Thanks for the link.

I remember hearing about this a bit when the suit was initially filed but didn't catch the outcome. I guess suits like these are not much of a concern so long as he has enough funding to cover his expenses, and to pay damages.

I watched Anderson Cooper interview Jesse Jackson last night and Cooper asked about the case and what Jackson would do about his prior (slanderous) comments. Jackson essentially waltzed around the question and ended up blaming the 3 students anyway for going to strip clubs and hiring strippers which is a sin in his eyes, and that if they didn't, they would not have ended up in the position they were in.

To me that doesn't justify his comments at the time and he appears that he is just looking for a way to save face. I'm hoping that more attention is paid to his (and Sharpton's) comments at the time. I was a little surprised that Cooper asked him the questions flat out but now that the topic has been breached perhaps more will do the same.

Edit: I found the transcript at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/..
about 3/4 down the page

Here is the part I caught

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Two-thirds of the world's lawyers practice in the US

I've been around since "Buy American" meant "Made in the USA".

One of the young men made a good point at their press conference. They come from wealthy families who were able to hire top notch lawyers to fight this. God only knows what would have happened to 3 nobodies who were caught in this prosecutor's re-election machinery.

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A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the utmost extremes of injustice and oppression.
Edward Gibbon

They'd have gone to prison.

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When they come a wull staun ma groon
Staun ma groon al nae be afraid
Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears

yes agreed....

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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.

H. L. Mencken


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didnt read all the posts in this thread but i came up with a thought as i drove home yesterday from my business trip

if this was a white gal who had accused 3 black college basketball players

there would be a huge uproar over the fact that it wasnt true

but it seems to me no one is really that caught up in it now that the stripper is found to be a liar

I don't know about you Rakkasan but in the media here in Australia they're giving it a huge amount of print/air-time. In fact I'd characterise it as a "huge uproar".

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not seeing it, but maybe its cause i think to be quite honest that if the races were reversed it would go into the mode of racial profiling and things like that

so the news people and the talking heads would be branching into more tangents

right now its all nifong is a moron

i think it would be much larger again if the circumstances were different and that i think is a problem in our society

yes we need to protect the "whistle blowers" and "victims" in our society

but once shown to be liars they need to receive some wrath

these kids lives are ruined and had they no means they would be in jail for no reason

Their lives aren't ruined. They'll shrug it off, graduate and walk into comfortable jobs in the law, commerce or whatever it is they choose to do. Heck they'll be free to go to West Point or Annapolis or Colorado Springs.

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"There were no D-Day Heroes in 1973" - Cold Chisel Khe Sanh

I disagree.....i was brought up on charges in the military on a EO complaint

situation was that i told a black single female drill instructor that i couldnt wait to no longer work with fucking pogues anymore since all they do is comnplain and moan and not want to work

she filed a complaint on me for "MOS discrimination"(job discrimination)

Now of course it wasnt founded and nothing happened but when she didnt get her way she of course spread that i called her a bitch and it was everywhere


every female drill in that BN thought i was a sexist cause there was a case and of course she lied

point being this shit follows someone even if not founded , it doesnt just shrug off......

I think it's horrible what happened to the Duke students. Without any facts, the DA incited a lynchmob mentality with the locals, students, and even the faculty who presumed them guilty. If anyone had stopped for one minute, and used some rational thought on her statement of being violenty raped by three men at the same time, and the known facts at the time, they may have at the very least questioned the accusations.

The only reason their lives will not be ruined is because the AG declared them innocent, and said Nyfong was a rogue prosecutor. Anything short of those statements would have still left doubt with some people...Once accused of rape is as good as guilty. I actually heard some Prosecuting talking heads still insisting something happened. (People like Nancy Grace, and that Wendy talking head give all lawyers a bad name.)

I also think if this had been a white accuser, and three black men that they would be serving life in prison by now.

None of the students was found guilty. End of story. They will not suffer.

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"There were no D-Day Heroes in 1973" - Cold Chisel Khe Sanh

And who is going to remove all the hits from Google when you type in any of their names? If you think this won't follow them you are dreaming.

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The universe grows smaller every day and the threat of aggression by any group anywhere can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all or no one is secure... - Klaatu

One of them lost a 70k per year entry level job opportunity when this first started.

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"Chaplain Charlie will tell you about how the free world will conquer Communism with the aid of God and a few marines! God has a hard-on for marines because we kill everything we see! He plays His games, we play ours! To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls! God was here before the Marine Corps! So you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Corps! Do you ladies understand?"

That tells me more about their prospective bosses than it does about anything else.

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"There were no D-Day Heroes in 1973" - Cold Chisel Khe Sanh

Yes, my point exactly. There'll be plenty along soon enough. The further away from the incident, the more the prospects. Privilege doesn't deny privilege.

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"There were no D-Day Heroes in 1973" - Cold Chisel Khe Sanh