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| 2008-08-02 |
| The four Iowans arrested last Friday for attempting to make a citizen's arrest of Karl Rove Retired Methodist minister, Chet Guinn, 80, and Des Moines Catholic Workers, Ed Bloomer, 61, Mona Shaw 57, and Kirk Brown, 25, were arrested at a Des Moines country club where Rove was appearing at a Republican Fundraiser. Shaw was the first called before Polk County Fifth Judicial District Associate Judge William Price. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #10 "Perhaps even first degree aggravated asshatery." In their case, as capital crime, bj! ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-08-02 18:56 |
| #9 I don't think you can overturn a not guilty verdict though. These four "persons" need to explain why they were trying to arrest Rove, otherwise it is unlawful arrest, unlawful detainment, or something similar. Perhaps even first degree aggravated asshatery. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-08-02 18:55 |
| #8 "Support your local police only in so far as they act with public purpose. For a safer tomorrow, buy a gun today." And what exactly does that have to do with the attempted kidnapping of Mr. Rove, and the judge's apparent approval of the crime, Ho? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-08-02 18:50 |
| #7 Wouldn't this be grounds to censure a judge somehow? Removal from the case at least. I'd save it for when the verdict was rendered. Might be grounds to have the guy dismissed if the next judge throws the case out on its ear. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-08-02 18:32 |
| #6 Most arrests were executed by private citizens prior to the eighteen fifies. Police powers are derivative and conditional. The work product of the average cop is a paltry 2 convictions per month and 2 incarcerations (excluding pre trial arrests) per year. Cops unfound as many as 19 out of every 20 substantiable crime complaints that are given to them. That is one reason why cops should be treated as personna non grata in the gun ownership issue. Support your local police only in so far as they act with public purpose. For a safer tomorrow, buy a gun today. |
| Posted by: Ho Chi Clereper5135 2008-08-02 17:56 |
| #5 If we cannot find a way to correct these injustices in our country, then we are doomed to a fight for survival against the looney left. No culture can stand with this kind of two faced justice for long. The more we ignore it, the worse and broader it spreads, and finally a point of violent return. A final critical mass reaction to eliminate all things we consider non-American norms. If this reaction does not materialize, then we sink into third world corruption at all levels, and capitalism is replaced by theft, hard work and achievement by connections and favoritism. It won't take long for a culture of various races like ours to decline into paramilitary tribal units who control cities or counties or states separate and apart from the rest. We must sober up and return to the people described by the founding documents. A good start would be to have a media who tell only facts, and omit nothing. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2008-08-02 14:17 |
| #4 Wouldn't this be grounds to censure a judge somehow? Removal from the case at least. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-08-02 12:37 |
| #3 That will be in 2016, if ever, and that is far enough for Obama having forgotten him and the judge having become a homeless; |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-08-02 10:12 |
| #2 Impeached? Hell, Obama will appoint him to the Supreme Court for that. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2008-08-02 06:00 |
| #1 Citizen's arrest isn' that called kidnappinng? And a judge making sympethetic comments about a crime isn't that called feloney and shouldn't be that a reason for him at the very list being impeched? |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-08-02 03:29 |