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Did Anyone Else Catch This?
Submitted by Kyle Eliason on Wed, 2008-06-18 07:06.
I was watching one of the CSPAN channels last week when a member of the ACLU said, straight faced (and there were no chuckles from the audience nor did he crack a smile or give much of a pause), that more rich white people should be falsely indicted (a la the Duke case) to help expose prosecutorial misconduct. I was pretty stunned, but everyone on stage with the guy didn't seem phased at all.
Getting crapped on by the government sucks for all involved. If prosecutorial misconduct is given greater scruitiny as a result of the Duke case, I'm very glad such a silver lining exists, but yikes, man. I don't even wish that kind of stuff on Scott Scheule.
I tried googling to find out the name of the ACLU employee, but there is so much with Duke case and ALCU I didn't get far.
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Dogmatic, inflexible
Just keep in mind that ideological rigidity is one of the least attractive qualities of libertarians.
Could there be a more
Could there be a more dramatic example of treating people as a means instead of an ends?
Speaking of using peoples' ends, your flirtation with me is becoming embarassingly obvious, Kyle.
The guy who said this needs to be exposed
Granted, there probably won't be repercussions, but we can certainly try.
Tivo
Get a Tivo (or other DVR). Hit "record" the next time you see something like that. The machine is constantly recording (and deleting old stuff), so with luck you'll retroactively catch everything back to the beginning of the show.
Having the actual video would be a huge help in this sort of thing. So, get a Tivo/DVR.
I think C-SPAN makes all of
I think C-SPAN makes all of their programming available for free online, but I'm not sure if it is live or how far back it is archived.
Datetime
So then all we need is a day and a time.
Looking at CSPAN's website,
Looking at CSPAN's website, but not being able to access the video here at work (having problems with my connection at home), I think it was this:
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=564380058
Yes, that's surely it
They have a text search, which gives you clickable transcript fragments (clicking them sends you to the corresponding section of video, and I'm going to try not to seem too stunned by this full-text full indexing of video moment by moment). Search for "white" and you get this section of transcript (reconstructed from adjacent bits grabbed through repeated searches):
Original transcript was all-caps. Speaker is Mark Rabil, "Former Defense Attorney for Darryl Hunt." (Names taken from video. Links not from CSPAN, I found these two links via Google searches)
Just to clarify something, while I would need to watch more video to make sure, I think that the prosecutor referred to in the phrase "that prosecutor was the beneficiary" is a different prosecutor from the Duke Lacrosse prosecutor (Nifong); it is presumably the prosecutor who prosecuted Darryl Hunt 2 decades ago, whoever that was. The text fragment doesn't make this clear.
Ah, thanks. So not one of
Ah, thanks. So not one of the ACLU people on that panel.
We've heard this argument
We've heard this argument from Charlie Rangel before, when he said we should bring back the draft so that the rich would feel the burden of the war too.
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