When the Law is an Ass
There is a news story coming out of Missouri that makes me feel sick (Story Link) .
Four leaders of a small church have been charged with abusing small girls who attended their church.
Their defense attorney has requested that charges against two of the defendants be dropped, claiming that the statute of limitations has expired.
Here is what upsets me. The attorney could be correct.
Those two defendants could be guilty as charged, but if a statute-of-limitation law says that the defendants can't be charged, then they can't be charged.
In such a case, it isn't the defense attorney that's an ass. It's the Law that's an ass.
Thankfully, Heaven has no statute of limitations.
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This Is Your Chance
To all those on the left who said that 'of course' they decry the attacks on the property and persons of Republicans (as detailed by Aaron very well here), when in terms of prominent Democrats at least, the rest of us only hear the quiet chirping of crickets, here's your chance.
A National Guardsman was viciously attacked by a bunch of thugs shouting left-wing, anti-war, warmed over from the 70s slogans. (Hat tip to Michelle Malkin for the story which is unsurprisingly being ignored by the MSM.)
The comments are open. I know that a number of left-wingers troll the site, so I'm waiting for you to denounce this. I'll even read something that paul writes. I'm even willing to wade through the "Well what about (insert mythical crime supposedly perpetrated by the Bush administration here)?" just to see if you actually, honestly, truly, in your heart, disagree with this despicable, sick, criminal behavior.
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Why We Didn’t Believe Patsy Ramsey
Patsy Ramsey spent the last ten years of her life claiming that neither she nor anyone else in her family was responsible for the murder of her daughter JonBenet.
Some of us Americans didn’t believe Patsy.
One reason why we didn’t believe her is the same reason why we paid attention to the Ramsey case in the first place.
To put it bluntly, we were disgusted by the photos of little JonBenet being dressed up to look like jail bait.
Instead of dressing her daughter to look like the little girl that she was, Patsy dressed her daughter to look like a miniature version of a fully-grown woman, as if JonBenet were the female version of Mini-Me.
In an article for Court TV's Crime Library (Link) , serial killer expert Marilyn Bardsley writes,
"The first images of JonBenet Ramsey that were broadcast to the world showed a pretty little girl in heavy make-up and flamboyant costumes parading across a stage. At the time, the media described her as "a painted baby, a sexualized toddler beauty queen.""
To some Americans, sexualizing one's six-year-old daughter is a form of child abuse.
So, this is what some of us thought: If Pasty Ramsey abused her daughter in such a way, then it's possible that she is lying about her daughter’s murder.
[Members of the Boulder, Colorado police and members of the media had other reasons for not believing Patsy.]
Now, it may be going over the top to claim that Patsy was actually guilty of child abuse. There is no legal evidence that I know of that Patsy abused JonBenet.
Still, Patsy went too far in the way that she dressed JonBenet up for the pageants that the child was in, as evident by the child’s alleged killer.
When John Mark Karr confessed to killing JonBenet, he mentioned her involvement in beauty pageants (Source Link).
Patsy may one day be vindicated in regards to who killed JonBenet.
Still, Patsy was punished by society for making her daughter look like an adult twelve years too early.
Hopefully, mothers of other little girls will learn a lesson from Patsy’s tragedy.
Cross-posted at Dodo World.
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Penis Pump Judge Convicted
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Violent Crime at 15 Year High
The analysis here is wanting. Of these victims, how many were attacked or murdered by:
1. Illegal Aliens
2. Hurricaine Katrina Thug Migration
3. Overcrowded Prisons
Do you think the 23% spike in Houston just happened by itself? What about those "migrants" from south of the border who are moving in large numbers to places like Chicago, Philly and Vegas?
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Duke's First Mistake
According to this article was thinking the accusations of rape at a Duke lacrosse party would blow over.
Duke underestimated the rape allegations against members of the lacrosse team in part because Durham police initially said the accuser "kept changing her story and was not credible," according to a university report issued Monday.
The day after the March 13 team party where a 27-year-old black woman claimed she was raped, Durham police told campus officers that "this will blow over," the report said. It said that the woman initially told police she was raped by 20 white men, then said she was attacked by three.
Police told the Duke officers that if any charges were filed, "they would be no more than misdemeanors," the report said.
Of course, many of us following this story think that Duke's first mistake was cancelling games and then the season. Since then, they've continued to make mistakes in their effort to be sufficiently PC. Note the provenance of this report:
The report was commissioned by the Duke president and prepared by Julius Chambers, a former chancellor at North Carolina Central University, where the accuser is a student, and William G. Bowen, a former president of Princeton University who is now head of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Well, let's see, you have the former chancellor of the accuser's school preparing the report; is there any doubt they're going to err on the side of the accuser?
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Weird Crime Story
There is a crime story coming from my corner of the world that has me scratching my head. I suspect that my neighbors are scratching their heads, too.
Here is the story as it appears on the website of KTUL-TV in Tulsa:
Owasso - The ex-wife of Garth Brooks was abducted for a short time Monday night before escaping in Tulsa, police say.
It happened Monday evening. Employees of a bail bonding company were searching for a man in connection with a failure to appear on an embezzlement case in Tulsa County. Their investigation led them to the property of Sandy Brooks.
The suspect, identified as 24-year-old Quintine Harper, was staying in an apartment located in a barn on Brooks' property. And, when he learned the bondsmen were there to take him in, he abducted Brooks at gunpoint and forced her to drive him off the property.
About six or seven miles later, Brooks pulled to a stop and ran into a nearby business. Police say Harper bailed out and fled across a field, but was apprehended by Owasso police.
Authorities say Ms. Brooks is cooperating fully with the investigation.
Harper is now being held in the Tulsa County Jail on complaints of pointing a firearm with intent and possession of a firearm by a felon. Rogers County authorities have filed a charge of kidnapping for extortion against Harper.
Court records also show Sandy Brooks filed for a protective order against Harper Tuesday morning.
Ms. Brooks was not injured in the incident.
The question that I have is this: Why was Quintine Harper living on Sandy Brooks' property in the first place?
Now it could be that the man has been performing work on behalf of Ms. Brooks. It could be that Ms. Brooks was just trying to give a convicted felon a new start in life.
Still, the situation is puzzling because not just anyone can socialize with the ex-wife of Garth Brooks. So how did she meet this guy?
Well, being that Sandy Brooks lives in my community, perhaps I'll learn more about this incident in the next issue of my community's bi-weekly newspaper.
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Bet They Wish They Had Capital Punishment
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - A woman who stuffed the bodies of two of her four infants in a freezer and entombed two others in plastic buckets filled with cement was convicted Friday of three counts of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Gertraud Arzberger, 33, was convicted by a court in the southern city of Graz, closing out a macabre crime that stunned Austria when the tiny bodies were recovered last summer. Her live-in companion, 39-year-old Johannes Genser, was convicted as an accessory and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment.
Oh, and the boyfriend claimed he knew nothing about the pregnancies. Hello, McFly! Only a complete dumba** could miss his live-in girlfriend being pregnant four times.
The two were charged last June after police discovered the bodies of two newborns in a basement freezer shared by residents of an apartment complex in Graz, about 120 miles south of Vienna, and the remains of two more entombed in paint buckets filled with cement.
Autopsies performed on the remains indicated that the two infants found in the freezer were still alive when put inside, wrapped in plastic bags. Autopsies could not be performed on the two newborns whose remains were sealed in cement because they had deteriorated too much.
And, it gets weirder:
Prosecutors said Arzberger told investigators she killed the infants out of despair over her inability to pay the bills, and out of fear that having children might drive away Genser, her partner of eight years.
Genser, whose lawyer insisted the charges were "pure fiction" in closing arguments Friday, was led from the courtroom in handcuffs after asking Judge Karl Buchgraber if he first could propose marriage to Arzberger.
"Can I still offer her my hand?" Genser asked.
"No," the judge replied.
Too bad she didn't live here, where she could have gotten late third-trimester abortions. Then she wouldn't have been accused of murder, but of making a healthcare choice, and she'd be free to tend the beautiful garden she is said to have.
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