"The world is upside down. A posse of Republican lawmakers who, when opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants, like to talk about how rules must be followed and how we shouldn't reward lawbreakers. They're now demanding that a pair of convicted felons be rewarded with a presidential pardon.
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Goes on to quote Sutton ...
"I have a lot of sympathy for some of the folks who are worked up because the narrative that they read is so different from the reality of what the jury heard," Sutton told me.
But what about those unsympathetic Republican hacks, Minutemen vigilantes and conservative bloggers who are using this case to further their own agendas? For Sutton, it's a reminder that there is no substitute for the American justice system. While not perfect, that system is designed to dole out justice based on facts and law, not politics.
"It's why we litigate these things in a courtroom and not on cable television or the Internet," he said.
I want the truth. I want justice.
"There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men." -- Edmund Burke
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? -- Jeremiah 17:9
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush. -- Luke 6:44