Posted on 02/25/2008 11:33:18 AM PST by Syncro
CHICAGO — What punishment should be imposed on a man who shot a police officer almost 40 years ago and fled to Canada, but went on to live an upstanding life as a husband and father who worked in a library?
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In 2004, he was arrested, but fought extradition. Last month he gave up that fight, saying he was inspired by the new political climate he saw in Chicago, symbolized, he said, by the support of Mayor Richard M. Daley and other political leaders for the presidential candidacy of Senator Barack Obama.
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Thirty days for shooting a cop, a small payoff and no apologly to his victim.
Much of the $250,000 in contributions came from supporters in Canada and criminal-defense lawyers in Cook County, Pannell's attorney, Neil Cohen said. Pannell also put in "a great deal" of his own money, said Cohen, who declined to be more specific.
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“Something good had to come out of this,” Mr. Knox said Friday, after watching Mr. Pannell accept the deal during a hearing in a Cook County courthouse.
“The easy way out would have been to have a trial, and cost this county hundreds of thousands of dollars, have him go to jail, and cost the prison system hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Mr. Knox said.
I wonder if this writer is any relation to Ira Einhorn. Ira Einhorn was the founder of Earth Day. He also murdered his girlfriend and stuffed her body in a chest in his closet, and when discovered, escaped to France. There he lived for about 20 years under the protection of the French, who would not extradite him because his was a capital case.
“Accept my non-violent environmental rhetoric or I’ll kill you” seems to be a popular mindset
But fail to pay a speeding ticket and they will go out of their way to arrest you and throw you in jail.
They killed people. They were planning to place a large bomb in a major building on Fort Dix New Jersey but as the bomb was being made it exploded and killed three of the gang including the then girl friend of terrorist Ayers.
They went underground and used student loans to go to college. She is now a lawyer and a university professor and he is a university professor.
They were never tried for their terrorist actions and today brag about their actions.
Killing police in New York then must not be the crime it is today.
Following in Angela Davis' footsteps, huh?
“I wonder if this writer is any relation to Ira Einhorn.”
Exactly the same question that came to my mind.
There's a risk in someone seeking satisfaction so that must gnaw at them from time to time ~ not like a conscience or anything so bourgeoise as that, but more like the creeping fear you have when you just know someone or something is out there lurking, lurking, lurking.
Or, in short, for these people with the bombs to live in the open it's probably just a matter of time until a private individual does what the government is not capable of doing.
Plus, every time a bomb goes off within 100 miles of any one of them the cops come around to question them.
This cop shooter in Canada is going to shortly find himself on a first name basis with most the Mounties in Ontario!
The punishment should be the same it would have been 40 yrs ago.
Last month he gave up that fight, saying he was inspired by the new political climate he saw in Chicago, symbolized, he said, by the support of Mayor Richard M. Daley and other...
I think this guy has been in the boonies way too long.
Having read this a couple of times I’m beginning to think he wants to come back here because he is getting older, and wants to escape the Canadian health care system.
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