Good riddance

[WileEcoyote]

Another republican pedophile commits suicide.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071006/ap_on_re_us/prosecutor_sex_sting;_ylt=Ag46BI2IHhOZCxBO7cM7YSRvzwcF

This was the Republican Assistant District Attorney appointee from Florida who crossed state lines in or to attempt to molest a five year old girl. Was an FBI sting operation actually/

He'd tried to kill himself earlier and was on suicide watch at the time. Well shucks even the criminal justice system makes a mistake once in a while.

I always get mixed feelings about these matters. At least he spared the tax dollars his inevitable conviction would cost him. That and the tons of money required to incarcerate him the rest of his days.

Now if the GOP would ever address the epidemic of child abuse within their own ranks. Won't hold my breath though...

[deadmessengers]

1. Well, regardless of how his trial turned out...

This guy's life was over either way. His picture and name were spread all over the media, and regardless of what might have happened if he did get a fair and free trial before a jury of his peers, he was pretty much screwed. Were I in the same situation (and, of course, I'm not trolling the Internet for 5-year-olds so it's highly unlikely that I ever will be) I probably would have done the same thing - there's no going back from an arrest like that.

[bluestateguy]

2. Do we know for certain that he was a Republican?

He wasn't THE US Attorney, which would have made him a political (Bush) appointee. Rather, he was just a rank and file prosecutor, meaning that he might not be a political appointee.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. I've seen it mentioned elsewhere that he was repub.

No links, tho.

[WileEcoyote]

7. I've seen the link somewhere

It's a case of guilt through association.

We know that republicans have a higher incidence of child molestation. hardly a week goes by when someone doesn't get exposed for this.

And a U.S. Attorney (under Bush) surely wouldn't appoint anyone but another republican die hard. it's how they work.

The only U.S. Attorney I ever met had a smirk and curly black hair. Looked like his head would scrub a toilet well. Which is basically what the jerk did figuratively speaking.

I skated though (thank GOD!)

[Bluerthanblue]

9. this kind of bigotry is as abhorrent to me

as any other kind.

"it's how theywork"- "we know that republicans have a higher incidence of child molestation"-
'the only (U.S.A.) I ever met had a smirk and curly black hair."


How sad that you are so quick to dismiss others as worthless simply by the way you "see" them- or by what they do for a living- or by the fact that "they" are one of "them"-

I hope you are able to overcome your prejudice.


I dislike your perception- you are more than your opinion on this issue- Just as each person is far more than the aspect of them we choose to use to prove how evil 'they' are and how 'good' we are.

Child molestation is a crime I despise.

But so is rejoicing in the suicide of a person out of despair.

I wish you peace~

[WileEcoyote]

12. Whenever Democrats make a firing squad

they form in a circle.

I'm sorry but I have never lost sleep because a child molester committed suicide.

The U.S. Attorney I once met is a dick head. Can't remember his name. His permanent body guard both dressed and looked like a jack booted Nazi. Him I remember. An FBI agent named Derrick Price. Room temperature IQ, complete walking violator of civil liberties.

They're reading this post too. Or eventually they will.

You tax dollars at work.

Please folks: Get TOUGH! Bite back hard as nails. Pull no punches against the republican cretins and go for the throat always.

What more do you have to lose?

[Bluerthanblue]

16. what more do you have to lose?

the only thing that is "yours" to begin with-

Yourself-


i've lost much sleep in my life. but i refuse to relinquish my soul in exchange for "revenge"-

It is a very poor trade.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness- hatred cannot drive out hatred- only love can.

The man who shared this thinking with us, gave up his life rather than become a part of that which destroyed him.
he also said:

"Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.

John Donne caught it years ago and placed it in graphic terms: "No man is an island entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." And he goes on toward the end to say, "Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." We must see this, believe this, and live by it if we are to remain awake through a great revolution."

--Martin Luther King, Jr., Remaining Awake Through A Great Revolution

The man who killed himself, obviously didn't understand this concept- and now he is dead- You and I have a choice to make- We can choose to look at others who act in ways which hurt us, or anger us, and respond in a way that diminishes who we are- If we do that then we have indeed lost.
I'm not saying this man should have walked free- He should have been brought to trial, and if found guilty have had to face the consequences of his actions- Joking about his death, labeling others who 'we' have chosen to hate as the ones who bear the responsibility for all the malice and ugly actions in this world, is pretty ego-centric, and hypocritical don't you think?

hate is an equal opportunity destroyer

i wish you wisdom and peace~

[Katherine Brengle]

3. No mixed feelings here. All rapists should do society a favor and off themselves.

[TomInTib]

4. Amen to that.

Hell, I would have gladly wrapped my arms around his knees and added 170lbs of downward force.

[TomInTib]

5. "suicide watch". Your tax dollars at work.

Maybe he bribed the guards.

I would have watched him dangle for a few thousand dollars.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

8. his lawyer had him taken off

suicide watch apparently. I was not aware that was a possibility, that you could have yourself taken off suicide watch, but he requested and got what he wanted. The whole thing seems fishy to me, especially the bullet proof vest he was wearing in his mug shot. I can understand being placed in protection while in transport to and from court, but mug shots are usually taken while in the belly of the beast so to speak. Very strange.

[TomInTib]

10. What???

Everything about that is just not SOP.

What you wrote flies in the face of everything I know about suicide watch and standard booking procedure.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

11. I know

very unusual on a lot of counts.

[WileEcoyote]

13. Probably did him a favor

The right to die.

Think of how long this man struggled with his sociopathic compulsions. Again: his lawyer did him a favor.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

14. I would have preferred that he be tried

and convicted, if guilty; not allowed to kill himself and escape justice if his boastings of having molested/raped many other children are true.

[WileEcoyote]

15. Well if they "worked" him

to out other predators it would have been the smart more. Wave the carrot and the stick.

Pedophillia in the GOP and the criminal justice system leadership is rampant anyway. Chances are fair to good the man was threatened with torture inside the slammer because he was expected to rat out others.