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Judith Giuliani always dreamed big, which got her out of small-town Pennsylvania, through two marriages, and into the arms of Rudy Giuliani. But, as her husband runs for president, people are asking, "Who does she think she is?"September 2007 Judy Bachrach
Judith Giuliani always dreamed big, which got her out of small-town Pennsylvania, through two marriages, and into the arms of Rudy Giuliani. But, as her husband runs for president, people are asking, "Who does she think she is?"September 2007 Judy Bachrach
It was the first anniversary of 9/11 at Ground Zero, an occasion when the names of the dead were read aloud. The first reader was to be Rudy Giuliani, New York's mayor at the time of the disaster, whose actions during those terrible days would prove a political boon. An army of policemen flanked him—an excessive number, spectators thought, since, due to the hundreds of dignitaries gathered, security outside was extremely tight.
Inside the tent were Secretary of State Colin Powell, New York governor George Pataki, Richard Grasso, who was then head of the New York Stock Exchange, and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. Senator Hillary Clinton stood in the aisle—until she was unceremoniously pushed by a phalanx of four burly cops entering the tent, these guarding Judith Nathan, Giuliani's girlfriend. No apologies were offered, one observer noted.
"The nerve of that woman!" Hillary exploded, recalling that her own daughter's Secret Service detail evaporated soon after Bill Clinton left office. Why should an ex-mayor's girlfriend get such royal treatment? "Who does she think she is?" Hillary said to an observer, who later recounted the story.
An interesting question. Who does Judith Stish Ross Nathan Giuliani think she is? These days, even with her husband, a freshly minted multi-millionaire, far ahead of the competition in the Republican presidential polls, no one, least of all Judith, 52, seems to have a clue. In a way, this is understandable. There have been so many different Judiths. As her second husband, Bruce Nathan, has told friends, "She is in an ever changing mode upward."
Three decades ago, Judi Ann Stish, as she was known in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, left her parents' home, a gray two-story house fronted by potted geraniums and a ribbon of flagstone. Fifteen years ago, while working for $1,200 a month as a part-time receptionist, she was living on borrowed money and the hospitality of friends—and threatening her estranged second husband with prosecution over a $3,500 rug. "Judi started from scratch, so of course she grabs every opportunity that comes into her life," Manos Zacharioudakis, her onetime live-in companion, tells me. "Of course she was attracted to Giuliani."
Today she and Giuliani, when they are not boarding private Gulfstream IV jets to Europe or trying to woo voters, shuttle between a $4 million Hamptons house and a $5 million nine-room Upper East Side apartment near Madison Avenue, its dining room walnut-paneled and crammed with crystal, china, and linen from Scully & Scully. Her annual salary has also improved: $125,000, evidently for helping to write some of the speeches Giuliani likes to give (for which he received $11.7 million between January 2006 and March 2007). This comes as a surprise to at least one of Judith's acquaintances. Asked if he knew Judith was writing speeches, one former Giuliani aide replied, "Holy cow! God forbid!"
"Queen is her goal," says a former aide. "Queen is who she wants to be."
The details of Judith's life have also undergone some refurbishing. Her monogrammed hand-stitched napkins embraced by thick silver napkin rings are on display, along with the new cigar room designed for her husband, and a mantelpiece adorned with white porcelain figurines of Winston Churchill, the statesman with whom Giuliani likes to invite comparison. She struck an odalisque pose in Hamptonstyle magazine, and appeared robed in a floor-length burgundy gown by Carolina Herrera on the cover of Avenue magazine, whose editorial director, Pamela Gross, accompanies her frequently, especially when TV cameras are present. ("Never get between Pamela, Judith, and a camera," advises one observer.) Judith sits in the front rows of fashion shows, her hair freshly styled by a full-time assistant lured from Frederic Fekkai, and, when asked to pose, thrusts out an obliging hip for the cameras. Although she informed WWD, "I have no room for shopping in my life," she buys Dolce & Gabbana.
A dramatic transformation has occurred, one she does not care to discuss, despite repeated requests by Vanity Fair. She had always been known as "Judi." "Judi is what she was born. I don't think we called her Judith ever," says her father, Donald Stish, 78, seated on his porch one sultry June day in the shade of a gray metal awning. He is a calm, thickset man who marvels at his daughter's makeover. After her second divorce, she upgraded herself to "Judith" with such vehemence that, one former Giuliani aide confides, "at City Hall we were prohibited from calling her Judi. She would bawl us out if we did."
For years she appeared, in the public record, to have had only one failed marriage, but as it turned out she'd had two. It seemed that she had gone to Pennsylvania State nursing school, as The New York Times once reported, but she had not. She completed two years of nursing school, but left hospital work before a year was up. Nonetheless, Giuliani has publicly referred to her "expertise" in "biological and chemical" disasters, and believes she would be a help in the event of an anthrax attack.
Her second husband, Bruce Nathan, was, Barbara Walters mentioned in a March interview with Judith, a man of "means"—a notion Judith promoted. A former boyfriend tells me that after the divorce Judith often referred to her ex-husband as a "millionaire." But in 1991, the year before their separation, Nathan earned exactly $72,775. Judith would later insist that Nathan had a trust fund worth perhaps $1 million and a yacht. However, as Bruce has informed friends, there was only a boat—and no trust fund at all. "Do you honestly think I'd be selling wallpaper if I had all that money?" he would ask.
Inside the marriage, according to friends, Bruce considered himself a "golden retriever, who put a lot of faith and trust in things," only to find that trust misplaced. "Some people can fool you," he would declare sorrowfully. There were expenses incurred by Judi—large sums, considering his modest salary, he complained, mostly for her clothes or tuition for their adopted daughter, Whitney, at elite schools. Toward the end of their marriage, when Bruce's credit cards were no longer at her disposal, Judi was incensed.
The family was then living in a small rented house in the pricey neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, California. Although Judith also claimed on ABC that she had to "re-enter the workforce, after, oh gosh, more than a decade of being a wife and mother" following her divorce, she had actually resumed working in surgical sales months before leaving Nathan.
And finally, Judith told Walters, she would not reveal the circumstances of how she first met Giuliani, in 1999, except to say that the encounter, fraught with mutual attraction, was "by accident." In reality, it was she who approached Giuliani, who was then married and a father, with words of admiration and a proffered business card.
Within Giuliani's camp the picture of who Judith is is not much clearer. "When I see her, she's only interested in my jewelry, where I buy my dresses," says a friend of the former mayor's. "Does anyone really know Judith Giuliani? Let's be honest: no one does."
The Giuliani people certainly wish to keep it that way. "I'm hearing bad reports about you. Bad reports. You interviewed Mrs. Giuliani's father, in Hazleton!" Mike McKeon, the campaign spokesman, barks at me within four hours of the encounter.
"We're not allowed to talk to the press," Judith's mother, Joan, says nervously when she discovers me interviewing her husband. She is a short, brisk woman in black trousers—she shares with Judith a small, purposeful mouth—who expresses despair over her husband's candor and wants me to shred my notes on the carpeted porch.
Bits of the real Judith are scattered all over the country: in the South, East, and West. They must be carefully pieced together.
When Judi met Rudy, he was mayor of New York and married to the actress Donna Hanover, who is the mother of his children, Andrew, now 21, and Caroline, 18. At the time, the family was living in Gracie Mansion. In retrospect, it is odd it took Hanover so long to catch on. By then she had endured at least one very public embarrassment as a result of her husband's roving eye. In the late 90s, Cristyne Lategano, the mayor's press secretary, had been widely assumed, despite Lategano's heated denials, to hold a special place in his heart. By March 1999, however, Hanover was breathing easier, even as Lategano grew anxious. According to knowledgeable sources, Lategano was well aware there was a change in her friend the mayor, a sudden mysterious chill.
It was around this time that Judi Nathan met Giuliani at Club Macanudo, an East Side cigar bar he was known to frequent. The details of that fateful night have since been industriously hidden and altered. They met at a private-school function, went one version of the story; at Coopers Classic Cars and Cigars, the former bar of Elliot Cuker, Rudy's onetime confidant, went another.
"Does anyone really know Judith Giuliani?" asks a friend of Rudy's.
Around a year ago, Cuker has told friends, he was pressed to back up a version worthy of a potential president and First Lady. Specifically, Cuker has confided, he was told to say it was he who formally introduced the couple at his restaurant. He pointedly refused. "It pissed Elliot off that he was asked to lie for them," says a friend, who adds that Giuliani and Cuker are no longer close.
At the time of that first meeting, Judi and her daughter were living in a one-bedroom apartment off Third Avenue with Zacharioudakis, a handsome Greek psychologist nine years her junior. "Whitney slept in the bedroom, Judi and I in the pullout bed in the living room," Zacharioudakis tells me, adding that he didn't mind the cramped quarters. He found Judi to be "a beautiful, sensual, erotic creature." She was no pushover, he adds. "She will fight teeth and claws in order for her dignity not to be abused."
Still, after four years, he says, "you get bored, the passion is not the same." Moreover, "she wanted to get married." He did not.
With that revelation, their relationship fell apart, inducing in Judi some bitterness, he recalls, "because she had invested some years in this." When he came home at night, she would leave. It was on one of these forays that she met Giuliani—not that Zacharioudakis knew this at the time. In retrospect, however, he understands her fascination. "Giuliani was the No. 1 man in New York!" he says.
And Judi was thrilled with her new boyfriend. "This is the guy," she informed her mother after their third meeting. Rudy and she, she later told the press, were simply "two people in love—never mind the extracurricular stuff that went on around us." That "extracurricular stuff," however, included not just Rudy's wife and kids but the entire city of New York.
Giuliani invited Judith everywhere: to Yankees games in the summer of '99, to Cuker's restaurant, to the millennium celebration in Times Square, and to Town Hall meetings. This lack of restraint was not unusual for him: "Rudy has no willpower when it comes to relationships. This is why it's such an issue," says a Giuliani friend.
By 1999 he had acquired only the thinnest veneer of discretion—even though at the time he was seriously planning a Senate run against Hillary Clinton. "I was told Judith was Kate Anson's best friend and that's why she was going to all these big events.... Everyone was told that," reports one top aide from that era. Anson was and still is Giuliani's loyal scheduler.
The mayor began to spend his weekends—accompanied, as the New York Post reported, by a detail of detectives, which may have cost taxpayers $3,000 a tryst—in Southampton, where Judith owned a condominium. Since he had until then always accounted for his weekends, says the incisive Giuliani biographer Wayne Barrett, "his press office started telling reporters, 'He's teaching Andrew how to play golf.' Now, Andrew's old enough to understand—he has to be aware that his father used him as a beard!"
At the annual Saint Patrick's Day Parade, in 2000, Judith marched right behind the mayor. She was by his side when he went to the hospital for prostate tests a month later and then learned he had cancer. When he decided to leave Hanover, in May, he made a public announcement— "Judith Nathan is a very, very fine person" were his words, "and I'm going to need her more now than maybe I did before." That was how his wife of 16 years discovered her marriage was over.
Donna consulted a divorce lawyer, the Daily News revealed later that month, and learned she could potentially bar Judith from Gracie Mansion as "poisonous to the home environment." Giuliani canceled his Senate run.
From then on, the couple seemed to grow even closer. "The cancer really got to Rudy because of his own feelings about mortality. He is very, very afraid of death," says a friend. "As his career went downhill, he was being publicly flogged about Donna. Judi was totally loyal. She reflected the essence of what he considered important. Loyalty." Giuliani's divorce lawyer, Raoul Felder, tells me that Judi and Rudy "used to go early in the morning for treatment" to Mount Sinai Hospital. One evening there was a public stroll with Judith for the benefit of the media.
An aide from that time recalls that Judith wasn't disliked—at first—nor did she come as a surprise. "We had been through this all before. When they first come around, they're nice. Until they realize the power they have over him."
Who was this new girlfriend, worried staffers wondered. Their suspicions aroused, they began checking into her background.
Hazleton, Pennsylvania, population 25,000, is a friendly but desolate town ringed by a scarred landscape that in Judi's high-school years was best known for its coal mines. When Judi Stish was born, in 1954, the second of three children, her father was a circulation manager for The Philadelphia Inquirer. "Quite honestly the Stishes were just very nice, simple people," says an old friend. "They ate dinner every night at five P.M. Salad was not something they knew much about. Hoagies and potatoes and corn they knew about."
Their only son, Donald, born with his umbilical cord around his neck, was always frail, according to two family friends. Three years ago, the father says with simple gravity, "while Donnie was praying, he just fell over slowly and passed away. It was like someone was holding him up until he dropped." Judith, the second child, was the family star, as far as her parents were concerned. "They were just enamored with this daughter of theirs who left," says an old friend.
"If you had told me back when we were in high school that one day Judi would move to New York and marry a presidential candidate, I wouldn't have been in the least surprised," says Gemma Matteo, a former classmate of Judi's, now a special-education teacher in Hazleton. In an era of blue jeans and rebellion, Judi was a fresh-faced, meticulously groomed enigma—quiet, self-possessed, biding her time. "Very prim and proper, not a hair out of place," according to Holly Ciotola, another former classmate. "She was always in a dark blazer, white collared shirt, and dark skirt."
In 1974 she graduated from St. Luke's School of Nursing, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. As a registered nurse, young Judi spent only a few months at Sacred Heart Hospital, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She would never care for patients after that. She had other plans. At 19 she married Jeffrey Ross, a U.S. Surgical salesman six years her senior.
In short order both Rosses were working in Charlotte, North Carolina, for U.S. Surgical (now part of Tyco Healthcare), which eventually grew into a billion-dollar enterprise marketing surgical staplers. Judi was excellent at her work, and earned $40,000 a year by the late 70s. But problems arose when animal-rights groups began investigating the way the company sold its products—problems recently pointed out by the New York press. U.S. Surgical used dogs in demonstrations to doctors and hospitals as part of its marketing plan.
"Every salesperson at U.S. Surgical was trained for six weeks with dogs at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, and that was really brutal," explains a former employee. "They spent days and days with dogs, taking out the spleen or stomach or the lobe of a lung. Then if the dog started moaning or fidgeted, whoever was closest would push more sedative into him from the syringe. It was horrible. Then the dog would be killed with potassium chloride."
After training, the salespeople marketed the staplers to doctors, and, once again, in many cases large dogs were used, as they had organs comparable in size to those possessed by humans. "After the stapling, sometimes they'd put a big clamp above and below the staple lines of the dog, and fill [the area] with lots of fluid," the ex-employee says. "It would fill up like a balloon, and the salesperson would say to the doctor, 'See— it doesn't leak!' That's how they marketed and sold the product." (Some years ago, former C.E.O. Leon Hirsch defended the company's practice of using dogs, claiming that there was no proper substitute.)
WABC radio host Ron Kuby, a lawyer and severe Giuliani critic, marvels at the campaign's sublime lack of preparation for the storm of fury that greeted the dog issue, in April. "Think of all the hacks and politicos who sit down and they say to Judi, 'O.K., we've gone through your background, husbands, etc.,' " he muses. "'Is there any other thing in your background, some crazy little thing, that might catch someone's attention?' It's at that point you should raise your hand and say, 'Oh, you mean when I was killing puppies?"'
But for some reason the campaign entered the ring gloveless. "I wouldn't dignify it with a comment" was Giuliani's reply when asked about the use of dogs.
The details of the night they met have been hidden and altered.
Bruce Nathan, dark, handsome, and 28, was earning a modest salary in 1979 selling wallpaper in the South when he met Judi Ross, by then separated from her first husband. Five days after the Rosses were divorced, Bruce and Judi wed, and she moved into his small house, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Two years later the couple left for Atlanta, where, in 1985, they adopted Whitney. They settled into a more spacious house with a portico of black-and-white marble. Judi joined the Junior League. But it was clear to her intimates that none of this was enough.
"Judi's goal was always to go to New York. Why do you think? Because it's the capital of the world!" says a friend from that era. The Nathans moved to New York in 1987, the year the stock market plunged, and along with it, Bruce's prospects of selling a lot of wallpaper on the East Coast.
It was growing obvious to Judi that, to quote one of Bruce's friends, "his was not a bottomless pit of money." The couple had rented what is described by an old friend as "a teeny-weeny apartment on the Upper East Side."
"They never could afford a big co-op on Park Avenue and she wanted it," says another friend. "I think Bruce wasn't doing well enough for her, and she was ambitious."
Pretty soon these friends heard the same stories that would eventually find their way into court papers: Bruce would claim that his wife called him "'a kike,' when I couldn't afford something; 'a rich little kike,' ... 'Jew boy.'" Certainly he felt they had entirely different ambitions. "Unlike my wife, I was not a social climber," he would later observe. "My wife's 'main goal' in life was being involved with whatever was 'the in-thing' at the moment ... the 'right church'... the 'right people'; adopting a child for status purposes."
For her part, Judi claimed Bruce had a "violent temper" and was physically abusive: there was, for example, she said, a blow to her uterus and later another to the ear, which required a hospital visit. "Not true," Bruce tells me flatly.
Despite severe misgivings, in the summer of 1991 Judi Nathan, accompanied by seven-year-old Whitney and their cocker spaniel, followed Bruce to California, in the hope that somehow or other the marriage would thereby be improved. The couple furnished their small rented house, in Pacific Palisades, with articles of whimsy—a framed picture of cats in human garb—and antique reproductions. In the cupboards were a few trinkets from Lalique and six Baccarat glasses. About the only item of value was the $3,500 Aubusson rug Judi would later fight for.
Outwardly, Judi appeared happy enough, says Marilyn Stein, a friend who still lives in the neighborhood. On the other hand, Stein notes, "I always got the feeling that for her the move was temporary."
Certainly Judi was eager to increase the couple's income. Her husband had had to take a 10 percent cut in his $80,000 a year salary. In the last months of her brief California sojourn, Judi signed on as a saleswoman for DynaMed Surgical, which makes ophthalmologic products. "Very, very savvy, very professional" is Bradley Bakke's estimation of his former employee's work in California. The head of the Minnesota-based firm adds that "when she left I had no idea why. She gave no explanation."
An ex-boyfriend found Judith to be "a beautiful, sensual, erotic creature."
But to her friend Stein, Judi was more voluble. Late one night in mid-March 1992, she and Whitney arrived at her neighbor's door. Bruce had told her he had stopped loving her, Judi said. He had punched her "on the side of my head," she claimed. He had screamed "vile epithets" at her. He had spit. The police were summoned.
The next day she and the child left. Bruce Nathan called and called his wife and daughter, hoping Whitney would be brought back home, in vain. He phoned the police, accusing his wife of child abduction, also in vain. "My kid was just gone," he tells friends these days.
There is no doubt that Judi Nathan faced tough times when she moved back to New York more than a decade ago. She and Whitney initially had to live with friends. Her first job there, as a dental receptionist, was not substantial enough to defray her legal fees, which came to just under $28,000; it was her parents, by then retired in Hazleton, who lent her much of the money, after taking out a second mortgage on their house. Whitney went to the exclusive Spence School, in Manhattan, on a partial scholarship.
Even the $1,600 a month in alimony payments and the resumption of her work as a hospital sales rep, this time for Bristol-Myers Squibb, didn't wholly lighten Judi's load. "She didn't have an easy life bringing up a child in New York as a single mother," says Felder, Giuliani's divorce lawyer, whom she hired when Bruce sued for custody of their daughter, six years ago.
Whitney, whom Judith described to the judge as "this precious little paper doll," was, her mother announced, fighting anorexia, in bad trouble, and associating with the wrong kids. "Failing school, missing classes," Felder added.
Inside the courtroom, Bruce couldn't believe his ears as his former wife offered up every one of Whitney's adolescent issues for inspection. "Her mother publicly came out with this stuff about her own child! You want to screw up a kid? There's a good way!" a family confidant recalls. The teenage Whitney, adds this friend, was "confused, furious, and upset" by her mother's decision to air her problems. There was also fear that the court's judges would be swayed by Giuliani's clout. "We're talking about an extremely powerful man here," Bruce worried aloud.
"My wife drinks often," Bruce had maintained for years. "She is a manipulator and a pathological liar and exaggerator." It was all fuel for the tabloids. Everything in Judi's life was.
"The newspapers talked about her $3,000 pocketbooks and all this stuff. None of this was true," says Felder. "No, she was a very prudent shopper who would go to the store and buy hundred-dollar copies of whatever." The lawyer recalls his client "switching outfits very carefully. She'd wear the dark pearls, not real ones, with the white blouse. She didn't have money."
And when she met Giuliani, Felder adds, he didn't have much money, either, "because Rudy was living on a mayor's salary"—$195,000 a year—"and had no inherited wealth, and was supporting his family very, very well." Giuliani's final settlement with Hanover obliged him to pay her $6.8 million. Prior to that arrangement, her lawyer told the press, she had seriously considered a trial, along with subpoenas to both Judith and Lategano.
The entire divorce battle was played out badly in the press. When Hanover sued to prevent Judith from entering Gracie Mansion, and also refused to move out with her children, Felder announced one bright Mother's Day that New York's resolute First Lady "will have to be dragged from the chain of the chandeliers in Gracie Mansion by the next mayor.... She doesn't care what happens to the children. She cares about getting her name in the paper and embarrassing the mayor and getting more movie roles."
"Yes, the children were upset," recalls a close confidant of the Giuliani kids, who is not referring simply to the unraveling of their parents' marriage. Far worse "was an application for Dad to allow Mrs. Nathan into Gracie Mansion. That kind of thing was very disconcerting to everyone."
In the midst of all this family strife came 9/11: the deaths, the turmoil, the necessary absences and preoccupations of the Giuliani children's father.
Judith tried valiantly to fill this vacuum: "When Andrew had a football game in New Jersey, say, and Rudy would have to appear on ABC, it would be Judith who'd be the one pushing to make sure the schedule was set up so he could go to Andrew's game, and I know this for a fact," says one former aide who in other respects can be critical of Judith. "Caroline—she wouldn't want her to miss dinner with her father, so Judith made sure his schedule would accommodate that dinner." A pause. "She could be a bitch to everybody else but not to his kids."
There were other efforts at reaching out. Soon after the Twin Towers fell, Judith volunteered at the Family Assistance Center, on Pier 94. When Paul O'Neill of the Yankees came by, Judith got the star right fielder to sign a ball, which she then gave to the teenage Andrew, "as a way of making peace," says Manny Papir, a former Giuliani deputy chief of staff.
None of Judith's efforts, however, proved to be of much consequence—and some, like her recent Christmas gifts of Bibles to the Giuliani kids, have backfired, I am told. According to a number of Giuliani's good friends, the former mayor insists on Judith's presence at events for his offspring—and when this demand is thwarted, he doesn't attend. He was not present, they say, at Andrew's graduation from St. Joseph Regional High School in New Jersey. Now 21 and a Duke University junior, the son tells friends he doesn't speak to Rudy, according to one of his classmates—this at a time when his father is desperate to attract conservative, family-values backing.
The position of "Mrs. Giuliani" has not historically been a secure post.
Just recently, after explaining to The New York Times that he would not help his father campaign for the presidential nomination, Andrew cited, among other issues, his stepmother, with whom, he said, "there's obviously a little problem."
"Andrew was really siding with his sister, Caroline, here," says a source friendly to Giuliani. "Caroline is silent, but she was very traumatized by the divorce." Two sources who know the family well tell me that Rudy is more attentive to Whitney than he is to his own children. At Caroline's recent graduation, from New York's Trinity School, Rudy and Judith sat in the last row of the balcony and left 10 minutes before the two-hour ceremony ended.
Despite the messy divorces, Judith worked very effectively in the aftermath of 9/11. "For four months she was right in there with [police commissioner] Bernie Kerik, [fire commissioner] Tommy Von Essen, and Richie Sheirer, who headed emergency management," reports one observer, who recalls she sat in on about half the meetings. "We went through the phase where we had to change the operation from rescue to recovery.... You know—you have to come to a decision that, frankly, everyone is dead. There's no one to save."
Judith, this former city employee says, quickly pitched in with "You may want to talk to someone in psychological services about that—how to get the message across to the families." Three mental-health specialists came to the operation command center, at Pier 92, to discuss the best ways of communicating terrible news. Those assembled found Judith's ideas valuable. During those difficult days, she was also extremely solicitous of Giuliani. "It started during his cancer, actually. But after 9/11, even more, she was watching his food, his care, his sleep. She was smack-dab in the middle of it," says a top aide from that era. "You couldn't have asked for anything more. If she was a nuisance at the time, I'd be the first to say it, but it was sincere caring."
No one was surprised when Giuliani presented her, one year later, with a $20,000 Ceylon sapphire-and-diamond ring, selected by the bride-to-be at a store in Atlanta, to which she had flown with one New York City police officer. What did astonish friends was the venue where the couple exchanged vows before 400 guests: the lawn of Gracie Mansion, with Mayor Bloomberg officiating. On May 24, 2003, Andrew Giuliani (as best man), Whitney Nathan (as maid of honor), Vera Wang, Barbara Walters, Henry Kissinger, and Donald Trump all witnessed Judith triumph at Donna's old home. "It was definitely Judith's idea to have it at Gracie," a close confidant tells me. "Rudy— he doesn't give a shit about clothes, bags, suits, or where he gets married."
Judith, on the other hand, clearly put special thought into the occasion. The train of her pale Vera Wang dress was studded with Swarovski crystals; on her dark-red hair perched a Fred Leighton diamond-and-pearl-encrusted tiara.
"There is a reason why she wore that tiara at her wedding: she really does see herself as a princess," says another former Giuliani aide. "Not as a queen. Queen is her goal. Queen is who she wants to be."
Queenly is certainly what Judith became, her demands and expectations heightened in large part by her husband's new affluence. Giuliani Partners (where she maintains an office) was established five years ago with the help of Giuliani's onetime chief of staff Anthony Carbonetti. It is a firm with management-consulting and security divisions; its clients, as The Washington Post reported, include Purdue Pharma, which hired the firm while being investigated by the D.E.A. and the F.D.A. over deaths stemming from the misuse of its painkiller OxyContin, and the Florida-based Seisint, Inc., which produces a data-mining product. Since Giuliani Partners' inception, the newspaper also reported, it has earned more than $100 million.
This is not the couple's only means of support. At least until recently, Giuliani has been raking in the speaking-engagement fees. Those willing to pay the former mayor $100,000 a speech (and to foot the $36,000 bill for a Gulfstream IV charter) also were contractually obligated to accommodate his wife: "Please note that when arranging your seating, Judith Giuliani must be seated directly next to him." This demand was not confined to paid events. Some years ago at a Hamptons July Fourth party thrown by the journalist Lally Weymouth, two guests were astonished to learn that Judith was in a snit after discovering she and Rudy were at separate tables.
She has become used to getting her way. An organizer of a recent fashion shoot received a call from one of Rudy's business associates warning her to address his wife as Judith. According to this source, Judith became so smitten with the dress she was modeling "that she simply didn't want to take it off. She didn't offer to pay. She made it very clear she wanted it for free. You know how it is when someone stalls." Instead, says this source, Judith kept repeating a kind of mantra: "I'm a sample size, I'm a sample size."
The fashion insider sighs. "But the problem was the dress was a sample, and the designer's only sample. But she was very persistent. We had almost a metaphorical tugging of the dress away!" And not just that dress. "There were a number of items she tried on she wanted. There was greed in the air. We finally brokered a deal with the designer to give her some sort of discount for the dress."
Around the office of Giuliani Partners, it is said, Sunny Mindel, Giuliani's communications director, spoke of the need for providing an entire plane seat for Judith's "Baby Louis"—a reference to her Louis Vuitton handbag, which sits in solitary splendor on her travels.
If Giuliani's third wife became less popular as time went on, it was in part due to the feeling that she had a private list of Rudy loyalists she wanted fired. "The atmosphere is slippery, but not always venomous," says one. "You just realize there's an agenda there: she's worming her way in so she can push you out." Papir, for instance, was fired five years ago after word got around that he had called Judith a "princess" behind her back. But there are others, two sources say, of whom she patently disapproves. "Kate Anson, his scheduler, and this was the person who was so nice to her—everyone likes her!" says one Giuliani friend, holding up fingers to enumerate those of whom Judith disapproves. "Matt Mahoney [now deputy senior political adviser]—he loves Rudy. And Tony Carbonetti too, that's the other person Judith hates.... He would never be confrontational. His job is Rudy." A shrug. "Anyone supportive of him, close to him—Judith wants them fired. A lot of the senior staff... She just gets furiously jealous and treats them like shit!"
And her ire is apparently not confined to staff. "Listen. She can be very, very abrasive. At him!" says a close friend. There have been blowups, say those who have witnessed them, and obtuse demands. Some years ago on a plane to Japan, Judith became so angry at her husband, says a close Giuliani friend, that Rudy, who "couldn't take it anymore," moved to the back of the aircraft, switching places with an advance man.
In a massive Baden-Baden hotel suite five years ago, an observer tells me, a loud quarrel erupted when Judith pointedly denied one of her husband's requests. She refused to remove her toiletries case from a bedroom reserved for a policeman, claiming it would be bothersome, since the case was already unpacked. In Mexico, I am told, at a time when security was very tight and armored S.U.V.'s were deemed necessary, she asked her husband to leave the car to retrieve a bag of health bars she had mislaid.
There are also, of late, large expenses: a Palm Beach house Rudy bought for the elder Stishes, and other lavish purchases by Judith. Around New York, reporters are hearing that she recently spent $40,000 in a week. "Driving him crazy" is the phrase used.
There have been public missteps as well. In April, for example, she spoke before fellow Republicans of her unrivaled ability "to pick up the phone as Judith Giuliani" to get charitable contributions, at which point the tabloids made a meal of what they perceived to be her vainglory. However, it was clearly a phrase that came from Judith's heart: a tribute less to herself than to the clout of her husband, to whom she is indebted for whatever power she holds, for however long she holds it.
In the ladies' room, observers got a glimpse of the real Judith.
The position of "Mrs. Giuliani" has not historically been a secure post. Although the candidate has lately been warned by advisers to avoid any hint of scandal, there is a sense that perhaps he is not listening. "Does a leopard change its spots?" says one close friend. Recently, Starr Shephard, a Texan who informs me she used to be on the "U.S. world team of rhythmic twirling gymnastics," emerged in The National Enquirer, which ran a story suggesting she might be a Giuliani love interest. "I am not having an affair with Rudy Giuliani. I do not need a political power stick," the 36-year-old redhead says when I call her. "I believe in his vision and his voice even if I do not believe in his family."
"What do you mean by that?" I wonder.
"Oh, you know, you hear things about his family," she replies.
"God Bless America for his power," Shephard writes on MySpace. Beneath a photo of herself and Rudy there is a promise that he will "advance our one nation under God."
Naturally, Judith is on her guard. "And who are you?" she inquired of an attractive and prominent Republican woman who embraced her husband during a chance encounter in a New York restaurant. The woman marvels at such behavior. ("I felt like saying, 'Really, it's O.K.! I love my husband!'" she recalls.) But who can blame Judith?
"They're all there to stay," says Papir. "Until they're gone. And the staff usually knows before they do. And we hear the footsteps."
There have been other moments of vulnerability. At the close of the May Republican debate, Judith leapt onstage eagerly, her face beaming with delight. Giuliani, it was noted, appeared strangely disconcerted. "It did not look like he was happy to see her. It looked to me like he was estranged," says Barrett. "He was cold."
It was in the ladies' room before the event that observers got a telling glimpse of the real Judith. She had gone there to touch up her makeup when some of her husband's staff informed her Giuliani was in the vicinity, walking by.
"He's out there! Coming by!" repeated Judith, her voice tense with excitement. And then a plea: "Tell him to wait for me!"
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There are international standards of weights and measures, even for the passage of time.
The gold standard for a moral, eternally abiding life now sits and the right hand of his Father.
Diametrically opposed is the man of Sin, our natural proclivity and the spirit working in our minds and members. We sin as naturally and freely as water cascading down a water fall.
Our mouths, swear, our minds envy, covet and indulge in vilest most despicable imaginings.
We are bitter, abusive, hateful, coldhearted, murders, whisperers, callous, without natural affection, haughty, high minded, quick to anger, insufferable lot. Deserving all of the natural catastrophes that beset us, including AIDS, tsunamis, hurricanes and tornadoes. As AIDS spreads rapidly around the earth it becomes evident that everybody is sleeping with everyone across the whole planet. A sure marker of the moral turpitude that besets the earth.
But a standard was born. Eat his flesh, drink his blood and let him abode in your mind and members that you may abide forever.
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I am an atheist. I only sleep with my wife (though not because I believe that safe sex is evil or causes problems other than jealousy and trust-breaking). I have never been in a real natural disaster, and have no severe illnesses, disorders, or other chronic health issues. I am not bitter, abusive, cold-hearted, callous, haughty, or even insufferable as far as I know. I have never murdered anyone, nor even killed anything bigger than a fish. I have natural affection for many people, including my family, friends, and other friendly and decent people. I do tend to whisper when it is polite, and I do consider myself to be "high-minded," but I don't really know what you mean by the term. I don't understand many parts of your post, because it is poorly written. I do, however, speak and write in a manner that is coherent and understandable. Furthermore, I have never proclaimed that anyone ever deserved AIDS, or any other tragic condition. To paraphrase the supposed saying of a man whose flesh and blood you claim to partake of, and who I must assume you trust in for salvation "before you try to remove the splinter from your neighbor's eye, remove the plank from your own...Judge not, that you be not judged." It is annoyingly predictable to see an incoherent post and automatically infer it is a religious person rambling. It is also annoyingly nonsensical that you think your argument, even if it were coherent, would be convincing to anyone. You have failed to provide an argument for your 'gold standard of morality,' and you have come to professed atheists to spout ignorant, absurd, presumptuous dogma.
My first urge is to call you out as a troll, but I know that is probably unlikely, given how many of your kind we have seen, and how long you have been around. Next, I wish I could somehow educate you, because it is tragic to see such an empty, confused mind poured out as digital gibberish. I almost move on to ignoring you, because I know you are ignorant and refuse to think differently; it would shatter your fragile little world if we could shine even a little light into your self-assured, naive, irrational bubble. I have been that ignorant, and I wish you could get just a small helping of the thirst for knowledge and truth I gained when I grew out of adolescence. So, I end up conflicted, knowing that chances are slim you will even bother to read such a wall of text. You are in a religious place that is so comfortable and such an intellectual desert that I doubt anyone here can speak any sense to you. Most of us know what it was like to be in your position; and how well the religious world supports your ignorance. I cannot ignore it though; you are a misled fool. I'm sorry you have not been better educated, and lack understanding. If you hang out here long enough, maybe you'll gain something. If nothing else, we might get some humor out of your nonsense.
An impressive discourse. Thanks for taken the time and energy to express your views.
Your views are completely coherent with the sentiments of the wise of this world. And my views utterly foolish and incoherent. You have not told me anything new. This was prophesied from the beginning.
The invisible things of God have been hidden from sinful man. He has sent the world strong spirits of delusions that it my believe a lie rather than the truth. The invisible things of God were once clearly understood by the things that are made. Then they change the image of an incorruptible God to that of four legged animals. As result God give them over to do things that are not convenient. Men starting working with men that which is unseemly and even woman started lusting after each other, that they all may perish unless they turn to the Golden standard, as Moses lifted up the brazen serpent in the wilderness. Those who did not lift up their heads where bitten by a torment of snakes and perished.
I see you have taken it personally, but it is an indictment of the species in general.
They knew that they must be obedient to their father despite not being as gods and knowing good and evil. A dog is obedient to it's master despite having no sense of good and evil.
In regard to who is responsible and how to get out of this cragmire, please read my responds to Dan
You can be obedient without knowledge. Look at any child.
And it is not hate seething but the wicked being warned and yet shown a new and living way.


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Westminster Confession 2.3 states that the Son is eternally begotten of the Father, and the Holy Spirit eternally proceeds from the Father and the Son.
In "laymanese":
1. How do we differentiate between "begotten" and "proceeding"?
2. "Eternally begotten" is counterproductive, because from the point of reference a creature knows, one can be begotten only once. Why is it important the Son be "eternally begotten" vs. a once-for-all begetting act?
Let's tackle your question regarding the eternal begottenness of the Son along with your contention that the phrase "eternally begotten is unhelpful," and then we'll address the procession of the Spirit. First, however, we should recognize that when we speak about the "eternal generation" of the Son (which was a phrase first used by Origen), we are using human language to describe something about the inner relationships of the eternal, immutable and infinite God. Therefore, we must remember that the way in which we naturally think of human generation, or human begetting differs substantially from divine begetting. For example, in human begetting, there is a time in which the son did not exist, but that cannot be said about the second person of the Trinity. Also, human begetting involves a father and a mother, whereas in divine begetting the Son is begotten by the Father alone. Finally, human begetting is something that is a free and voluntary act, while the Son's generation is an eternal and necessary act. Here's the point: when we speak about begetting/generation (and eternal procession as well), we are speaking analogously, meaning there are ways in which divine begetting is like human begetting, but there are also substantial differences.
So, with these differences in mind, where is the point of analogy (similarity, or the "point of reference" as you described it) regarding the begetting/eternal generation of the Son?
The doctrine of eternal generation can simply (hopefully not simplistically) be stated like this: just as a human father communicates his essence (his humanity) to his son, so the Father communicates his essence (deity) to his Son. This is what the Nicene Creed is getting at when it claims that Jesus is "God of God; Light of Light, very God of very God." This also touches on your second question, because this begetting does not mean (and cannot mean) that the Son was begotten from the essence of the Father out of nothing (a once-for-all begetting). This would be creation, not generation. The Son is not a creation, however, but "God over all, forever praised" (Rom. 9:5). Again, this is why the Nicene Creed makes the important point that the Son was "begotten not made" [emphasis mine]. If this were a once-for-all begetting in time, then we would have to maintain with the Arian heresy that there was a time when the Son did not exist. So, describing the Son as eternally begotten guards against such false teaching. We also believe in the eternal generation of the Son, based on the eternality of the Father and the Son. In other words, because the Father and the Son are both eternal, the generation of the Son must, necessarily, be so as well. So, though the phrase "eternally begotten" at first may strike us as counterproductive, it is necessary to guard against a false understanding of the relationship between the Father and the Son.
Again, we must admit that we are using human language to describe the relationship between two persons of the Trinity, both who are infinite, immutable and incomprehensible. And so our language will fail to fully describe the truth of this relationship, but it is enough for us to truly know it.
This same caution should guide us when talking about the eternal procession of the Spirit. Setting aside the question as to whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from just the Father (procession), or the Father and the Son (double procession), let's look (very briefly) at the doctrine. As the word "begotten" or the phrase "eternal generation" is used to describe the inner relationship between the Father and the Son, the word "procession" has been used to describe the inner relationship of the Holy Spirit to the Father and the Son. Like the Son, the Scriptures teach that the Holy Spirit is both a person (not a power) and divine, yet the inner relationship between the Holy Spirit and Father and Son is one of proceeding from them. The doctrine of procession seeks to do justice to Jesus' statement in John that Christ will send the Holy Spirit "from the Father." This "procession" tells us something about the inner relationship between the Holy Spirit and the Father and Son without sacrificing the deity or personality of the Holy Spirit, yet we must admit that this inner relationship is no doubt shrouded in mystery (even more so than the eternal generation of the Son). As Sinclair Ferguson says in his book on the Holy Spirit, "If we ask further what the procession of the Spirit means, and how it is distinguished from the Son's relationship to the Father, we may well be incapable of a wholly satisfactory (and certainly of a comprehensive) answer.... His relationship [to the Father and the Son] is distinct; yet both experience the Spirit in common in mutual union and communion.... The mystery of the Spirit's union thus points to the glory of the Christian communion with God. Our fellowship in the Spirit is with the Father and the Son..." (Ferguson, The Holy Spirit, (p. 77).
I must admit that "laymanese" is difficult to accomplish with these teachings, for they are teachings which seek to capture truths which stretch language itself to its limits.
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British Olympic team announced for London 2012
09/06/12 - With less than 50 days to go until the start of the London 2012 Olympics, the British Olympic Association (BOA) has announced today the six triathletes officially selected to represent Team GB at the... |Full Story
Kitzbühel Kids train with Findlay and Hayes
16/06/11 - Young triathletes of Kitzbühel had the chance to meet Paula Findlay and Stuart Hayes today as the two winners from last year's race took time out of their race preparation to offer advice to the keen... |Full Story
Kahlefeldt takes third Mooloolaba title
26/03/11 - Brad Kahlefeldt led a gold-silver Australian finish at today's Mooloolaba ITU Triathlon World Cup. Teammate Brendan Sexton overcame a 15-second penalty and out-sprinted France's David Hauss for... |Full Story
2010 In Review: Kitzbühel
08/12/10 - From the dizzying, head-spinning pace of London, the Dextro Energy Triathlon World Championship Series moved to the quaint town of Kitzbühel, Austria. Set below the Alps, the town is usually associated... |Full Story
Hayes Scores Breakaway Win in Kitzbühel
14/08/10 - With a gutsy breakaway on the bike, Great Britain's Stuart Hayes stunned the field and stole the win at today's Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Kitzbühel. The Brit was part of a... |Full Story
Kahlefeldt Wins World Cup Opener
27/03/10 - Brad Kahlefeldt was victorious on his home turf today, earning the first World Cup title of the 2010 season in Mooloolaba. Kahlefeldt finished just ten seconds ahead of Great Britain's Stuart Hayes, who... |Full Story
Athletes Warm Up Across Europe
25/05/09 - At the opening Fédération Française de Triathlon Grand Prix (French Triathlon Federation Grand Prix) race in Dunkerque, Laurent Vidal from France and Will Clarke from Britain, crossed the line together... |Full Story
Clarke, Avil British Champs
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Snowsill and Kahlefeldt win in Hobart
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Luxford and Gemmell shine in Gamagori
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Belaubre and Fernandes win in Madrid
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Press Release - 2004 ITU Salford World Cup
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Study says most shipwrecks a minor US pollution threat
Shipwrecks lying deep off America's coasts are more often historical artifacts than present-day threats from leaking old oil tanks, a new federal report says.
While 87 of the ships—most sunk during World War II by German submarines—have the potential to leak tens of millions of gallons of oil, the report issued Monday concludes that "the scope of the problem is much more manageable than initially feared."
"Our coastlines are not littered with 'ticking time bombs,'" government scientists wrote. They note that only six of the 87 are likely to be serious enough to be disasters to local economies and coastlines, the report said.
Still the wrecks are hulking reminders of lost lives in war and the environmental mess of oil, especially to Frank Terry, who experienced them firsthand.
The first of two German torpedoes hit the oil tanker ship W.D. Anderson as it steamed along the Florida coast one late February night in 1942. Terry ran to the side, hurled himself over the railing and into the water. His boat was in flames and the 23-year-old was swimming for his life.
"I just wanted to get out of there," he recalled Monday from his home in Parkesburg, Pennsylvania Days after the sinking 15 miles off southeast Florida, Terry wrote in an account for The Associated Press: "I saw the ship go up in flames while I raced from death as the burning oil spread over the water."
He bumped into dead bodies in the tainted water. A spotlight bore down on him. He figured it was the German U-boat, so he ducked. But he had to come back up to breathe. American voices yelled to him and American arms tried to pull him aboard. But Terry was coated in oil and he slipped away from rescue at first.
Eventually, Terry was hauled aboard, hosed down, and the next day in the hospital he found out he was the sole survivor.
And now, 71 years later, the federal report says Terry's old ship is not only one of the 87, it is one of the six likely worst cases. It's a gravesite for 35 souls, but also a potential despoiler of the tourist-dependent Florida coast because it may still have more than 5.6 million gallons of crude oil on board. Jupiter is the nearest city.
The overall picture, though, is not as bad as expected. The potential for pollution from the 87 shipwrecks is less than half the 200 million gallons the BP well spewed into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 in that disaster, agency officials calculate.
There are about 20,000 shipwrecked vessels off the nation's coastlines. Most of those either finished leaking long ago, ran on coal instead of oil, are too small or aren't near U.S. vulnerable land.
"There are only six that really keep me up at night, but we don't know where they all really are," said Lisa Symons of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who wrote the study. Those six have the biggest potential to be coastal pollution problems because even if they do spill only 10 percent of their oil, they could cause what could be a local-scale disaster, she said. They don't have to be a worst-case spill to be a disaster.
Symons said NOAA doesn't know the exact location of all of them, just where they were last seen before they sank. Three of the six worst potential problems are off Florida: the one near Jupiter, one 25 miles north of the Florida Keys, and another south of the Keys. Another is 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Savannah, Georgia; 50 miles east of Charleston, South Carolina and 60 miles (96 kilometers) north of Montauk Point, New York.
Of the 87 ships identified as potential polluters by NOAA, 52 were lost in World War II, up and down the Atlantic coastline.
Others were lost in crashes, fires and storms, including the Edmund Fitzgerald. That ship's sinking in Lake Superior was turned into a classic 1970s ballad. That ship and another aren't even in U.S. waters but are close enough they can pollute American waters, NOAA officials said.
Given that some vessels can't be found and others aren't as big a threat, NOAA has identified 17 ships that have a known location and that need to be investigated further to see if the oil could be removed. Removing oil in advance, before it leaks, is far easier than waiting till after it spills into the water, Symons said.
The report is more than about potential pollution, said Jim Delgado, director of marine heritage for NOAA. He said, looking at these wrecks, he was struck by "the incredible human stories wrapped up in these ships."
One ship not on the list, but a potential oil pollution threat, is the USS Arizona, the battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor. Symons said it is now a National Park Service monument and that agency and the U.S. Coast Guard are monitoring it for major leaks.
The Arizona leaks oil every day, Symons said, adding that some people call them "sailors' tears."
Next month, NOAA will examine the W.D. Anderson to see if it can or should be drained of oil, but they will be careful since it is a gravesite for 35 people, Symons said.
Terry, the ship's sole survivor is conflicted.
"I have friends in there," he said, but added that removing oil from the ship is "a very good idea. For one, it would give me closure. I don't sleep at night."
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He's been raping women since 1997, and has been positively linked to six attacks, the most recent in April. But the serial rapist has claimed other victims: The hundreds of black males who've been eyed with suspicion by police and asked to submit DNA samples.
Robin Gatewood's husband, Ricky, is one of them. Police told the father of four girls that he was on a list of suspects and asked him for a DNA sample. "He initially didn't want to do it because he hadn't done anything," says his wife.
After police approached him twice and said they were under pressure to clear his name from the list, Gatewood finally agreed to meet officers at the Gordon Avenue Library to provide the sample, called a buccal swab, which is taken with a Q-tip rubbed inside the mouth.
"We have four kids," says Robin Gatewood. "We didn't want to have police coming here to the house."
Gatewood says her husband is 43 and does not fit the description of the 6-foot-tall, mid-20s to late-30s athletically built black male suspect.
"It hurt his pride," she says. "It made him feel like he was back into the time when you'd be accused because of the color of your skin."
She adds, "No man wants to say he was on a rapist suspect list. My husband was embarrassed."
Dena Bowers, area NAACP chairperson, agrees. "It's devastating to this particular demographic," says Bowers. "They're paranoid by being that gender and that race."
In May, Bowers held public civil rights hearings and says there were testimonies from other women who've had this happen to their spouses.
So far, police have eliminated 278 African-American men as suspects. "I think some rights have been infringed," says Gatewood. And she wonders, "What else are they doing with that DNA?"
The samples themselves are sitting in the Charlottesville police evidence room, says Sgt. Ralph Barfield, the forensics supervisor. "We don't have any choice; we have to keep the samples we sent to the lab for elimination," he says. "It's up to the court to tell us what to do with them."
Barfield says he's gotten a number of calls from those who've provided DNA samples and been eliminated as suspects. They want to know what's happening with their genetic material.
Perhaps more alarming to these suspects is that their DNA has been entered into the state DNA database. "There's nothing in the code section that prohibits that," says Robin Porter at the Virginia Division of Forensic Science in Richmond.
Kent Willis, executive director of the Virginia ACLU, notes that while Virginia law allows taking DNA samples from those arrested for violent felonies, if the person is not convicted, their DNA is not entered into the database and must be purged and destroyed.
But Willis points out, "This is different: People are voluntarily giving the DNA." He suggests that suspects may be able to use that as a bargaining chip and specify they'll give the sample only if it doesn't go into the state databank.
For Willis, the request for DNA samples from a segment of the population that could encompass every black male poses a danger that's "ultimately racial profiling." Because it's given voluntarily, he says, technically it's not a violation of constitutional rights.
"In reality, there's a great deal of coercion attached to the circumstances," he says. "Police say, 'We believe you may be a rapist. Here's how to clear yourself.'"
Three months after her husband was swabbed, Robin Gatewood is still outraged. But at least he's been eliminated from the suspect list, right? She says he never heard back from the police. "We figured he would have been arrested if he hadn't been cleared," she says.
Gatewood also says she overheard two police officers say they're supposed to stop anybody black in the UVA area.
"If an officer has that impression, I'd like to know," says Police Chief Tim Longo. "To stop someone solely on the basis of race violates department policy."
Longo contends that because the suspect is black, race is an objective criterion, but a stop can't be made on race alone. "It has to be coupled with other factors: time of day, like whether someone is peeping in a window or lurking in the bushes at 3am." Officers must be able to articulate their suspicions, not make a stop based on a gut feeling, explains Longo.
In a July 24 Hook story, three black men complained about being stopped and asked for DNA samples while they were walking down the street in the UVA area. The ACLU's Willis calls that "desperate policing" that's highly unlikely to yield results.
"If we're stopping with race as the sole factor, that's not desperate policing, it's unconstitutional," replies Longo, and he encourages those who feel they've been unfairly stopped to come to him. "If we got a bad stop," explains Longo, "it could be the serial rapist, and the case could be thrown out the window."
Aside from two conversations with people expressing concerns about the stops of black males as rapist suspects, Longo says he hasn't gotten any official complaints.
Black community leader Alvin Edwards, pastor at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, hasn't heard people complaining about the targeting of black males "other than those who've felt there's always profiling."
Gatewood is dismayed that there haven't been more complaints. "I was surprised people weren't as angry," she says.
"I do feel sorry for the women who've been raped," she continues, "but I think we have a lot of men who've been raped and violated."


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From the looks of things, it's only a matter of time before Ron Artest is asked to appear on Sesame Street. We're a wee bit late on this, but fortunately TrueHoop was paying close attention to Artest's first day of mandatory community service yesterday, which was part of his punishment for the 2004 Auburn Hills Brawl with the Pistons while he was a member of the Pacers. At a panel on black empowerment at the Judge Mathis Community Center in Detroit, Artest was, um, not exactly contrite. "Someone started trouble and I ended it," Artest told about 50 children. "I would always encourage you to protect yourself but in certain situations, if you can avoid them, avoid them." NeedForSheed has video of the event, in which Artest also said that he has "made some mistakes in life, like selling cocaine at the age of 13." (We were detassling corn).
Aside from the fact that we're surprised there is such as thing as a "Judge Mathis Community Center," we're also astonished that Artest is talking to kids without an NBA representative, or David Stern himself, standing within arm's length ready with a sock and some masking tape.
Exactly How Is The Community Served When Ron Artest Talks to Children? [TrueHoop]