I have to start by saying, that I think some members of the Duke Lacrosse Team very well may have carried out the rape they have been accused of. I was trying to remain as objective as possible, but too much corroborating evidence has surfaced and I’m starting to think some of those guys are guilty. I feel this way not just because of what the stripper who was raped has said and the fact that her statements match evidence at the crime scene. But also a neighbor has told WRAL-TV, that they heard lacrosse team members yelling racial slurs at the Black strippers that same night. (46 of the 47 team members are White.) Also, there was a 911 call that same night by a Black woman who said that some of the players yelled racial slurs at them. Using the n-word. That call was totally unrelated to the rape case, but the same group is accused by all these witnesses of improper acts on the exact same night. I don’t think a stripper is going to just happen to cry rape the same night some of the same White guys are going around the area calling various Black women “nigger”. So unless the trial proves otherwise, I’m really starting to think these guys did a lot of bad that night and some of them may have performed the rape. If they did I hope all involved in the rape are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and that everyone who knew about the rape and did not help authorities is also prosecuted. Because we all know, that in a house with a bunch of men and only 2 strippers, more than just 3 men know what happened that night. And if there was a rape, those who did not try to stop it are some real punks!

Having said all of that. I must say, this case is exposing some major Liberal hypocrisy. Because a race based DNA dragnet is being used and I don’t see Liberals or Civil Libertarian types saying a single word! Oh but they all cry foul when it is done to Blacks. The article below details some of the Duke rape case up to this point, with links to video reports. Notice how all but one member of the lacrosse team was subjected to DNA testing.

Personally, I’ve got no problem with testing just the White players. And I didn’t have a problem when police in Charlottesville, Virginia were performing DNA testing on select Black men, in their efforts to find a brutal rapist. But notice all the crying when some Black men were the subject of testing. And notice the Liberal slant against DNA testing in the Washington Post article below, versus how testing in the Duke lacrosse team case is quickly passed over by the media.

Of course in the Duke lacrosse case, the police could have tried to do a better job of fitting sketches with team members selected for DNA testing, but that did not happen and Liberals are silent. No cries of “racial profiling” at Duke.

Now notice the criteria used in Charlottesville.

Longo maintains that the DNA sampling is not racial profiling, because several victims identified the rapist as a black man. If the rapist were white, he said, his officers would be swabbing the cheeks of white men. But he conceded that he is unsure whether the sampling should continue.

“Is it the right balance between individual rights and what we all agree the community wants us to do, which is to catch a serial rapist?” Longo asked.

The rapist first struck the Charlottesville community in 1997, police said, and his last confirmed assault was in April 2003. In November 2002, a woman was assaulted when she returned home from taking her children to school and was beaten so badly that she needed reconstructive surgery, Longo said.

Longo stressed that officers are not stopping black men at random. In most cases, he said, police are responding to reports from residents about men who resemble a composite sketch of the suspect or who seem to be acting strangely.

So far, the names of 690 “candidates” have surfaced in the investigation, Longo said. Detectives quickly eliminated 400 because their DNA samples already were in the state database or because they were in jail when one of the attacks occurred.

Of the other men, 99 were placed on the list when someone reported that they resembled the sketch, Longo said. He said 116 were added because someone reported “suspicious behavior.” The remaining 75 had criminal histories.

Longo said his officers asked 197 of the men for DNA samples. All but 10 agreed, he said.

The swabs are sent to the state crime laboratory in Richmond, where they are compared with the rapist’s DNA, police said. The DNA profiles are not entered into the state database, and the swabs are returned to the Charlottesville police and will be held until the rapist goes to trial. They will not be used for any other reason or for any other case, police said. “There’s this picture out there that hundreds of people have had a Q-tip stuck in their mouths, and that ain’t it,” Longo said.

Stephen Gottlieb, a professor at Albany Law School, said that similar practices are being challenged in court but that police are acting legally if they have reason to suspect someone and then ask that person to provide a genetic sample.

But the criteria police are using seem weak to Steven Turner, 27, a graduate student at U-Va.’s Curry School of Education, who twice has been asked to provide a DNA sample and twice refused.

“The suspect is a black man, and he needs to be caught,” Turner said. “But the way the police are conducting this investigation, because the suspect is a black man, every black man is a suspect.”

Turner said he was first approached by police on a balmy August night as he rode his bicycle. A police van pulled up, he said, and the officer who jumped out told him that someone had reported that he was acting suspiciously. The officer then told him that he resembled the serial rapist and asked for a DNA sample.

After the police left, Turner said, he rode around in circles for a long time. “I felt broken,” he said. “I felt like I didn’t have a home anymore. It was devastating.”

A few weeks later, Turner said, police visited his home and again asked for a sample. This time, Turner said, he got angry.
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So in both cases, police had a set of suspects and a description. In Charlottesville police have a composite sketch, but at Duke the entire team was tested. Oh, all except the Black player. Can you imagine what would happen if only Black players on Duke’s Basketball team were DNA tested because one of them may have been involved in a crime? I am certain that if this Duke lacrosse team rape case involved Black players on Duke’s basketball team and similar methods were used that you would see race warlords and poverty pimps swarming Duke’s campus like a plague of locus!