Authored by James Howard Kunstler via kunstler.com,
Pornish Hen
"[NY Attorney General Letitia] James has always followed the policy of the Queen of Hearts in 'Alice in Wonderland': Sentence first, verdict afterward."
You can be certain that nobody involved in the Cornell U fraternity gang-bang circus is going to come out looking good, not the frat boys, not the girl, not the county DA, not New York AG Letitia James, and not NY Governor Kathy Hochul. The latter two have decided to showboat what has become a rape case in an election year when both are up for another four-year term.
A group of young men standing side by side stared up at the house, yelling and cursing at the defunct fraternity and the seven former members whom Jane Doe accused of assault. One of the men threatened to throw a rock through a window before his companions hustled him away. (Credit: The New York Times)
First, the incident itself: October 19, 2024, a Saturday night when upstate New York is at its fall color peak and the campus is jumpin', 20-year-old "Jane Doe" starts drinking at her sorority, Delta Delta Delta (Δ Δ Δ, "Tri-Delt") whose motto is Let Us Steadfastly Love One Another. Around eleven o'clock Jane goes into downtown Ithaca to do more drinking at a bar. She's legally underage, but manages to get served.
Meanwhile, messages are zinging around on social media, Snapchat, etc. There's a party going on at the Chi Phi fraternity (ΧΦ). Jane communicates with one of the members there. He cordially invites her over for "a threesome." Jane apparently has a reputation a
