One-Year Anniversary of LieStoppers

Today marks the one-year anniversary of LieStoppers. It is fitting that on Thursday of this week we witnessed the disgraced, disbarred, and former DA Nifong issue an apology to Reade, Collin, and Dave along with his statement that they were totally innocent. LieStoppers was started by a group of posters on Court TV, who seeing the injustice that DA Nifong was planning, became determined to do something about it. We formed a group and began recruiting members for our efforts. Our first post was the wanted poster.

Our early works were satirical and aimed at the power structure in Durham. We quickly followed the wanted poster with a parody of the Duke 88 "We're listening ad."

Along the way we pick up some stellar members and thus began our journey to stop the lies that were being spread. Our goal has always been the search for the truth and the exposing of lies. It was a group effort and we spent thousands of hours scouring newspaper articles, watching the TV Pundits, and doing our own independent research. We read NC Statutes, court decisions, and learned how DA Nifong and the Durham PD were abusing the system. Individually we all played a role in creating LieStoppers. Some of us acted as editor, writers, proofreaders, cartoonist, researchers, and as moderators in the LieStoppers Forum we formed. In total we created 976 posts in one year. We posted the "castrate" photo and detailed how activists move the local story to a national frenzy. My fellow Liestoppers were tireless workers. Always it was a joint effort with egos left at the door. It was always about the guys and their Moms.

We created the LieStoppers Forum and enlisted the help of the Blog Hooligans. A finer bunch of Hooligans you couldn't find anywhere. We joined in the effort along with the work of other fine bloggers and columnists like the incredible KC, John In Carolina , Bill Anderson, Michael Gaynor, Right Angles , Johnsville News, Crystal Mess, Jason Trumpbour of FODU, and others. Technical experts on the Forum, like Kethra & Kathleen, dissected the forensic lies in this case. Many of our LS Forum members were attorneys, retired police officers, nurses, college professors, housewives, and from every walk of life. We have close to 1000 registered members and they all brought their common sense & wisdom to the forum. They inspired many of our posts.

From LieStoppers came the effort to recall DA Nifong, which was led by our incredible Beth Brewer. If ever there was a heroine it was this woman, who with no political experience decided someone had to stand up to him and removed him from office. She fought him to the very end with her §7A-66affidavit and indeed saw him resign from office when the end became apparent.

We were lead by our editor, Philip Wood, who demanded we fact check and wrote many of our best articles including Occam's Razor I & II.

In many ways our original goal was completed Thursday. The Families won. We all won. The truth won and the lies lost. We will continue to report on this case and follow the wheels of Justice as it slowly moves through Durham. We will continue to fight for Lady Liberty.

It is summertime and frankly the crew of LieStoppers are going on a reduced schedule. The guys are declared innocent and it's time for us to get on with our lives. Don't worry we are not going away. We will continue to push, probe, make jokes, and report what we see! We will demand the Durham City Panel do a thorough investigation and those than need a criminal investigation will be pursued.

We wish to say to Reade, Collin, and Dave go live your life. Go work, study, have fun, walk on beaches, go to a ball game, and love your families and friends. You deserve it.