No, we just disagree with you. There’s a difference, believe it or not.
See, another way of looking at this is as follows: Baker is about the only (weasel words – I believe he’s the only one) black official in Georgia who’s elected statewide. And about the only Democrat. (There are black officials in the legislator, of course, but they are elected by their districts, as are black judges, etc.)
As such, he needs white votes as well as black votes. So he saw this as an opportunity to get some crossover white votes in Georgia’s increasingly Republican, increasingly lily white government. That’s why he appealed. The precedent may be bad, but historically Georgia officials have given a shit about bad precedent. Frex, I give you the DAs who happily prosecuted cases under a statewide anti-strip club law that was so badly written that the Georgia Supreme Court fond it unconstitutional on the grounds that if enforced as written, it would forbid people to take showers in the nude or change their baby’s diapers.
Yes, he sure screwed the pooch on this one. That doesn’t prove he knew he would be screwing the pooch when he made the appeal, or that he isn’t hoping for some white voters to remember him for it come election time.
Seems to me there must be a better way of resolving this legal issue that doesn’t involve further ruining a kid’s life. If you act the asshole, you ought to be willing to be called an asshole.
Nope. Take a look at the Georgia Supreme Court Both Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears and Justice Benham won handily when challeneged by white opponents. (Though judicial elections are officially non-partisan, Sears and Benham entered office as Democratic appointees. Their challengers in subsequent elections were strongly backed by the Republican party, and did not hesitate to play the race card. Voters handed the challengers their heads.)
Ridiculous. It was well known that voters were outraged by the Genarlow Wilson situation. That voter outrage is what led the legislature (the majority white, majority Republican legislature) to rewrite the law.
Baker knew that he was flying into the teeth of this voter outrage when he filed his appeal. Defending Georgia’s sentencing procedures under the circumstances actually took a lot of courage.
As I said, the bond hearing is July 5. Stay tuned.
I just quoted that part so you could read it and perhaps benefit from it.
Bigoted assumptions should be cahllenged on all fronts.
:eek: My god. This is not the Pit, so I will be polite. Yes, I perused quite a bit of that web site. Several pages are quite enlightening. At least one had a posed professional portrait of the A.G. I saw that. I read other web pages. I wrote my post. You are free to believe anything you wish, however I know what I did, and in what order I did it.
I did not use the phrase " Uncle Tom". I was referring to something written by Evil Captor. No attempt at revisionism here, I don’t play that dodge. Nice shot, though. A for effort !
–cough cough-- You mean like if someone were to say to a total stranger,
Like that kind of a thing? Gosh. I just couldn’t agree more !!
You know nothing about me, my background, ideology, life, family, etc. And yet you sail in here saying I am predisposed to racism.
Okay, I understand that there is a point of law at stake here, but what is the purpose of keeping him in prison until July 5? I don’t think the kid should spend three more weeks in prison because of a jurisdiction issue. Can’t they issue him an appearance ticket for the bond hearing or something?
Who is “they?” The whole purpose of the bond hearing is for “them” to decide whether the kid should be freed pending the appeal.
And the thing is, despite all the publicity, this is not the only guy in Georgia who has an issue to take up with the court. The judge has dozens of other cases before him (both civil lawsuits and criminal matters) and can’t drop everything to take up this case every time the press hollers. A couple of weeks is not an unreasonable amount of time to wait for a bond hearing, after which the kid may well be released pending appeal.
In the meantime, I suggest you vent your frustration (which I share, by the way)to the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, since they’re the only ones who could free the kid without wading through the court system.
Yeah, spoke has it. The whole point of a pardon is to correct unjustices in the law without corrupting or damaging the process of the law itself. The law in question has already been fixed, and for various individually good reasons, we can’t just bend or break things like ex post facto. What we can do is grant a special pardon from a punishment I think most people would agree, including the current legislature, is unjust (frankly, I think any time served at all for a minor getting a blowjob from another minor only two years younger than you and basically in the same peer group is ridiculous too, but that isn’t the law).
OH! So it is okay for the all-star, high-school jock, to get under-age girls drunk,
and then screw them, but the class misfit has to fester at home with his copy
of SMUT cranking his shaft. That is exactly how events like Columbine arise.
