won’t hold his breath in waiting for their rebuttal.