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2006 Archives Another Viewpoint: Burlingame contends the Prosecutors could not have predicted her bad behavior. So what? Whether she was a key part of the team or a handyman is irrelevant. The case is still contaminated. That may be a tough pill for the prosecutors, but we are either lawful people or we are not. We cannot have it both ways. Burlingame used to be an attorney and she does have a special interest in this case. Her brother was the pilot of the American Airlines flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon on that fateful September 11. I'm sure she would like to see the death penalty as much as I would, but it's not about revenge, it's about law. While we are here, let us consider this Moussaoui dirt-bag. What does he want? Why did he confess? It should be clear even to a government lawyer, that he wants to be a martyr. So, in a way, executing him plays right into his plan. Perhaps we should consider what would be the most ignoble way for him to go. In all of the fiction I have read garroting is the most ignoble way out. There is nothing heroic about it. Well, we can't do that. It is still about law, but what is the next most ignoble way to go. I would guess it would be to rot in prison with no one on the outside ever knowing about your sacrifice. For him, life in prison with no audience would be the meanest thing we could do. Let's send him to Gitmo! California: Granholm Again: I Give Up: The most distinguishing difference between the accumulated crud who are running our country now and our founders is their integrity. Our founders had it and these people lack it. Our founders were not rabble. They were, in fact, the elite of America. Our only real hope of reform is to some how create a Groundswell type of forum outside this completely corrupted political system and return power to the elite. Until that happens, I will continue to try to identify and vote against the most evil of them. In the near future I will be posting and maintaining my vote against list on my home page. Statutory Rape: What is it that makes people think the psychic scars on that boy would be any less terrible than the scars a girl would suffer? A boy may handle it differently but there will be permanent damage. A girl will shrink emotionally after that kind of encounter. That can be considered as a shriveling of the personality. A boy might bluff, brag, and bluster after that kind of encounter. That can only be considered to be a tumorous growth on his personality. In both case there is permanent damage. At the same time this woman was getting a slap on the wrist for rape, a man who committed arson was facing a sentence of 10 years. Tell me which is the most heinous crime? I am all for equality of the sexes. If a man should get 15 years in prison for statutory rap, and he should, then a woman should get the same punishment. Also the prison facilities should be equal. All time should be hard time. There should be no rest farms for women or men. Equality! That's all I ask. There is no reason in the world to treat people differently because of their sex or their age. Treating people differently because of physical differences is the definition of discrimination. Reading: A challenge:
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