Uh, small point, but the case was about the killing of an OFF DUTY police officer, not in POLICE uniform. That’s part of what makes this case so prejudicial about the “cop killer” inflammatory charge.
The toon does remind me of a Georgia “bully” I ran into a long time ago. His favorite “past time” was to beat up a small GI every weekend. One night he picked on a “small GI” who knew something he didn’t. The bully ended up in the hospital, woke up four months later, and was in and out of hospitals for another 16 months. He picked on the WRONG “small G.I.”.
The moral of the story is GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT, and don’t think just because you’re the “big kid on the block” you’re automatically going to win, or hold all the “moral prerogatives”.
Hmm, we’ve been in Iraq for 20 years now since GHW actually started that “war”, and we’re getting essentially nowhere in Afghanistan after 10 years. “Redneck recklessness” isn’t always smart.
I am not lying, you are doubly misinformed. First of all, if you are in fact referring to John Paul II (I can’t tell), statements by the Pope are automatically part of the Ordinary Magisterium. Let’s have a few quotes, shall we?Pope John Paul II, speaking in St. Louis in 1999 (where he successfully lobbied for clemency for a Missouri Death Row inmate; a similar request in 2001 for clemency for McVeigh was denied by President Bush), called for a “consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary.” In 2000, the US Bishops’ Conference urged all Catholics to “join organizations that work to curtail the death penalty…and those that call for its abolition” Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and Restoration,And thanks for bringing up the Catechism, which in fact supports my view:“2267 The traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude, presupposing full ascertainment of the identity and responsibility of the offender, recourse to the death penalty, when this is the only practicable way to defend the lives of human beings effectively against the aggressor. “If, instead, bloodless means are sufficient to defend against the aggressor and to protect the safety of persons, public authority should limit itself to such means, because they better correspond to the concrete conditions of the common good and are more in conformity to the dignity of the human person. “Today, in fact, given the means at the State’s disposal to effectively repress crime by rendering inoffensive the one who has committed it, without depriving him definitively of the possibility of redeeming himself, cases of absolute necessity for suppression of the offender ‘today … are very rare, if not practically non-existent.’[John Paul II, Evangelium vitae 56.]
So I may have exaggerated a bit. But today, you will not find the Church supporting the death penalty, and you will typically find it opposing it. Sorry, you still lose.
None of the idiot lefties who’re “Troy Davis” (who was found guilty of murder by a jury that had 7 Blacks out of 12 members in less than two hours) would have wanted Troy Davis to come live in THEIR neighborhoods. If they want to be “Troy Davis,” I suppose that’s a message to cops everywhere. The stupidity and hypocrisy of the left is mind-boggling.
None of the idiot lefties who’re “Troy Davis” would have wanted Troy Davis to come live in THEIR neighborhoods.
That’s not the point! A man who was convicted on shady evidence lost his life DESPITE having the tools to prove that he was innocent. Why do you guys feel compelled to derail a conversation based on nothing?
Let me guess; you never went through medical school. Organs can’t be harvested from a dead body, buy only from a brain-dead person on a life-support system to keep the blood (and organs) oxygenated.
They can be kept for dissection in biology classes, though.
Tue Elung-Jensen over 12 years ago
With that plus size he sure is.
Dtroutma over 12 years ago
Uh, small point, but the case was about the killing of an OFF DUTY police officer, not in POLICE uniform. That’s part of what makes this case so prejudicial about the “cop killer” inflammatory charge.
The toon does remind me of a Georgia “bully” I ran into a long time ago. His favorite “past time” was to beat up a small GI every weekend. One night he picked on a “small GI” who knew something he didn’t. The bully ended up in the hospital, woke up four months later, and was in and out of hospitals for another 16 months. He picked on the WRONG “small G.I.”.
The moral of the story is GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT, and don’t think just because you’re the “big kid on the block” you’re automatically going to win, or hold all the “moral prerogatives”.
Hmm, we’ve been in Iraq for 20 years now since GHW actually started that “war”, and we’re getting essentially nowhere in Afghanistan after 10 years. “Redneck recklessness” isn’t always smart.
Yammo Premium Member over 12 years ago
Aha…and then you liberals preach about not stereotyping. Interesting double standard. Hypocrisy much?
Motivemagus over 12 years ago
I am not lying, you are doubly misinformed. First of all, if you are in fact referring to John Paul II (I can’t tell), statements by the Pope are automatically part of the Ordinary Magisterium. Let’s have a few quotes, shall we?Pope John Paul II, speaking in St. Louis in 1999 (where he successfully lobbied for clemency for a Missouri Death Row inmate; a similar request in 2001 for clemency for McVeigh was denied by President Bush), called for a “consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary.” In 2000, the US Bishops’ Conference urged all Catholics to “join organizations that work to curtail the death penalty…and those that call for its abolition” Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and Restoration,And thanks for bringing up the Catechism, which in fact supports my view:“2267 The traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude, presupposing full ascertainment of the identity and responsibility of the offender, recourse to the death penalty, when this is the only practicable way to defend the lives of human beings effectively against the aggressor. “If, instead, bloodless means are sufficient to defend against the aggressor and to protect the safety of persons, public authority should limit itself to such means, because they better correspond to the concrete conditions of the common good and are more in conformity to the dignity of the human person. “Today, in fact, given the means at the State’s disposal to effectively repress crime by rendering inoffensive the one who has committed it, without depriving him definitively of the possibility of redeeming himself, cases of absolute necessity for suppression of the offender ‘today … are very rare, if not practically non-existent.’[John Paul II, Evangelium vitae 56.]
So I may have exaggerated a bit. But today, you will not find the Church supporting the death penalty, and you will typically find it opposing it. Sorry, you still lose.
tengu99 over 12 years ago
Judging by the size of the Georgia dude I’m betting his lethal injection is french fries.
Motivemagus over 12 years ago
Charlie, READ THE CATECHISM!
yohannbiimu over 12 years ago
None of the idiot lefties who’re “Troy Davis” (who was found guilty of murder by a jury that had 7 Blacks out of 12 members in less than two hours) would have wanted Troy Davis to come live in THEIR neighborhoods. If they want to be “Troy Davis,” I suppose that’s a message to cops everywhere. The stupidity and hypocrisy of the left is mind-boggling.
d_legendary1 over 12 years ago
@Yo-Yo
None of the idiot lefties who’re “Troy Davis” would have wanted Troy Davis to come live in THEIR neighborhoods.
That’s not the point! A man who was convicted on shady evidence lost his life DESPITE having the tools to prove that he was innocent. Why do you guys feel compelled to derail a conversation based on nothing?
CorosiveFrog Premium Member over 12 years ago
Let me guess; you never went through medical school. Organs can’t be harvested from a dead body, buy only from a brain-dead person on a life-support system to keep the blood (and organs) oxygenated.
They can be kept for dissection in biology classes, though.