Tuesday, March 27th, 2007...4:43 pm
So, Is This Going to be the All Purpose Excuse?
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Tonight’s All Things Considered includes a story about Dennis Hastert’s gripe that Paul Charlton wouldn’t prosecute marijuana smuggling cases of less than 500 pounds. The host interviewed our own Barbara Lawall to find out how this affected local prosecutors.
She complained about the “triage” that she must engage in because she is forced to devote personel and resources to the prosecution of what should be federal marijuana smuggling cases. This takes away resources from other cases, and she rattled off a list of rape, burglary and “gang banging.”
So, now will this be the excuse for her dropping those 236 domestic violence cases in 2005 (the last year I have numbers for)? It’s all Paul Charlton’s fault?
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March 27th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
No! No! No! It’s all Bill Clinton’s fault.
March 27th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Babara LaWall has got to go. She defends the Bush Administrations firing of U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton by criticising him the same way the Bush Administration justified his firing. Is she a Democrat or a Dino (Democrat in name only). Everyone knows the reason Charlton was let go was because he was investigating Republican Congressman Rick Renzi of Arizona for corruption. Renzi, a well known Bushie, wanted Charleton out of the way so he would not be indicted. As a result, Bush who campaigned for Renzi last year sacked Charleton. It had nothing to do with not prosecuting marijuana cases. Charleton was under pressure to prosecute illegal immigration cases and did not have the resources to do it all. Now LaWall wades in on the side of Bush and lends credibility to the firing by shooting her mouth off on NPR. The Republicans, Bush and Alberto Gonzales thank you Barbara for a job well done.
March 28th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Oh hell, this is rich. I am sorry but with the amount of drugs and size of shipments that come across this border (and a border policed by thousands of agents and billions of dollars worth of equipment), there is no way in hell that Charlton could prosecute much under 50lbs. Yeah…thats a whoooooooooole lot of weeds folks, but if they went after everyone that brought that here in Arizona, there’d be no jail space or court time for anything but. That would include rapes, murders, and a host of others.
Give us more judges, more agents, more more more more…at taxpayer expense and he might have been able to prosecute people bringing in 25lbs….maybe.
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