Moezeldin Elmostafa - Hero

September 7, 2007 - Moezeldin Elmostafa watched as disgraced, disbarred, and former DA Nifong reported to jail

In the Duke Lacrosse Hoax there is plenty of blame & shame to spread around. We have the disgraced, disbarred, and former DA Nifong, who along with members of the Durham PD attempted to frame three innocent young men over a crime which never happened. We had Duke University President Brodhead, along with sidekick VP Burness, throw the entire Lacrosse Team under the bus of prejudgement while they pretended to let the process work. We had the Duke Faculty, known as the "88", display their outright bigotry in the press and on campus as they attempted to push their own twisted viewpoints of race, class, and gender for political power. We had the local press, who instead of fact checking the police misinformation ran with it and used anonymous sources to spin this sordid tale of white boys run wild, a complete lie. We had the Judge of the Hoax, Ronald Stephens, who abused his power to sign warrants and orders to push this Hoax forward. From Duke University Medical Center to almost every organization in Durham that touched this Hoax we saw a consistent and persuasive attempt to not only hide from the truth, but assist in the promulgation of falsehoods.

Then there is Elmo, as we affectionately call him. Moezeldin Elmostafa, the local Durham cabdriver who stood up to Nifong and told the truth.

Reader's Digest has an article about this Hero of the Hoax,

A Costly Fare
The cabdriver was living the American dream. He had fled the violence in his native Sudan in 1999 and had come to the United States, settling in North Carolina because he’d heard it was warm, like Africa. He sent money home to his parents every month, first from his job delivering pizza and then from wages at an IBM factory. But Moezeldin Elmostafa had bigger dreams—of opening his own business and bringing his wife and three children to live with him. In 2004 he started a taxi service with a friend. He could not have imagined that, two years later, a late-night fare would put him at the center of one of the country’s most notorious legal cases.... Reader's Digest


LieStoppers would like to note that most of the individuals who help promote this Hoax had university degrees, professional certification, and actual positions of Power. Elmo has something more powerful & more important, it's called Personal Integrity!

Hat Tip: abb