Posted on 03/02/2011 7:29:08 PM PST by massmike
A California parole board has denied parole for Robert F. Kennedy’s convicted assassin, Sirhan Sirhan.
The decision came Wednesday after a hearing before a California parole board at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Kennedy did die, you might recall and Reagan did not. ____________________________________________
Weren’t the intentions the same?
“Some animals ARE more equal than others! *SPIT*”
You failed to take into account party affiliation of the shootee.
“Kennedy did die, you might recall and Reagan did not.”
Reagan was the U.S. President, you might recall, and Kennedy was not.
One is a lesser charge thus would have a lesser penalty.
As for this comment specifically:
Oh, for Pete’s Sake...attempted murder on a Republican is STILL OK in your book?
Words fail me as how that assumption can be made by any logically thinking person.
Another way to look at it is that someone who wanted Reagan dead was found to be insane, and someone who wanted a Kennedy dead wasn’t. I’ll leave any conclusions from those facts as an exercise for the reader . . . .
“The difference is “murder” vs. “attempted murder”.
One is a lesser charge thus would have a lesser penalty.”
One can make a death threat against Joe Blow with a few consequences. A death threat against a sitting President is a Federal Offense. Shooting RFK and shooting the President are not the same thing.
"...who was advised not to talk about the actions of Sirhan Sirhan or the FBI’s extensive questioning of the prisoner beginning on September 12, 2001 and lasting for 3 weeks ..."
Maybe they asked them all already?
Neither is: Killing RFK and shooting the President.
Maybe he should have been sent to Club Gitmo where they could question him in a more persuasive way.
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