"I know something about killing," Kerry says, referencing [guess what].
Kerry has flipped flopped on every issue of importance, before 9/11 he was against the death penalty for terrorist who kill Americans. Now he's for it.
One thing he has been steadfast on is his stance on the death penalty for non-terrorist killers of Americans even killers of children. He says he supports a moratorium on the Federal death penalty. http://talkleft.com/new_archives/004987.html .
Which means there would soon be a national moratorium on the indivudal state death penaltys, because of the liberal social engineering judges and Supreme Court Justices he'd appoint. Stroke of the Pen, Law of the Land.
A moratorium on the Federal death penalty means that under a Kerry administration Osama won't be getting the justice he deserves, but would be sitting in comfort in the Super Max prison at taxpayers expense.
This is much like his vote on the $87 billion that would have provided body armor for our troops. "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it," Kerry says. Straddling the fence once again to gain a few votes.
He is OPPOSED to the death penalty for non-terrorist who would murder an American child, even a 5-year-old. What the heck is the difference between a non-terrorist killer and a terrorist killer? This is twisted, illogical thinking.
As the mother of a murdered 16 year old son, Jeremy Peter Flachbart http://keasl5227.tripod.com/, who was brutally murdered by a sociopath wanting to see what it felt like to kill, I am alarmed and APPALLED by this man who would be our president soft attitude toward crime, who would eliminate a form of punishment for a horrific crime.
He says HE FEELS MY PAIN.
Horse Feathers! he can't feel my pain, he hasn't had a child brutally murdered. He was only a junior prosecutor from 1976-78. He didn't loose a Loved One to a sociopathic killer. There is a hole in my heart and in my life created by the brutal murder of my beloved child.
While Kerry himself had already moved on to the senate before Willie Horton was released he defended Dukakis from GOP attack about the furlough program. Thus nominally giving support and approval to such a stupid program which puts violent offenders back on the streets after serving only small fractions of their sentences. More do gooder, feel good pandering...i.e. SOFT ON CRIME.
"Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Kerry is irresponsible in blindly accepting the fraudulent claim that 111 innocents have been released from death row. As has been repeatedly proven, this innocent claim is a fraud pushed by the anti death penalty movement."
"Kerry say '111 were found innocent from death row via DNA.' If so, that is even more absurd. It is 12. But, for solid evidence of actual innocence, my evidence and that from others indicates its from 17-30. I use 30 to be on the safe side." says Dudley Sharp, former Resource Director with Justice For All.
Sincerely,
In memory of Jeremy Peter Flachbart
Gail Keasling
KING: I've done a lot of shows recently dealing with the death of little children. A person who kills a 5-year-old should live?
KERRY: Larry, my instinct is to want to strangle that person with my own hands. I understand the instincts, I really do. I prosecuted people. I know what the feeling of the families is and everybody else. But we have 111 people who have been now released from death row -- death row, let alone the rest of the prison system -- because of DNA evidence that showed they didn't commit the crime of which they were convicted.
After spending -- I myself worked to get a person out of jail who had been there for 15 years for a murder that person did not commit.
Now, our system has made mistakes, and it's been applied in a way that I think is wrong.
Secondly, I don't believe that, in the end, you advance the, sort of, level of your justice and the system of your civility as a nation -- and many other nations in the world, most of the other nations in the world, have adopted that idea, that the state should not engage in killing.
(APPLAUSE)
Because they have very bad memories of what happens when the state engages in killing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10722-2004Feb26_2.html
RUSH has a great clip on Hanoi John flip flop on the DP http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_020404/content/truth_detector_3.guest.html