Jeremy Daniel Cockerham of Bremerton, Washington is accused of 1st-degree rape and impregnating his 10-year old step-daughter. The evidence against him is solid.
Here in Washington, if the attacker were a female teacher with her pupil for a victim - they would be cheered by the liberal establishment (including the media, naturally) while being showered with flowers and gifts as ladies daintily covered their mouths while gossiping about the sweetness of true "love."
Scuse me. That's "true love" expressed as CHILD RAPE. Who doesn't get this other than the liberal MSM?!
Clearly, enough people don't get it that judges feel comfortable gifting Cockerham with a bail amount of $250,000. Someone explain to me why in the hell this guy has ANY amount set for bail?! If that SOB gets out of jail, I pray for the judges family.
While I think it's funny as hell that Justice Souter is facing the outcome of his decisions and a private organization is trying to take his home away, I do not think it would be very funny if this judge's child were to be attacked by someone he went so easy on. Clearly, the kid wouldn't deserve anything like that - but the judge would have no right to bury his head in shame crying "Why me?"
Why the hell NOT?! Our little corner of the world would be much better off if Justices and Legislators... and especially Justices who legislate from the bench... had to live with the effects of the decisions they made!
And in case you're wondering, DNA tests were done on the 10-year old's born child and the lab indicates a 99.99% probability that Cockerham is the father. Innocent until proven guilty, but with evidence like that - there is NO excuse for offering bail.
God forbid the same judge hears the case.
Cockerham deserves something significantly worse than the Clockwork Orange treatment, but here is the SPRS - it's going to be milk and cookies, baby!
KIRO TV (Seattle) didn't have the sack to print the judges name.
Bastards.
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Souter Served Own Medicine
Following the decision allowing private industry to capitalize on private land, it looks like we get to find out whether Justice Souter is willing to live up to the very decision he was part of making.
God, if this only happened more often to judges who misinterpret the Constitution!
Press Release
For Release Monday, June 27 to New Hampshire media
For Release Tuesday, June 28 to all other media
Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter's land.
Justice Souter's vote in the "Kelo vs. City of New London" decision allows city governments to take land from one private owner and give it to another if the government will generate greater tax revenue or other economic benefits when the land is developed by the new owner.
On Monday June 27, Logan Darrow Clements, faxed a request to Chip Meany the code enforcement officer of the Towne of Weare, New Hampshire seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road. This is the present location of Mr. Souter's home.
Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, points out that the City of Weare will certainly gain greater tax revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land.
The proposed development, called "The Lost Liberty Hotel" will feature the "Just Desserts Café" and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon's Bible each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."
Clements indicated that the hotel must be built on this particular piece of land because it is a unique site being the home of someone largely responsible for destroying property rights for all Americans.
"This is not a prank" said Clements, "The Towne of Weare has five people on the Board of Selectmen. If three of them vote to use the power of eminent domain to take this land from Mr. Souter we can begin our hotel development.
"Clements' plan is to raise investment capital from wealthy pro-liberty investors and draw up architectural plans. These plans would then be used to raise investment capital for the project. Clements hopes that regular customers of the hotel might include supporters of the Institute For Justice and participants in the Free State Project among others.
God, if this only happened more often to judges who misinterpret the Constitution!
Press Release
For Release Monday, June 27 to New Hampshire media
For Release Tuesday, June 28 to all other media
Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter's land.
Justice Souter's vote in the "Kelo vs. City of New London" decision allows city governments to take land from one private owner and give it to another if the government will generate greater tax revenue or other economic benefits when the land is developed by the new owner.
On Monday June 27, Logan Darrow Clements, faxed a request to Chip Meany the code enforcement officer of the Towne of Weare, New Hampshire seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road. This is the present location of Mr. Souter's home.
Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, points out that the City of Weare will certainly gain greater tax revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land.
The proposed development, called "The Lost Liberty Hotel" will feature the "Just Desserts Café" and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon's Bible each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."
Clements indicated that the hotel must be built on this particular piece of land because it is a unique site being the home of someone largely responsible for destroying property rights for all Americans.
"This is not a prank" said Clements, "The Towne of Weare has five people on the Board of Selectmen. If three of them vote to use the power of eminent domain to take this land from Mr. Souter we can begin our hotel development.
"Clements' plan is to raise investment capital from wealthy pro-liberty investors and draw up architectural plans. These plans would then be used to raise investment capital for the project. Clements hopes that regular customers of the hotel might include supporters of the Institute For Justice and participants in the Free State Project among others.
Sunday, June 26, 2005
International Day In Support of Victims of Torture
June 26 is the International Day In Support of Victims of Torture.
Amnesty International has a complete organizing guide loaded with media guidance, pointers on how to take action, key messages and talking points, petitions - including one to the President, legal references and their "12 Point Program for the Prevention of Torture by Agents of the State."
It's a strong and valid message they are putting out, but they completely failed to mention anything about the torture perpetrated by our prisoners of war against their own women, children, and "infidels." Those found to be criminals and "infidels" have enjoyed the rite of qata al-raas for the past 14 years - but, today, you wont hear Amnesty International saying jack about that.
Qata al-raas, by the way, is the act of cutting someone's head off.
Our prisoners are choking down chicken almondine this weekend... and their heads are still attached to suffer through it.
President Bush had the following to say this day in 2003:
Amnesty International has a complete organizing guide loaded with media guidance, pointers on how to take action, key messages and talking points, petitions - including one to the President, legal references and their "12 Point Program for the Prevention of Torture by Agents of the State."
It's a strong and valid message they are putting out, but they completely failed to mention anything about the torture perpetrated by our prisoners of war against their own women, children, and "infidels." Those found to be criminals and "infidels" have enjoyed the rite of qata al-raas for the past 14 years - but, today, you wont hear Amnesty International saying jack about that.
Qata al-raas, by the way, is the act of cutting someone's head off.
Our prisoners are choking down chicken almondine this weekend... and their heads are still attached to suffer through it.
President Bush had the following to say this day in 2003:
Today, on the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the United States declares its strong solidarity with torture victims across the world. Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere. We are committed to building a world where human rights are respected and protected by the rule of law.
Freedom from torture is an inalienable human right. The Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, ratified by the United States and more than 130 other countries since 1984, forbids governments from deliberately inflicting severe physical or mental pain or suffering on those within their custody or control. Yet torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit. Beating, burning, rape, and electric shock are some of the grisly tools such regimes use to terrorize their own citizens. These despicable crimes cannot be tolerated by a world committed to justice.
Notorious human rights abusers, including, among others, Burma, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, and Zimbabwe, have long sought to shield their abuses from the eyes of the world by staging elaborate deceptions and denying access to international human rights monitors. Until recently, Saddam Hussein used similar means to hide the crimes of his regime. With Iraq's liberation, the world is only now learning the enormity of the dictator's three decades of victimization of the Iraqi people. Across the country, evidence of Baathist atrocities is mounting, including scores of mass graves containing the remains of thousands of men, women, and children and torture chambers hidden inside palaces and ministries. The most compelling evidence of all lies in the stories told by torture survivors, who are recounting a vast array of sadistic acts perpetrated against the innocent. Their testimony reminds us of their great courage in outlasting one of history's most brutal regimes, and it reminds us that similar cruelties are taking place behind the closed doors of other prison states.
The United States is committed to the world-wide elimination of torture and we are leading this fight by example. I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture and in undertaking to prevent other cruel and unusual punishment. I call on all nations to speak out against torture in all its forms and to make ending torture an essential part of their diplomacy. I further urge governments to join America and others in supporting torture victims' treatment centers, contributing to the UN Fund for the Victims of Torture, and supporting the efforts of non-governmental organizations to end torture and assist its victims.
No people, no matter where they reside, should have to live in fear of their own government. Nowhere should the midnight knock foreshadow a nightmare of state-commissioned crime. The suffering of torture victims must end, and the United States calls on all governments to assume this great mission.
With all that said -
Let's not pretend the military or administration are accepting of the comparatively few abuses that have taken place in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo - and let's not pretend that nearly every one of those prisoners would happily cut your head off given half the chance.
Looks to me like AI's interest is anti-administration politics... else they likely would not have missed the forest for a few of the trees.
Let's not pretend the military or administration are accepting of the comparatively few abuses that have taken place in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo - and let's not pretend that nearly every one of those prisoners would happily cut your head off given half the chance.
Looks to me like AI's interest is anti-administration politics... else they likely would not have missed the forest for a few of the trees.
Backtrack: Purple Goddess - Body and Soul
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Pot Smokers Overloading Our Prisons?
Marijuana sympathizers want you to believe our prison system is over-loaded with otherwise law-abiding drug abusers simply on the account of their 'recreational' pot use. Those illicit-drug advocates are not telling you the truth.
The fact is that the majority of our drug prisoners are violent criminals, drug traffickers, repeat offenders or some combination of the three - in addition to their other crimes. These people belong in prisons. The true recreational user, in fact, rarely goes to prison anymore. Intervention, drug treatment and the drug courts are in place to offer these recreational users a chance to put an end to their destructive and illegal behavior.
The majority of those in prison for marijuana offenses were nailed for more than simple possession. They come with additional drug trafficking charges, additional offenses or have pled-down to possession in order to avoid prosecution on more serious charges. The latter, I personally see on a routine basis. In the judicial system, it's "death, taxes, and plea deals."
In State Prisons during 1997 (the most recent year with complete available data):- 1.6% of state inmate population was held for sole-marijuana offenses- 0.7% of state inmate population were incarcerated with a sole charge of marijuana possession, and- 0.3% of state inmate population consisted of first-time possession only offenders
In Federal Prisons during 2001, the story is similar:- The overwhelming majority of drug-convictions were for drug trafficking- 2.3% of federal prisoners (186 total) were sentenced for simple possession. Only 63 of those 186 (with 174 whose sentencing information is known), actually served time behind bars
Drug laws exist because drug users, pushers and abusers hurt our communities, our friends, and our families. Persistent violators face increasingly harsh penalties. The mischarachterization that our prisons are overloaded with casual users is simply false.
Seth Michael Ferranti told Rolling Stone magazine that he was a prisoner in the war on drugs... from the suburbs... and basically a law-abiding citizen with a possession rap. In fact, Ferranti ran a drug-trafficking network that distributed over 100,000 doses of LSD to high school and college students in Fairfax Co, Virginia.
Somehow, he was released on his own recognizance pending trial. Taking up one-third of the "death, taxes and plea deals" offer, Ferranti agreed to roll on one of his fellow gang members for a lighter sentence. Surprise, surprise, however, when Ferranti faked his own suicide, skipped out on his own plea deal, and vanished. While on the run, Ferranti returned to his drug trafficking ways and was finally arrested under a complete alternate I.D. (credit, I.D. cards, birth certificate, voter registration, checks, etc..) in St. Louis on a simple possession charge. Unaware of his true identity, Ferranti was released. US Marshalls tracked Ferranti a month later - still in St. Louis - and nailed him with multiple sets of alternate identify info and 18 pounds of marijuana.
When he was returned to Virginia, Ferranti was sentenced to 12 months for failure to appear at his original sentencing and mail fraud. He also received his original 24 year-plus sentence without the possibility of parole - NOT for marijuana, but for selling LSD.
Ferranti's story is no different than countless others whose stories are repeated by drug advocates in their persistent misinformation campaign. People must look deeper than the Rolling Stone article or the headline on tomorrow's front page.
The truth is that drug abusers are, on the whole, receiving fair and equitable treatment by our judicial system and the overwhelming majority of them who are enjoying milk and cookies in our prisons have more than earned their stay.
See Also:
- An Interview with Seth Ferranti: Prisoner #18205083, by Michelle Daugherty. Spank Magazine, Summer 2000, as posted on Prisonerlife.com.
- The American Dream: Free Enterprise, Seth M. Ferranti, #18205083. Web site for the November Coalition.
- United States of America v. Seth Michael Ferranti, Case #’s 1:91CR00337001 and 9400122A, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division. (PACER, fee)
- I’m a Prisoner in the War on Drugs, By John Colapinto. Rolling Stone, May 28, 1998.
Friday, June 24, 2005
Steve Bell
I don't know who this guy thinks he is - but you can write to him at this address.
steve.bell@guardian.co.uk
Thursday, June 23, 2005
The Flag Burning Amendment
Reading the title, if you haven't already screamed "It's not a 'Flag Burning' Amendment," then you have a lot of homework to do - and I'd recommend cancelling your talking points subscriptions.
Catch the rest at - The Red Voice
See also: Les Enfants Terrible - Mark in Mexico
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Club Gitmo Prisoner Treatment
The inordinate and calculated shock, disdain and horror over the "gulag-esque" conditions at Gitmo are little more than irresponsible partisanship resulting in the mockery of the real travesties of soviet gulags, Nazi death camps, and Pol Pot's near-decimation of his own people.
Having already lost their credibility, the broken-wing of the überleft isn't going to like this little bit either. Granted, polls can be tooled to say anything one wants - but the überleft doesn't get to cry about this since their only President in the past 22-plus years made most of his public policy decisions from the polls - and his private policy decisions from his pants.
But I digress.
So, back to the poll.
A Rasmussen Reports poll of 1,000 likely voters (conducted on June 20-21, 2005 with a +/- 3% sampling error and 95% level of confidence) showed that 20% of Americans believe that Gitmo prisoners have been treated unfairly.
I side with that 20%. Gitmo prisoners have been treated unfairly... too-fairly... to orange-glazed chicken, rice pilaf, prayer rugs and free religious materials (at U.S. taxpayer expense), honey and dates to break their fasting, etc... You name it. If you were treated this well on your last flight across the country, then let me know!
Meanwhile, 7 of 10 Americans believe these prisoners are being treated "better than they deserve" (34%) or "about right" (34%). Come to think of it, throw me in that "better than they deserve" crowd.
Only 7% of Republican respondents believe prisoners were being treated unfairly, while 30% of Democrats and 22% of Independents believed the same. Someone lookup disparity in Websters, then let's compare notes about how our American prisoners are being treated by the same people our prisoners represent.
Better yet, let's send Amnesty International to visit American prisoners in the Middle East.
Good luck talking to a lopped-off head or a woman who was so brutally gang raped, that the government simply will not tell you the extent of her physical and emotional damages because Americans can't handle that little truth. Then compare that to honey and dates - and then tell me who's got their perspective F'd up beyond all recognition.
Backtrack to: Three Bad Fingers § The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
Having already lost their credibility, the broken-wing of the überleft isn't going to like this little bit either. Granted, polls can be tooled to say anything one wants - but the überleft doesn't get to cry about this since their only President in the past 22-plus years made most of his public policy decisions from the polls - and his private policy decisions from his pants.
But I digress.
So, back to the poll.
A Rasmussen Reports poll of 1,000 likely voters (conducted on June 20-21, 2005 with a +/- 3% sampling error and 95% level of confidence) showed that 20% of Americans believe that Gitmo prisoners have been treated unfairly.
I side with that 20%. Gitmo prisoners have been treated unfairly... too-fairly... to orange-glazed chicken, rice pilaf, prayer rugs and free religious materials (at U.S. taxpayer expense), honey and dates to break their fasting, etc... You name it. If you were treated this well on your last flight across the country, then let me know!
Meanwhile, 7 of 10 Americans believe these prisoners are being treated "better than they deserve" (34%) or "about right" (34%). Come to think of it, throw me in that "better than they deserve" crowd.
Only 7% of Republican respondents believe prisoners were being treated unfairly, while 30% of Democrats and 22% of Independents believed the same. Someone lookup disparity in Websters, then let's compare notes about how our American prisoners are being treated by the same people our prisoners represent.
Better yet, let's send Amnesty International to visit American prisoners in the Middle East.
Good luck talking to a lopped-off head or a woman who was so brutally gang raped, that the government simply will not tell you the extent of her physical and emotional damages because Americans can't handle that little truth. Then compare that to honey and dates - and then tell me who's got their perspective F'd up beyond all recognition.
Backtrack to: Three Bad Fingers § The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
Michael Crook, Anti-American
Michael Crook of forsakethetroops.info is an anti-American piece of shit.
See his interview with Hannity, here.
See his interview with Hannity, here.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Durbin Apologizes
"More than most people, a senator lives by his words ... occasionally words fail us, occasionally we will fail words"
"I am sorry if anything I said caused any offense or pain to those who have such bitter memories of the Holocaust, the greatest moral tragedy of our time. Nothing, nothing should ever be said to demean or diminish that moral tragedy."
"I am also sorry if anything I said cast a negative light on our fine men and women in the military ... I never ever intended any disrespect for them. Some may believe that my remarks crossed the line to them I extend my heartfelt apology."
"After reading the horrible details in that memo which characterized the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo, I then, on my own, my own words, made some characterizations about that memo ... I have come to understand that was a very poor choice of words." (FNC)
I'm not accepting any apologies from a guy who compares me and my comrades to Soviets in their gulags, Nazis, or Pol Pot - but at least he has the courage to apologize, which is more than I can say for those that jumped on his bandwagon.
Maybe some of that courage will rub-off on his subversive band of "patriotic" anti-military hate merchants who neither appreciate nor understand who paid for their Freedoms.
Backtrack to: Wizbang! § Captain's Quarters
"I am sorry if anything I said caused any offense or pain to those who have such bitter memories of the Holocaust, the greatest moral tragedy of our time. Nothing, nothing should ever be said to demean or diminish that moral tragedy."
"I am also sorry if anything I said cast a negative light on our fine men and women in the military ... I never ever intended any disrespect for them. Some may believe that my remarks crossed the line to them I extend my heartfelt apology."
"After reading the horrible details in that memo which characterized the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo, I then, on my own, my own words, made some characterizations about that memo ... I have come to understand that was a very poor choice of words." (FNC)
I'm not accepting any apologies from a guy who compares me and my comrades to Soviets in their gulags, Nazis, or Pol Pot - but at least he has the courage to apologize, which is more than I can say for those that jumped on his bandwagon.
Maybe some of that courage will rub-off on his subversive band of "patriotic" anti-military hate merchants who neither appreciate nor understand who paid for their Freedoms.
Backtrack to: Wizbang! § Captain's Quarters
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