Posted on 04/17/2010 12:13:31 PM PDT by kristinn
It’s late for me, so I’ll let someone else start a new post on this development:
“Allee Bautsch’s mother, Della Berning, has now joined a friend of Bautsch’s in telling Yahoo! News that, contrary to what Brown initially told police, Bautsch and Brown do believe that the attackers were a group of political protesters who followed them after they left the event.”
The Yahoo story is incredibly snide and insulting in begrudging the info, so I’ll link to Hayride where y’all can get the skinny and which also links to the Yahoo News article.
http://thehayride.com/2010/04/the-brennans-beatdown-piecing-together-a-story
The case is being investigated and there are reports on the local news almost daily. I guess it is so easy to sit behind a computer monitor in Washington (or California, Maine, Florida, etc.) and complain because your expectations haven’t been met. Best I can understand it, Jindal is supposed to be out there marching around with somebody’s head on a pike. Suppose there would then be those that would criticize him for giving special attention to a crime because it was a fundraiser of his. Oh, well.
LOL!!!!!
Most people who live even closer to the scene are totally clueless.
What's your point?
It was not a simple street mugging. Most of us know that.
How do we ger the US attorney's office involved in this RICO racial hate crime?
Clearly the civil right of these victims of racial storm troopers (Can't we stop all the hate speech?) were violated big time.
Meanwhile, isolated victims of police "force" scattered across the country are covered 24/7... even, bafflingly, on Fox... Don't get me started on Geraldo "Aid-the enemy" Doofus...
I firmly believe this was a crime based on the victims’ participation in the Republican fundraiser. Not so sure it’s racial. The only described perpetrator per news accounts was a skinny, dirty, pony-tailed white dude. These are most likely union thugs and day-workers who made a few bucks by being warm bodies at the protest.
IF NOPD can find the individuals who perpetrated this crime, and they give up whoever paid them to be there, and it can be proved that the paying entity encouraged this type of crime, then they’d have something that might be prosecuted under RICO.
RICO, as far as I understand it, requires a criminal enterprise, multiple crimes, oh, say, like ACORN. The prosecutors would have to prove that the perpetrators of this crime were part of a larger entity or entities who engaged in criminal activity, mafia style. It’s a very difficult thing to prosecute. I don’t see THIS DOJ even investigating far enough to prove a damned thing. And that’s the pity.
My point was to the poster. He got it.
“The case is being investigated and there are reports on the local news almost daily. I guess it is so easy to sit behind a computer monitor in Washington (or California, Maine, Florida, etc.) and complain because your expectations haven’t been met. Best I can understand it, Jindal is supposed to be out there marching around with somebody’s head on a pike. Suppose there would then be those that would criticize him for giving special attention to a crime because it was a fundraiser of his. Oh, well.”
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Jindall sent out his press secretary to address the savage beat down of one of his aides after a Republican event protested by leftists and anarchists. I like Jindal in many ways, but I don’t think he showed good leadership instincts here.
You say, “I guess it is so easy to sit behind a computer monitor in Washington” - OR Louisiana, eh? LOL!
“I live just a few miles from the scene.”
Right. What does this have to do with evaluating leadership? No more comments about maobama from you Coldwater! You live too far away. Only those inside the beltway need say anything, and those of us across the fruited plains ought just to shut up.
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