Friday, December 29, 2006
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HamNation: Tour of Things That Did Not Happen in Durham
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Posted by:
Mary Katharine Ham at
12:20 PM
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Join me for an exciting tour of Durham, highlighting Mike Nifong's prosecutorial misconduct in the Duke Lacrosse case.
Thanks to the Ham family for filming, producing, editing, and starring in this episode of HamNation. Mom was producer, Dad was directing, editing, and on music, and I recruited the bros to play lacrosse in the background for realism.
It's Total HamNation! Hope you enjoy.
I also wrote a column today on Five Good Things You Probably Never Knew About Duke Lacrosse. For instance, guess the team's graduation success rate.
100 percent. Read more about the Blue Devils who aren't nearly as devilish as the media has made them out to be.
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Good job on the video. It brought back memories of my time in Durham. Sadly, I didn't see the Bullpen(restaurant/bar/dive) anywhere; it was a fine bar/dive about 20 years ago. Then again, it's not really relevant to the case at hand, so it's just as well. |
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this one was very good. fewer moving parts - runs smoother. |
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Without a doubt, one of the strongest indictments of Nifong I've ever seen. Well done! |
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Excellent piece, and I'll only add that three young men have had their lives ruined by a reckless prosecuter, a rush by him to judgment and an ill informed public that voted Nifong into office.
While we would hope and pray these young men have successful, happy lives; thanks to Nifong a footnote at the end of their lives will refer to their being accused of rape and some people will always believe they got away with it because they were rich and white and the victim was black.
Had Nifong withheld judgemt, withheld the names of all involved and waited for solid DNA evidence and/or eyewitness accounts to a rape, these men would not have their lives stained by this event and the black community would not have another racism case to plead. |
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I wonder how the left will spin it now that the facts are out?! |
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MKH
Excellent roundup of the relevant facts that did not happen.
Brava. |
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...that did not happen at Townhall.com. |
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Did the voters wish it to be true, and side with the idiot racist Nifong?
Can we start a list of all the academics and administration officials who are apologizing now? Need a post-it note?
Disgraceful prosecutorial conduct. Shameful academic response. The current silence is deafening.
Ham, you're cute too. |
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Dave writes: "I wonder how the left will spin it now that the facts are out?!"
Possibilities:
1. they'll ignore it totally.
2. "The system worked, if a little belatedly. What's your problem? Hanging on to this is divisive and will only increase racial tensions." |
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Oh how I wish I was several years younger!
Mary Katherine, you always do such a good job! I am so glad you are on our side!!! |
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to the father of a second year Dukie.
Keep up the good work. |
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Cannot believe you"all took the time and effort to do this. Great job but we have got to pay more attention to brodhead. What a disaster!!! The 88 also.
As for MKH, if I was not 70+ and happily married for 45 years........... |
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Great job, Mary Katherine. I was thinking that we really need to do something to help these players repair their reputation. They have been vilified by the media, have lost countless opportunities, and have been had their lives ruined by an overzealous DA. I'm glad you're taking a lead in this by establishing the many things that have gone wrong with this case. It's especially galling that so many people, even so-called "academics," just assumed that they were guilty. Let's get the blogosphere rolling in laying bare the injustice done here and helping these guys out. |
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Mary Katherine, Your stick work at the end was very impressive. Better than I could do, anyway. Do you play Lax? |
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I would think this would prove to show further contempt of court, and that Nifong again believes in his OWN "standards?!"
Another fine example of corruption in office, and is doing nothing but eroding our confidence in not only the government officials "WE" voted into office, but also the government itself!
Holding an office has become a system where if you are a member, are entitled to do as you wish without consequence! There are 2 sets of laws, one for us, and the other for "THEM!"
Another lovely fact is the state pays to defend them, meanwhile citizens lose their homes and life savings to have their cases heard! Completely ABSURD!
I must admit to enjoying the side show! Nifong comes into his appointment by deception, continued in deceptive practices, and is STILL trying to deceive us, and himself! He is truly the epitome of a COWARD!
Now that he doesn't have his title to contort and hide behind, he has turned into a sniveling wimp! Hiding his head in the sand and playing his guitar will not change the fact that his avoidance will last only for a season, then his day WILL come!
Until then he is providing us with A LOT of entertainment, and I am glad to see that he is suffering and frightened! This short taste of his own medicine cannot compare to the deaths of innocent lives of citizens whom he has ignored and defiled!
He should be so ashamed, and apologetic knowing he purposely almost sent 3 innocent men to jail for years for a crime he KNEW they did not commit, completely ignore murder cases and the entire judicial system ground to a halt for ONE case?! And do we honestly think this was the only circumstance?!
He cannot hide, nor ignore the fact that he indeed shall reap what he has sewn, and EVERYTHING he did was by his own choice, for his own motives and agenda!
He is now only beginning to have any sort of pain, AND he is GUILTY by his own admission! Whatever feelings of fright he may have are not near as close to the ones HE was responsible for when they were INNOCENT! The bitter taste of the truthful pill is not nearly as bitter of those of tears of horror and death!
Nifong is by far alone in his dubious abuses in power, and to NOT hold him LEGALLY responsible is a MOCKERY to the very laws he was entrusted to obey and uphold! |
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