From the RMN wire:
As Mike Nifong was calling the Duke lacrosse team a “bunch of hooligans” in public, he was privately acknowledging that the rape case would be hard to prove without DNA evidence and without being able to prove that a suspect was even at the party in which the stripper claimed she was raped and beaten.
But the Durham County district attorney insisted on pressing ahead with the case, police Investigator Benjamin Himan said on the opening day of Nifong’s ethics trial.
The North Carolina State Bar has charged Nifong with several violations of the state’s rules of professional conduct, and if convicted, Nifong could be stripped of his license to practice law in the state.
—which, if you ask me, is too soft a punishment, but one that I certainly believe he deserves. A better punishment might be to compel Nifong to share lunch conversation and an enormous bowl of Miso soup with Amanda Marcotte. Same spoon and everything!
The irony here is that nothing offered so far proves that Nifong didn’t believe the rape actually took place—which would suggest that the prosecution was politically motivated, and knowingly unethical (though such information may still come out, and I believe it will)—and yet he is being tried on ethics charges as a way to return credibility to the Durham County and the NC State Bar.
Which is to say, his trial most certainly has a very public political angle.
Delicious, that, no?
Do dung beetles even like Miso soup?
Taking away the law license is the new way to punish lefties for serious crimes. Righties go to jail, law license or not.
I have a feeling that the accused guys’ parents are going to take this thing a little further than disbarment….
I’m inclined to think that they should start giving Pulitzers for blogging, and that KC Johnson should get that first one for his reporting on the Duke case.
I hope they drop on him with the full weight of whatever it is they keep behind the Bar down there
Has St. Amanda conceded how incredibly wrong she was on this yet ?
JD, never. That would indicate a sign of weakness to the patriarchy.
I know … silly question
Can you possibly imagine an argument between Amanda and Sullivan ? The race to see who could be the most shrill and hyperbolic would be amazing. Sitting on the sidelines, we would have GG and Mona, and the legions of sockpuppets, using the argument between Mandy and Sully as proof that Bush’s real plan is global imperialism, or that Instapundit is homophobic.
Suppose you found yourself stuck on a cruiseship with that lot.
All disbarment will do will be to force him to buy a flashy car, find a female reporter sidekick and blaze around at night crusading for justice and solving crimes with an almost supernatural efficiency. Occasionally this activity will cause him to brush up against the “system” that he is no longer part of and will result in a long silent moment of self reflection when finally bringing some long-dormant case to its conclusion. But most often he will probably end up sharing a laugh with his sidekick at the expense of his best friend since childhood, an ex-NASCAR mechanic, fond of dogs, hunting and bad cooking who now makes sure that there’s nothing on the roads that can catch the “Nifongmobile”..as played by Larry the Cable Guy.
At least that’s what I did myself42
Furriskey – I do not know if that could compare with my last cruise. We went on a Disney cruise, and our dinner seating was with a family from London. The wife was contemplating being a speedbump for Caterpillars, and was aghast that I was a former member of the imperialist American juggernaut. She did not speak to us for two full days, which was the blessing, and though our 4 year old daughters adored each other, she refused to let them play together. Once she resumed her babbling, it made the Mickey Mouse 24/7 schtick seem like meeting Allah and the 72 virgins.
Well at least he got re-elected right?
And what stops him from taking a Bar exam in another state? He can become the breck-girl.
There are still the upcoming civil suits to deal with. Dude does not have a very rosy-looking future.
He must feel like he’s on an island21.
Exactly what PiraticalBob said. Johnson’s efforts and courage are heroic.
IMO, bar associations, either by way of (or by somehow momentarily avoiding) sucking or suckling the judiciary, the legislature, the executive, and occasionally the public—all before promoting members to run for office routinely themselves—are all about politics. I’d bet (and pray to be dead wrong) that any credibility returned would itself be political window-dressing.
The pain must be simply excruciating as the NC bar finally stoops to asking Nifong some not so pleasant questions. Maybe they’ll all go golfing this weekend and make up.
If the very politicized Duke case proves to take down a racial racketeer like Nifong, that is a good thing.
But what about returning credibility to professorial bigots who tried to lynch white boys, black voters who may have voted for Nifong to be sure to hang the privileged white hooligans, and to the MSM…oh, never mind.
In other words, intractable, enraged bigotry across tens or hundreds of thousands.
That sobering perspective that makes Nifong’s possible suspension all the paler a justice. This case is for a lot of the contemporary racial and gender marbles—how it plays tells us who we are, nationwide.
…returning credibility?
From The New Criterion (May 2007):
Houston Baker was the George D. and Susan Fox Beisher Professor of English at Duke;
[…]
he has recently decamped to a distinguished professorship at Vanderbilt University</blockquote>.
Sorry for the poor formatting of my previous post but there’s also this from the same article:
It tells us they’ve never had a fucking cheesesteak.
I want to write “Comedy.Gold” but the sadness overwhelms me. So much education and so much puffed up ignorance wrapped up in a veneer of delusional superiority.
Must … Lie … Down …
Aw, BJ, you know what it’ll take to cheer you up, and it’ll take veneer off most anything…
Which raises an interesting question: If Jacqueline Susann was a pizza, what sort of pizza would she be? I’m guessing double ham with extra cheese.
Most unfortunate about this whole affair is that this does nothing to change the locale social climate. The next guy elected Durham County district attorney will be catering to the same electorate and under double pressure to make sure the charges stick when he goes after those privileged white boys up on campus.
Geezer;
I hear you but I’m out of soaked Tapioca Pearls and Haley’s MO.
TO THE STORE!!!
I hope you let her know, gently of course, that this exciting career opportunity beckoned.
These people regard former members of the British Imperial Juggernaut with the same intellectual disdain, which can be highly entrtaining over a prolonged period (such as a Disney Cruise), if you don’t weaken.
No Mercy, No Surrender is my motto….
furriskey – We had 3 meals a day for 7 days with her. Actually, after we got back, I got an email from her husband apologizing, though I think that was only because he was embarassed. Our daughters are now pen pals, and I always encourage my little one to incorporate am American flag is the accompanying pictures she draws, my petty not-so-subtle dig at “Mum”.
Makes me ponder if there will come a day I’ll have to remove the gat from my hold and reconstruct my vivid manifest dream-thoughts midst a throng of Nifongian troubadours. I’d so see love to see the look on the face of my Feminist Perspectives in Lit. prof’s face if it came to that.
Thor?
Sometimes a gat is just a gat…