Posted on 09/16/2005 3:42:58 PM PDT by Jean S
Bingo. My thoughts also.
Thanks for the Ping PA.
another thread on the Guilty Verdict.
Excellent! Good work to the jury members. It appears that many fears held here were misplaced.
After reading a little bit of Vangs testimony I had little doubt that he would be convicted.
"I know quite a few and they have been curiously quiet about this case."
Do not you assume they are embarrased?
" If they jury had found him not guilty, the Anglo population would revolt."
? When's the last time the "Anglo population" revolted following a verdict?
He's guilty and no other vedict could be rendered.
Sad case? You bet! 6 people were killed in cold blood
An older friend of mine told me that when Berkowitz was caught, many of his fellow Jews went out of there way to prove that he was half-Jewish (he was adopted) until that was proven otherwise. No ethnic community wants to be identified with a mass murderer (as opposed to gangsta).
Thank the Lord for small miracles!
Yeh - shooting four unarmed people in the back is a little hard to sell as "self-defense."
You are welcome!
On, Wisconsin...
Unfortunately, we don't have the death penalty in Wisconsin.
First of all, why should I care about the feelings of his "community" when 6 people are dead at his hands? How about the grief of the victims' families and friends? That's what I care about.
Second, can you explain your disdain for, and ignorance of, "Anglos?"
Probably because they were aware of him being a pyscho to begin with.
The Hmong communities reaction is irrelevant. The issue was about whether or not a man took it upon himself to take the lives of 8 unsuspecting, innocent hunters, four of whom were shot in the back. Had he been found innocent, Anglo, Asians, Polynesians, etc. would have every right to voice their outrage.
Should the Hmong community react in objection over the verdict would speak poorly of their sincere sense of justice.
I understand that there may be FR's out there that would say the Hmong's know all about "sense of justice", given their history, but history doesn't justify a criminal act. This was indeed criminal, and justice was served.
The "Anglo" reference is not mine but the previous poster's, to whom I responded. It seems to be loosely used to mean "everybody else BUT the particular ethnic group under discussion." But, with that said, I don't think that very many social/ethnic groups that have been here a long time have the same insular attitude or a concept of a communal "face" to be damaged or lost.
. . . speaking as a Hiberno-Caledonio-Anglo-American, of course. < g >
No evidence for that.
I only wish that the "Anglo" or better yet, "American" population would revolt against the massive importation of people from utterly alien, inferior cultures.
"In the courtroom, the tie goes to the defendant," Kohn said.
Neck tie?
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