One thing he had been steadfast on is his stance on the death penalty. He says he supports a moratorium on the death penalty at the federal level. Which means there would soon be a national moratorium on the death penalty, because of the liberal social engineering judges and Supreme Court Justices he'd appoint.
He is OPPOSED to the death penalty for non-terrorist who would murder an American child, even a 5-year-old.
As the mother of a murdered 16 year old son, Jeremy Peter Flachbart, who was brutally murdered by a sociopath wanting to see what it felt like to kill, I am alarmed and APPALLED by this man who would be our president soft attitude toward crime, who would eliminate a form of punishment for a horrific crime.
He says HE FEELS MY PAIN.
Horse Feathers! he can't feel my pain, he hasn't had a child brutally murdered. He only was a junior prosecutor from 1976-78. He didn't loose a Loved One to homicide.
There is a hole in my heart and in my life created by the brutal murder of my beloved child.
To me he is soft on crime just as Mike Dukakis who furloughed that brutal killer Willie Horton was.
Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Kerry was irresponsible in blindly accepting the fraudulent claim that 111 innocents have been released from death row. As has been repeatedly proven, this innocent claim is a fraud pushed by the anti death penalty movement.
This does not speak well to his ability to be responsible on major policy issues.
"Kerry say 111 were found innocent from death row via DNA. If so, that is even more absurd. It is 12." But, for solid evidence of actual innocence, my evidence and that from others indicates its from 17-30. I use 30 to be on the safe side." Dudley Sharp, Resource Director with Justice For All 713-935-9300.
Sincerely,
In memory of Jeremy Peter Flachbart
Gail Keasling (Freeper GailA)
KING: I've done a lot of shows recently dealing with the death of little children. A person who kills a 5-year-old should live?
KERRY: Larry, my instinct is to want to strangle that person with my own hands. I understand the instincts, I really do. I prosecuted people. I know what the feeling of the families is and everybody else.
But we have 111 people who have been now released from death row -- death row, let alone the rest of the prison system -- because of DNA evidence that showed they didn't commit the crime of which they were convicted.
After spending -- I myself worked to get a person out of jail who had been there for 15 years for a murder that person did not commit.
Now, our system has made mistakes, and it's been applied in a way that I think is wrong.
Secondly, I don't believe that, in the end, you advance the, sort of, level of your justice and the system of your civility as a nation -- and many other nations in the world, most of the other nations in the world, have adopted that idea, that the state should not engage in killing.
(APPLAUSE)
Because they have very bad memories of what happens when the state engages in killing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10722-2004Feb26_2.html
I thought it was a "law enforcement" issue or an intelligence matter. And appending the "decorated veteran" tag to everything is really getting old. I don't seem to recall Bill Clinton's "don't ask/don't tell" policy being reported as the brainchild of "President Clinton, Vietnam draft dodger," or "President Clinton, military loather."
I like to think of it as "permanent rehabilitation. It is."
That said, Kerry is an idiot on this issue as he appears to be on all others.
Does the name Ted Kennedy come to mind?