By now, most of you have heard about the man in Texas who, while defending his daughter from a man who was trying to molest her, beat said molesting piece of amphibian crap to death with his bare hands. As Jay said, he was lucky to die quickly.
Now the local prosecutor has decided to take the case to a grand jury rather than make an executive decision to not prosecute. I think I’m not alone when I say that this gentleman shouldn’t be going through this. He saw his child in danger, reacted in a normal fashion, his child is still alive, and the good people of Texas are spared the cost of a trial, incarceration, and “treatment” for a slime that should have been strangled with his own umbilical cord and saved us all the trouble. Instead of racking up attorney’s fees, he ought to be given a medal.
Of course, the bleeding hearts in that bastion of wishful thinking in an otherwise reality-based state, Austin, have an issue with the fact that the molesting jerk assumed ambient temperature after trying to diddle the wrong toddler:
“Assuming it’s true that this guy was molesting the daughter, and we don’t know what exactly happened at this point, he would then have the right to defend [her], and hit him enough to have him stop,” Harrington told FoxNews.com. “But you cannot summarily execute him, even though I can understand the anger he would have.”
Hippie, please. The difference between “Get the hell off my daughter!” and “Someone get a hose” isn’t that much. This guy was going off of a primal instinct to protect offspring. My guess is he wasn’t exactly calibrating his pummeling to deliver just enough damage to make the mutant inbred bucktoothed twinkletoed piece of worm shit get away without turning his head from an innie into an outie.
The prosecutor in questions needs to cowboy up, and proclaim to the masses that killing to protect innocent life is not something to be investigated and prosecuted, and Mr. Harrington needs to get out of his ivory tower and into the real world where men who try to violate four year olds ought to be put down like rabid dogs. No wait, that’s an insult to rabid dogs. I at least support the use of pain-free methods to dispose of them. Either way, I wish I was on that grand jury.
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Jake
/ June 13, 2012That Harrington twit doesn’t seem to realize that the difference between “hit[ting] him enough to have him stop” and “hitting him hard enough (or the right way) to kill him” is a hair thin line that is easy to cross unintentionally. Of course, I get the impression that he doesn’t think hitting the slime at all was justified, but he’s making sure to say otherwise.
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Mad Jack
/ June 13, 2012This shows the direction our society is headed. Just why the prosecutor isn’t thinking clearly about this case is beyond me, but this man should not be charged with anything. If anything he should be offered some psychiatric help for his daughter, and that should be the end of it. The remains of the criminal can be incinerated after 30 days and the ashes disposed of in an unknown location.
The reaction of the government is deplorable, and I’m betting that there is more than one Texas cop that is dead set against the prosecutor right now.
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Jake
/ June 13, 2012“Just why the prosecutor isn’t thinking clearly about this case is beyond me, but this man should not be charged with anything.”
I have to wonder if going to the grand jury is just a CYA move on his part, either because it hit the national news, or because he’s getting political pressure from someone.
Like I said at JayG’s blog, I know a good prosecutor can get a GJ to indict a ham sandwich, but I wouldn’t bet on Jack McCoy managing to get an indictment on this out of a Texas GJ!
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Mad Jack
/ June 14, 2012Even if it is intended as a CYA move, the prosecutor is using the accused as a shield and that’s just plain wrong. Why should the shooter take any hits just so the prosecutor doesn’t have to?
Let me sit on that grand jury.
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Drang
/ June 18, 2012One of the commenters over at Tam’s pointed out that Texas State law requires a Grand Jury be convened in cases of homicide. Justifiable homicide is still homicide, so a Grand jury will be convened. They will award the man a Standing O’, give him the keys to the city, and throw a barbecue in his honor. Possibly hosted by Rick Perry, with George and Laura Bush serving up the ribs.
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