By Nicholas Stix
It must be a good 20 years, since I first ran across Thomas Clough. (We’ve never crossed paths, unfortunately.) For several years during the early 20th century, he maintained a Web site he called Weird Republic. On it, he posted the results of his own research and writing. The guy was amazing. I say, “was,” because his Web site went down several years ago. Thus, he was either incapacitated, is now maintaining a Web site in the sky, or he went so broke that he could no long pay his Web host.
Well, I forgot both Clough’s name, and that of his site, but got a reminder today. While hunting down republican writer Christian Toto, I found that I’d written briefly of Clough, and searched the wayback machine for him. My hopes were weak, because the wayback machine has become increasingly censorious in recent years (when amazon.com made it impossible for Jared Taylor to sell his books, he posted his most recent book, White Identity, at the wayback machine, but its Gauleiter took it down, saying that its contents were unacceptable.
And the first date I searched for Clough’s archive also did not work, but eventually, I hit paydirt. And so, without further adieu, at 22,800 words, Gang Rape in the Park.
God bless you, Thomas Clough, wherever you are!
Chapters (Average 1,000 words per chapter)
I. Preface
II. The Crime: April 19, 1989
III. Harlem Goes Bonkers
IV. Harlem Says They’re Innocent
V. The Harlem Spokesfolks Mobilize
VI. Three Detectives Remember
VII. A Prosecutor Remembers
VIII. The Star Witness
IX. His Story Stinks
X. The Confessions
XI. How Guilty is Harlem
XII. The Forgotten Victim
XIII. Update to the Central Park Rape Case
XIV. The Victim’s Doctor Breaks His Silence
XV. The Jogger Rape Saga Continues
XVI. Thursday, December 5, 2002
XVII. The Matias Reyes/Kharey Wise Connection
XVIII. Don’t Be Fooled
XIX. The End Game
XX. Here Comes the Judge
XXI. Is Nancy Ryan Trustworthy?
XXII. Nancy Ryan’s Twisted Vision
XXIII. Twisted Justice
Weird Republic, Chapter 39: The Central Park Gang Rape
By Thomas Clough
Preface
The Central Park
Gang Rape
Gang Rape
Preface
On the morning of April 20, 1989 few people took note of the fact that it was the anniversary of Hitler’s birthday. Americans opened their newspapers to discover that there had been an explosion in the Number Two turret of the battleship USS Iowa the day before. The explosion had sent a 3000 degree flame front rushing downward into the ship at 2000 feet per second, killing 47 sailors. Yesterday had been National Garlic Day. There was a mention in the New York newspapers that a woman had been raped in Central Park.
Over the following days, reporters would ferret out the details of the rape; they would tell the city how 33 black and Hispanic teens had gone on a criminal rampage on the night of April 19, 1989, “just for fun.” The teens called their criminal funfests “wilding.” Five of the teens who were apprehended that night confessed to their participation in attacks on at least nine joggers and cyclists that evening, including the gang-rape assault that left a white woman in a coma and hovering near death. These five teenagers were convicted in 1990 for their confessed participation in the gang rape. All five convicts have served their prison terms.
Thirteen years after their conviction a man named Matias Reyes insisted that he alone had assaulted and raped the woman jogger that night. The prosecution had always known that most of the jogger’s attackers had eluded apprehension; she was probably attacked by a dozen teenagers. DNA samples taken from the victim did not match any of the five convicted teens; testing of these samples proved that Matias Reyes had raped the jogger. The big question now was: did Matias Reyes act alone or was he just trying to robe himself in an empowering mythology; he was, after all, an amoral psychopath who talked of wanting to become a super hero like those guys in the comics. He has an IQ of 76.
The entire rape case had been a black eye for Harlem and the spokesfolks for Harlem; the radical preachers and leftist lawyers were quick to believe every word that Matias Reyes spoke. They demanded nothing less than the complete exoneration of the minority youths they called the Jogger Five. To hear them tell it, these innocent boys were just the victims of a racist white power structure, racist cops, a racist criminal justice system and an uncaring society. No justice, no peace! So what happened that night in 1989?
Additional Material
Stix: “‘It Was Fun’—Robert K. Tanenbaum vs. the Central Park Five, 25 Years Later”; and
Stix: “Ken Burns’ The Central Park Five: The New To Kill a Mockingbird—Fiction Designed to Induce White Guilt.”
(N.S.: These were not the first reports I wrote on the Central Park Jogger case. I’d already written many, going back at least to 2000.)
“The Report That Ken Burns Doesn’t Want You to Read: The Armstrong Report on the Central Park Five’s Many Violent Crimes, and Matias Reyes”
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