I appreciate the chance to talk with you.
My email is david@rnrclub.com

Evidently they didn’t want to pay.

A couple of excerpts from Radley’s 2/20/06 post about this case:

Prior to the raid, Rack n’ Roll Billiards had a spotless, 18-year record with ABC. David Ruttenberg has no criminal record, nor does his father Neil, who’s a partner in the club. David’s brother, and Neil’s son, is the incoming president of the Fairfax Bar Association. Neil says he had a top-secret security clearance with the U.S. government up until 2000. He has a JD from Columbia, and has been practicing law for 40 years. His daughter is a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy reserves, and served in both Gulf Wars. This isn’t a shady family. It’s difficult to see what reason police would have had to target David Ruttenberg or the bar he runs in a drug raid…

…One reason the Ruttenbergs suspect David Ruttenberg is being targeted, believe it or not, goes back a few years to a time when Ruttenberg and a Manassas Park police officer were romantically interested in the same woman. That officer apparently nursed a grudge against Ruttenberg, and is now the head of the narcotics task force that serves Manassas Park. They also suspect that once the raid failed, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars to taxpayers, Manassas Park police became determined to justify the raid by continually pursuing David Ruttenberg until they could find a reason to arrest him.

I haven’t been following closely since then, so I don’t know if other theories have emerged to eclipse this one, but I found it interesting.

“America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”

IS IT?

Justice is only for those who can afford it.

Might you be able to interest the Institute for Justice in this case? It seems like the sort of case they should be interested in, and on the bonus side, they are very local.

Terri’s parents claim that she was capable of receiving fluids orally. Michael Schiavo claims that she wasn’t. He forbade any attempt at oral hydration because his doctors said she would be likely to aspirate on any fluids given. It should be noted that she was able to swallow the saliva she produced, so she is known to have had at least some swallowing ability.

Florida state law forbids the denial of oral sustenance to someone who will starve or dehydrate without it. Perhaps attempting to administer oral sustenance to Terri would have worked, perhaps not. I cannot imagine any harm it could have done if it didn’t work (Terri would end up neither more nor less dead); the consequence if it did work might have greatly annoyed Mr. Schiavo et al., but could not legally be regarded as harm.

Why were Mr. Schiavo et al. so adamant that she be denied oral sustenance? If she was capable of receiving it, such denial was murder. If she wasn’t capable, why not allow the parents to try? If they failed, his hands would be clean. The most logical reason that comes to mind for his insistence that Terri not receive oral sustenance is not that he thought it wouldn’t work, but because he feared that it might. Smells like murder to me.

where does the long-stretch of civility become…something a little more? how long should a man endure this?

For me, it was the forced starvation and murder of Terry Schaivo that did it.

Not since the courts handed down death sentences for some of the conspirators in Shay’s rebellion can you say that the courts have protected you.

You can’t trust that the courts in this country will protect you anymore. You have to assume they won’t. Judges are completely politicized and don’t give a crap about protecting people’s rights.