Let me try to explain…..very s-l-o-w-l-y……that my interest in you as a commenter has never been as keen as your interest has always obviously been in following the Diva.

Anything I read on another blog, and you happened to have been there, was just a case of coincidence or bad luck.

I don’t know you.

I have never attacked you without provocation and always wonder about people who go to other blogs and try to instruct the author of that blog.

For instance, I don’t agree with Zimmerman about much; however, I realize that this is his blog and when he makes a decision, I don’t spend days fighting with him and demanding that he yield to my views.

I don’t email him and tell him that he should….how did you put it over at Liestoppers?…..”stomp” on someone?

People like you and your ilk are alien to me….and yes, idle……to believe that you can direct traffic on another blog.

And “Mr. Fontes”, there is much you do not understand about the Diva…..even as you seem to follow her every move, as well as in “buddy Foster fashion”, gossip and relive every episode of the Diva mystery as you wait for someone to hand you a new drool cup.

What on earth does a man find so intriguing about keeping track of a stranger or strangers on blogs and what relationship they might have with another blogger?

For me, people like you are just plain….odd.

Did you really—-even in your wildest dreams—-expect KC to listen to your advice about how he runs his own blog?

And just so you won’t continue in ignorance, I am intensely proud of the Diva breast shot. It was a serendipity shot.

Although I had rather others wouldn’t use it on their blogs, but I do realize how compelled they are to view it.

You see, Kitty Diva and I—-(before she went to Rainbow Bridge)—-were on the IMAC on Valentine’s Day last year and I was trying on necklaces….when we both began posing for IPhoto Booth.

The breast shot was the result of playing around and it turned out so well—-similar to something taken by a professional photographer, I’m told—-that I decided to keep it inside the IPhoto cache.

So don’t bother yourself with your notions.

Anyone downloading that shot is exhibiting pure lust for the Diva magic!

Try not to be bothered by such trivia…….(unless you’re vying for an autographed glossy copy.)

I realize the way in which your friends lifted it from the Diva video doesn’t offer a true and clear rendering. Hope that hasn’t put a damper on your viewing experience.

Lastly, a keen observer might ask, “Why are some so caught up inside the Diva and KC issues? If KC isn’t bothered by anything, why are they?”

Good question!

Have you considered how this all looks? For you?

There is absolutely nothing “anti-gay” in Debrah’s comment at the N&O. You must have untold demons eating at you to even bother searching for more of your “pasties”.

If I can get something through your head, I am the parent of two almost grown children. My daughter is gay and I can tell you for sure that if Frank Lombard were not gay the same professors at Duke who gladly went after the lacrosse players would be in the news on and on and going after Lombard right now.

You can bet your bottom dollar that he would have been fired immediately, not weeks later.

My daughter would not and does not cover for people like Lombard because it is people like that admitted child molester who help create the ignorance used against the gay community.

If they don’t come out passionately against his perverted lifestyle, what are they saying about their own standards?

Your attempt to make an issue out of Debrah’s very truthful comment makes you look even more pathetic than before.

And Joan try to keep on topic.

Debrah didn’t criticize some at Liestoppers because they might harbor negative feelings about gays.

She criticized them because they were suggesting that KC was and saying that is why he didn’t agree with your very bad analogy you tried to push on the D-i-W crowd.

You and JinC have damaged yourselves because of untruthfulness and these kinds of false comparisons when you’ve lost the argument.

As for the atmosphere in Durham, I recall that Irving Joyner, William Barber, and Al McSurely were pushing this to a trial, and Joyner was out-and-out predicting a conviction, or at least claiming it was a strong possibility. Furthermore, Joyner claimed that since the “rape” charges were dropped, the “rape shield” laws would prohibit most of the exculpatory information to be kept out of the trial, and that a guilty verdict would be fairly easy to obtain.

The NAACP ran some very wild accusations on its website, and kept the accusations up long after Roy Cooper had declared the defendants “innocent.” It is clear that McSurely and Barber were not “convinced” of the innocence of Reade, Collin, and David. They didn’t need evidence, did they?

So, are you and Prof. Zimmerman saying that Joyner, Barber, and McSurely don’t speak for Durham? That they are not influential? In the spring of 2007 these three men were doing everything possible to keep the prospect of a conviction high on the public agenda. Furthermore, Joyner claimed that since the case started in Durham, a Durham jury should be able to decide the guilt or innocence.

Now, these men had seen the evidence that the rest of us saw, but they took the point of view that this evidence did not matter. An African-American woman had made rape allegations, and that was all that they needed.

So, please don’t tell me that a Durham jury would have been able to be circumspect in this situation. Not with the NAACP all-but-demanding a conviction and backing up those sentiments on its website for everyone to see.

And please don’t tell me that the powers that be in Durham were unaware of what happens to people in prison, and especially when people are being targeted. Furthermore, even after the evidence became more and more open and even after “60 Minutes” took the case apart, Nifong won the November election.

I will say one other thing, Mr. Rougemont. None of what I have written is nearly as inflammatory as what Nifong, Joyner, McSurely, and many others in positions of influence in Durham were saying on a regular basis. I never uttered a death threat, but Reade Seligmann had death threats thrown at him in a courtroom with police, Nifong, and the other “officers of the court” in the room, yet none of them did a thing. Not a thing. Nor were there any objections to those death threats by anyone at Duke or Bill Bell, or anyone else in an influential position in Durham.

So, are you going to tell me that had these young men been convicted — a strong likelihood in Durham, given the political atmosphere there — they would have been perfectly safe and not in any danger at all? Give me a break.

I’m listening to Reade’s testimony while I write this, and all I can say is that you in Durham should be ashamed for ever letting these lies go this far. Instead, you in Durham elected Michael B. Nifong while your community leaders enabled him.

So, make your accusations against me, but when you in Durham can tell me that none of those things happened, and that the political atmosphere in Durham was perfectly safe for Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty, and David Evans, then I will stop making the statements I have made and will retract them.

When people at the cave stop insisting that these young men raped Crystal Mangum when all of the evidence demonstrates beyond a doubt that she is lying, maybe I will stop making statements. When some of the posters on this blog are willing to admit that they have been pursing a lie, then I will be perfectly happy to retract what I have said.

Somehow, I don’t think that will be occurring, will it? No, it is much more fun to believe a Big Lie.

To be honest, I would rather be the punching bag on this blog than Joan Foster or the lacrosse families, so if you wish to say those things, fine. At least I have my name out there and don’t hide behind fake pictures and false names.

Now, I must admit that this is the first time that someone has engaged in psychoanalyzing me, and if I do descend into the depths of madness, why I hope the blogger named “Sharon” is there to record the moment.

If you were to read the articles I have written over the years, you would see that I am consistent in my views toward justice and wrongful convictions. Often, I will defend people who are unpopular, like Barry Bonds, who was targeted by federal prosecutors, and now face prison or who have gone to prison.

The reason I got involved in the Duke case was that some young men were being falsely accused of a terrible crime, and it seemed that the entire political structure of a city was aimed at railroading them into prison. Furthermore, the usual “system” of checks and balances, from the grand jury system to the press, had broken down. For a year, three people were charged with rape and other crimes, despite evidence that spoke volumes about their innocence.

Furthermore, we saw faculty members take out an ad against them, and then lie when confronted with the truth of the case. (I have the emails from Wahneema Lubiano and others that were sent around before the ad was submitted, and I know what those emails said about the purpose of the ad.)

Since the usual guardians of the law had taken a powder, I became involved as a blogger. Now, I would figure that in a case in which the prosecutor and the so-called victim continually had to change their stories to fit the timelines and the evidence would lead some to think that maybe, just maybe, this case was a fraud, but I had not realized the political mindset that governs Duke University and Durham, North Carolina.

As I told one of the parents, this was a case in which the truth was not enough. It is obvious from reading this blog that the truth never will be enough. In reading the material that has come from Duke and Durham, including the claim that the police were “looking for exculpatory evidence” and that Nifong (according to Sydney Harr) had a case with merit, I have concluded that a lot of people from Durham simply don’t want to bother with the truth, and that is why I am convinced that a Durham jury would have convicted those three young men.

When I read Sydney Harr claiming that the Seligmanns paid off Moez Elmostafa, and then see people like Justice58 comment on that particular post approvingly, you have to understand that I am not going to have a charitable attitude toward someone who approves of fabrications. Likewise, when Prof. Zimmerman gives her credibility, as he has done, I probably will react against that, too.

So, go after me if you will. After seeing the way that people in Durham went after the lacrosse players and their families, and after seeing the educational and political apparati in that city engage in gross misconduct, I will continue to doubt the integrity and honesty of people in leadership positions in that city. If this be a rant, and if this be madness, then let us make the most of it.

Granted, she (and a lot of people in Durham) never saw Kathy Seligmann as a real person, even when Seligmann had to be hospitalized. For a while, Rae Evans was in a wheelchair, and one friend of hers told me that she never had seen Rae in such a condition.

Members of other lacrosse families have suffered from stress-related illnesses linked to that time, but no one suffered anything. For a year, these families did not know what would happen to their children, while a rogue DA lied to the courts. Reade Seligmann received death threats while walking to a hearing and was threatened in court, yet the judge, Nifong’s good friend Ronald Stephens did nothing. Yeah, Prof. Zimmerman, those families did not suffer at all. Right.

For the past three years, we have heard lie after lie come from Durham, and Justice58 still claims that there is all sorts of “secret” evidence being hidden that “proves” Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty, and David Evans raped Crystal Mangum, yet Prof. Zimmerman treats her as being credible. Just what is that “evidence” that you know about, Justice58?

Tricia Dowd attended the April 12 meeting at NCCU and said afterward that she never had experienced “so much hatred” in one place. We saw the entire “justice” apparatus of Durham County and the City of Durham attempt to frame three young men for a rape that never happened, yet I am supposed to infer NOTHING from this? The voters of Durham County elected Michael Nifong, even after Ed Bradley exposed his case on “60 Minutes,” yet I am supposed to believe that nothing was out of kilter?

I made my comments after Ruth Sheehan received numerous complaints that the coverage given to the murder of Eve Carson was “racist” because a murdered NCCU student was not given the same amount of publicity. Also, given the many public comments that residents of Durham made about the

Now, I find it interesting that Prof. Zimmerman presents Justice58 as better informed, since he has publicly stated that the charges were a hoax. Have you changed your mind, Prof. Zimmerman? If Justice58 is “better informed,” are you now saying that maybe the charges were true after all? Justice58 has written many times that the charges were true and Nifong was correct.

And let us be honest. Whatever “caricatures” I have created are not nearly as “crude” as the caricatures that Durham and Duke University made of the lacrosse players and their families. For that matter, the Seligmanns and the Finnertys had to endure their sons having their mug shots on the cover of Newsweek as accused rapists. Yeah, no caricature there.

And many supporters of Prof. Zimmerman, including Justice58 have made up their own crude caricatures of the families, of Joan Foster, and many of the other people who have defended the lacrosse players and their families.

By the way, Justice58 and Prof. Zimmerman, how is my comment about the way that African-Americans handled the lacrosse situation in Durham any different than what we saw in the worst of Mississippi and Alabama during the Jim Crow era? True, Reade, David, and Collin still are alive, but that is about all.

These young men had to endure false charges, made worse by one false story after another that came from Durham, the Wilmington News, and other papers. We saw Irving Joyner defend the April 4 “lineup,” which was a fraud. We saw the attorney for the NAACP, Al McSurely, refuse to meet with Kirk Osborn when Osborn offered to go over the entire case file.

By the way, which “decent” person in Durham did I accuse of attempted murder? I believe that had those young men been convicted and sent to prison, gangs would have murdered them, and there would have been support for that, and everyone reading this statement knows it.

So, while my comments are unpleasant, I stand by them. Call me what you want, but at least I have my name out there and don’t hide behind a fake name.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson236.html

“As noted before, the signees were concentrated in the “identity studies” groups, which are a relatively new phenomenon in higher education. Furthermore, they are not “academic” in the sense of disciplines like chemistry or economics being “academic.” Women’s studies “scholars,” for example, are not interested in researching real issues that affect women. Instead, they exist for one purpose: to proclaim that women are oppressed and that their “salvation” is grabbing political control over others.”

Economics guru Anderson hit the nail on the head with that one. A professor of real science and a serious profession (unlike music for example), certainly knows where he is coming from in putting these idiot feminazi wannabes in their place.

“They are successful in large part because of their ruthlessness, and in that way, they follow the Bolshevik model which gave us the Russian Revolution and the bloodshed that came afterward. Bolsheviks were only a tiny minority, but they knew when to storm the Winter Palace and how to agitate and get their way. (For that matter, that is how the Neo-Conservatives are able to gain power in U.S. presidential administrations, despite the fact that their actual numbers are quite small. They are masters, however, at agitation and attack, and most people don’t have the heart or will to stand up against their brutality.)”

This Duke thing has never been about crime or justice, it is and will continue to be the Western Front of the stand against the insidious takeover of our colleges and government by the Leftist feminazis and minority lovers in our midst. We must arm ourselves and prepare an underground bunker for the long fight ahead. Let us hope for no more than four years of hiding from our brutal foes.

A succinct example of the total dishonesty
of the KC - Hooligan - Lacrosse Crowd.

It’s about time Zimmerman got into the evidence.

What makes the Lacrosse case so compelling is the monstrous behavior of the Univerity, faculty, and government, that they were so utterly, shamelessly, and unrepentently wrong.

You want Johnson to present their side? They were corrupt and rotten. They still are. That’s their side. That’s why it’s an important story in the first place.