Posted on 03/10/2005 10:59:25 AM PST by TheOtherOne
Judges in all courts have a steady stream of disturbed and angry individuals in their courtrooms. The marshals take protection of the judges very seriously, but when you see all the crazies, the angry defendants and their families, you marvel that more judges, prosecutors, etc. are not attacked. The people appearing in court, even if they aren't outright crazy, simply don't understand the system and they can't deal with being unsuccessful. Focusing on any one person who had appeared before this judge wa an obvious mistake. I am sure she has dealt with dozens of these types who might cross the line.
That's not FAIR, man! (c8
What a brilliant straw man.
Your quarrel may lie with the media. I beleive law enforcement has acted very responsibly in this case.
I calls em like I sees em.
"If you think it was simply chance and a broken taillight that caused the cops to stop this guy's van, you're naive. And the cops in the New Jersey case were after the right suspects all along as well."
Speculation
"Sympathetic to Nazi's are you?"
I heard the complete story on Hale, where of all places it was on Chris Matthews. Even Chrisy, the uber right wing hater said the entire case about Hale's conviction stinks.
Should've hired John Edwards.
Hmm... so it's okay to prejudge on a death threat, but not okay to prejudge on a death threat plus a religious edict plus a global culture of committing precisely that sort of murder plus evidence pointing to religious motive. What standard are you working on?
You are probably one of those who jumps off the deep end and blames every trainwreck on muslims, yet thinks the cops are out of line by investigating the possible connection to this crime.
Some people are obtuse. Thank goodness for the rest of us.
Stumbled is right because they sure weren't looking for him.
Has been reported that investigators were looking at Ross. The media may have been fixated on Hale but that doesn't necessarily mean that the people doing the investigation were.
"The media may have been fixated on Hale but that doesn't necessarily mean that the people doing the investigation were."
That's true. It will be interesting to see if John Walsh and the rest of the pundits who had Hale convicted and judged will return to say they were wrong.
It's the same bunch who had the guy judged and convicted of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart. He was no angel but he wasn't guilty of the crime he was accused of. That guy died in jail under some pretty severe stress I'm sure.
Now, if someone on FR says they weren't looking at him, then they weren't. Good grief the MMQB that goes on here. I just heard an interview on local talk radio in Milwaukee of the officer who made the traffic stop. He came within inches of being struck by the bullet as it exited the car. He had glass fly into his face.
Because of the circumstance of this particular case and the the phenemona of violent groups of that sort merited invetigation. Why would anyone object to that? Those kooks don't reflect on White Christians in anyway.
Look at the commuter train derailment in LA. Everyone was thinking the guy who did it was an illegal immigrant - and salivating over it, in my opinion. It turned out that the disturbed individual who was responsible was an American citizen.
Nothing. No mea culpa at all.
The attorney general has been alleged to be an acitvist for La Raza - that was a claim from a syndicated columnist that has been repeated here. But it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity - and again, there's been no correction of the record by the folks who make the claim.
I guess some rushes to judgement are acceptable.
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