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Political “insiders,” as a class, tend to protect their own, which is why there was so much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the cowardly suicide of that thief, liar, and possible kiddie-porn-freak,
JudgeLarry Manzanares. Real Coloradans who suffer real wrongs at the hand of our corrupt and indifferent government don’t count for much here, because they are a part of that corrupt and indifferent government.If you don’t insist upon justice for even your worst enemy, you don’t deserve it for yourself.
with all due respect, we’ve had enough topics and threads focused no Mr. Manzares.
In my comparison to the orgy of outrage regarding LM, I’m only pointing out that the ‘locals’ here care not a whit about the suffering of real people like Emily. Politics is about power, as opposed to the good you can do when you get it.
My position on this is clear: Public officials should be held personally accountable for their malfeasance, in a meaningful way. But of course, the public officials here don’t like the concept, for obviously selfish reasons.
The only people who are inclined to talk about this situation are going to have a terribly one-sided conversation, and you can rest assured that nothing will be done.
. . . in Polsters than, perhaps, you do. I’ve seen plenty of compassion expressed in this forum in appropriate situations.
…but as you’ll understand, I won’t hold my breath. I find their “compassion” unduly selective, and invariably tempered by the aggrieved party’s relationship to the system. I don’t expect a lot of outrage here and most certainly, you won’t see anything approaching the Manzanares orgy.
It’s an immutable law of human nature — one I don’t expect to be repealed in my lifetime. Jews tend to care a lot more about Jewish issues and Arabs, more about Palestinians’ (even cursory review of Middle East English-language newspapers will bear this fact out). Gays care about human rights for gays, but you’re invited to pound sand if you complain about rights for others. Victims of our courts are snidely derided as “losers,” even though gays, blacks, women, Jews, and others were in our place not too long ago. Polsters’ sympathies tend to lie more with our oppressive public officials than they do the citizens who tend to be their victims, and as a result, you shouldn’t expect a Manzanares-class orgy of outrage.
Just as a reminder, I was hoping to keep this thread about Emily Rice rather than judicial corruption. However, I will address your allegation: You have to be fair and admit that the opposition you’re experiencing has more to do with the delivery of the message than the message. The opposition Kay is experiencing has more to do with the fact that she appears to –quite literally– be delusional.1
I was initially met with similar opposition. However, while many may continue to disagree with my conclusions/allegations and while many may not bother with these related diaries/threads, we’ve had some good discussion and some Polsters are receptive to the possibility that we’re on to something. Discussion and debate is a starting point that I’m satisfied with.
However, alienating them, accosting them, accusing them of all being inbred cronies of “the system” isn’t an effective way to gain a sympathetic audience. That’s about the only substantive point that you and disagree on. Otherwise, I know what your message is, I know why you’re expressing it and I agree with most of it. If only you’d put down your sword (not necessarily your shield), I think you’ll find that you have a few persons in this audience, who might listen to what you have to say. That’s all you really want, right?
1 She apparently believes that blogging is a valid, recognized form of litigation, which will result in a $30M judgment –this non-sense has effectively prevented any of us from learning what her case was really about and whether something underhanded took place (no pun intended with references to jailstaff allegedly touching her in inappropriate places).
I got the impression from the earliest posts that this blog was indistinguishable from USENET, where far more heat was generated than light. Like one Polster said, they can hold flame wars without me, a claim which I do not doubt. And of course, there was the appearance of “Nemesis” (a.k.a., Bob Larson) (and his three-to-six sockpuppets), who periodically scours the ‘Net for purposes of harassing me.
While they do seem to have warmed to you, I’m not seeing them beat a path to the door of this diary entry. If they give you love and start warming to the concept that our system really does desperately need to be fixed — and I don’t limit that to the judiciary — I could care less what they think about me. Like I said, they can prove me wrong, but I’m not holding my breath.
. . . and making comments doesn’t mean that it’s not being read and that it’s not generating thought. Giving thought doesn’t always manifest itself into contributing comments, especially if the reader has nothing in particular to say on the topic.
For those of you who know my case, I won’t bore you by repeating it here. For those of you who don’t, however, I would like to tell you about “One Day of the Condor” in honor of Emily Rice. I would like to preface my story by explaining that I’m not a habitual criminal having been arrested only once in my life on what later would be asserted to be a minor misdemeanor charge.
I was held for twenty-four hours in Denver City Jail where I was placed in a one-bunk cell that was already occupied by a thirty-day inmate whom I would describe as Rip-Van-Winkle because he slept round the clock. I was placed in this cell deliberately despite the fact that there were at least a half-dozen empty cells, some with one bunk and some with two, in my wing alone. These same empty cells would remain empty during my entire stay. My request to be transferred to a different cell, so that I could at least have a bunk to sit and sleep on, met with the response “we don’t do that here.”
Therefore, I was reduced to sitting and sleeping on a filthy, cold, cell floor for the duration. I am not exagerating when I say that there were hair-balls the size of your fist all over the floor. The sink and urinal looked as if they had not been cleaned since the jail was built as they were caked with vomit, urine, blood, and fecal matter.
Just because you haven’t seen it or experienced it, don’t think that these inhuman conditions and treatment by the jail staff don’t exist in Denver City Jail. I guarantee that Emily Rice could have told you about it had she been given an opportunity to survive. I side with her family and hope they are successful in litigating the stuffing out of the City and County of Denver. And we claim to be a civilized society.
People denied medical treatment, mysterious bumps and bruises, and even deaths. Those who deny medical treatment to inmates should be held responsible and not just in civil court.
I’ve always thought a prerequisite of jail time for anyone who can send people to jail would be a great idea. I’m convinced that if judges, prosecutors, and police officers spent a week in jail, fewer people would end up in jail and the ones that do would have shorter sentences.
conditions in those jails might even improve to international standards. There was one amusing case of where a man accused of throwing his daughter off a seacliff to her death was not allowed to shower in the morning before trial; he smelled so bad that attorney Mark Geragos couldn’t sit next to him. When the smell is too bad for Geragos, that’s saying something. 🙂
I had no comment, because I could neither argue, joke nor expand on the post.