tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post7383874754901347847..comments2024-02-24T05:19:10.949-05:00Comments on Durham-in-Wonderland: The Unbalanced Panelkcjohnson9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09625813296986996867noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-3198986150895268062007-06-08T23:39:00.000-04:002007-06-08T23:39:00.000-04:00And Mayor Bill Bell appointed Ken Spaulding.Bill B...And Mayor Bill Bell appointed Ken Spaulding.<BR/><BR/>Bill Bell has lived from the huge taxpayer proceeds from UDI. His good friend and Ken Spaulding's former wife, Jean Spaulding, all have strong financial ties to Duke University, as well as the full suction cup of huge taxpayer money.<BR/><BR/>Bell has appointed no one who is not interested in protecting either the DPD or Duke University.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-72934747271611278602007-06-08T23:31:00.000-04:002007-06-08T23:31:00.000-04:00Let's look at the most recent four who were appoin...Let's look at the most recent four who were appointed to the panel.<BR/><BR/>Roland Leary, Ken Spaulding, Wib Gully, and Aurelia Sands-Belle.<BR/><BR/>I agree with Brad Bannon. I don't have much confidence in these people, in general. Maybe they will surprise us, but why, after this long travesty must we have to sit back and hope?<BR/><BR/>Everyone of these people are liberal Democrats.<BR/><BR/>Ken Spaulding, although from an old and respected black Durham family--(North Carolina Mutual Insurance Co.)--holds fast to the mores and bizarre double standards that characterize black Durham.<BR/><BR/>He was the anemic guy sitting beside Johnnie Cochran during part of the OJ trial. He was the local legal assistant for the woman who taped Mark Furhman and was summoned as a witness. <BR/><BR/>He was also one of those along with Irving Joyner at NCCU who partied amd rejoiced as OJ was declared "innocent".<BR/><BR/>He is known in Durham as a "strong advocate" for the black "underclass". His older brother Asa Spaulding, Jr. received around $30-$40,000 of taxpayer money a few years ago for doing almost nothing when Durham Police Chief Chalmers asked his "good friend" to do a "study" for him which consisted of about 12 pages of BS. The local media criticized and ridiculed the wasted money.<BR/><BR/>This is a small example of how Durham's black community has always operated. If you question this welfare state, then you are a "racist". It's the freeloading state of affairs that they do not want upset.<BR/><BR/>Does anyone really think that Ken Spaulding is going to say anything honest about the conduct of Chief Chalmers?<BR/><BR/>All of this is a continued hoax and should be stopped!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-62655911405122574942007-06-08T22:53:00.000-04:002007-06-08T22:53:00.000-04:00I hope you're right, Cedarford.If so, it will cert...I hope you're right, Cedarford.<BR/><BR/>If so, it will certainly be a first for Durham, North Carolina.<BR/><BR/>But I reiterate. This Belle appointment is pure shit. Appointed by pure shit. Designed for a pre-planned outcome of pure shit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-25640744159987105982007-06-08T22:34:00.000-04:002007-06-08T22:34:00.000-04:009:37 - I disagree totally. You grossly underestima...9:37 - <I>I disagree totally. You grossly underestimate the mission of someone like Belle. These dyed-in-the-wool advocates for "womyn" or "women"--whichever, should be watched as one would watch a Solomon Burnette or a Chan Hall.</I><BR/><BR/>If you have evidence of Belle being a feminazi, spit it out. Otherwise, in the absence of any evidence, you appear to be operating on pure prejudicial presumption that anyone who is black or a woman is fatally flawed and incapable of rendering good judgment, and only white men can be trusted.<BR/><BR/>I have already said that the quota system Bell & Catotti (spouse of Duke's Event and Conference Manager Chuck Catotti, BTW) devised sucks a wet one. Since she and the Mayor set it up so no white male Durhamite resident was allowed to be considered.<BR/><BR/>But that doesn't mean anyone should assume any black or woman on such a panel is evil and biased.<BR/><BR/>At this stage though, since Cooper and staff gutlessly avoided the issue of the false accuser - the only person that might call her on the carpet for lying and abusing the resources of DPD and DCRC is someone like Belle. Who can also perhaps come up with an improved protocol that insists victims stories be evaluated for credibility by the appropriate city personnel before city taxpayer's dollars are simply wasted on scammers out for pain meds or some other agenda like lying so cops have to get rid of an unwanted boyfriend the woman fears chucking out on her own. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps Belle is well aware that resources are limited such that for every Crystal Mangum that deceives and gets the money and time - a legitimate abused woman or family of a murder victim is denied...Cedarfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00602418702398818596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-61687116709478848612007-06-08T22:20:00.000-04:002007-06-08T22:20:00.000-04:00Thanks for all those who agree with my earlier pos...Thanks for all those who agree with my earlier posting, but I still think Cedarford rocks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-88468882480806944692007-06-08T22:18:00.000-04:002007-06-08T22:18:00.000-04:00Look, everybody. This is just a stupid exercise fr...Look, everybody. This is just a stupid exercise from a small city of black racists and their white Marxist enablers to prance through a further meaningless exercise so that it will appear they care about right and wrong.<BR/>This is just more taxpayer money wasted on a bunch of hoodlums masquerading as decent people. No one wants the truth! No one in Durham wants to make public what the DPD did along with Nifong.<BR/>To get the truth, you will need the FEDS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-4489528161421923752007-06-08T22:05:00.000-04:002007-06-08T22:05:00.000-04:00JLS says...,A few things I think that I could be c...JLS says...,<BR/><BR/>A few things I think that I could be corrected on:<BR/><BR/>1. Early on the Mayor said this investigation was to find out why three young Durham residents had to rely on the AG's office for justice. I can not imagine an investigation to find out why three young black males from Durham had to go to the AG for Justice that would include no young white males. There certainly should be Duke students and probably white maile Duke student to get that perspective on interaction with the DPD and the Durham justice system.<BR/><BR/>2. Belle is now on the committee it seems. If Cedarford's reading of her record is correct she can show us. If not, she will show us the other way.<BR/><BR/>3. It is unrealistic not to expect a committee appointed by politicians not to be political.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-30361258752973023462007-06-08T21:37:00.000-04:002007-06-08T21:37:00.000-04:008:29pmI disagree totally. You grossly underestimat...8:29pm<BR/><BR/>I disagree totally. You grossly underestimate the mission of someone like Belle. These dyed-in-the-wool advocates for "womyn" or "women"--whichever, should be watched as one would watch a Solomon Burnette or a Chan Hall.<BR/><BR/>Durham is the Haiti of the United States. In almost all respects.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-81263387216583924492007-06-08T21:22:00.000-04:002007-06-08T21:22:00.000-04:00Cedarford 829 PM said... ...Like it or not, a cent...Cedarford 829 PM said... <BR/><BR/>...Like it or not, a central part of the inquiry has to be how the police deal with an accuser, how aggressively they probe into the accuser's story. <BR/>...I would have a problem if the "old guard" of Ada Gregory and Joy Cunningham had been selected. Both were far more into the "Womyns Advocacy" than Belle. <BR/>...Cunningham was the "always believe the woman!!" SART Coordinator that trained cops and SANE people like Arico. Gregory the feminist...Both were fired last July by the DCRC Board for matters that still remain murky...<BR/>...(Not so coincidentally, both Ladies now work in Duke Administration middle management. Ada Gregory is now HR and Business Manager for the Kenan Ethics Center, reporting to "Water Buffalo" Moneta. Joy Cunningham is now the Administrative Manager at DUMC in Women's Health Programs and some sort of faculty development deal.)<BR/>::<BR/>Goodness, you are just a storehouse of knowledge!<BR/><BR/>Like it or not, a central part of this whole case now is the connection between these groups that President Broadhead inherited.<BR/><BR/>Seems to me that they are all affirmative action hires who are creating the academic center for diversity in Durham and at Duke...for the Southern States.<BR/><BR/>Ms Belle would be perfect to coordinate this big diversity movement for the Southern States with Duke (alums) paying the bill.<BR/><BR/>It would have been so much easier for these women to build that organization if they could have taken down the entire lacrosse team and sent Colin, Reade and Dave to prison for thirty years.<BR/><BR/>Are these groups the groups we are going to hear Nifong talking about next week?<BR/>Is this where he learned about parties with strippers? <BR/>::<BR/>GPGary Packwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05177986821224068759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-69761028975783194362007-06-08T20:29:00.000-04:002007-06-08T20:29:00.000-04:00I'll play Devil's Advocate:Diane Catotti’s appoint...I'll play Devil's Advocate:<BR/><BR/><I>Diane Catotti’s appointment of Aurelia Sands Belle—a figure who seems unable to affirm that a rape did not occur—raises obvious conflict-of-interest problems: the Durham Rape Crisis Center over which Belle presides not only received a six-figure grant from the DPD but helped train the very police force whose conduct is under investigation. </I><BR/><BR/>Like it or not, a central part of the inquiry has to be how the police deal with an accuser, how aggressively they probe into the accuser's story. How police in the future will deal with potential false accusers so that police resources, city resources, Durham Crisis Response Center (not Rape Crisis Center, KC!) resources are not squandered.<BR/><BR/>Aurelia Sands-Belle might be a better appointment than many suggest for that reason. For she might very well have some good policy suggestions that she, as a woman and a black can suggest that might be opposed by if made, say, by a few white defense lawyers who have used the "nuts and sluts" defense strategy in the past.<BR/><BR/>Her background is not as a feminazi, but as a person who wants to set up a well coordinated and run agency that responds to ALL crimes, not just "womyns priorities". Her past efforts in other cities and as a consultant have been more on the neglected victims of other crimes like burglaries, robberies....than piling on more "rape caregivers".<BR/><BR/>Also, she arrived AFTER the Lacrosse case started. She has no personal connection to past DRC training of cops, money provided DRC. I would have a problem if the "old guard" of Ada Gregory and Joy Cunningham had been selected. Both were far more into the "Womyns Advocacy" than Belle. Cunningham was the "always believe the woman!!" SART Coordinator that trained cops and SANE people like Arico. Gregory the feminist...Both were fired last July by the DCRC Board for matters that still remain murky...<BR/><BR/>(Not so coincidentally, both Ladies now work in Duke Administration middle management. Ada Gregory is now HR and Business Manager for the Kenan Ethics Center, reporting to "Water Buffalo" Moneta. Joy Cunningham is now the Administrative Manager at DUMC in Women's Health Programs and some sort of faculty development deal.)<BR/><BR/>I have a far bigger beef with Catotti herself and her and Bell's endorsement of race quotas for this committee that omit any white males from the Durham citizenry working with the external cops selected. And those on the Council that then loaded up on "Heroes in Blue" lovers and long-time DPD knee-jerk supporters as community reps than a choice like Belle.Cedarfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00602418702398818596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-9612948210783911562007-06-08T20:22:00.000-04:002007-06-08T20:22:00.000-04:00JLSLOLJLS<BR/><BR/><BR/>LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-37414806426487557352007-06-08T20:13:00.000-04:002007-06-08T20:13:00.000-04:00JLS says....,Hard to believe that with such a big ...JLS says....,<BR/><BR/>Hard to believe that with such a big day with so much of the public focused on Paris Hilton that Nifong did not take today as a chance to discover his cancer had returned or some other illness had been discovered and retire. He missed a real chance.<BR/><BR/>I guess he has not been DA long enough yet to up that pension. Now maybe he will opt for Monday, but from the time the word was out last night that the judge was calling Hilton back into court today, Nifong had to know he had a real opportunity to resign under the radar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-42432548389724566962007-06-08T19:56:00.000-04:002007-06-08T19:56:00.000-04:00They don't need a white male athlete on the panel ...They don't need a white male athlete on the panel any more than they need a rape counselor. <BR/><BR/>The purpose of the panel is to ascertain who had control of an investigation and where due process went wrong. Nothing in this task is specific to white male athletic victimhood nor to counseling rape. It's procedures and processes or it SHOULD be. <BR/><BR/>For example, if I were on the committee, I'd recommend that the city issue note pads (OK, Camcorders) to all police investigators to start ASAP taking notes/records at all witness and accused interviews. That would be a big step. Then there should be a procedure for who has investigation control and for being clear about who has it. Next, can checks and balances be put in for when politics seems to be intruding?GaryBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02805265981497620290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-64906100720522189872007-06-08T18:53:00.000-04:002007-06-08T18:53:00.000-04:00These people are not even trying to pretend to app...These people are not even trying to pretend to appoint non-biased people to this POS sham committee...what a joke...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-15424860029915752142007-06-08T18:48:00.000-04:002007-06-08T18:48:00.000-04:00In general, how can it possibly be that the Counci...In general, how can it possibly be that the Council has seen fit to appoint to the panel more rape crisis counselors (one) and Nifong campaign donors (one) than practicing criminal defense attorneys?<BR/><BR/>First of all, we are talking about Durham here, so it would be expected that they wouldn't do the logical thing. They still are in Wonderland the last time I checked.<BR/><BR/>Further, however, I'd bet any council anywhere would be reluctant to appoint members to a review board that really were capable of doing a good job of analyzing what went wrong and should be corrected and also what went right and should be continued. Here, there's virtually none of the latter. <BR/><BR/>I don't really believe Mayor Bell is that interested in having competent people digging through the dirt that is rampant in the DPD, which could, in turn, veer over into the City Manager's office and perhaps other aspects of Durham city government. He says he wants an investigation, but what he really wants is a panel that goes through the motions in an attempt to hoodwink the citizens of Durham that something is being done, while basically whitewashing the whole thing. I'd guess several of the council members feel the same way. Most people in government don't actually want to do anything for their constituents. They want the perks and the power, whatever it may be, that go with the office.<BR/><BR/>This will end up being a fiasco just like everything else has been for the last 15 months (and probably before, but I can't say because I knew nothing about Durham before March 2006). At the end of the day, Durham is Durham and that's all they're capable of.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-45303748092383871642007-06-08T18:26:00.000-04:002007-06-08T18:26:00.000-04:00HealthEducationManagementEpidemiologicServicesHERM...Health<BR/><BR/>Education<BR/><BR/>Management<BR/><BR/>Epidemiologic<BR/><BR/>Services<BR/><BR/><BR/>HERMES, LLC<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>So many plebes.....so little time!<BR/><BR/>DebrahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-26317591525139203422007-06-08T18:19:00.000-04:002007-06-08T18:19:00.000-04:00I intended to provide this link the other evening,...I intended to provide this link the other evening, but got sidetracked by the Sopranos.<BR/><BR/>When you click on this link, read the names of the staff on the left-hand side. Click on each of those names. Most have photos of the staff members.<BR/><BR/>Nothing more illustrative as to the mindset of this Catotti person. Her bread is buttered in the sloth of this PC, ultra-Liberal, parasitic environment.<BR/><BR/>Also, I find it hilarious that these people who pride themselves on plebian pursuits have chosen a name like HERMES for their little endeavors.<BR/><BR/>Too funny!<BR/><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.hermesllc.com/staff/Catotti.html" REL="nofollow">A_Tangled_Web</A><BR/><BR/><BR/>DebrahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-24485440293400328782007-06-08T18:05:00.000-04:002007-06-08T18:05:00.000-04:00How bizzare! It's like living in reruns of Dukes o...How bizzare! It's like living in reruns of Dukes of Hazzard. Sanity seems to be an option in Durham.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-50994653853881802082007-06-08T17:53:00.000-04:002007-06-08T17:53:00.000-04:00Anon wrote:A nice bio with picture of Ms Belle can...Anon wrote:<BR/><BR/>A nice bio with picture of Ms Belle can be found at:<BR/><BR/>http://vroh.uakron.edu/summaries/SandsBelle.php<BR/><BR/>---------<BR/><BR/>Run for your lives! It's Idi Amin in a dress!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-77330822500709678982007-06-08T17:48:00.000-04:002007-06-08T17:48:00.000-04:00GP said..According to the IRS,the proper name for ...GP said..<BR/>According to the IRS,the proper name for this organization was the Durham Crisis Center at the close of 1996.<BR/>::<BR/>Error.<BR/>That should be 2006<BR/>My apologies<BR/>::<BR/>GPGary Packwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05177986821224068759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-42769580170105276402007-06-08T17:43:00.000-04:002007-06-08T17:43:00.000-04:00Catotti and the woman she appointed don't deserve ...Catotti and the woman she appointed don't deserve the right of day. As for the rest of the panel -- it seems perfectly reasonable that there should be a lot of people with law enforcement backgrounds. However, those people need to take their roles seriously. They have the power to make the whole thing a farce, or to make it a serious inquiry. We need to watch what they do.William Jockuschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16167669449804194308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-5619565270173900792007-06-08T17:42:00.000-04:002007-06-08T17:42:00.000-04:00KC wrote......Diane Catotti’s appointment of Aurel...KC wrote...<BR/><BR/>...Diane Catotti’s appointment of Aurelia Sands Belle—a figure who seems unable to affirm that a rape did not occur—raises obvious conflict-of-interest problems: the Durham Rape Crisis Center over which Belle presides not only received a six-figure grant from the DPD but helped train the very police force whose conduct is under investigation. It seems as if Catotti’s only goal is to produce discord within the inquiry, thereby helping to cover up the abuses associated with the case.<BR/>::<BR/>Aurelia Sands Belle is new to Durham. <BR/>She began her work in late June last year after their board fired their co-executive directors.<BR/><BR/>http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A34451<BR/><BR/>One of their board members is Cynthia Clinton, JD, Director Harassment Prevention, Office of Institutional Equality at Duke University.<BR/><BR/>http://www.duke.edu/web/equity/har_HPA_Advisors.htm<BR/><BR/>The Duke Harassment Prevention URL is below<BR/><BR/>http://www.duke.edu/web/equity/har_discrimination.htm<BR/><BR/>According to the IRS,the proper name for this organization was the Durham Crisis Center at the close of 1996.<BR/><BR/>There is much more here than meets the eye.<BR/>::<BR/>GPGary Packwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05177986821224068759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-66266677823460104732007-06-08T17:04:00.000-04:002007-06-08T17:04:00.000-04:00Catotti clearly isn't interested in right and wron...Catotti clearly isn't interested in right and wrong or what every objective observer can plainly see, that her appointment is an act of sabotage. She has sold her soul in hope of being returned to office by an electorate who is used to being pandered to and fooled into acting against their own self-interest -- by furthering endemic corruption at every opportunity. She knows there is no rational accountability in Durham.<BR/><BR/>Utterly disgusting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-28432979672185320742007-06-08T16:41:00.000-04:002007-06-08T16:41:00.000-04:00Speaking of bars--whatever happened to Kemp and hi...Speaking of bars--whatever happened to Kemp and his Bar Buddy? He was kinda like a Cheers connection to this place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-67748670272858861612007-06-08T16:38:00.000-04:002007-06-08T16:38:00.000-04:00Unbalanced panel is not a double entendre.Unbalanced panel is not a double entendre.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com