Quite Honestly, I don't give a shirt whether he got Due Process or Not. forkem, put a 40 cal slug in his ear and leave him on the side of the road. I haven't been overly impressed by how our Constitutional Protections have actually protected the citizens of this country lately.
To Quote Bob Herbert's latest column: "It has been almost six years since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when the nation's consciousness of terror was yanked to new heights. In those six years, nearly 100,000 people — an incredible number — have been murdered in the United States. No heightening of consciousness has accompanied this slaughter, which had nothing to do with terrorism. The news media and most politicians have hardly bothered to notice.
At the same time that we're diligently confiscating water and toothpaste from air travelers, we're handing over guns and bullets by the trainload to yahoos bent on blowing others into eternity in armed robberies, drug-dealing, gang violence, domestic assaults and other criminal acts."
Where's your due process now.
Yeah I do understand what I'm saying and I do get what happens if the protections aren't in place. But I don't get that the more the citizens are protected from the government, the less protected we are from each other and the less the government is able to do to protect us. You may pray every night that the man that rapes your child gets a wonderful and zealous attorney to represent him in court, I just want the government to prevent the rape or, at the very least, provide justice for all, not just the accused.
So fork Padilla in the ear with a jack hammer, with or with a trial, I don;t care much right now. Then lets move on to the 2 brutal animals in Connecticut for raping and killing a family. Gut them with a rusty knife without a trial will do more crime prevention than any month of criminal constitutional trials.
