charmaine neville

With all of the other tales of rape proving to be fictitious,
and with Charmaine Neville being so far the only "victim"
to come forward, I wonder why more people aren't
questioning her rather fantastic story? She personally did
all that heroic stuff? Spiderman himself couldn't have done
all that.

I too cried the first time I heard Charmaine but then I also started
wondering, like Dave, because somehow it didn't compute. And if
she did all that, how did she keep her long nails? I can't manage a
few dishes and chores without tearing my hands up. Her nails are
what does it for me -- make me wonder.

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I just watched a show this evening, Friday, September 16, where it
showed a reporter going to Charmaine Neville's house with her after
Katrina. Unless I saw wrong, the cameraman showed them walking
into the house and it was as if nothing was ruined. It didn't look at
all
like flood waters had entered her home. Nothing looked at all ruined
or muddy. (I've been flooded out of a N.O. house and EVERYTHING
gets covered with mud.) They showed Charmaine walking around
inside the house... she showed the reporter some framed photos of
her with other people. There was no mud anywhere that I could see.
She even told the reporter how lucky she was that nothing was ruined,
that she still had all her things when so many other people lost
everything.

After I saw the show this evening I was relieved for Charmaine that
none of her things were ruined. However, I am puzzled. I don't under-
stand how her "evacuation story" (below) could end with the results
I saw in the show (above)... her returning home to find all her things
intact. It would be most helpful if Charmaine would explain why
there are vast differences in the two stories. I am only trying to
understand.

From Charmaine's evacuation story:

"When the hurricane came, it blew all the left side of my house, the
North side of my house. And the water was coming in my house in
torrents. I had my neighbor, an elderly man who is my neighbor,
and myself, in the house. And with our dogs and cats and we were
trying to stay out of the water, but the water was coming in too fast.
So we ended up having to leave the house."

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"What he took from me was nothing, because he can't take my spirit,
he can't take my soul. My soul is New Orleans."

This really smells of empty theatricism. Rape is an intense assault
on a person's inner self, and can leave the victim pregnant and
infected with all sorts of nasty things. There is no way I could
blithely speak about being raped with such pride.




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