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The Spectacle Blog
Radley Balko has a must-read piece on Martha Coakley’s illiberal approach to her work as a prosecutor and Attorney General. After running down the litany of miscarriages (and near-miss…carriages?) of justice, Balko writes:
As a member of the Senate, not only would Coakley be creating new federal criminal laws; given her record as a prosecutor, there’s a good chance she’d serve on committees with oversight over the Justice Department and the judiciary. She’d also be casting votes to confirm or deny federal judicial appointments. Advocates for criminal justice reform should be wary. Coakley may share Kennedy’s opposition to the death penalty, but her record as a prosecutor leaves plenty of doubt about her commitment to justice
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Andria| 1.13.10 @ 10:50AM
America,You do not want Coakley to win this race. She has done NOTHING to prosecute the corrupt swamp of Massachusetts.She let Gerald Amirault,an
innocent man rot in jail so she could prove she was tough on crime!! She advocates for illegals,but could care less about children who are victims of sex predators.I could go on and on.
Margie| 1.13.10 @ 4:00PM
America the sleeping giant is waking up. Patriots everywhere are beginning to stir, and the Socialists Fascists and Communists are finding that they are no longer being tolerated.
Vote in your 2010 election.
CJohnson| 1.13.10 @ 6:16PM
Would that be the same Justice Dept that recently told the judicial committe to bugger off over their inquiries about dismissing case of voter intimidation by Black Panthers?
Pete Morin | 1.13.10 @ 8:32PM
Whoa!! What's going on here?
It wasn't supposed to be like this. Martha Coakley was supposed to inherit Senator Ted Kennedy's seat in Congress. After all, it's a no brainer--she's a woman, she's a democrat, she's liberal and this is the People's Republic of Massachuseetts(Oops, sorry I misspelled Massachusetts). But along the way to coronation, Martha ran into a little problem; she has to go to the voters and actually ask for peoples votes before she goes to DC.
And the people of the Commonwealth are non-too-happy about what's going on in Washington. In fact they're really ticked off. There's these small details concerning a government that's growing the debt by leaps and bounds. There's the small problem of healthcare legislation that can kindly be called a "monstrosity". There's the imperiousness of a president and Congress that won't even entertain the ideas of the opposition. So, that bastion of liberalism and progressive thought, Massachusetts, is wondering whether sending another Democratic sock puppet to Congress would be such a good idea.
At one time Massachusetts led the nation as a beacon of freedom and individualism, but, as any resident of our nanny state knows, those days are long gone. Will there be enough concerned citizens left in the Commonwealth to effect the kind of change necessary to return the state to even a semblance of respectability? I hope so, but I'm not going to hold my breath. The sock puppet may just sneak by and then we'll just have another hapless anti-free market buffoon occupying Ted Kennedy's seat in Foggy Bottom.
There is a silver lining, however, and that will be the 2010 mid term Congressional elections. Regardless of whether or not Martha Coakley goes to Washington, the democrats should be aware that Independents, republicans and other assorted free market types are, as I said earlier, TICKED OFF! Beware thieves of the peoples freedom--you're days are numbered.
Bob Belvedere | 1.13.10 @ 8:40PM
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