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This is gonna be fun to watch.
LET THE LAWSUIT BEGIN!
Bad Profs!
Bad Profs!
Whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do, when they come for you?
Waiting for the trolls to roll in with their obligatory anti-patriarchal, pro-feministic, non-penile, womb protecting rhetorical and incoherent invective hysterical rants in 10, 9, 8, 7,….
TW: area56. Not Area 51? I’m disappointed!
I think at a minimum, Duke owes these guys a free PhD.
There again, I think they’ll be paying MUCH more than that.
And if the Duke President doesn’t resign, he should be fired. This entire episode was disgraceful.
Agreed on all counts.
Secondarily, Rockies manager Clint Hurdle should be fired immediately, and then beaten with a rubber dildo until he cries.
None of this changes what Don Imus said ONE BIT.
As an authentic uterus bearer can I please say
About effing time!
And here’s to the DA Nifong’s indictment and some serious investigation to the question of how culpable the “rape victim” was in all this… Between the two of them, this hoax has really hurt real rape victims and certainly hurt the credibility of honest prosecutors everywhere.
The first “spewing Diet Coke from my nostrils on keyboard” post of the night.
And the second.
Clean up on aisle 5, please.
Who would fire him, the “88?” (or whatever the number of sheepish, churlish, professors it was, that showed their incapability of independent thought)
As a parent I would think myself a fool to pay them their artificially steep tuition and allow my son to be thrown upon their altar of ineptitude and prejudice.
Any other sane parent would feel the same; thus the solution to their malaise is a refusal to allow a child to apply—hell, the child would be a fool to want to apply anyway.
These kids shouldn’t go back to Duke, in all honesty. The atmosphere there has been so poisoned by the political climate of the school and the media circus that surrounded this event that they could never get a fair education. They have essentially been marked with a scarlet letter and any class on the campus they attended would most likely be hostile, despite the charges being dropped. The professors will never be reprimanded for jumping to conclusions, and the leftist element that supported the little trollope will admit these guys were innocent the day they admit OJ was guilty.
Should we start watching the networks for a new Bronco chase with Mike Nifong, $10k and a set of Groucho glasses as he makes a run for the Mexican border?
Johnny Cochrane 2007: If the charges be dismissed, Amanda Marcotte goin’ be pissed!
Robert—if he wants to escape to a criminal haven where they speak Spanish, NYC is the other way…
I’m not sure they all could go back, one of them Duke boys got hisself convicted on another assault charge while this case was unfolding.
Busy guy.
So the fact that he got into a drunken brawl the year before has any bearing on the false accusation of rape and the DA’s obstruction of justice how, exactly?
I wouldn’t say what the little Dukeling was convicted of was anything as noble as a “drunken brawl,” Cybr.
It’s tough to get in good colleges these days.
Prolly could’t get back into Duke with that conviction.
Appropos of nothing….
Finnerty was involved in a street fight a year before the rape case, and charged with misdemeanor assault. Everyone acknowledges the charge would have been dropped but for the bogus rape charges.
I say sue Duke into bankruptcy, buy the land with the school’s own money, tear it down and put up a Hooter’s Theme Park…
Let me state as a long time dodger fan, Clint Hurdle has my full and enthusiastic support.
That is stated clearly in shitheads link:
No grounds for a lawsuit here, nope.
There is already a Wesleyan professor who is making the connection between Imus and the Duke Rape case. I write about it here.
This is great news for the families. I can’t imagine that those boys will go back to the campus. Can you imagine a routine traffic stop?
alphie, you are without doubt the stupidest motherfucker on the entire Internet. Down’s Syndrome sufferers are mocking your intellectual capacity. Retards of all stripes are laughing at you with gay abandon. Drunkards in the fullness of their inebriation snicker behind their hands as they witness your attempts toward adequacy.
Did you think we wouldn’t actually read what you linked?
You fucking moron.
Everyone involved with Duke should be ashamed to show their face in public, but like all dhimmi’s that are suffering from BDS they will start blaming GWB tomorrow, maybe already.
Like the division of America by the left wing anti-american crowd that kissed Algor-bage’s a** for years and screamed that GWB divided the country. Can someone please tell me one thing he has done or said that could divide anything other than in a mentally retarded mind. I was ready to take up arms against the Algor-abge crowd when they were blocking ‘all votes’ from the members of the military serving out of their home state.
What the hell does semi-criminal mean? Is that like when someone who is semi-raped gets semi-pregnant and has a semi-abortion and the semi-human has a semi-childhood that leads him to a semi-life of semi-crime?
First causes, you see.
Nuance.
Nice name, Randy.
Yeah, I linked to that article so people could read it.
Collin Finnerty is now a convicted criminal.
Hard to get into a school like Duke with a criminal record.
Which was the point of my comment.
Am I missing something here?
Al-Phee,
I’m pretty sure that at age of 19 or 20, Mr Finnerty was not a freshman. IE, he was already at Duke when the fight heppened. Come back when you’ve mastered basic math.
And you still haven’t explaned what this little digression has to do with the false accusation of rape against these three guys.
(TW: You’d think I’d have learned83 threads ago to just ignore Alphie…)
And he won’t.
Next up, the contortions, nay the ripping of time and space that will occur as the Duke lynch mob is “justified” in its characterization of these falsely accused young men, but Don Imus’ comedy bit was beyond the pale.
(It’s already happening in the first link in Melissa’s post above. How these people’s brains don’t just burst into flame is an enduring mystery.)
I believe Mr Finnerty is currently coaching lacrosse to the students of his old Catholic prep school, Chaminade, Cybr.
He would have to reapply to get back into Duke
You’re missing the fact that he wouldn’t have been convicted at all (since the charges would have been dropped) if it weren’t for the false charges pressed against him that have just been dropped.
Do you work at being this stupid, or is it natural talent?
Stupid, malicious and shortsighted is no way to go through life, son.
And just why in the nine flaming hells would he want to re-apply to Duke after they threw him under the bus over a false accusation of rape? The only paperwork Duke’s going to see from any of them will be when they file suit for damages relating to defamation of character.
(TW: Any45 would be my choice for self-defense.)
Mr Finnerty would have been let off with probation on the assault charges because he was a first time offender, Randy.
The Duke case took away his get out of jail free card…and he was convicted.
Because of false charges on the part of the stripper and obstruction of justice on the part of the DA who was using this case to further his political career. Listen, you smegging smeg-head, a conviction that would have been set aside except for false charges does not prove the false charges. It just piles more damages that he can sue Durham County for. Whatever kind of point you were going for, you missed.
To illustrate my previous point, here is the good Reverend Jackson days after the Duke charges were offered.
Shakespeare himself could not construct a literary passage so dripping with irony as the last sentence.
A point, Cybr?
How ‘bout:
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Rich Boy
So, that justifies false accusations and the concealment of exculpatory evidence? Not to mention giving a potential “Get Out Of Jail Free” card to pretty much everyone Nifong has convicted on the basis of DNA or other lab-type evidence?
Another thread about alpo, huh? Imagine that.
Very encouraging news that the charges have been dropped. As has been said above, it is now important that those responsible for the destruction of these youths’ lives be held to account in a court of law.
The conviction for assault should clearly be quashed as the prosecution was based on a false premise.
It almost makes one yearn for the carefree salad days of actus and monkyboy.
Almost.
Or the quoting of a work of fiction to make a “point” about a very real world situation?
Our troll must have missed the discussion Elizabeth Edwards and her warm and fuzzy neighbor yesterday.
If I catch any of y’all motherfuckers believing anything any prosecutor claims ever again, I’ll swear at you.
Again.
Not really, Cybr.
Fitzgerald is my favorite author and I just slipped in some of his work to make my point. Too subtle, I guess.
Collin Finnerty’s father is very rich, and he purchased his son’s innocence with some very slick p.r. work.
It was done well, crowds now howling for his accusers to be thrown in jail…or worse.
Mr. Finnerty handles Michael Jackson’s finances, btw.
no kidding.
Pizza envelope, snothole!
There is hope for Amanda. Liz Hurley may face prison time for mocking Hindu religion in her wedding. But I don’t think brown people count for as many “because of the patriarchy!” points.
I’m going to deviate from policy and respond to this:
And there was the whole “It never happened, she made the whole thing up” thing, too. But I guess that’s just an insignificant little detail.
Yeah, funny what a few death threats, a smear campaign and financial inducements can do in America.
The torch carrying villagers help, too, if you can somehow manage to steer them towards the right target.
Sean M, my favorite part is that, um, my mom handles finances for a very wealthy family, so, ya know, if anyone ever accused me of something, then i’d obviously be guilty or at least deserved to be falsely accused.
Alphie,
Thanks for the link- I hadn’t previously realized that I once worked under Colin Finnerty’s father (Kevin Finnerty) years ago. He was actually a pretty good guy, and very normal for the mortgage dept of BSC in the mid-90s.
I’m sure he’s a very nice guy, chuck e,
Otherwise, John Edwards wouldn’t have gone into business with him.
Alpo,
Do you realize just what a tin-foil hat wearing Art Bell fan you’re making yourself look like? Got any evidence to back up your latest rantings?
It would be even better if your mother was very wealthy herself. Why, then, if you were accused of any sort of wrongdoing, you’d qualify to be tarred and feathered by a group of dozens of academics! And don’t even get me started about what Nancy Grace and Amanda Marcotte would be allowed to do to you…
Not sure who Art Bell is, Cybr.
Which accusations are you talking about?
That Collin Finnerty was convicted for assault?
That his daddy is very rich?
That the only reason why the right wanted him found innocent is because the libruls said he was guilty?
From the ABC NEWS story:
And I’m sure Kevin Finnerty bought off the whole North Carolina State Bar, and a whole bunch of other people to boot, just to make Nifong look like an incompetent asshole. Occam’s Razor, you know.
Damn that Kevin Finnerty and his well nigh endless financial resources! Why, he even got to the stripper and paid her to weave a series of inconsistencies into her accusations against his son and two other Duke
studentsrich, white rapists! Follow the money, sheeple.Okay, people, we’re through the looking glass here. Finnerty used his piles of ill-gotten cash to doctor the photo lineup, and then used even more of his robber-baron plunder to alter the very DNA evidence that would prove his son was a brutal, vicious rapist who had victimized the poor single mother who had taken his money earlier to lie and change her story a bunch of times because she was just trying to better herself and feed her starving babies.
I’m glad that those durn “libruls” were made to look foolish through the Finnerty family’s criminal largesse, but my only regret is that I didn’t get down to North Carolina to get my hands on any of that sweet, sweet, filthy bribe money.
Wow. What an idiot.
Not you, Sean.
I knew what you meant, Robert. Although I am an Idiot for not hoofing it down to Durham to get my hands on some of that filthy lucre. Why, I could be living on my own Carribean island by now. Damn.
I didn’t say Daddy Warbucks bought off the whole state of North Carolina, Sean.
A grand jury did indict the tree amigos after all.
Money does buy favorable press, political pressure and the best criminal attorney in the state, though.
What chance does a stripper have against that really?
Considering the reaction to Scooter Libby’s conviction around here, I don’t think a guilty verdict in this case would have changed much anyways.
Geez, alph makes it sound as though it ought to be difficult to get reelected to Congress if you’ve abandoned a woman to drown after driving your car off of a bridge, or something. And the way the rest of you guys are talking, you make it sound as though these lacrosse players were people with families and siblings and such.
I think Teddy Kennedy’s family is pretty rich, too, Dan.
Sorry if this is repetitive, but I skipped all that one guy’s comments and I may have missed some things. But did the DLPs ever think of putting towels on their heads, hop in the Expedition and plow through a group of students in the name of jihad?
There’s your PR strategy.
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No surprises there.
Anybody else see where cybrludite mentioned “accusations”? No?
Would not have been prosecuted at all sans the dishonest prosecution, now abandoned, of Nifong.
This really doesn’t worry anyone except you, *nus.
I can only speak for myself. I wanted him found innocent because he was innocent. Tricky concept, *nus, I know.
Those would be the accusations I’m asking you about, Alfster. What death threats? What smear campaign? What bribery? Dates, places, and principals involved.
When a prosecutor conspires with a technician to conceal evidence that exonerates the accused, that’s a problem. When the prosecutor refuses to review evidence that exonerates the accused, that’s a problem. When the prosecutor forces a line-up that goes against department policy by guaranteeing the accuser can only pick out possible suspects (ie, no known innocents in the line-up), that’s a problem.
When all those things happen, that’s more than a problem. That’s a crime.
And once more, I’m shocked—SHOCKED!!!—to hear our self-proclaimed conservative striking the doctrinaire leftist pose on this issue. Hell, even the “reasoning” is straight out of the leftard play book—“they’re rich! they bought their way out!”
The towels would be for covering up the nappiness, of course.
You really are a stupid motherfucker, aren’t you?
I mean, the prosecutor stepped down after the state bar questioned his ethical behavior, and people in the nationwide and local press (not to mention dozens of Duke professors) had convicted the three suspects of rape before the case got off the ground anyway (Hello? Nancy Grace?)
And I guess political pressure and the attorney you cite had a lot to do with the fact that the stripper flubbed the photo ID, kept changing her story, and had none of the accused mens’ DNA on her person, although there were DNA samples on her body from several other unidentified males. What chance does a stripper have against that kind of evidence?
Let me ask you this: if you were brought up on charges for a crime that you didn’t commit, would you want “the best criminal attorney in the state,” or a public defender? And if it was your ass in the sling, would you care to have the media prejudje your guilt? And wouldn’t you use every resource available to you to prove your innocence?
Of course not. Because you’re so pure of heart that you would gladly go to prison for something you didn’t do just for the cause of what some people percieve as SOCIAL JUSTICE. Why, you’re the embodiment of the Scottsboro boys and Sacco and Vanzetti an<b>d the Rosenbergs in reverse.
Bask in your moral glory, dumbass.
But does it strip you of your joy Robert? I didn’t think so. Talk to me when there’s been a serious joy-stripping.
…..because I’ved seen the mug shots. There’s still some joy there. And they’re rich. Rich = Joy.
Checkmate.
Gee, I dunno if I’d send my son to Duke now.
I would just like to say:
Holy fucking shit, alphie is one lead-paint eating stupid asshole.
He seriously must believe that expensive lawyers have the power to mutate the very DNA in police samples to falsely exhonerate their rich clients.
Does this guy have a drool-proof keyboard cover, or what?
I’ve seen a couple of strippers named Joy.
Only one of them really was a joy, though.
I hadn’t thought of that………touche.
Finnerty used his piles of ill-gotten cash to doctor the photo lineup, and then used even more of his robber-baron plunder to alter the very DNA evidence that would prove his son was a brutal, vicious rapist who had victimized the poor single mother who had taken his money earlier to lie and change her story a bunch of times because she was just trying to better herself and feed her starving babies.
Sean, you made me spray a mouthful of coffee all over my screen! DAMN YOU!
Hasn’t it yet occurred to anyone that if alphie is truly as stupid as many of you believe (as opposed to being merely stroking his ego … or something), you’re wasting your time trying to “edumacate” him?
Think in terms of pig mud wrestling, ladies and gents….
TW: I believe19 impossible things before breakfast….
One day, people will come to read this blog and it won’t be about an obtuse contrarian nitwit.
And the heavens will rejoice!
As far as Finnerty’s night on the town, here’s something to think about, alph:
From the very article alphie linked to:
Of course, this is just a minor bit of stupidity compared with the rest of what he’s said on this thread. Just when I think alphie can’t possibly out-stupid himself, he pulls off something like this. If alphie were one of those ultimate fighters, he’d accidentally Kimura himself just climbing into the ring.
Or just fall33 flat on his face, as he’s done here.
Do you ever have that dream where you get an e-mail from Amanda Marcotte inviting you to blog at pandagon? And you get to. like, meet her in person, and she’s really intense but supercool to you? And then you go to Starbucks with her, and she pays for your soy decaf latte?
God, I have it all the time!!! And it’s so cool!!! I’m going to think about her all ady and try to have it again tonight.
Certainly. Constantly.
But if someone repeats lies—endlessly—and no one challenges those lies, you run the risk of someone, someday, coming along and believing them.
Colin Finnerty has already been invited back to Duke.
Social justice!!11! is worth fighting for, even when there is no fight!!!11!
Easy now. You’re so wrapped up in your mind-bending asshattery that you can’t even mash your keyboard correctly.
Take a step back and stop mouthbreathing, troll.
tw: alphie demonstrates what life is like when you lack39 critical thinking skills.
Anticipating the alphtard: if your daddy has enough money and is for some undisclosed reason super-motivated to have you back in Duke to the extent that he’s willing to cut loose a few mill, money can buy that. And, therefore, did.
Slart,
Reade Seligmann notwithstanding, naturally.
I think I saw aphid on TV once:
“Not only am I a member of the ‘Paint Chip of the Month Club’, I’m the president!”
Their pieces were steadily moving towards a rank garden was barred; so, that the garden with their religion. My construction even with like most emphatically.
C’mon, guys, you’re not being fair to paint-eaters.
Robert:
In most cases, I’d agree w/ you. But in the case of the ALPHTARD, the droppings have been SO numerous that you’d have as much chance of not treading on them as you’d have of not seeing snow in Antarctica in August.
Which is why the PSA really stands:
IGNORE THE ALPHTARD.
Although, I will note that the gibberish responses really got under alphie’s skin, so if folks feel it necessary to respond, perhaps that is the best option. (And it informs readers that alph’s comments are, themselves, simply gibberish.)
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Comprehending waterworks (meh?)
Faux-alpo,
one does what Amanda asks one to do
Heh.
Double Heh.
Hey, anybody out there have a controller board for a Gobbledygook 3000â„¢ gibberish generator?
Mine’s gettin’ kind of squirrally… *splort*
Yeah, they just release the latest model, the Xq88B, aka “The alphie”â„¢.
alphie:
Forgetting basic morals, a giddy porcupine bit and kicked a green eskimo. In the name of love, a nerdy redneck dreamed of marrying and acted dumb to an imposter, but ultimately it was foiled by a heroic pie.
Well, I had my brain take a deep breath and I clicked over to Braindeadagon. Interestingly, the lovely and talented Ms. Marcotte has yet to wax rhapsodic about the outcome in the Duke non-rape case. I can only assume that she’s taking all the time necessary to crystalize her arguments. Either that, or she’s busy typing fuck-fuck-fuck-doublefuck-fuck-fuck over and over again.
All uterus and no play make Amanda a dull girl.
Yep,
They can almost get you convicted of rape.
I hope I’m no the first to post that.
As insistently (and consistently) perverse as alpee is, on this thread he does us a service.
You will see his line of cult emoting repeated in one form or another across the “those white boys are really guilty whether they did it or not…” blogs/profs/commentators.
For the cultists, facts are nothing compared to MAKING WHITEY PAY for all ills, real and imagined, past and future.
Remember, the left cultists are about groupism, not individual responsibility.
Darleen:
While I’ve no doubt that you are correct and we will probably hear from the likes of heet or somesuch to the effect that the rape claims were “fake, but accurate,” in the case of the ALPHTARD, there should be zero-tolerance for the droppings.
Pablo, from the link
Jesus H Krist, these people really are scared shitless to show up in any forum they don’t totally control!
No wonder they are the new fascists.
Sure, justice was served, but a bunch of drunk white racist vicious frat boys are once again free to wreak havoc on the dainty sensitivities of the…dainty.
Or whatever.
I wouldn’t say what the little Dukeling was convicted of was anything as noble as a “drunken brawl,†Cybr.
Nice.
Note how you can’t bring yourself to comment on this matter.
Gee, I wonder why that is?