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Billy The Kid

A possible pardon for Billy the Kid has brought protests from descendants of the sheriff who may have killed the outlaw. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has said he would consider a pardon, prompting a letter from three grandchildren of ...


1 posted on 08/04/2010 1:32:57 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

soon Bill Richardson will spend all his time thinking about the past


2 posted on 08/04/2010 1:35:07 PM PDT by woofie
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To: JoeProBono

...doesn’t he have better/more-important things to do than pardon people who are a century dead?


3 posted on 08/04/2010 1:36:00 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: JoeProBono
Will the real Billy the Kid please stand up. Oh wait....

signed: Brushy Bill Roberts

5 posted on 08/04/2010 1:40:59 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo (We've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive-Ronald Reagan)
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To: JoeProBono

That pic is reversed, look at the loading gate in the Winchester.


7 posted on 08/04/2010 1:43:39 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: JoeProBono
Love the old photos...you can tell from this (famous) picture that Billy The Kid was just a punk - today he'd be a "gangster" with rap pounding out of the back of his beater.

Of course, look at Bill Richardson...he's a punk too.

10 posted on 08/04/2010 1:48:16 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: JoeProBono

Thanks for doing the heavy lifting Bill.

idiot


12 posted on 08/04/2010 1:53:22 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: JoeProBono

So who raised the request for the pardon? And how much money is involved?


19 posted on 08/04/2010 2:19:58 PM PDT by DPMD (~)
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To: JoeProBono

Good to know that NM’s problems have been resolved!


24 posted on 08/04/2010 2:34:58 PM PDT by tal hajus ( too disgusted to care...much)
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To: JoeProBono

C’mon this is just Pancho Billa showing professional courtesy from one thief (read: Democrat) to another.


32 posted on 08/04/2010 3:11:47 PM PDT by rex regnum insanit (falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus)
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Thanks JoeProBono.

Pardoning Billy the Kid posthumously is a ninny idea. His remains should be dug up and hanged. ;')

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34 posted on 08/04/2010 6:34:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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