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"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
Rev. Jackson offers scholarship to accuser in alleged Duke lacrosse rape case
… no matter if the report is true or not. Via the AP (emphasis added):
DURHAM – The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Saturday his Rainbow/Push Coalition will pay the college tuition of a woman who told police she was raped by members of Duke University’s men’s lacrosse team while working as a stripper — no matter the outcome of the case.
“I can’t wait … to talk with her and have prayer with her, because our organization is committed, when she’s physically and emotionally able … to provide for her the scholarship money to finish school so she will never … again have to stoop that low to survive,” he said from Chicago in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
When asked, the civil rights leader also said his group will pay for the woman’s tuition even if her report proves false.
In other words, it’s the appearance of being a black victim that matters most to Jackson. Whether the person actually is a victim means very little. Same ol’ same ol’.
Usually, where you find Jackson you’ll find Al Sharpton, but so far Sharpton – infamous for his role in the Tawana Brawley rape hoax – has been a no show, despite reports that he was supposed to be in Durham last week. Let’s hope he stays away.
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Je$$ie Jack$son introduced Lawyers to parents of stripper
A man stands in the shadows of the Duke Lacrosse ‘rape’ case…watching and waiting. While the three wealthy, white male students remains in criminal court, he is not likely to step forward.
Even at this early stage, the stripper’s mother is “very much interested” in “getting Willie E. Gary is a litigator renowned for winning huge settlements.
The stripper’s parents met with Gary in April. The meeting was facilitated by civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Gary acts as a family adviser, and the parents are laying groundwork to make a civil bid. Public opinion can be a large bargaining chip in obtaining a lucrative settlement. Earlier, the parents spoke freely; now they’re being more media savvy.
Essence Magazine featured three articles by Kristal Brent Zook. Each is sympathetic to the accuser. (1st) “Family Defends Daughter’s Painful Past”, (2nd) “Nowhere to Turn,” depicts the accuser as living in terror. (3rd) is basically an announcement of Willie Gary’s appearance in the case; it concludes by stating that the parents “worry that their daughter may…need additional legal guidance.”
Civil law deals in torts or harms inflicted by one person upon another; its purposes are compensation for actual or perceived damages.
A “guilty” verdict in criminal court can be used to establish liability in a civil one but if the verdict is “not guilty” or the charges are dropped, a civil case can proceed independently.
Kobe Bryant settled out-of-court settlement. Such settlements are not necessarily admissions of guilt. After months of media blitz, Bryant may have been embarrassed to settle, so civil suits could be lucrative even if the “accuser’s” claim is completely fabricated. The Duke students will face the same choice?
Civil suits can be lucrative, and they’re easier to win; standards of evidence and other legal protections enjoyed by a defendant are significantly lowered in civil court.
Clearly, her parents wish to explore a civil proceeding. Gary is conspicuously available.
“Comment by me again @ 5/18/2006 – 12:36 pm”
Thanks for the take on what could follow. For one thing, Jesse can smell money a mile away and there has been nothing on record to verify that he has ever done anything not personally beneficial. You can bet that if Willie gets his, Jesse will get some, too. After I read SHAKEDOWN, a book by Timmerman, Jesse took ambulance chasing to a whole new level.
Thanks again for the legal stuff; I went to law school once but it was so darned long ago…. and then after I sat on my clay tablets and broke them, tried to rely on memory, but that didn’t work. Oh, well.