[Main Street]

U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman

[Consort]

[dennisw]

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[The Red Zone]

And now the would-be assassin who shot him is being unleashed only blocks away from the White House in which resides President George W. Bush, elected in 2000, a year ending in Zero.

Psst, President Bush, lay off those pretzels. They'll kill ya.

[Diogenesis]

"It is not like he shot a Democratic President or candidate like Robert Kennedy.
Who cares about Reagan, anyway?"

[shrinkermd]

I do believe this editorial misses the point. The issue is whether Mr. Hinckley is presently a danger to himself and others, not whether he should remain locked up forever.

It is a mistake to subvert mental health care into a system for continuing incarceration because the criminal legal system either failed (as in this case) or does not have appropriate remedies (such as in recidivist sexual offenders).

If you believe that Hinckley should never be released then you should find a legal remedy. Endlessly claiming someone is dangerous who is not is a false and dangerous way to keep someone in jail. The communists were notorious for using hospitals as an alternative to prisons with the very best of intentions. God forbid this should happen here.

As far as the past political actions of the Judge in question, it is hard to imagine a man of affairs without political opinions and experience. The real fault lies not in appointing this judge but in not appointing other (Republican) judges with political beliefs and experience --Bjork, Estrada and so forth.

[G.Mason]

Lowell Ponte had a good article going until he got into that "ending in zero's" garbage.

The fact remains that there are many judges out there who are America's enemies.

Character does matter. That is why religion, the Boy Scouts, families, and anything wholesome are on their list of things to be destroyed.

[expatguy]

Someone please tell me this is a joke.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Judge Dredd...?

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Clintonoid Judge Paul L. Friedman eagerly accepted the case of Democratic fundraiser Charlie Yah Lin Trie and threw out many charges against him. Trie later pled guilty after a federal appeals court overturned Friedman’s ruling.

BUMP

[WorkingClassFilth]

Quick! Somebody let Sirhan Sirhan out ASAP!

[Pharmboy]

Joe DiGenova (the US Prosecutor in charge of the Hinckley case) was on Imus this morning and said that in this case the judge was not at fault. He said the judge's "hands were tied" by the law. Joe clearly blamed congress for bad law (and BTW, he is no liberal).

[scotsman1]

The Iran-Contra trial a 'witchhunt'?.Oh,come on..............

[steve8714]

We open ourselves to tyranny when we call ourselves "a nation of laws". We are a nation of men who subject ourselves to the rule of laws for our common good. Nowhere in the Constitution is it written that the courts may rule us as they please.

[Uncle Jaque]

We understand from FOX News that the Secret Service will be "keeping an eye" on Hinkley as he enjoys his new-found freedom.

I certainly hope they do!

Let's hope that Hinkley will not blow his nose without it being duly monitored and noted.

And if (or, as I suspect, "when") he slips off of the reservation and starts stalking his next victim, I for one would not be terribly devistated if he is simply turned up one Morning lying cold and stiff in one of Washington's many dark allys with "two in the hat", just for safe keeping.

Washington can be a pretty dangerous town to lurk around in at night, they say.

[r9etb]

Mr. Ponte's rhetoric is a tad overheated, and more than a little wild-eyed. I'm thankful for that, though: I know not to pay attention to him in the future.

Friedman is no doubt a complete dough-head, but I really, really doubt that the judge's decision came as a result of being a Reagan-hating Clinton appointee.

[Dante3]

Friedman looks scary in a wimpy way. Nancy Grace on Court TV was outraged, said if Hinckley is "cured," as one guest maintained, then its time to keep him in jail.

[ZULU]

This guy and "judges" like him are public enemies. They should be impeached, and lose their licenses to practise law.

Are the psychiatrists who approved Hinckley's release the same ones who approved Alphonse Rodriguez' release - REMEMBER HIM?

Or, maybe it was o.k. to release him because he tried to shoot a Republican president.

[ZULU]

"In Judge Paul L. Friedman, we have the perfect ideological example of why and how Democrats rule – not just make rulings, but rule the nation – from the bench. In an earlier time we were “a government of laws and not men.”

But nowadays men in black robes arrogantly and arbitrarily declare the law to be whatever madhouse-opening thing they wish. The Democrats have loosed insanity and lawlessness upon our world, and wherever they rule no human being is safe."

Everything that is wrong with AMerica is stated in those two paragraphs - "ACTIVIST JUDGES."