This is something I just posted on KC Johnson's blog, Durham-in-Wonderland,
Cohan: "Defense Attorneys" want Nifong "literally dead in the ground.
Hershel Parker said...
these two quotations are from earlier comments:
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Maria at 6:30 pm, Duke has learned nothing. I can assure you that if a situation unfolded identical to the false accusation of three students as played out in 2006, Duke would still be on the wrong side of the law and justice. When facts don't matter and only a narrative is trotted out in their place, the atmosphere is ripe for another Duke/Lacrosse fiasco.
6/9/14, 7:46 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Anonymous at 7:46, these problems must have to do with the nature of the people with power there. They must not think of defamation, bearing false witness, as all that bad if it meets some other purpose.
I WANT TO ADD TO AA'S COMMENT ON "THE NATURE OF THE PEOPLE WITH POWER" AT DUKE. ON 23 JUNE 2002 IN THE "NEW YORK TIMES" RICHARD H. BRODHEAD, THEN DEAN OF YALE COLLEGE, NOW PRESIDENT OF DUKE UNIVERSITY "BORE FALSE WITNESS" AGAINST ME IN A WAY THAT DEFAMED ME. HE LIED ABOUT MELVILLE'S LOST BOOK CALLED "POEMS"(1860), WHICH EVERYONE HAD KNOWN ABOUT SINCE 1922. BRODHEAD DECLARED TO ALL THE READERS OF THE "NEW YORK TIMES" THAT I WAS THE SORT OF RESEARCHER WHO MERELY "SURMISED" RATHER THAN MUSTERED DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE CONVINCINGLY. ONLY I IN MY "BLACK HOLE," HE SAID, HAD EVER HEARD OF MELVILLE'S BOOK CALLED "POEMS." I FELT HELPLESSLY DEFAMED, ESPECIALLY WHEN A CHAIRED PROFESSOR AT COLUMBIA, ANDREW DELBANCO, ECHOED BRODHEAD'S LIES AND GENERALIZED FROM THEM ABOUT ME AS UNRELIABLE. I SUFFERED IN SILENCE FOR FIVE YEARS BUT NOW I SPEAK OUT.
Cohan: "Defense Attorneys" want Nifong "literally dead in the ground.
http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2014/06/cohan-defense-attorneys-want-nifong.html
Hershel Parker said...
these two quotations are from earlier comments:
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Maria at 6:30 pm, Duke has learned nothing. I can assure you that if a situation unfolded identical to the false accusation of three students as played out in 2006, Duke would still be on the wrong side of the law and justice. When facts don't matter and only a narrative is trotted out in their place, the atmosphere is ripe for another Duke/Lacrosse fiasco.
6/9/14, 7:46 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Anonymous at 7:46, these problems must have to do with the nature of the people with power there. They must not think of defamation, bearing false witness, as all that bad if it meets some other purpose.
I WANT TO ADD TO AA'S COMMENT ON "THE NATURE OF THE PEOPLE WITH POWER" AT DUKE. ON 23 JUNE 2002 IN THE "NEW YORK TIMES" RICHARD H. BRODHEAD, THEN DEAN OF YALE COLLEGE, NOW PRESIDENT OF DUKE UNIVERSITY "BORE FALSE WITNESS" AGAINST ME IN A WAY THAT DEFAMED ME. HE LIED ABOUT MELVILLE'S LOST BOOK CALLED "POEMS"(1860), WHICH EVERYONE HAD KNOWN ABOUT SINCE 1922. BRODHEAD DECLARED TO ALL THE READERS OF THE "NEW YORK TIMES" THAT I WAS THE SORT OF RESEARCHER WHO MERELY "SURMISED" RATHER THAN MUSTERED DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE CONVINCINGLY. ONLY I IN MY "BLACK HOLE," HE SAID, HAD EVER HEARD OF MELVILLE'S BOOK CALLED "POEMS." I FELT HELPLESSLY DEFAMED, ESPECIALLY WHEN A CHAIRED PROFESSOR AT COLUMBIA, ANDREW DELBANCO, ECHOED BRODHEAD'S LIES AND GENERALIZED FROM THEM ABOUT ME AS UNRELIABLE. I SUFFERED IN SILENCE FOR FIVE YEARS BUT NOW I SPEAK OUT.
