Duke Lacrosse - The Threshold Insight
Let's try a thought experiment.
1. Assume the Duke Lacrosse rape happened as the accuser says it did. In the midst of a party of 20 or so Duke student athletes in a small house, three of the boys dragged a 27 year old stripper into a bathroom and repeatedly raped, sodomized, strangled, and beat her for 30 minutes.
2. Does it stand to reason that none of the other 17 or so young men saw: (a) the other boys go into the bathroom with the stripper; or (b) the other boys come out of the bathroom afterwards.?
3. Does it stand to reason that, in a small house, none of the other 17 or so young men heard (a) the sounds of struggle; (b) the sounds of demonic laughter or crude encouragement (wouldn't a gang rape of drunken boys be accompanied by some noise? would they perpetrate this heinous crime as silently as if they were Ethan Hunt of Mi:III breaking into Langley?); (c) shouts of pain or anger from the stripper?
4. Does it stand to reason that none of these 17 or so young men noticed that Seligmann, Finnerty, and their captain, Dave Evans, had disappeared for a half an hour?
5. Does it stand to reason that none of these 17 or so young men noticed that the stripper -- who, after all, was the primary focus of their attention at the party -- had also disappeared for a half an hour?
6. Does it stand to reason that none of these 17 or so young men ever went to look for any of these people during that half an hour? (If the white male Duke Lacrosse players are all such awful, drunken, spoiled, rich kids, as the initial press seemed intent on saying, then why wouldn't the others have wanted to find the stripper and join in, or at least egg the perpetrators on?)
7. Does it even stand to reason that none of these 17 or so young men, who were drinking beer throughout the evening, had to go to the bathroom for 30 minutes? That none of them knocked on the door or stood outside and listened? (Unless I'm mistaken about small off-campus houses in Durham, I would bet that the house only had one bathroom.)
8. Does it stand to reason that, if any of these 17 or so young men on a tight-knit team had heard or seen anything, that they wouldn't have told others on the team?
It's a small house. This threshold insight leads me to the logical conclusion that, if the rape happened the way the accuser says, then at least some of the other 17 or so Duke Lacrosse players heard something or saw something. That is, my threshold insight leads me to the conclusion that there are numerous eyewitnesses to the crime.
1. Assume the Duke Lacrosse rape happened as the accuser says it did. In the midst of a party of 20 or so Duke student athletes in a small house, three of the boys dragged a 27 year old stripper into a bathroom and repeatedly raped, sodomized, strangled, and beat her for 30 minutes.
2. Does it stand to reason that none of the other 17 or so young men saw: (a) the other boys go into the bathroom with the stripper; or (b) the other boys come out of the bathroom afterwards.?
3. Does it stand to reason that, in a small house, none of the other 17 or so young men heard (a) the sounds of struggle; (b) the sounds of demonic laughter or crude encouragement (wouldn't a gang rape of drunken boys be accompanied by some noise? would they perpetrate this heinous crime as silently as if they were Ethan Hunt of Mi:III breaking into Langley?); (c) shouts of pain or anger from the stripper?
4. Does it stand to reason that none of these 17 or so young men noticed that Seligmann, Finnerty, and their captain, Dave Evans, had disappeared for a half an hour?
5. Does it stand to reason that none of these 17 or so young men noticed that the stripper -- who, after all, was the primary focus of their attention at the party -- had also disappeared for a half an hour?
6. Does it stand to reason that none of these 17 or so young men ever went to look for any of these people during that half an hour? (If the white male Duke Lacrosse players are all such awful, drunken, spoiled, rich kids, as the initial press seemed intent on saying, then why wouldn't the others have wanted to find the stripper and join in, or at least egg the perpetrators on?)
7. Does it even stand to reason that none of these 17 or so young men, who were drinking beer throughout the evening, had to go to the bathroom for 30 minutes? That none of them knocked on the door or stood outside and listened? (Unless I'm mistaken about small off-campus houses in Durham, I would bet that the house only had one bathroom.)
8. Does it stand to reason that, if any of these 17 or so young men on a tight-knit team had heard or seen anything, that they wouldn't have told others on the team?
It's a small house. This threshold insight leads me to the logical conclusion that, if the rape happened the way the accuser says, then at least some of the other 17 or so Duke Lacrosse players heard something or saw something. That is, my threshold insight leads me to the conclusion that there are numerous eyewitnesses to the crime.
posted by PDB at 5:50 AM
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