Posted on 10/06/2005 6:53:07 PM PDT by rawhide
DELAYTEST ON DELAY
You've heard this one, haven't you? Well, maybe not. I'm not sure --- just guessing --- but this won't make it to the Washington Post or the New York Times, unless you find it buried in the lower inside corner of page 25. It's about the foreman of the Texas grand jury that returned that first indictment on Tom Delay. The foreman's name is William Gibson. He is in his mid-70s. Yesterday morning he told our Austin affiliate KLBJ that he had made up his mind to indict Tom Delay long before he heard one piece of evidence presented by prosecutor Ronnie Earle. And why was he determined to indict Tom Delay? Because, it seems, he didn't like some campaign advertisements that Delay ran in the newspapers during his last reelection campaign. Here's what Gibson told KLBJ:
All this came out way before I was on the grand jury, these (ads) were in your paper, in Austin paper, everyone else's paper, they was flooding the market around here. But those were way before I ever went on the grand jury and my decision was based upon those, not what might have happened in the grand jury room. So .. here you have the foreman of the first grand jury to indict Delay making a rather astonishing admission that his decision was made on the bases of campaign ads he just didn't like.
Wait! There's more!...(continued below)
Since his lawyer has not made a public statement on the law date, Delay is milking this for all it's worth!
Austin - Bezerkly on the Colorado River
It's not been that way in the past because nobody has really abused the powers the way Ronnie Earle has before today.
The way the Colonies feared a central government before forming the the USA, the people of Texas feared the same thing. And they were an independent country for several years.
The Texas constitution decentralizes powers to the counties instead of putting it into the state. Consequently, the state government has relatively few powers, but the counties have enormous powers.
The bad side effect of this is that if you gain control of a county politically and want to abuse the system, you can. You can virtually turn a county into your private fiefdom.
Read The Rise and Fall of the Duke of Duval by William Sessions for an entertaining display of the problem.
Ronnie Earle is the first county official to take that power to go after federal officials. I think he's going to get squished like a bug, and the Texas Constitution is going to be amended.
He also manipulated the FDR FCC to steal the radio station that got him rich. The man is a pig, and an eternal stain on the state of Texas, forever, until our species dies out.
And there you have it. I just needed to get that off my chest. :)
Very odd indeed. I think he feels invulnerable because he is in one of those districts that proverbially would rather elect a yellow dog than a Republican. Whether he will get the same kind of respect on a national level remains to be seen.
We view LBJ identically almost. Theologically speaking, I think that pig has crossed the River Styx where he will spend eternity.
As a lagniappe, LBJ took his bribes, by having corporate interests who wanted the "right" legislation buy advertising on his radio station. Is that not simply brilliant? The white collar felonious mind at its apogee of talent is just so creative. It is a veritable art form.
BTW, since he's elected by the people of Travis county, but has jurisdiction over the whole state, isn't that unconstitutional?
Ask that to nominee Miers at the hearings. I don't have a clue.
The Texas Democratic Party has probably gotten its just rewards in the last 10 years for the many and various crimes that LBJ was involved in.
Problem is, the punishment's probably not over with yet. At least not until the national Democrat party moves far away from the clutches of the far left.
But here's the relevent citations. I've left out the eminations and penumbras.
IV.4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government
XIV.2: nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Historical trivia, I know...
Thanks. Controlling two counties is always better than one, all things being equal.
And there you have it.
And nobody said mathematicians weren't insane. We most certainly are. You'd think the profession that produced the Unabomber would get a little bit more respect. Or better, fear.
Hopefully, Earle will be slapped -- hard -- by a judge again, but this cannot continue to happen. I would have thought that this would have been taken care of after Kay Bailey Hutchinson had been maliciously prosecuted.
The whole "cash for dropping charges" thing gives convenient political cover for the Texas bar to get rid of him.
Delay will never have to face trial on this issue.
The matter of violation of Tom Delay's due process rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments will be decided by an intervening Federal Court which will likely quash the indictment, that is if the Texas court refuses to entertain or order a motion to quash this bogus
process.
Delay's lawyers will be seeking something called an order of Certiorari with Mandamus in aid.And all of a sudden it won't even be reported. Wing nut prosecutors, wing nut
special prosecutors and wing nut protestors will not stop Freepers from their appointed rounds.
The question I ask is will America face a civil war aginst these wing nuts? When will these wingnuts decide to pick up rifles instead of going to court or using the normal channels of protest, normal judicial procedure and a corrupt public media ? Heck, as far as Delay is concerned he was guilty, sentenced and hung? The man has done nothing not already done by others in the Rat fold.The chances of his conviction for the alleged offence were minimal , even if the indictment was not bogus.
These wing nut liberals are raving maniacs and it will get worse. As it gets worse, ordinary Americans will see it and vote GOP. What ordinary American would want these wing nuits in charge of our country ??
That was a bit shocking wasn't it? That reminds me of Louisiana too. Maybe Texas is Louisiana east. Dog Gone tells us that each county in Texas is a fiefdom. Which reminds me why I am a federalist. Localities with too much power can use and abuse, without the larger polity just saying no. And whole states can be cesspools too. Think about it.
Delay won't get into federal court unless and until he is in jail.
I can't be a federalist. I still bear a grudge against the first Adams administration.
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