Posted on 01/14/2011 11:13:26 AM PST by DJ MacWoW
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - One day after mourning a bubbly 9-year-old slain during the attempted assassination of a congresswoman, residents and fellow jurists gathered Friday at the same Tucson church to remember a federal judge.
U.S. District Judge John Roll, who served nearly 40 years, had stopped by a supermarket meet-and-greet for Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday when he was shot and killed, along with five others. Authorities say the shooter, 22-year-old Jared Loughner, was targeting Giffords, who was wounded along with 12 others. Giffords' husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, posted a message on Twitter Friday saying "GG" was "improving each day."
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Do we know if the Westboro Church folks there? I saw that they were skipping Christinas but going to the judge’s.
They can’t picket. AZ made it illegal.
Trust me...
Yep and I think the judge was a republican...
Yes he was. That’s why the press has ignored his death.
A dead conservative republican judge doesn’t fit their scenario. The press is trying to gin up anti-conservative hatred and hopefully an attack. They WANT violence. Then they can silence opposition.
Let me see if I can get this straight.
Sheriff Dumbprick refuses security to the living, knowing of all the dangers.
And to the dead, he provides security.
Is he a democrat or what?
The security was US Marshall’s. Does Sheriff Dumpy have jurisdiction over them? Do you know?
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