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As i mentioned in a prior post the Conservatives don’t seem to care that CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS have no problem in tearing down the flag of our nation from their merchant ships in order to avoid paying their fair share of taxes to the nation that gave them birth, succor, protection and yes PROFITS! Instead they register their American ships in Liberia or Panama. Now the Republican Governor of Texas flirts with the idea of Secession! Yo we had a Civil War you right wing jerk! See Rachel Madow in the Video below)
The BLEEDING HEARTS of the Republican Party and their fellow travelers (remember that rhetoric from the right wing during the Vietnam War) look the other way while the Governor of Texas hints at “Secession from the Union”! Well then he is in the tradition of his fellow traveler Governor Sarah Palin, who last year addressed the Alaskan Independence Party Convention. True she was NOT a formal member, unlike her husband but she did attend their functions! You know “just paling around with secessionists!” With few exceptions you did not hear a word from the news media about Sarah Pallin and her connection to these rabid seccessionists who want to tear down the flag of our nation and replace it with the flag of Alaska!
What is even worse is that Democratic Party leaders and officials let the Republicans get away with this!
Can you hear the cry of “MEOW” from Democratic Party Headquarters? How about some testosterone shots? Let’s kick some Republican ass while we wave the American flag! What is the matter with the Democratic Party have they been eating to much tofu that they cannot muster up the balls to really use this as a PATRIOTIC ISSUE against the Republicans? God can you imagine if that had been Obama who talked about seccession or addressed the Alaskan Independence Party?
This is a situation that is tailor made for us Democrats! Time to wave the flag and denounce these TRAITORS to our flag and country!
- Stop being a pal to Secessionists – JUST SAY NO!
- Stand Up For America when the CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS tear down our flag from their merchant vessels to hoist the flag of Profiteering! The last ship was under our flag and I am glad we saved them. But in the future that will not always be the case. Got Pirates then hold a Tea Party and invite the vast Liberian and Panamanian naval fleets to protect you. Why should our service men and woman die for CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS! Have your Tea Party with the pirates you idiots!
The Silent Majority – Our Great Middle Class has had enough of this permissiveness! Stand up for America!
I personally don’t like Spitzer as Governor though he did a good job as Attorney General investigating Wall Street. Unless he used state money I believe he should not be forced to resign. Putting this on the nightly news was appropriate but he did not do anything that Bill “Bubba” Clinton did not do.
Well Bill Clinton did balance the budget and this frugality even touched his sex life! He did not let sex interfere with him doing his job in the oval office even if an intern was doing a “FREE” job on him! Elliot “John” Spitzer apparently spent thousands of dollars on his extra-marital flings! But then again he wasn’t preaching “family values” though he did go after prostitution rings. Elliot next time balance your budget! – GET AN INTERN!
I don’t take this lightly but the real issue is how his wife and family view him and his acts. He screwed his wife not the people who elected him! While I wonder about some of his political activities that made the news in the early part of his administration, I do not believe we are the ones to punish or forgive him. That is his wife’s arena!
Perhaps we should all say:
- Bad Bad Bad Governor!
- You naughty naughty naughty boy!
For penance he should be locked in a bathroom stall next to Senator Larry Craig! while Rosie O’Donald sings the national anthem!
We are all saddened by the horrible tragedy at Virginia Technical Institute. Most of us have wondered about the two hour lag time between the first and second killing spree. I also wonder if the second tragedy could have been prevented or at least made less. But I have some additional reasons. Follow with me here.
- Tonight I heard that a tool was found in the killer’s dorm room that could be used to remove the registration numbers from the gun. This means the gun did have an ID on it when he acquired it. This is important.
- Also there is some evidence found in his dorm that he was at least involved in the fake bomb threats that took place prior to this massacre.
- We all know that the campus was not locked down and no alarm was sounded to the student body until almost the exact minute that the second killing spree began.
If this tool was used to remove the registration numbers then the killer may have NOT originally intended to commit suicide! The news media have speculated that he may have used fake bombing threats to test the security responsiveness of the University. Since it appears that he may very well have been a part of these prior threats and was sophisticated enough to plan to have a chain to seal the Classroom building we can assume there was a great deal of PREMEDITATION.
Here is my point:
He may have returned to his own dorm to not only get more weapons but since there was a two hour gap he may have been engaged in a intense thinking session. We seem to know that “SECURITY RESPONSIVENESS” was something he was sensitive to.
The fact that NO ALERT WAS GIVEN may very well have emboldened him to carry out the second part of his plan! Many have focused on the consequences of what would have been different if a FULL ALERT with e-mails and police using bull horns had gone through the campus with the emphasis on the reaction of the student body!
My question is was he waiting to see what reaction the University would have before he made his second act of murder? If he removed the serial numbers from the gun was he planning to cover his tracks and not commit suicide? Thus would a full alert have caused a different reaction on the killer’s part? Even if he still planned to commit suicide but wanted to kill as many as possible would a response from the University have made him cease his plans to a latter date? In that case the authorities would have had more time to catch him and perhaps prevent him from acting a second time!
I don’t hold the President of Virginia Tech responsible. But we must learn from this!
Normally I am for the death penalty but here is yet another case where we can thank God the person accused was allowed to live and eventually see justice!
Jeffrey Deskovic is a living example of what can happen to American justice when we look for the “feels good” solution. You know the conservative hang em now worry about guilt latter syndrome.
Again I generally favor the death penalty for first degree murder but Mr. Deskovic’s case shows what can happen when we place to much trust in police and equate giving that trust as a patriotic issue.
Mr. Deskovic gave a confession as a 17 year old that he raped and murdered a fellow high school classmate according to police. Yet even the DNA evidence at the time showed he was innocent. Mr. Deskovic, then seventeen, stated the confession was forced. With more advanced DNA techniques he was again cleared and the sample DNA matched another prisoner in the Federal DNA data base. This other man then confessed. Mr. Deskovic after loosing his youth and the most valuable years of his life was exonerated after sixteen years in prison.
Let me pose some questions. If confessions are proof then how can two people claim they alone did it? Remember the Ramsey – Karr Case of a few weeks back. Confessions mean shit! This isn’t some dastardly liberal conspiracy to “let the criminal go free”. Again as in the Karr case of just a few weeks back, confessions don’t prove the case. Yet conservatives would love to cut and run from the judicial rights afforded to DEFENDANTS by our Constitution. You know the very thing we are fighting for in Iraq to spread over the Muslim world.
The NY Daily News mentions that the NY State Republican candidate for Attorney General, Ms. Pirro was requested to examine Mr.Deskovic’s case earlier but declined. (Read NY Daily News Article). I pray that Mr. Deskovic sues like crazy and wins a large amount for the pain and injustice he has suffered.
As I mentioned in a prior post concerning the Karr – Ramsey case, liberals have a point in terms of letting the judicial process play out before accepting a “defendant’s” guilt or innocence.
From the right wing we hear language such as “the rights of the victim vs. the rights of the criminal”. The problem is that without a conviction we are dealing with a “defendant” not a criminal!
Today the case against Karr was dropped. Remember this guy even confessed to the crime! He may be weird, he may have other legal problems. Yet even with a confession that does not prove him guilty of the Ramsey Crime without a proper trial. Armed with new methods of DNA identification the prosecutor’s office has determined his DNA does not match! Naturally it would have been nice if they ran a DNA test first! But what the hell who says incompetence has to be limited to just the federal govenment?
As I mentioned before what would have happened if some detective decided to engage in some “evidence enhancement”? Some would say “oh maybe so but the guy confessed”! Well this case proves that people can confess for psychological reasons even apart from being intimidated! Therefore I believe that if the evidence is tampered with the case should be dropped. We pay a far higher price if we allow the police to become our judges! That would be a “police state”! We have to follow the law. Liberals may allow some real criminals to escape justice but that is the price we pay for a democratic judicial system. However PC liberals go to far the other way.
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- My problem with PC liberals is what about those who are convicted and really are criminals.
- What about our streets where justice has cut and run leaving the elderly to be prisoners in their own homes due to fear of street crime.
- Why would PC Liberals condemn GI Joe action figures as a youth role model and pooh pooh rap music’s frequent glorification of crime?
- What type of role models is this krap music creating for our young? Oh dear me now I did it!
Lets throw out the orthodoxy of the right wing along with the new orthodoxy of “political correctness”. Time for the Silent Majority, America’s great middle class and those who aspire to be, to stand up and reclaim America!
I am a Non-politically correct liberal democrat. Through out this blog I have been attacking both liberals and conservatives. In this post I want to focus on a valid point of liberals when it comes to the court system.
During the early stages of the Ramsey case the parents had been the prime suspects. Regardless of evidence police have found that when children are murdered in the home it usually is done by a parent. That plus the fact that most of us have a visceral dislike for parents who have their children engage in highly competitive contests at such an early age as Jon Benet. Her participation in toddler beauty pageants would incline many to label the parents guilty without full proof!
I feel the same when I see very young boys at five years of age in full football regalia slugging it out while their beer belly dads scream at them for some stupid error. I think these beer belly dads need a good kick in the ass to stop living their lives through their sons and have the guts to work on their gut or at least shut up!
Imagine if some detective in the Ramsey case were to believe that the evidence supported the parents guilt and decided to engage in “evidence enhancement” by leaving something incriminating from the parents at the crime scene. Every one thought it was the parents then latter others were suspects. Finally along comes Karr. Ahh you say but his x-wife says he was with her that Christmas. What better help can you have than for an “x” wife to say that! But Karr says he is guilty!
The point is that Karr seems to be hell bent on making himself look like the killer but his “X” comes to his aid. If Karr is not guilty then it proves liberals again to be correct as simply making a confession does not prove you are the killer! In just about every murder case the victim had family and/or friends who said some bad thing about them at one time or another. With the Ramsey’s, again we may not like them due their love of child beauty pageants, but we cannot allow justice to be blinded by either things the parents “may” have said against their child (what parent doesn’t) or by a “confession” by someone who seems disturbed! I am not writing to speculate who is guilty. I think we have enough of that.
My point is that the COURT SYSTEM must do that and by the book not by whims. Else we would have convicted different people at different times!
This proves liberals have a point when it comes to judicial proceedings. What I have a problem with in regard to my fellow democrats is the idea that we are allowing our inner city streets to become prisons for law abiding citizens. Does poverty mean that not only one is forced to live in a poor neighborhood but also cannot enjoy walking the streets with out the fruits of their honest low wage labor being stolen by criminals? Is this the new slavery?
In conclusion the Ramsey – Karr case teaches us a lesson that the judicial process must be respected. Concurrently life is not an “either – or” situation we must take back our streets from the criminals! If we democrats want to win elections we need more than knee – jerk responses.
