Posted by
Gene on Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:53:50 AM
There may be something about Mary but there is definitely something about judges. Perhaps the job, the power, the judicial robes go their heads? Who knows?
The Supreme Court of the United States has made more than its share of screwy decisions, from the Dred Scott miscarriage of justice to the horror of Roe v. Wade and its subsequent result of 50,000,000 legal murders of the pre-born to its recent decision that child rapists can’t be executed.
On my local scene, I still recall Judge “Cut ‘Em Loose Bruce” who was notorious for his years of insane siding with low-lifes over New York City Police and would free the most vile offenders to allow those predators to wreak their horrors on the innocent public until he was finally deposed.
Recently, Vermont judges (and legislators) have been in some news, (I say some since most mainstream media refuse to report it), for ignoring the rights and well being of children, more precisely, their right not to be sexually molested and raped. Vermont State District Court Judge Edward Cashman demonstrated that misplaced empathy in sentencing a guy to 60 days in prison for repeated sexual involvement with a girl from the time she was six until she was ten, when he was caught. (Cashman ultimately resigned in disgrace and denial.)
(http://media.www.vermontcynic.com/media/storage/paper308/news/2006/01/24/News/Vermont.Judge.Sentences.Convicted.Child.Rapist.To.60Day.Sentence-1503039.shtml)
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