damn, and you'd think it was obvious...
Posted on 06/13/2012 5:25:29 PM PDT by chessplayer
Via the Blaze. Four words, my friends: Trial of the century.
"James Harrington, director of the Texas Civil Rights Project, an Austin-based nonprofit group, questioned the father’s decision to “summarily execute” the alleged molester without due process."
“Assuming it’s true that this guy was molesting the daughter, and we don’t know what exactly happened at this point, he would then have the right to defend [her], and hit him enough to have him stop,” Harrington told FoxNews.com. “But you cannot summarily execute him, even though I can understand the anger he would have.”
"Without specific knowledge of the case, Harrington said he was “surprised” that the girl’s father had not been already charged."
Harrington continued: “The question is: When does it move beyond self-defense?”
That’s what I was getting at in last night’s post about the difference between self-defense and punishment. Self-defense entitles you to neutralize your attacker; once he’s been neutralized, you’re not really defending yourself anymore, you’re just kicking the crap out of him. Imagine that the dad here saw his daughter being molested and knocked the guy unconscious with one right hook to the jaw. Boom — he’s neutralized. If he continues to beat him after that in a blind rage, that’s more like voluntary manslaughter than self-defense. More from the Christian Post:
I am sure that you have also read about buildings burning down for insurance. There is much more arson for insurance, than horse breeders killing their own horses.
Source for your misinformation, about the horse breeding industry.
I'm a lil biased......I hate child sex predators. They are the scum of the earth.
there needs to be a hard look at the facts of the case.
There has been. Go find the newspaper accounts from earlier in the week and stop giving any credence to these outfits that back the perps in any crime. There were witnesses, the child went to the hospital, and the beatdown wasn’t to the point of crushing a skull or anything
Last day or so, I read here that his family was in [are you ready] Mexico and had not been notified yet.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
Luke 17:2, Mark 9:42
Should the TX Father Who Killed his daughter's suspected molested face charges
Rick Folbaum recounted the details of the story saying that the alleged molester was reportedly an acquaintance of the father and was helping him take care of some horses on the property. The young girl and her brother were helping their father by feeding chickens when the apparent attack took place. The little brother ran to tell his father, who upon finding the man reportedly molesting the little girl, beat him to death.
So far we know almost no details of the event regarding the medical examiner’s report regarding the girl or the deceased. Until then all is speculation.
Well, a lot of these points are moot, because this happened in Texas. There, he’s got so many points on his side, I doubt they will charge him with anything.
First, they have very strong self-defense protections, and this was on his property, so he gets and additional legal advantage from that fact. Even if he went beyond the scope of self-defense, he can appeal to a crime of passion defense, which Texans tend to be sympathetic too. Top that off with the fact that he killed a child molester, and there’s no way in hell he could get convicted down there, at least outside of some liberal area like Austin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_murders
My extensive background is with the Thoroughbred Racing industry
damn, and you'd think it was obvious...
“James Harrington, director of the Texas Civil Rights Project, an Austin-based nonprofit group, questioned the father’s decision to “summarily execute” the alleged molester without due process.”
This one statement tells me that it was probably justified. The key words .... an Austin-based nonprofit group.
Texas Civil Rights Project sounds like a left wing “Criminal Rights” organization
Even a prosecutor as dumb and Thug Nazi as Angela Corey would not charge the father. Try getting re-elected as the “prosecutor who supports child molestation”
Do you know the Father who protected his daughter? What do you have against him that would prompt you to make up such crap?
I said to investigate and try to learn if there was a problem between the two men. But if the guy was fondling the daughter he should have been killed.
/johnny
Life aint' TV.
Come visit. I'll give you space in the barn.
/johnny
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