about whether Perry signed the writ to execute Cameron justly… even though it is thought now that Cameron may have been innocent.
234 people executed during Perry’s governorship. That’s equal to more than a third of the small town population where I grew up. I sit here imagining every third house in the northwoods having the hearse pull up.
It seem odd that some politicos say they are pro life and pro death as though in a schizoid fugue…. but not prolife if it is x kind of human being, vs this other kind of human being y.
Alright that the old men send the young to die in wars. Alright to kill those who may have or did take someone else’s life.
Alright to let people die if they cant afford a kidney transplant. Ok to kill peope who might be innocent with an ‘oh well, whatever.’
Alright to keep a brain dead woman who has lain inert for years, alive ad infinitum.
Alright to insist every zygote be brought to fruition.
Alright to allow children to grow up in hell where likelihood of reaching adulthood is slim and liklihood of being murdered is high.
Alright to spend the money and take to time to travel to Africa and encourage legislation that would convict and execute persons who are homosexual.
I’d only say, if life is precious, then all human beings are precious. Not cherry picking according to personal preferences.
Rick Perry says the word Justice Justice Justice alot. It reminds me of a biblical verse about the hypocrite running around averring “Peace peace peace!!!” but those under the thumb of the ruling junta are given NO peace whatsoever.
I remember long ago sitting through emergency service classes, overhearing joking by some about saving first the beautiful young woman and leaving the middle aged paunchy guy til last. One wonders if to some that’s more than a joke.
Triage is serious and respectful regard in the extreme for human life. You save who is bleeding to death first, and the one who has a common cold waits til all those most afflicted are stabilized. But ALL are tended to with heightened attention.
Deciding who is worthy to live based on a justice principle that has no parity with decency, with understanding… (understanding is different than asserting knowledge)… seems to be weighing fairness, honesty, justice and remediation on a scale with only one dish, and half the incremental weights missing. So that anything weighed thusly is crowed over as ‘fair weight’ when in fact regarding the sanctity of life, it is a false read out.
Between being pajama buddies with Merck that manufactures a hugely profitable prophylactic drug given to young girls to ward off uterine cancer if/ when they develop a sexually transmitted disease somewhere in life that might cause eventual cancer in some… and pushing that vaccine made by buddy Merck that now appears then to be paid back to Perry in dollars for his eternal and infernal re-election campaign…
between what appears to be another grotesque conflict of interest with Perry interfering with a forensics panel… I believe we will see Perry on the defensive more and more, for he cannot undo what he has done, and the last thing Perry wants is to be found complicit in executing an innocent man… or being exposed as having his arm around one girl (the young women he pushes vaccinations on to prevent HPV) and his other arm around his other girlfriend, Merck.
CODA
Elijah Sweete and I have both covered this case at TMV, in earlier posts, specifically Perry’s odd and seeming manipulative replacement of 1/3 of the commission members who were inquiring about the Cameron Willingham case when issues were raised about his innocence.
Cameron Todd Willingham, 36 years old was convicted of murder and executed for the deaths of his three young children by arson at the family home in Corsicana, Texas.
In 2009, Willingham’s sentence was strongly question by David Grann an investigative reporter in a long article in The New Yorker. He interviewed arson investigation experts and advances in fire science since the 1992 investigation. He put forth that the prosecutor’s evidence for arson “was unconvincing, and that had this information been available at the time of trial, Willingham would have been acquitted.”
“According to an August 2009 investigative report by an expert hired by the Texas Forensic Science Commission, the original claims of arson were doubtful.The Corsicana Fire Department disputes the findings, stating that the expert’s report overlooked several key points in the record. The case has been further complicated by allegations that Texas Governor Rick Perry impeded the investigation by replacing three of the nine commission members in an attempt to change the commission’s findings; Perry denies the allegations.”