Federal Prosecutor's Body Found

foxnews.com ^ | 12/4/2003

[Born Conservative]

BALTIMORE

[First_Salute]

Tragic. May God protect the family and forgive all.

[Mo1]

They off'd a federal prosecutor ??

[Catspaw]

SOMEONE killed a federal prosecutor. And whomever did it--or a bunch of whomevers--are toast.

[EggsAckley]

Rappers? Hmmmmm...........

[Onelifetogive]

Walter Oriley Poindexter.

Radar...COOL!

[pabianice]

SOMEONE killed a federal prosecutor. And whomever did it--or a bunch of whomevers--are toast.

Yeah. Right. Look how well federal employees who blew the whistle on the Clintons were protected from sudden death.

[Prime Choice]

Makes you wonder what the thugs were thinking. Did they honestly believe that they'd get the heat off them by murdering a Federal prosecutor?

Sorry boys...you're now out of the frying pan and into the fire.

My thoughts and prayers go out for the deceased and his family...

[Protagoras]

SOMEONE killed a federal prosecutor. And whomever did it--or a bunch of whomevers--are toast.

So are you saying that more resources will be committed than if the victim was a citizen who didn't work for the federal government?

[Tax-chick]

Prayers for his family and friends, and for JUSTICE to be done.

[ican'tbelieveit]

All rappers seem to be is an attempt at legitimizing gang/thug behavior.

[Protagoras]

Makes you wonder what the thugs were thinking. Did they honestly believe that they'd get the heat off them by murdering a Federal prosecutor?

So they already know who did it?

[Mo1]

SOMEONE killed a federal prosecutor. And whomever did it--or a bunch of whomevers--are toast.

Whoever did it .. weren't very bright

[Catspaw]

Like McVeigh, if they're convicted of killing a federal prosecutor and they get the death penalty, they won't have any state appeals. That'll shorten the time between conviction and execution.

You appear to have problems with that.

[Publius]

It's time for a lesson in Roman history.

When people from the "barbarian tribes" first settled in Roman lands, there was a problem with assimilation. Rome was ruled by Roman law, while the tribesmen had a tradition of rule by elders and tribal code different from Roman law. When a dispute arose between a tribesman and a Roman and the tribesman lost in a Roman court, the head elder of the tribeman's clan might murder the Roman judge. When the Roman legions were still active in defending Roman law, a cohort would come down on the tribeman's clan, crucify the lot of them, and an example was made. Roman law was supreme, and everybody knew it. It would be a long time before a tribesman murdered a judge.

But one day the legions were no longer there because the bureaucracy that taxed the people to pay for the legions had fallen away. (Read Gibbon for more details as to how this happened.) One day a tribesman killed a Roman judge and -- nothing happened. Pretty quickly people understood that there was a new sheriff in town, and he wasn't Roman.

(After a few centuries of this, feudalism arose. People were willing to sell themselves for protection into serfdom in order to be able to farm and raise a family in peace.)

If anyone connected to the defendants did this, it was to show that no one could stop them. They are supreme.

So let's see how our modern "Roman legions" treat this.

[Prime Choice]

So they already know who did it?

Draw your own conclusions. Unlike Clinton appointees, Federal prosecutors just don't have a tendency to get dead at random.

[StriperSniper]

(After a few centuries of this, feudalism arose. People were willing to sell themselves for protection into serfdom in order to be able to farm and raise a family in peace.)

From farms to cubicles in two easy millennia!

[SBprone]

"So let's see how our modern "Roman legions" treat this."

Is there any doubt?

The killer(s) will be found and dealt with in a hurry. Everybody in law enforcement wants this and every citizen with two brain cells to rub together wants this too. It has nothing to do with the man's priveleged status as a Federal employee and everything to do with his job as an officer of the court. This killing threatens all of society.

Society will respond.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Of course, for starters the FBI is automatically involved in any assault on federal personnel. Killing a prosecutor is an assault on the Rule of Law it is nothing personal. We are all attacked by such an act even you.

[EggsAckley]

Yup. Legalized gangs.