Guess who’s back

Report: Family wants Tawana Brawley case reopened – CNN.com

In case you don’t remember this case, Tawana Brawley was the woman who claimed that a group of white men raped her, smeared her with feces, then scrawled racial slurs on her body. A grand jury ultimately concluded that the whole story was a hoax, which I think they did after indicting a ham sandwich earlier in the day.

Well, now Brawley’s mother and stepfather have demanded that this whole case be resurrected. “New York state owes my daughter. They owe her the truth,” said Glenda Brawley. She may be listed as the mother, but she has to have a big hairy set to say that.
No ma’am, the state does not owe your daughter the truth. Actually your daughter owed the state the truth, but apparently she wouldn’t know the truth if it cornered her in an alley and . . .well, you know.

And on this one, I have to commend CNN for not repeating the name of one of the men implicated in the case, who won a defamation case against Brawley, Sharpton (real surprise to see him in the middle of this one), and others. That is one man who is owed at least some peace of mind.

What is even funnier is that the mother and stepfather (and note the absence of Ms Brawley, who has changed her name and become a nurse) present no new evidence. Instead they demand that Spitzer and Cuomo re-investigate this case. Based on what? The first time, they did not even have enough evidence to convince a grand jury, but now they “owe (their daughter) the truth”? Sure they do.

I’m not one to believe in conspiracies for the most part, but doesn’t anybody else think of this as a little bit convenient based upon the marches for the hate crimes that happened over this past week around the Justice Department? If this is a conspiracy, it’s not the smartest one put together, but you have to wonder.

Anyway, Mike Nifong thinks this group needs to check themselves. We are still (at least on paper) a society where you are innocent until proven guilty, and definitely innocent if you cannot even get past a grand jury

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A situation I hope I never find myself in.

Paternity shock begets push to test babies – National – theage.com.au

I would hope that I never was in this sort of situation, but I can’t really tell you right now. And if you’ve not had a DNA test, you really can’t either. That’s not a slur on your partners, or saying that there’s any proof, but outside of that test, you just do not know. Even if you are 99.999999999 percent sure, unless you were attached to that person 24 7 there is always going to be the possibility. The mother in the relationship holds the ultimate trump card in that she knows all the possible fathers; the father, on the other hand, does not.

And I love the story about the father who cut the umbilical cord, tattooed his child’s name and then was told by the mother that he wasn’t the father. And by love I mean absolutely deplore. And what about the mother telling them? I’m sure that didn’t harm the child any to have his paternity used as a weapon.

Now these fathers are being cut out of their children’s lives. Well, at least their rights are, which really isn’t that different from this side of the Pacific. I wonder if their money is being returned? Nah, that would harm the child, as opposed to what the mother did. No harm, no cash, no foul.

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