Monday, May 22, 2006

Out on a Limb

I'm going to go out on a limb and state my theory - which I'm sure a lot of others share as well - as to what happened that night in Durham when the Duke Lacrosse team hired a dancer to entertain them. I suspect that there was a dispute over the terms of employment, the boys wanted more from her than she wanted to provide. Voices were raised, names were called, including the dreaded racial slurs, and she decided that she would retaliate by falsely accusing them of something that would pretty much wreck their lives.

The Duke athletes are certainly guilty of being swinish, but the allegation of rape grows thinner and thinner by the day. Nobody in this case is looking good. Not the boys, not the alleged victim, and certainly not the District Attorney, who seems determined to sacrifice these boys' lives on the altar of his political ambitions.