Posted on 01/09/2007 10:33:23 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
The newly elected Kansas attorney general fired a special prosecutor Tuesday whom his predecessor had appointed to prosecute the state's most visible abortion provider.
Don McKinney had been hired to investigate Dr. George Tiller, one of the few doctors in the nation to perform late-term abortions. McKinney has previously protested outside Tiller's clinic. His last day will be Saturday.
"You are further ordered to cease and desist any further activity in this matter," Attorney General Paul Morrison wrote in a letter to McKinney.
McKinney said he had been fired to "protect the abortion clinics."
"Morrison said he would fire me because I was not a 'neutral third party.' That's a smoke screen," McKinney said. "Nobody is neutral about aborting late-term babies. A special prosecutor isn't supposed to be neutral, he's supposed to prosecute the defendant." He has said Morrison was beholden to the doctor, who helped finance at least $248,000 in advertising in 2002 and 2006 against the previous attorney general, Phill Kline.
Kline obtained patient records from Tiller and other abortion providers after a two-year legal battle, but his attempt to charge Tiller in Sedwick County late last month failed because of a jurisdiction issue.
Kline alleges that Tiller performed 15 illegal late-term abortions in 2003 on patients ages 10 to 22 and failed to properly report the details of the procedures to state health officials.
Tiller's attorneys say the allegations are groundless. Don Monnat, a Wichita attorney representing Tiller, said patient privacy remains a big concern because McKinney has protested against the doctor.
A legal battle over patient records lasted two years, with Kline obtaining edited versions in October. Kline issued a statement Tuesday saying Morrison "fired an independent prosecutor with a well-respected legal career and terminated a contract that provided that prosecutor with independent authority."
The last time I noticed, Sedgewick County is in KS and Phill Kline was the duly sworn Attorney General for the entire State of Kansas, and Sedgewick is part of his territory.
That's like a getting a judge to side with a crooked Mayor and DA, then claiming that State officials have "no jurisdiction over them or their crimes."
It might, but my guess is that in a world gone mad (America in 2007) standing up in favor of Tiller the baby killer will probably win more votes than it loses.
Interesting that the MSM and the pro-abortion culture of death screams from the rooftops about 3,000 dead in Iraq over the last three years, yet says nothing (except good things) about going on 50 million dead in this country since the infamous Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.
Then, to add insult to injury, Kline ran against current pals of Morrison in the Jo.Co. DA's office and was elected by the newly elected Johnson County Republican Precinct Committee Persons and became Johnson County's new D.A. (Morrison's former job - at $100,000 more than Morrison will be making as Kansas Attorney General, Kline's former job!)
Morrison is having to take a pay cut, Kline is looking over his shoulder at the backlog of cases in the DA's office and will still work on the cases that Tiller, et al have been paying pols to look the other way on.
The local liberal press and RATs, not to mention RINOs are apoplectic as Kline still has the Tiller files as well as those of Planned Parenthood who have been committing the same crimes (performing abortions on children WITHOUT notifying authorities of the crime of impregnating a girl who is underage.)
Tiller is still the special case, however, there were 30 charges against him just in 2003 that included, no reason being given for a late term, partial birth abortion (illegal), not reporting illegally impregnated children, some more than once, and performing abortions as late as 31 weeks for a "single instance of anxiety." Pretty ugly business.
Considering Kline's abysmal showing in the general I really think Morrison could have run against him in the primary and beaten him. But it's probably better this way to have Morrison out in the open. Given the split in the Kansas GOP he won't be the last Republican to leave.
Then, to add insult to injury, Kline ran against current pals of Morrison in the Jo.Co. DA's office and was elected by the newly elected Johnson County Republican Precinct Committee Persons and became Johnson County's new D.A. (Morrison's former job - at $100,000 more than Morrison will be making as Kansas Attorney General, Kline's former job!)
Well, no. It was a raise but not a $100,000 one. The AG makes about $95,000 while the JoCo DA makes about the mid-$130's.
But salary aside taking the position aas Johnson County DA spells the end of Kline's political career. He should have taken a job in the private sector and watched for another opportunity. We have no Republicans with statewide name-recognition to run for Senate in 2008 if Pat Roberts doesn't run again, or in 2010 if Brownback keeps his promise to limit himself to two terms. And nobody to really challenge Parkinson for governor in 2010. The Kansas GOP has truly gotten itself in quite a pickle.
Morrison is having to take a pay cut, Kline is looking over his shoulder at the backlog of cases in the DA's office and will still work on the cases that Tiller, et al have been paying pols to look the other way on.
Not outside of Johnson County he won't. And if Kline couldn't come up with anything other than a few misdemeanor charges after 4 years in the AGs office what makes you think he can do better in the two years he'll have as Johnson County DA?
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Yes. Because while it is wrong and ought not be condoned, some people reach their "breaking point" on the level of injustice: 1) The degree of the injustice, dismembering an innocent human being without anesthesia, and 2) the extent of the injustice, to the tune of 1.2 million a year.
People snap. The Government, which supports abortion, does not support informing average Americans what abortion really is. The Government, which supports abortion, embraces a different standard of conduct for abortion providers than for normal health providers.
We can't go bomb clinics or shoot people. Not only is it illegal and wrong, but as soon as we do, the other side has won. We have to be patient and keep fighting this in the political and moral arenas, and keep supporting organizations dedicated to helping pregnant women and disseminating TRUTH.
It done incline one to wonder how much of this the good people of Kansas will tolerate...
What I'm reading from you is that the recent leftward victories in KS are more attributable to GOP incompetance than the liberalism of the populace. If so, I suppose that's encouraging in a way.
Not really. The social conservative Republicans are at war with the political conservative Republicans resulting in 3 parties. The two sides are barely on speaking terms. If a political conservative wins a nomination then the social conservatives stay home. If the social conservative wins the nomination the political conservatives stay home or vote for the Democrat. The Democrats that are winning are not from the raving left wing of the party so they're attracting a lot of independents and some Republicans. The Democrats have figured out how to win here. If they can drag their party nationally back towards the middle then then can win elsewhere, too.
Divide-and-conquer
Pretty much, yeah. And it's working for them. Half our congressional delegation is Democrat. Our governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general are Democrats. Our legislature is pretty much split three way. If things remain the way they are now I can see the Democrats making a run for Brownback's seat when he steps down in 2010.
Wonder if BOR has heard this yet? He's been after Tiller for a couple of years. BTW, what is with Kansas, our heartland, going DEM?
Has it ever occurred to you to defend a conservative Republican in Kansas on this forum? Once? Paul Morrison, together with the media in this state and George Tiller, waged a vicious smear campaign against Phill Kline, his staff, and his work as a.g. that was almost impossible to rebut. They lied about Kline. It would be great if you could, for once, actually help out once in awhile.
Instead of attacking Kline, who did nothing wrong, why not attack those who lied about him?
If the special prosecutor in Kansas believed along with then Kansas Attorney General Kline who appointed him that Killer Tiller had violated Kansas law, inter alia, by failing to report abortions performed on underage girls as either obstruction of justice or as violation of a mandatory reporting statute (thereby prosecuting the perp for thwarting Kansas's attempts to bring a child molestor support system to justice), what is the problem???? He is the prosecutor and not the judge or jury. There are ethical requirements that a prosecutor cease prosecuting if and when he/she believes that the law has not been broken. No ethic requires a prosecutor to be neutral between the law and the defendant who appears to have violated it.
This also sounds like an argument that Elliot Ness was a teatotaller (no sympathy on that score alone) and shuld not have been allowed to go after Capone as a bootlegger. Maybe the feds should have hired Dion O'Bannion. Ness did pretty well believing in his work. Kline nd McKinney did too in the face of a high degree of elitist resistance in favor of mass babykilling.
Social Conservative Republicans are Conservatives. What you call Politically "conservative" Republicans are for the most part people in love with the evil of abortion and often with the evil of homosexuality. They are no more conservative in the current sense than a George McGovern, a Slick Willy, a Hillary, an AlGore, a John Kerry. Budget balancing by raising taxes for "the arts" and for gummint education is NOT conservatism. Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker is NOT a conservative and neither are what you erroneously describe as "politically conservative Republicans" (i.e. the pro-abort buffalo wing of the GOP) any kind of conservative. Instead they are anachronisms and the sooner the GOP is rid of the Planned Barrenhood types the better.
A former Democrat governor of Kansas, Joan Finney, addressed rallies of Operation Rescue in Wichita in 1990-1991. If Kansas must elect Democrats, she would be a good choice if still alive. If not, there are, no doubt, others like her. Let the GOP nominate such Democrats. Unlike the RINOs, she and those like her have their heads screwed on straight on the important things like resisting baby-killing.
She died in 2001.
How did they lie?
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