Why Have Our Civil Rights Leaders Eluded Criticism for Their Part in the Duke Lacrosse Rape Debacle?

As was promised, now that the Duke lacrosse rape hoax has been debunked, the civil litigation machine is in full operation. The three accused players have filed their lawsuits, seeking $10 million dollars apiece, even though their prosecutions came nowhere close to an actual trial, let alone a sentence. The lawsuits are not about money, we are told, but, rather, about exacting much needed change in our system of justice. We recently learned that players who were not even accused of the fictitious rape have filed suits of their own. Everyone is out to do their part in bringing about the needed change.

But there is a big, big problem with all of this. The problem is not simply that the falsely accused are seeking $10 million dollars from the state when they already received from Duke undisclosed settlements that surely paid for their legal bills and then some. No, the problem is that the players are only going after the easy targets - Mike Nifong, the State of North Carolina, Duke University. But, to my knowledge, none have even thought of taking on the other villains in this case. Have lawsuits been filed against the bogus accuser or her co-stripper?

Worse yet, the "civil rights leaders" who stirred this controversy from day one with the grossest of irresponsible behavior are, once again, getting a free pass. So let's at least recognize the civil rights leaders who, through their publicity seeking rush to judgments, did all that they could to put three innocent men in prison for their adult lives.