Posted on 01/27/2006 5:52:09 PM PST by abigail2
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 27, 2006
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Judicial Watch Statement on Verdict in Jesse Jackson Civil Rights Trial
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton offered the following statement regarding the unfavorable verdict reached today in the civil rights lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch against Jesse Jackson on behalf of Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson:
“While the jury did not find in our favor, we are pleased that Jesse Jackson was finally held accountable for his behavior in a court of law. The jury obviously was torn, as it was deadlocked at one point, and it took much longer than expected to reach a verdict. The last thing Jesse Jackson wanted was to stand trial for participating in an attack against Reverend Peterson. He employed every legal tactic at his disposal to deny Reverend Peterson his day in court, and he failed.
“This verdict does not speak to Jackson’s moral liability for the assault on Reverend Peterson. After the nearly two-week long trial, there is little doubt that Jesse Jackson instigated and participated in an unprovoked attack on Reverend Peterson. In the end, Jesse Jackson had to account for his actions to a judge and jury, and that is no small victory for justice. As a result of this litigation, Americans are better educated about Jackson’s corruption.
“Reverend Peterson is to be commended for his courage in pursuing his lawsuit against Jesse Jackson. Reverend Peterson is a man of high moral character whose life and career stand in contrast to Jesse Jackson and his long history of unethical behavior. I also commend Judicial Watch’s legal team, which labored mightily and successfully to hold Jesse Jackson accountable under the law.”
Judicial Watch is a non-partisan educational foundation organized under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue code. Judicial Watch is dedicated to fighting government and judicial corruption and promoting a return to ethics and morality in our nation's public life.
Reverend Peterson is a great American! I really admire his persistence and sincerity.
And I wanted them to win this one.
Me too Drango...I AM surprised.
And that makes the 0 for what?
0 for 1,893,724 or something like that.
The streak is alive...
You know, to all you complainers...I'm proud of Judicial Watch and Rev. Peterson...what are you doing? It wasn't many years ago that no one was suing these people, that no one would say anything bad about JJ. Jesse Jackson was unchallenged.
LOL!!! Why am I not surprised?
Well, two things I'm NOT doing:
1)I'm not suckering people to donate money to support myself.
And
2) I'm not filing lawsuits by convincing my clients they have a chance to win in court when they don't.
I am NOT saying the Reverend's suit didn't have merit, but if it did, it's the first one JW has filed that did.
Amen about Reverend Peterson.
(suckers)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look to good, nor talk too wise.
If you can dream-and not make dreams your master,
If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knave to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools.
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss,
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them, "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings-nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor friends can hurt you,
If all lmen count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And...which is more...you'll be a Man, my son!
How do you know?
I forgot to ping you janetgreen. How are you?
JUDICIAL WATCH IS A SCAM.....ALL THEY DO IS SUCK IN DONORS' MONEY
Hi for anyone who is interested in L.A. area...Jesse is on KFI now! John Zigler show.
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