Parody As a Weapon Part LXXXIV; Alvin Bragg is challenged to put up his dukes.
Last week, in Part LXXXIII, there was an attempt to hammer out a warning about justice all over the land. This week, the justice to be examined was both karmic and in a courtroom.
In recent weeks, we mocked Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s crusade to prosecute Donald Trump for imaginary crimes in Part LXXX. In Part LXXXII, Nancy Pelosi’s poor understanding of the presumption of innocence and other constitutional requirements was the subject of song parody. This week, we will look at another with a highly flawed understanding of the criminal justice system, turning our focus to the former Durham County, North Carolina District Attorney Mike Nifong.
The bibliography at the end of the Wikipedia page provides a great deal of the contemporary news accounts. To summarize for those less familiar, in early 2006, there was a party sponsored by the Duke University Lacrosse team at which strippers were hired to entertain. There was a dispute between the players and the entertainers, and subsequently one of the strippers, Crystal Mangum, claimed she had been raped by a number of the team members.
Duke University fell within the jurisdiction of the Durham County District Attorney’s Office, and the District Attorney was Michael Nifong, who had been appointed to the elected position when his predecessor was appointed judge. Nifong, a democrat, was facing a primary challenge in May for the democrat nomination to run for the office in the November general election.
Nifong determined early in the course of events that he might receive a political advantage if he conducted the investigation pursuant to a narrative that the Duke LaCrosse players (who were mostly white) were oppressors, and the person reporting sexual assault (Crystal Mangum, who was black) was the oppressed victim. He decided to pursue this narrative regardless of what the evidence, or the lack of evidence, revealed. Most of the network media and the Duke faculty along with the remaining leftist establishment went along with the prosecution of the athletes, as it fit their pre-conceived notions of America.
After he won the Spring primary and narrowly won the November election, Nifong wound up turning over his case to the North Carolina Attorney General. Eventually, it was revealed that Nifong had withheld exculpatory evidence, including DNA. The charges against the players were dismissed, and ethics charges against Nifong were lodged. He resigned from his office, he was disbarred, and was sentenced to a day in jail for contempt of court. In the decade and a half since the party, Nifong has twice declared bankruptcy in order to avoid facing civil suits and judgments from the players he falsely accused in order to advance his career, losing said career, profession and freedom (briefly) in the process. The false accuser, Crystal Mangum, is also currently serving prison time for stabbing a lover to death.
Nifong should stand as a lesson to any district attorney who might feel tempted to abuse his office in order to advance a narrative, and in the process, his career. Alvin Bragg has apparently not availed himself of said lesson, and if George Santayana [or Jorge Agustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana y Borras (minus diacritical marks)] is correct, history may repeat itself.
Someone who has enjoyed great success in recent history is Elton John, a pop singer with five decades of prominence behind him. Elton John has managed to play for his Queen as well as Mr. and Mrs. Rush Limbaugh, and entertained millions of other in between these sets. One of his early Bernie Taupin-penned hits was entitled “Your Song”, and I have borrowed the tune to remind Alvin Bragg of what lies ahead, if history is any guide.
It’s a little bit funny, whenever a D A makes a case
And injects into it things like politics or race
If you take Soros money then you’re in it from jump
If your campaign promises you’re gonna get Trump
If Bragg was an artist, he’d have his own frame
But it’s clear he’s like someone who once did the same
While it’s not exact but he tried it too
His name was Nifong and this much is true
And Bragg can tell everybody, that he’s not Nifong
He got an indictment but so much is wrong
A jury won’t find
A jury won’t find
Guilt in his lying words
When you abuse office, the truth is your scourge
Nifong worked near Duke and heard her cry rape
The lacrosse team, a stripper, she couldn’t escape
But Nifong and his kind
Don’t care about truth
That’s for people not D A s.
The unwashed and uncouth
His excuse for forgetting
To live up to his oath
Was his reelection
Seems he couldn’t do both
In the end he was disbarred and wound up in jail
When you chase a narrative you generally fail
And Bragg can tell everybody, that he’s not Nifong
He got an indictment but so much is wrong
A jury won’t find
A jury won’t find
Guilt in his lying words
When you abuse office, the truth is your scourge
And it could come time
And it could come time
When it all is unfurled
That Bragg finds himself in Mike Nifong’s world
#Parody #Ridicule #Alinsky
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