James Byrd's son seeks to overturn death sentence for father's killer w/ help of Dem activists

Houston Chronicle ^ | July 4, 2002 | Steven Dove

[GOPcapitalist]

As a side note, last December former radical Democrat city councilman Jew Don Boney (yes, that is his real name) was a top spokesman for the reelection campaign of Houston Mayor Lee P. "Speaking Lessings" Brown against Republican challenger Orlando Sanchez.

During the course of the campaign, Boney blasted councilman Sanchez for voting against a city council resolution calling on the state of Texas to pass a so-called hate crimes law designed to, among other things, impose harsher sentences on criminals who commit hate crimes.

Boney specifically cited the Byrd case as the rallying cry for his hate crimes law support and for his smear against Sanchez.

Brown's campaign also fueled the issue by recruiting Byrd's daughter to tape one of those ubiquitous campaign ads about how her father was killed by hate and how republicans support hate because they didn't want a hate crimes law (we got one anyway thanks to a RINO move by our governor Rick Perry). It was basically the same thing she did for the NAACP against Bush and will likely do again for other Democrat candidates as she continues her little charade of political prostitution to the DNC.

Here we are half a year later and guess what? The racial hypocrite Democrats who used the James Byrd murder as their top political rallying cry against George W. Bush, Orlando Sanchez, and who knows how many other republicans, now want the sentence of Byrd's killer WEAKENED...and all this after they got their little law, named after Byrd himself, to do the EXACT OPPOSITE by making "hate crimes" recieve harsher sentences!

[gubamyster]

What a golden opportunity and a stroke of genius for the Dems. They can run the James Byrd (Bush the racist) commercial from the daughter & also run the James Byrd (Bush the capital punishment killer) commercial from the son. What will they think of next? (/sarcasm)

[Howlin]

Our minds don't work like theirs. We'll never figure it out.

[ContentiousObjector]

This young man is opposed to capital punishment, the fact he remained opposed to capital punishment after his fathers murder demonstrats how much greater of a man he is than the men who killed his father.

[BUSHdude2000]

Better come up with some stricter Hate Crimes laws so these convicted criminals can...... uhhhhhh....rot in jail rather than face the chair. What a classic left wing joke these idiots are.

[Mo1]

Our minds don't work like theirs. We'll never figure it out

I don't ever want a mind like theirs

[BUSHdude2000]

It was also this idiots sister who was gracious enough to tape commercials for the Gore and Lee Brown campaigns stating that "Bush and Sanchez not signing the hate crimes bill was like having my father killed all over again". Some of the most hate filled, racist ads the Left ever put together and of course endorses by Je$$e Jacka$$ et al.

[GOPcapitalist]

You seem to have missed the entire issue at hand here. Yes, he may be opposed to capital punishment and I can live with that.

But the issue is a matter of hypocrisy among the political left. After Byrd's murder, the Democrats (assisted by a few republicans including our governor) waged an all out war to pass the so-called "hate crimes" law in Texas using Byrd's murder as their rallying cry.

The law's purpose is simple - certain crimes against minority groups are classified as acts of hate, and as a result the sentencing gets bumped up to a higher level offense. The Dems also used this hate crimes law as a political demagoguery ploy that almost cost George W. Bush his election to the presidency.

They got their law in Texas during the 2001 legislative session, making sentences harsher for hate criminals.

But here we are a year later and lo and behold the EXACT SAME PEOPLE who campaigned to make sentencing harsher for hate crimes and did so on the rallying cry of Byrd's death want to reduce the sentence for Byrd's killer!

If you are opposed to capital punishment or not, it still reeks of hypocrisy and shows the entire hate crimes charade for what it truly was - a political ploy to smear Republicans as racists.

[bybybill]

Thank GOD that we don`t think like the Rats. [Nice to see you have disarmed]

[bok]

I don't buy it. What i think is they want to get more media attention for this story. Tragic as this murder is, there is a double standard at play when "hate crimes" are concerned.

Politically Correct Hate Crimes
The Wichita Horror

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[wardaddy]

Well I damn grateful for that minor neurological distinction aren't you Howlin?

[BlessingInDisguise]

""When I heard King had exhausted his appeals, I began thinking, `How can this help me or solve my pain?' and I realized it couldn't," Byrd said."

Since when is it about 'absolving pain'?

[goldstategop]

You know Rat hypocrisy is ALWAYS breathless. I mean you think they do one thing and then do another but this one really takes the prize for chutzpah. They had the effrontery to run a campaign commercial accusing President Bush of wanting to kill James Byrd, Jr. all over again by not charging his killers with a hate crime - as if he weren't dead already and now they want to get his killers off Death Row! The Rats should be extending President Bush a huge apology for taking a terrible situation and exploiting it for political gain, but I'm not holding my breath. Its just incredible the way they're allowed to get away with this with the help of the media and man all one can say after witnessing this latest twist on the Texas case that almost cost G.W Bush the White House is they're completely shameless. And here I thought even the NAACLP insisted that all they wanted was to see racist killers punished to the max --- only it turned out different. What were we thinking!

[Enduring Freedom]

Emotional saps, known as Liberals, and Democrats and Socialists (yes the same ones that brought you Nazism) do not burden themselves with thought in arriving at any decision.

Deterrence and justice is the purpose of capital punishment.

Let it be done.

[dennisw]

Excecute him and be done with it, BUT NO!!! This would be too easy and simple. DemoRATS have to make a stinking DRAMA out of it full of gnashing of teeth and caterwauling.

[JZoback]

"It's the big picture we're trying to look at, and the big picture is God says, `Thou shall not kill,' " Byrd said.

How morally corrupt it is to take the 'Thou shall not kill' commandant and use it as a tool now to not meet out the consequences of breaking that commandment

[Wait4Truth]

If these RATS could not use this to drag President Bush back into this, it would not be being done. Watch and see how this evolves...it will result in another NAACP attack ad of George W. Bush. These people are beneath contempt and will stop at nothing. The media will be giddy in their reporting of this - just as they were yesterday as they once again trotted out the 11 year old story of the Harkin stock sale story. Did it matter that the CLINTON SEC checked this out and did nothing? Nope! Time to do max damage to the President just before he gives his speech on corporate responsibility. IMO, the elite media belong in jail.

[OldFriend]

Why READ the entire article before you make assinine comments.

[MeekOneGOP]

Our minds don't work like theirs. We'll never figure it out.

Wow, you got that right. The perp should be taken to justice. Forget hate crime,
this was a horrible crime and he should be put to death as the law says. Let the appeals
run it's course, then G'night Mr. Murderer......

[wingnuts'nbolts]

He changed his mind after the liberals got to him with a plan of vengence against G.W. that would make bigger news and the condemned had lost their political usefullness.