I was going to make a post about what the legal ramifications can be on the heels of Pima County’s Sheriff Clarence Dupnik making quite outlandish and subjective statements and opinions about the motivations behind the massacre that occurred in Tucson, Arizona yesterday. Megyn Kelly interviewed the Sheriff earlier today.
However, since Mr. Johnson said it so succintly, I will just say “…what he said.”
He’s also correct that the Sheriff may be issued a gag order by the courts if he doesn’t shut his stupid trap. He’s an official who is ACTIVELY part of this investigation, and he’s making public statements about his opinions on motive? He must recuse himself when the trial does eventually happen.
In his capacity as Sheriff, this man is COMPLETELY out of line voicing his opinion and/or political views, and this is the exact reason why most law enforcement agencies have Public Information Officers. This idiot could possibly jeapordize the entire investigation, because the defense can reject any evidentiary investigation the Sheriff himself has done, as he’s already stated his subjective opinion in this matter.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Office should have their PIO out there talking to the media; not the Sheriff who is already involved in this investigation. Politics should NEVER EVER be a part of any horrific criminal act such as this…much less coming from the lead law enforcement officer himself.
God speed to Gabrielle Giffords, and I pray she has a full recovery. And God speed healing to the Green family for the loss of their beautiful, bright daughter, Christina, whose life was taken by a single bullet to the chest.
Man, oh, man, this is just heartwrenching. Roxanna Green, mother of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who was one of the ones murdered yesterday in Tucson, Arizona, spoke to Gretchen Carlson this morning on Fox & Friends. This mother is going through the horror no mother or parent should ever have to go through – the death of a child.
The psychopath who did this, Jared Loughner, was arraigned today in Federal Court. There is a special place in hell for people like this. But, for now, we must clear our hearts to be filled with prayer for the Green family and all the families of those killed and injured yesterday. May God be with them all.
This idiot needs to have his PIO doing these press conferences, because political feelings have no place for an official who is involved in or participating in an investigation of this magnitude. His feelings are obviously raw, but the public podium is no place to pontificate about how a person feels one way or the other politically about any particular issue.
The victims in this horrific case deserve more respect.
Sheriff, shut your trap and follow FBI Director Mueller’s lead: Just the facts, please.
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Listen…I’m no fan of Obama, and like Mark Levin, I’d vote for a can of orange juice before I’d vote for Obama in 2012. Somewhere along the way, just because our president is black, videos like this are becoming more mainstream and more acceptable on YouTube and other sites, and it should not be.
This is tastleless to the n’th degree, but if it’s okay for black people to do this, how is anything ANY of the Republican candidates do remotely deemed racist at all?
If this country ever truly wants to progress and become a more civilized nation, why is trash like this even tolerated? I’m not asking for this garbage to be censored, but I’d love to see at least SOME condemnation of things like this to be more prevalent. Can we please all agree this is unacceptable in a civilized world? You cannot condemn one group of people for being allegedly “racist” while simultaneously approving of another group of people for creating videos such as this, villifying a single race of people in the process of glorifying the creators of these videos? One need only search certain terms on YouTube to find thousands of videos like this one. And they’re all equally disgusting.
What say you, Eugene Robinson, Goldie Taylor, Donna Brazile, Marc Lamont Hill, etc., etc.? I’m waiting for you all to openly condemn videos like this on YouTube. If you don’t, then I have no reason to listen to your small and petty complaints of racism from Fox News, Republicans as a whole, and GOP candidates in the 2012 primary. Your silence about videos like this are tacit approval of them.
As is said in many places, “hilarity ensues” (h/t Mediaite):
Frances Martel does a fabulous write-up about it, and I couldn’t have said it any better, so here it is direct from the Mediaite post:
“Are you offended?” O’Reilly asked Harpootlian, who replied that he was not, but that he found the fact that Republicans had “no outreach to African Americans” a problem “in a state where we have an African-American Republican Congressman.” “Adding insult to injury, this debate ignoring Martin Luther King’s birthday!” he added, which made O’Reilly ask who was ignoring the debate and why. The Republicans, Harpootlian replied, because “no one has raised any issue with Fox about it being appropriate or inappropriate.”
O’Reilly then asked whether there was a reason for this– namely, something that happened in 2008. Harpootlian did not remember what happened in 2008 (a Democratic primary debate on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) and who sponsored it (the Congressional Black Caucus), which prompted several awkward seconds where Harpootlian was obviously caught flat-footed. With this development, O’Reilly then told him that, “by injecting race into this, you do a disservice.” Harpootlian finally replied, blaming Republicans for injecting race into the matter by calling this “the most important election since 1860.” “We in the South have a little different version of that election,” he noted, suggesting that talking to Southerners in such a way was a sort of dog whistle. O’Reilly disagreed and just asked Harpootlian to give it up, adding, “you’re getting killed here!”
Today on Neil Cavuto, radio talk show host and constitutional scholar, Mark Levin was on to discuss his new book, “Ameritopia.”
Levin’s previous book, “Liberty and Tyranny” was a best-seller, as was another book before that titled, “Men in Black.” “Liberty and Tyranny” is a must-read for anybody who wants to know how we got to the point where we are in America today.
I’ve been stewing on this and stewing on this figuring out the right way to convey how I feel about it, and I’ve been struggling with just the right words to describe my sentiment. I read a fabulous screed by Deebow over at BlackFive, but it wasn’t until I saw the headline in a Weekly Standard piece today that quoted Lt. Col. Allen West (R-FL) on this matter. I couldn’t have said it better myself:
‘Shut Your Mouth, War Is Hell’
Yes, you got that right. Congressman West has weighed in on this flap over the Marines taking a piss on dead Taliban terrorists, sending an email to the Weekly Standard, who got his permission to print what he said. Here’s a portion of his commentary:
“All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?
“The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.
“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”
I’m not even quite sure that what the Marines did was wrong, but since when in the hell did we become so indignant and self-righteously outraged about treating killers like they deserve to be treated? Sure, they probably shouldn’t have videotaped what they did, but who the hell cares? And don’t give me this “don’t stoop to their level” B.S. either. Until you have been in the shoes of our warriors, or our first responders (cops, firefighters, etc.), or, heck, even ever been a crime victim yourself, you have no idea what you would do, given the same circumstances.
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