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Ann Coulter: COP-KILLER IS MEDIA'S LATEST BABY SEAL (Going Clubing)
AnnCoulter.Com ^ | September 21, 2011 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 09/21/2011 3:08:38 PM PDT by Syncro

 


COP-KILLER IS MEDIA'S LATEST BABY SEAL

September 21, 2011
For decades, liberals tried persuading Americans to abolish the death penalty, using their usual argument: hysterical sobbing.

Only when the media began lying about innocent people being executed did support for the death penalty begin to waver, falling from 80 percent to about 60 percent in a little more than a decade. (Silver lining: That's still more Americans than believe in man-made global warming.)

Fifty-nine percent of Americans now believe that an innocent man has been executed in the last five years. There is more credible evidence that space aliens have walked among us than that an innocent person has been executed in this country in the past 60 years, much less the past five years.

But unless members of the public are going to personally review trial transcripts in every death penalty case, they have no way of knowing the truth. The media certainly won't tell them.

It's nearly impossible to receive a death sentence these days -- unless you do something completely crazy like shoot a cop in full view of dozens of witnesses in a Burger King parking lot, only a few hours after shooting at a passing car while exiting a party.

That's what Troy Davis did in August 1989. Davis is the media's current baby seal of death row.

After a two-week trial with 34 witnesses for the state and six witnesses for the defense, the jury of seven blacks and five whites took less than two hours to convict Davis of Officer Mark MacPhail's murder, as well as various other crimes. Two days later, the jury sentenced Davis to death.

Now, a brisk 22 years after Davis murdered Officer MacPhail, his sentence will finally be administered this week -- barring any more of the legal shenanigans that have kept taxpayers on the hook for Davis' room and board for the past two decades.

(The average time on death row is 14 years. Then liberals turn around and triumphantly claim the death penalty doesn't have any noticeable deterrent effect. As the kids say: Duh.)


It has been claimed -- in The New York Times and Time magazine, for example -- that there was no "physical evidence" connecting Davis to the crimes that night.

Davis pulled out a gun and shot two strangers in public. What "physical evidence" were they expecting? No houses were broken into, no cars stolen, no rapes or fistfights accompanied the shootings. Where exactly would you look for DNA? And to prove what?

I suppose it would be nice if the shell casings from both shootings that night matched. Oh wait -- they did. That's "physical evidence."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; coulter; deathpenalty; troydavis
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(The average time on death row is 14 years. Then liberals turn around and triumphantly claim the death penalty doesn't have any noticeable deterrent effect. As the kids say: Duh.)

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1 posted on 09/21/2011 3:08:45 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: RonDog; jellybean; Rummyfan

There's a reason more than a dozen courts have looked at Davis' case and refused to overturn his death sentence. He is as innocent as every other executed man since at least 1950, which is to say, guilty as hell.

2 posted on 09/21/2011 3:11:24 PM PDT by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: Syncro
How many times did she slip into the article "Christie 2012"?


3 posted on 09/21/2011 3:11:58 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

17.

So, your guy is Obama?


4 posted on 09/21/2011 3:17:41 PM PDT by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: Syncro
Yup, every cop killer is just another poor little cute baby seal in the twisted mind of democraps.

Gotta love Ann. She's got daggers galore, and knows just where to put them.

5 posted on 09/21/2011 3:21:20 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Tax-chick

bttt


6 posted on 09/21/2011 3:26:26 PM PDT by Tax-chick ( "It is my job to be rational, and I have no doubt at all that I have that power--sometimes.")
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To: Syncro

I was wondering about this case and the allegedly ‘recanted’ testimony of the eye witnesses. Ann Coulter, with her usual mordant wit, explains it. A remorseless murderer with a bunch of bleeding heart liberals crying for him and claiming ‘racism’. What else? I take no pleasure in another human beings death but the law is clear in this case and after 22 years, all the appeals and the weeping and wailing, it’s time to end this with the scheduled execution of Troy Davis.


7 posted on 09/21/2011 3:29:07 PM PDT by Jim Scott ( "Game On!" - Sarah Palin)
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To: Syncro

Ann’s right...


8 posted on 09/21/2011 3:30:08 PM PDT by GOPJ (126 people were indicted for being terrorists in the last two years. Every one of them was Muslim.)
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To: LibWhacker
Fry Mumia.
9 posted on 09/21/2011 3:36:30 PM PDT by boomop1
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To: Syncro

Freepers pride themselves on seeing through MSM BS but if one looks at the other Troy Davis threads on FR the past couple of days there are Freepers who bought the MSM storyline.

Never underestimate the power of the media-entertainment industrial complex.


10 posted on 09/21/2011 3:36:30 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss (Obama has created more jobs in soup kitchens than anyone since Jimmy Carter)
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To: Syncro

I love the way Ann views liberalism...a unique mocking disdain for loony causes.


11 posted on 09/21/2011 3:39:31 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: Meet the New Boss

I live in Savannah, GA. Blood stained clothes were also found in the home of Davis’ mother but deemed inadmissible because of some supposed technicality with a search warrant.


12 posted on 09/21/2011 3:45:02 PM PDT by Josa
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To: Meet the New Boss
Some here pride themselves on being able to chastize other unnamed members for what they supposedly posted on previous threads.

You have learned a valuable lesson.

13 posted on 09/21/2011 3:48:50 PM PDT by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: Syncro
Some here pride themselves on being able to chastize other unnamed members for what they supposedly posted on previous threads.

There is nothing "supposedly" about it. Here are the threads. Read them for yourself if you don't believe me.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2781396/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2781668/posts

14 posted on 09/21/2011 3:55:24 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss (Obama has created more jobs in soup kitchens than anyone since Jimmy Carter)
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To: Syncro
Fifty-nine percent of Americans now believe that an innocent man has been executed in the last five years. There is more credible evidence that space aliens have walked among us than that an innocent person has been executed in this country in the past 60 years, much less the past five years.

If there is nothing else that Government can do perfectly, I refuse to believe that its record in death penalty prosecutions is 100% perfect.

15 posted on 09/21/2011 4:03:48 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Meet the New Boss

The first cold link does not substantiate your claims.

I’m not going to spend more time reading the other one.

Plus I didn’t see you calling out the ones duped by the MSM on that thread.


16 posted on 09/21/2011 4:10:43 PM PDT by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: Syncro

You are so full of sh-t.

Both links work.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2781396/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2781668/posts

The name of each member appears immediately under his or her comment.

On each thread, I posted a link to Judge Moore’s order which goes into painstaking detail the evidence in the case, in order that Freepers would not have to rely on MSM reports to know what the evidence was.


17 posted on 09/21/2011 4:18:20 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss (Obama has created more jobs in soup kitchens than anyone since Jimmy Carter)
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To: Meet the New Boss
Sorry, I'll type slower.

Even though they are cold links, I read the first thread. Thus my comments in my previous post.

So you posted the facts. That's good.

Then no members were sucked in by the MSM?

That's good too.

Oh and thanks for the info that poster names appear just below their comments.

I'm catching on.

Thanks for the bumps to the thread!

18 posted on 09/21/2011 4:23:46 PM PDT by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: LibWhacker
I do love Ann!

Great read. Short and to the point. Saved me from slogging through all the b.s. The bullets and casings from both shootings matched? I dare say that is physical evidence. I guess the Left demands a sperm sample be left to really make sure.

I was reading the moaning and lowing over at HuffPo (I know, it's a dirty job, but somebody has to slap them down)..and I was starting to worry about his innocence by the end of the pity parade. The Pope himself has made a plea! This made me want to read about the facts. Thankfully, I came here and searched and found your fab post.

Ann and Michelle Malkin amaze me. Brains, beauty and attitude. No wonder the left hate them and want them shut down. The truth really puts a bee in their bonnets.

19 posted on 09/21/2011 4:34:21 PM PDT by Pigsley
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To: Syncro
So you posted the facts. That's good.

Then no members were sucked in by the MSM?

Huh? What, do imagine I got into a time machine and went back in time and posted the facts before anyone read and bought into the MSM reports? And then I forced everyone to click on my links and actually read the facts?

And anyway you missed my point, not surprisingly. It is not my intention to "call out" individual Freepers and bitch at them. I was simply lamenting the fact that the influence of the MSM is so pervasive that even Freepers occasionally get sucked into the prevailing narrative.

And I am not excluding myself from this phenomenon -- there have been instances where I have read some story in the MSM which seemed plausible and only later when I saw a fuller and fairer presentation in another source that I realized that the MSM story was bunk.

20 posted on 09/21/2011 4:34:35 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss (Obama has created more jobs in soup kitchens than anyone since Jimmy Carter)
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