How SCOTUS’s Sullivan Ruling Denies Victims The Right To Defend Themselves From The Rich And Powerful
Justice Thomas doesn’t criticize New York Times v. Sullivan simply because it is unsupported by the Constitution. It also harms real people.Justice Thomas doesn’t criticize New York Times v. Sullivan simply because it is unsupported by the Constitution. It also harms real people.SCOTUS rejects bid to revive Bill Cosby's prosecution
On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) rejected a bid from prosecutors to review the overturning of Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction.
During the summer of 2021, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the 2018 sexual assault conviction of the famed actor.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court also barred future prosecutions on the charges upon which Cosby was previously convicted.
In 2018, Cosby — who is currently 84-years old — was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison, but the conviction was overturned due to prosecutorial violation of the comedian’s due process rights, CNN reported.
Jennifer Bonjean, a lawyer representing Cosby, praised SCOTUS’ decision to uphold the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision.
She said, “Under the unique facts of the case, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court concluded that [the former district attorney] had made an unconditional promise of non-prosecution, and that Cosby had relied on that promise to his detriment, namely foregoing his Fifth Amendment guarantees and testifying at four days of depositions, and that as a matter of fundamental fairness, the promise should be enforced.”
In 2005, when Andrea Constand alleged that Cosby had “drugged and sexually molested” her, prosecutors stuck a deal with Cosby’s legal team that he would not face criminal charges so long as he sat for a deposition in a civil case filed by Constand.
Over a decade later, prosecutors said they “did not feel bound by this decision, and decided to prosecute Cosby notwithstanding that prior undertaking.”
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court subsequently found that the previous deal offered to Cosby removed the possibility of prosecution “for all time.”
At the time of this ruling, Cosby’s publicist praised the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices “for following the rules of law and protecting the Constitutional Rights of ALL American Citizens.”
The publicist said, “Mr. Cosby’s Constitutional Rights were a ‘reprehensible bait and switch’ by Kevin Steele, Judge Steve T. O’Neill and their cohorts. This is truly a victory for Mr. Cosby but it shows that cheating will never get you far in life and the corruption that lies within Montgomery County District’s Attorney Office has been brought to the center stage of the world.”
SCOTUS opted to uphold the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision by declining prosecutors’ request to hear their case and reinstate Cosby’s conviction, Fox News reported.
Cosby originally had vowed to serve the entirety of his sentence and maintain his innocence.
In his first interview from prison, Cosby said, “When I come up for parole, they’re not going to hear me say that I have remorse. I was there. I don’t care what group of people come along and talk about this when they weren’t there. They don’t know.”
Fearless: The crime wave corporate media are focusing on is a byproduct of America's absentee father wave
No longer able to constantly troll Donald Trump for clicks and ratings, corporate media outlets are returning to a familiar friend for traction and relevance.
Crime.
"If it bleeds, it leads" is an old adage from television.
On Tuesday, corporate media focused on the apparent crime wave thrashing America. CNN published a story titled, "More than 230 people fatally shot in shootings over the Fourth of July weekend."
If you actually took the time to read the story, you learned that the death toll was a 34% drop from a year ago (233 fatal shootings compared to 314 in 2020).
I'm not suggesting violent crime is declining in America. Last year's numbers were skewed because the tragic death of fentanyl freedom fighter Rev. Martin George Floyd Jr. III legalized violence across our major cities.
Violent crime is up. Black Lives Matter, Antifa. and the defund-the-police movement have been successful in making poor black communities more dangerous. Mission accomplished, guys. Great job!
My point is that with Trump out of office, corporate media will not ignore the 2021 crime spike the way they did the summer of George Floyd rioting, looting, arson, and murder.
"Gun violence" will be corporate media's go-to narrative of choice. I've never owned a gun. I've never thought about owning a gun until the last few years when BLM and Antifa started burning down cities and promoting a race war. But now I think about buying a gun pretty much every day.
I don't think America has a "gun violence" problem.
America has an absent-father-in-the-home problem. The absence of fathers has more to do with America's crime wave than the presence of guns. The American zip codes with the highest percentage of non-nuclear families have the highest violent crime rates.
Corporate media refuse to address this. They ignore the absentee father crime wave the same way they ignored the Rev. George Floyd crime wave. It's enough to make you think the mainstream media are completely uninterested in solutions. They only want ratings and power. Or maybe they just want to confuse and distract.
Over the Fourth of July weekend, I traveled home to Indianapolis to spend the holiday with family and friends. On Sunday, I attended a backyard barbecue with about 30 people. I started a conversation defending disgraced comedian Bill Cosby.
I support Bill because he's the last popular defender of the traditional black family. I argued that Black Lives Matter, the LGBTQ agenda, and the Democratic Party are attacking traditional families and want to remake the nuclear family. I further argued that black people will not rise out of chaos and dysfunction until the black man returns to lead black families and black communities.
You would've thought I burned a cross in the middle of the dining room. And the overwhelming majority of the people I was arguing with were black adults in long-term traditional relationships. There was only one white person at the barbecue.
My point is corporate media disinformation has confused us, black people, to the point that we don't even know what really ails us. We think it's Trump or gun laws or Proud Boys or the so-called insurrection.
It's the absence of fathers. Or the emasculation of fathers.
The black community is controlled by feminine emotion. We have a matriarchal culture. Oprah Winfrey, Stacey Abrams, Kamala Harris are the gold standard of blackness. The lesbian founders of Black Lives Matter are the silver medalists. DeRay Mckesson, Lil Nas X, and Don Lemon take the bronze medals.
A black heterosexual Christian man — any black man like Martin Luther King Jr. — finishes in last place, well behind George Floyd, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Rayshard Brooks, or any other black man killed while resisting white police officers.
A lack of emotional control causes young black men to settle disputes with guns rather than dialogue or avoidance. That problem won't be fixed until black fathers not only return to the home but reassert themselves as leaders of their homes.
Furious Howard University students call for College of Fine Arts Dean Phylicia Rashad to be fired over Cosby tweet
Howard University students are calling for Phylicia Rashad — former "Cosby Show" actress and current dean at the school's Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts — to be fired from the university.
What's a brief history here?
Rashad spoke up in defense of friend and former TV husband Bill Cosby's release from prison after Pennsylvania's Supreme Court overturned the embattled actor's sexual assault conviction Wednesday.
In response to the news, Rashad — in a since-deleted tweet — wrote, "FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected!"
After the backlash, Rashad added, "I fully support survivors of sexual assault coming forward. My post was in no way intended to be insensitive to their truth. Personally, I know from friends and family that such abuse has lifelong residual effects. My heartfelt wish is for healing."
I fully support survivors of sexual assault coming forward. My post was in no way intended to be insensitive to the… https://t.co/jmXhcXKvOi
— Phylicia Rashad (@PhyliciaRashad) 1625085343.0
Rashad made the remark just one day before beginning her career as dean at the university, which announced the appointment in May.
Following her statement, a spokesperson for Howard University said, "Survivors of sexual assault will always be our priority. While Dean Rashad has acknowledged in her follow-up tweet that victims must be heard and believed, her initial tweet lacked sensitivity towards survivors of sexual assault. Personal positions of University leadership do not reflect Howard University's policies."
The statement continued, "We will continue to advocate for survivors fully and support their right to be heard. Howard will stand with survivors and challenge systems that would deny them justice. We have full confidence that our faculty and school leadership will live up to this sacred commitment."
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— Howard University (@HowardU) 1625107609.0
What was the campus reaction?
According to a Friday report in the Los Angeles Times, Katherine Gilyard — a communications major at the university — joked several weeks ago "that she'd switch her major from the School of Communications to the College of Fine Arts just to learn" from the beloved actress.
"Now I wouldn't walk past Fine Arts if she remains like the current dean of the school," Gilyard says now according to the outlet. "To see how happy she was, rejoicing and thrilled that [Cosby's conviction] has been overturned ... I feel disgusted. That was like a very visceral reaction. My stomach kind of turned, like this is disgusting and not something you expect from someone like that. Yes, they should fire her, but knowing Howard, I don't think they will."
Alumna Nylah Burton told the outlet, "Howard should absolutely fire her because she's not fit to be a dean of students. For someone like that, when they have such passionate support of a rapist, the fear is not just that you will be ignored or dismissed. The fear is that you'll be retaliated against, that you'll be attacked, and you'll be punished for speaking out."
Burton added, "It just does not surprise me that Phylicia Rashad tweeted out such exuberant support of Bill Cosby. But it's really disappointing thinking about all the students who, like myself during my time at Howard, go through a sexual assault thinking, 'OK, who do I turn to for support,' and she's the dean."
An unnamed recent grad told the outlet that Rashad's remarks disturbed her.
"I think that this situation is definitely cause for termination," she said. "Just because she's a dean and so many girls are just not going to feel comfortable going to the dean. [For] survivors, it's already hard to feel like you can speak about what happened to you. A lot of women don't feel safe speaking to just anyone about it, usually just their circle of friends or maybe family."
According to a Friday report from the New York Post, the hashtag #ByePhilicia began trending following Rashad's remarks.
One social media user according to the report demanded, "Hold her ass accountable."
Another added, "I don't think she deserves to lead the Chadwick A. Boseman School of Fine Arts. Not anymore."
“I think it's good that Phylicia Rashad spoke up and showed us she's not qualified to be the Dean of the College of Fine Arts," another alumni tweeted. “It's really on Howard to do the right thing and rectify the situation."
Fearless: Left-wing social engineering explains Phylicia Rashad's loyalty to Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby remains a beloved figure in some corners of the American zeitgeist for the exact same reason former President Donald Trump rose to power.
The people in control of our academic, media, entertainment, and government institutions have gone way too far in their emasculation and demonization of men.
Sir Isaac Newton's third law explains: "For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction."
Humans, men and women, are attracted to, appreciate, and value masculinity. The left's defining of all masculinity as toxic and its attempt to eliminate that "toxic masculinity" has created a scarcity of masculine energy within our culture.
Why is gold considered such a valuable resource? It's finite. It's scarce.
The attack on male machismo has made it a new gold. President Trump intentionally emotes masculinity — some of it is fool's gold, some of it is gold-plated, and some it is authentic 14-karat gold. Trump understands the value of masculine energy in these times and adorns himself in bright gold chains like he's a gangsta rap star.
I bring this all up because Bill Cosby's lawyers won his release from prison on Wednesday. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned Cosby's 2018 conviction on sexual assault, ruling that prosecutors violated an agreement not to charge the iconic comedian and TV star. More than 50 women have claimed that Cosby drugged and assaulted them.
Cosby's release sparked equal amounts of outrage, relief, and joy.
His "Cosby Show" co-star Phylica Rashad tweeted: "FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected."
Rashad's tweet provoked Janet Hubert, the actress who played "Aunt Viv" on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," to write a rebuke of "Claire Huxtable."
"Phylicia what are you thinking!!! I don't know you but to say this was terribly wrong. EVERYONE knew what he was doing back then. How could you NOT! Get your umbrella sista here comes the shit shower … I know 5 women who have not come forward. Enough Ya'll we know better. Powerful men do wrong things, black or white."
Howard University, where Rashad was recently named dean of fine arts at the historically black university, issued a statement disavowing Rashad's tweet supporting Cosby.
Rashad is not alone in her support of Cosby's release. I'm in the group of people who were relieved when I heard the announcement. I recognize that the sheer number of Cosby accusers speak loudly and clearly about his behavior. Cosby used his position of power and influence to prey on women, the same way many people believe former President Bill Clinton did. I get it. Cosby is no victim.
But, honestly, I have to admit I'm attracted to, appreciate, and value what Cosby represented for so many years — the importance of fatherhood and family.
The emasculation and demonization of men have diminished the importance of fathers. This is especially true for black people. In-home fathers are scarce. Popular public figures who emphasize and promote nuclear family values are scarce.
The reshaping of family structure being led by Hollywood, the music industry, Black Lives Matter, corporate media, and academia devalues men and fathers. The matriarchy dominates black culture, a culture that has been programmed to celebrate degeneracy and the slaughter of black men in gang violence.
It's not hard to understand why some of us foolishly hold on to our affinity for Bill Cosby. He's the only popular icon who spoke fiercely on behalf of men and women who prioritize traditional family values.
Fatherhood is a scarce resource. Cosby sold fatherhood gold on every corner.
If that gold wasn't scarce, none of us would have any respect for Cosby. We would let go of our Cosby fondness the same way we let go of our fondness for popular R&B singer and imprisoned sexual predator R. Kelly. The product R. Kelly sold was promiscuous sex. You can get that product anywhere and from anybody. It's not scarce. In fact, it's in abundant supply.
Cosby offered something rare. No one has offered a replacement. Every TV, movie, music, and athletic star pretends that allowing 8-year-olds to gender transition is far more important than protecting the nuclear family.
So Phylicia Rashad clings to her despicably flawed television husband. We shouldn't feign bewilderment. Many of us who believe responsibly masculine men are necessary for a successful and just society feel like we're trapped in the desert with no water in sight.
Don't act surprised when we drink from the canteen of polluted men selling gold-plated truths.Today's top stories
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