Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Eyewitness News Looks at Duke Party Photos

Update....7 of the photos here

The photos are believed to be authentic and taken by one of the students at the March 13 party. The time stamps on the photos appear to be accurate. Pictures of a wristwatch magnified for clarity correspond with the time on the photos. The players are sitting on three couches in a semicircle with the dancers in the middle.

11:02 p.m.: The first picture shows at least 10 students hanging out in a living room, apparently waiting for the dancers to arrive. Most of the students appear to be drinking. By the number of people in this photo, it appears only a fraction of the 47 lacrosse team members are there.

12 a.m.: This is the first picture of the strippers. Students are watching the show, but not grabbing or attempting to touch the women. Bruises are clearly visible on the legs and thighs of the alleged victim.

12:00:40 a.m.: Another picture taken 40 seconds later shows bruises on the accuser's knees. Her right knee appears to have an open cut.

12:03:57 a.m.: About four minutes after arriving, a picture shows the strippers leaving the room. The photo clearly shows that the alleged victim left behind one of her shoes.

Between 12:10 a.m. and 12:30 a.m.: No photos were taken between this time.

12:30:12 a.m.: The next photo shows the alleged victim on the back porch, carrying what appears to be her purse and a makeup bag. Her clothes are intact.

12:30:47 a.m.: A photo taken 30 seconds later shows the alleged victim on the porch and she appears to smile.

12:31:26 a.m.: But 30 seconds after that, a photo shows the alleged victim stumbling down the back steps of the house.

12:37:58 a.m.: A series of photos are taken, all showing the woman lying on her left side on the back porch, seemingly passed out or asleep. She had visible cuts on her legs and buttocks that did not appear in the previous photos.

The cuts may be from falling. The cuts on her buttocks line up with the edge of a screen door she may have hit on the way down.

12:41 a.m.: The final photo shows the accuser and the second dancer in a black car. The accuser is in the passengers seat.

Many of the photos taken on the back porch show pink splotches, which the defense says is undried nail polish. They claim the accuser was polishing her nails in the bathroom between 12:10 a.m. and 12:30 a.m. - - not being raped.

Why are there kids indited? Maybe the DA doesn't want to look like a racist.....there definitely seems to be no evidence. The pictures show it, the lack of DNA shows it.

I have notices the media is starting to stick up for her. She is not a stripper, she is a dancer. She is a sympathetic mother of two.

And now you have people like Jesse Jackson saying "if she only had a scholarship to college"....Bull.

This is a bad person who has made many poor choices in her life, and will continue to make many, many more. But here are your liberals (Jackson) throwing out the race card and blaming society for her problems. This really needs to stop....

14 comments:

Jim said...

"No wonder the prison system votes by the majority for liberals..."

WTF?

The Game said...

this is called a fact Jim, they usually make liberals look bad...

well done ave joe

you should be getting Ann Coulters new book...Godless...I'm sure it describes in detail what you are talking about...a liberals society that allows babies to be killed, child rapist to get probation, and religion taken out of every aspect of society...except Islam

Jim said...

Game, don't lecture me on facts. I present them with actual citations here all day long.

Speaking of facts, can you name me any states in which people currently in prison can even vote? While you're at it why don't you list the states in which ex-felons are allowed to vote.

The assertion is ludicrous.

Furthermore, please cite the name of any person or organization of any size, repute, or stature who has suggested, much less attempted to have religion taken out of every aspect of society. Please link to sources.

You can't because it's a lie.

Also, I believe abortion is legal in every state of the union except South Dakota (and their are exceptions there). Since Republicans control their fair share of states, the House, the Senate, and the White House, and most people in this country are self-identified Christians, you have a lot of baby killers out there. Could be that the majority of people in this country (you know the majority that you say should always rule) believe differently from you.

Is that a shock?

The Game said...

First,
you will start seeing many more laws limiting baby killing....it takes time. Now that we have a supreme court that (hopefully) will not make up laws, we can get baby killing taken down to a minimum.

The ACLU constantly attempts to take religion out of society. Take out "under God", no pledge in school, get rid of the Ten commandments in court houses, and mentioning Christmas is so damn offensive it makes liberals sick. In Wisconsin and many other places a Christmas tree had to be called a "Holiday tree"...no more Santa, no more Easter bunny...this could continue for hours...this topic is too easy. I'm not wasting my time looking up links because you think what you think anyway and intelligent, clear minded people already know what I am saying is true. My thesis is due tomorrow...don't have time to waste on it.

Jim said...

Another cop out. Throw crap against the wall and hope it sticks.

I could say that conservatives seek to make the President the head of the official American Christian Church and claim that any intelligent person knows it's true. No different from what you are saying.

If I offer no evidence of this claim, then it is meaningless, just like yours.

What is your thesis about?

Jim said...

The ACLU constantyly attempts to take religion out of government, not out of society. Most members of ACLU are Christian.

"Under God" was inserted into the pledge in 1954, and yet there was a pledge recited in schools for decades without that phrase.

Why should the 10 Commandments be in courthouses? What relevance does the 10 Commandments have in courthouses?

In what way did Christmas trees have "to be called a Holiday tree"? What law made this so? Where is Santa banned? Where is the Easter Bunny banned?

You are watching too much O'Reilly. He goes to great lengths to find isolated incidents, mis-represents them, and them claims it's part of some pervasive plot to remove religion from society. It's all hogwash.

The Game said...

our laws are based on the 10 commandments...this country was founded on by Christian man with Christian values...seperation of church and state was meant to stop the govt from MAKING people follow a certain religion...if a vast majority in a school district want to have a chirstmas party or play, then they should...that is the ACLU taking religion out of society...schools are a part of society.

My thesis is comparing abstinence only sex education to comprehensive sex education...

I thought the comprehensive would work better...but my conclusion is that there needs to be a abstinence based comprehensive model...if kids were exposed to abstinence starting around 5th grade...they would be much more likely to buy into it...yes, contraceptives need to be taught along with STD's, but giving up on abstinence will not work...alteast based on my results.

Jim said...

On your thesis. Sounds interesting and informative. I would agree that it should be grounded in abstinence, but that accurate and comprehensive information is crucial.

The best way to limit abortions is to prevent unwanted pregnancies.

Now as to the 10 commandments, I'll grant you that two of our laws today bear resemblance to two of the 10 commandments: killing and stealing. However, I would say that it was pretty much recognized that killing and stealing were wrong long before Moses came down from the mountain.

To review:

1) Thou shalt have no other gods before me. No such law here.

2) No graven image. No such law here.

3) Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain. No such law here.

4) Remeber the sabbath. No such law here.

5) Honor they father and thy mother. No such law here.

6) Thou shalt not kill. I give you that one.

7) Thou shalt not commit adultry. Not a law, just grounds for divorce.

8) Thou shalt not steal. I'll give you this one, too.

9) Thou shalt not lie. Iffy here. Lying is not illegal unless you do it under oath.

10) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors ass, etc. No such law here.

So I'll give you 2 and a half out of 10 that bear resemblance to the tablets. However, again I would maintain that killing and stealing are universal and predate the 10 commandments.

The Game said...

I think the point is that we do base our laws on morality..and that morality was christianity

Jim said...

Morality is knowing what is right from what is wrong. Morality preceeds Chrisitanity. Heck, the 10 commandments preceed Christianity.

I agreed that 2 of the 10 commandments are in our laws. Are you going to tell me that out of the tens of thousands of laws on our books, laws on taxation, environment, corporate governance, etc. any of them are based on these two or any other of the 10 commandments?

Our laws are not based in any way on the 10 commandments. Most of them have no connection whatsoever to the 10 commandments.

Christians do not have a patent on morality.

The only connection between the 10 Commandments and our laws are that they are a code of laws, like the Hammurabi code and Justinian law. Include those with the 10 Commandments in a courthouse (like on the Supreme Court building) and you have my blessing.

The Game said...

right, our laws are not solely based on the 10 commandments, but the people who created the first laws were very religious, and they used the 10 commandents as a symbol...

Jim said...

They did? How? Where?

Anonymous said...

Am I the only one who thinks this broad is really fugly?

Also:

Jim, once again, a fantastic argument of true facts. Game, same once you got on track. Its hard to have a discussion between someone who feels they 'believe in' something vs. someone who thinks they 'know' something. If we can ever figure it out, we'd be rich. :)

Though, I believe morality is societally agreed upon rules of proper conduct, and not 'knowing right from wrong'.

Dedanna said...

Quote the game:
our laws are based on the 10 commandments...this country was founded on by Christian man with Christian values...

FALSE.

See: Notes on the Founding Fathers and the Separation of Church and State

Oh, and our buddy Ron can tell us exactly what this country was founded upon, and it wasn't Christianity. So there. :-p