Comments on: Allgood vs. Edmonds

By: SJE

SJE — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:03:09 +0000

I would not say that this is an indictment of democracy per se. The “tyranny of the majority” is well known.

In parts of Mississippi, it was a real tyranny of men with guns and torches, ready for a lynching. The solution then was a combination of giving power to individuals to protect themselves against the mob, legal redress in Federal Courts, and Federal oversight.

Now, we have graduated to electing people who do the lynching for us. The solutions are the same. In the absence of Federal oversight, we need to allow people to protect themselves which means that prosecutors should bear the consequences of denying people their rights.

End prosecutorial immunity, and make it easier to sue malicious prosecutors.

By: Pip

Pip — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:59:50 +0000

Ha! H.L. Brockman

By: ClubMedSux

ClubMedSux — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:47:00 +0000

MH @#5:

Kent Brockman: the H.L. Mencken of our time.

By: Cyto

Cyto — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:42:26 +0000

From the comments to the articles it appears that once winning the primary he was a shoe-in due to the racial/partisan makeup of the district. Which is just a sad, sad commentary.

By: Don Lloyd

Don Lloyd — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:33:54 +0000

The lesson is that justice and politics cannot possibly mix. If juries can be chosen randomly from a list, so can prosecuters, DAs and judges, etc. and term limited to one. If they can’t understand the law, the law should be nullified, and legislatures should be held accountable even in retrospect. If this reduced the number of laws by a factor of 100X, there would still be too many laws.

Regards, Don

By: Judi

Judi — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:18:42 +0000

Ugh!

By: MH

MH — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:54:31 +0000

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, democracy just doesn’t work.”
— Kent Brockman

By: homeboy

homeboy — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:53:38 +0000

The only questions that arise in my mind are, “HOW could anyone vote for this man? WHAT were the people of Mississippi’s District 16 thinking (assuming they thought anything at all)?” This is the sort of thing that has reduced my faith in American democracy to zero.

By: pegr

pegr — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:52:19 +0000

“But that article a summary of my previous reporting. ”

This sentence no verb!

;)

(Radley makes such errors so infrequently, I really have fun when he does.)

By: notsure

notsure — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:50:42 +0000

people just don’t pay attention to those ballots. It sucks, but I admit I am guilty of it myself.

Usually my choice is between 2 people I have never heard of. I tend to vote against incumbents because of my libertarian streak, but I think most people probably go the other way and just vote for the guy who has the job.

By: ktc2

ktc2 — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:00:37 +0000

The mob wants blood. It doesn’t care if it’s innocent blood.