Posted on 08/15/2018 5:35:18 PM PDT by Kaslin
About a week ago, authorities responded to a report of children living in New Mexico in filthy conditions, starving, and exposed to physical dangers. What authorities found was even more disturbing: an “extremist Muslim” compound where children were being tortured, brainwashed and trained to kill teachers, law enforcement and others with whom the Islamists didn't agree.
On Monday, Judge Sarah Backus, an elected Democrat, released the five adult men and women responsible for running this operation, on bail. She explained that although she was concerned by “troubling facts” and that these people were "living in a very unconventional way,” prosecutors did not articulate any specific threats to the community, in her opinion. Apparently, Islamic terrorism, intended school shootings, torture and brainwashing of little children, and the suspicious death of a 3-year-old, are not dangerous and are not threats to the community.
Republicans, who generally disagree with Democrats on the dangers of terrorism and radical Islam, were outraged at Backus' decision. “By releasing these suspects without even requiring them to post bail, Judge Backus has put people in danger and created the risk that they could flee and harm other children and communities as well,” said Ryan Cangiolosi, chairman of the Republican Party of New Mexico.
Was the judge justified under the law?
New Mexico requires the prosecutor to prove by clear and convincing evidence that a defendant is a danger to the community if the prosecutor wishes to hold a defendant without bond. The prosecutors showed a suspiciously deceased 3-year-old, children being starved and exposed to physical and biological hazards, children being trained in the use of deadly weapons, and children being trained in terrorism and murder. Instead of seeing the accused adults as clearly dangerous to the community, the Democrat Judge simply interpreted this as an alternative lifestyle, calling this "living in a very unconventional way."
As a defense lawyer, I have witnessed people released on bond who did not deserve it, and I have witnessed people who were detained who did not deserve it. But I have never seen someone accused of planning a school massacre released pending trial. The idea that someone can be held without bond for a DUI second offense, but someone else can be released while he is suspected of plotting mass murder, just doesn't sit well.
Pretrial release was wrong in this case. Terrorism is clearly a danger to the community.
It is my opinion that the judge let her politics and an inexplicable political sympathy for the defendants' religion get the best of her. Democrats have been going above and beyond to show their support for Islam and to show a lack of fear of Islamic terrorism. The pretrial release of a suspected terrorist and characterization of an Islamist terrorist training camp as "living in a very unconventional way" is probably the most troubling example of this leftist position that I have ever seen in the United States. This judge has risked the lives of children and risked terrorism attacks with her politically-driven decision. The release and associated risk to the community is wrong and unjustifiable.
In this instance, pretrial release is a travesty. It is not always so. Teaching kids how to kill kids and murdering a child in a “religious”(Muslim) ritual is just plain evil and satanic.
This will not end well. But, that’s liberals for you.
Judge Sarah Backus, she is just as dangerous as the terrorists, these judges need to be reigned in. These bastards were planning and teaching other children to kill our children in our schools, how is this judge normal
Sometimes (actually more and more frequently) I shudder when I read the “logic” women legislatures, judges, teachers use to justify their love of Islam, adult male Muslims found to be rapists, etc. I wonder if there is a self-immolation gen lurking in those women who just “happen to be liberals”.
I am not ashamed of my passionate pleas to have Muslims leave the USA because I have read, read very carefully, the Qu’ran and other Muslim tracts and I have appealed to women everywhere to read it. They are destined by their so-called faith to destroy us.
I am sure there there lurks that sense of “maybe I’m being unfair.” When there are a higher percentage of Islamists in the USA than the few that are here to soften us up, then we will see how incredibly stupid our liberal positions are.
How about the child abuse?
Imagine an islamic terrorist staring down a very long prison sentence. So long he will be able to become a martyr and get his reward.
What is he gonna do? Hmmm Sarah? Virtue signaling kills.
By now the Muzzies have cut their ankle bracelets and are long gone.
Stupid, dumb, liberal judge.
Judges will one day face a Supreme Judge for eternity just like the rest of us. They would do well to honor Him and His word.
Take away the terrorism aspect for one, brief moment. Look at the living conditions those children, who are scarred for life, were living in. They should be held without bond for the child abuse.
What ankle bracelet? You get that, maybe, when you’re some type of supervised release. These guys put their signature on a bond form and walked out of the courthouse with the clothes they were wearing when they were arrested.
They are in the wind, quite possibly.
I hope that the folks in New Mexico are figuring out a way to get rid of the judge.
Not if getting rid of the judge means their monthly check or free healthcare will stop. America, as we knew it is done.
There was a dead child in the compound, under unexplained conditions, that is a danger not expressed well.
DK
Just that and only that, says:
ABSOLUTELY NO BOND, NO HOW, NO WAY, NOPE, NADA, NOT HAPPENING, NOTHING, DO NOT PASS GO & COLLECT $200.
I wonder if they were charged with, Concealing the Death of Another or whatever law NM has on the books for that.
There have been so many examples of the judiciary and their liberal bias making some really insane decisions, this one has to be top 2 or 3.
Shame the DOJ can’t come up with some type of civil rights case or human trafficking case against them and put them behind bars, at the very least.
For what it's worth
I thought I read someplace they had to wear ankle bracelets.
Maybe I have them confused with Killary :)
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