Confirming a policy characterized by double standards, absurd regulations, and laws that challenge and violate the basic rights of our citizens, while granting virtual immunity to those groups of people that pose constant and clear threats to our society, the State of Maryland and Gov. Parris Glendening have managed to surprise their constituents once again.
While browbeating honest gun owners and pointing their liberal fingers at firearms manufacturers, blaming them for all that is wrong and violent in this Country, they are methodically failing to prosecute or, worst yet, freeing convicted felons before the entire sentence is served.
In an article I found in the newspaper ‘American Police Beat’, I read about how the killer of a Prince George’s Co. Officer was set free on January 7, 2000. Even by allowing the system every imaginable benefit of the doubt, and granting a killer (who murdered the highest representative of order and peace in our Country) an appeal after a death sentence, followed by a reduction to two life terms, followed by another reduction to 25 years in prison, I find it utterly appalling, that the Maryland judicial system would free him after only 16 years, without as little as a notification to the P.G. Co. Police Dept. or the victim’s family.
Then again, one has to remember that, according to Gov. Glendening, the murder weapon was the real culprit, and should have been tried, sentenced and already executed. Twice. Right?
[This message has been edited by italiano (edited June 06, 2000).]
While browbeating honest gun owners and pointing their liberal fingers at firearms manufacturers, blaming them for all that is wrong and violent in this Country, they are methodically failing to prosecute or, worst yet, freeing convicted felons before the entire sentence is served.
In an article I found in the newspaper ‘American Police Beat’, I read about how the killer of a Prince George’s Co. Officer was set free on January 7, 2000. Even by allowing the system every imaginable benefit of the doubt, and granting a killer (who murdered the highest representative of order and peace in our Country) an appeal after a death sentence, followed by a reduction to two life terms, followed by another reduction to 25 years in prison, I find it utterly appalling, that the Maryland judicial system would free him after only 16 years, without as little as a notification to the P.G. Co. Police Dept. or the victim’s family.
Then again, one has to remember that, according to Gov. Glendening, the murder weapon was the real culprit, and should have been tried, sentenced and already executed. Twice. Right?
[This message has been edited by italiano (edited June 06, 2000).]