Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Breaking News: The Duke Rape Case
This is a hard one. Probably like a lot of people when I first heard about this incident when it originally happened my initial reaction was .... "dam'd pompous jocks should rot in prison." I know, I know ... what happened to innocent till proven guilty? Be honest wasn't that your first thought too? Doesn't everybody convict and execute people on the basis of the first news report they hear.
Then as the case started to unfold it started looking like these guys didn't do what they were accused of. This sucks on so many levels:
1- Their reputation has now been tarnished ... even if they are vindicated. It reminds me of the old parable: Go to a mountain top and throw a basket of feathers into the wind, then go back the next day and try to collect them all. How many did the wind blow to far and distant places never to be seen again?
2- The next woman that is really attacked is going to have her credibility unnecessarily scrutinized and in-turn re-victimized.
So the accuser and then the over zealous prosecutor not only harmed these three men ... but irreparable damage has been done to women all over. Nice work guys.
#posted by Rob Roschewsk @ 5:37 PM