Posted on 01/17/2007 4:24:55 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
Actually, it's more like a circle jerk : )
I still like FR, but between the conspiracy nuts, creationist nuts, and loser-candidate nuts FR is changing, and not for the better. But I'll stick around-this is still the premier conservative forum, even if the nuts seem to have taken overe parts of the asylum!
P.S. I've badmouthed Bush and the GOP myself plenty of times-but only when they actually deserved it : )
"Three of whom have now come forward to say they were coerced by the prosecutors to find the agents guilty"
Then the jurors failed in their duty. I seem to recall
that they take an oath to do true justice in the appraisal
of the evidence.
"And you think this is acceptable?"
actually, no. I was only responding to another poster who stated that police do not shoot people in the back...
I fear our justice system if jurors are this stupid.
get lost
dittos!
Crikey -- tough call. Seems the "Rule of Law" was broken by both the agents and the drug-smuggling scroat. Me, I'd prefer to see the scroat imprisoned rather than the border guards: the latter serve a useful purpose to Society: the former do not, by any stretch of the imagination.
That said, the law was broken by all...
Eeeny-meeny-miney-moe:
Who to Convict?
I don't know.
They'll both holler:
Let 'em Go.
Eeny-meeny-miney-moe.
Seems to me a good solution moving forward would be to invent and make available a series of good, fool-proof, long-range, non-lethal weapons: particularly to Law Enforcement. Weapons that cause no lasting damage, but at the same time certainly aren't gentle.
Issue them to cops and border guards, take away their service revolvers, and say "go to it, guys! Blaze away! We want to take the Bad Guys ALIVE."
Within this proposed solution is scope for all kinds of creativity and innovation: of the sort that would make Tasers look clumsy and tame.
Such weapons would need to be small, good range of say 100 yards accuracy, and be able to render a fleeing scroat "hors de combat" with one shot.
Ideas?
We have a bigger problem.
My wife - my wife who volunteered at phone banks for El Presidente Bush. My wife - who stood in line at his rallies. My wife - who is as loyal a person as I have ever met . . . a home-schooling, Christian, conservative . . .
. . . has just told me that she is done voting for Republicans.
She just told off the Right to Life phone solicitor that wanted a donation, pointing out that nothing happens when Republicans are in power so why help or work or pay to keep Democrats out.
She is not voting for Republicans anymore.
That ought to scare the Republicans. When they have lost her, they are done. They ain't gonna win any more elections. Not here in Ohio.
This coddling of drug dealing illegal immigrants is simply a symptom of how far from their base and their former principles they have drifted.
They love power and do not love America anymore.
Did Brian Kilmeade on Fox & Friends just say that the President may pardon these guys???
yes
.
Have any other LEOs been criminally charged with violating 4th Amendment rights? Ever? In history?
I hope that he does.
He ought to.
But the "base" is moving on. My dear wife says it's not worth voting anymore.
Compare the way things have gone under Bush vs. under Clinton and she's got a point.
Gay marriage. Universial healh care coming. Television is a cesspool. Made in China junk everywhere. Factory closings everywhere.
What did Bush do for us anyway? (I know the "judge argument" but the Supremes will never rule on firearms or abortion or anything else "reactionary" - they are too jealous of their power and prerogatives).
Montgomery County Maryland...it was reported on the news yesterday that the county council is mulling giving day laborers business loans.
I suppose the idea is to get them into the system and turn them into bonafide taxpayers.
Now an illegal can obtain a loan from the local government to say...buy a van...and become his own general painting contractor..."hire" his buddies and BAM...a competitor is born.
Ain't America great?
We have large pockets of insurgency in Maryland, Monty County being just one of them.
If you have a link to that story I'd appreciate it.
I heard it on the radio yesterday. I will search for a link.
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