Three court cases in the news leave me with the impression that justice has gone beserk. One case involves the death penalty, another involves street gangs and the third concerns Hooters restaurants.
(1) On November 1, 1978, Jonathan Reed, posing as a maintenance man, gained entry into the Dallas apartment of two young women. Once inside, he attacked both women, raping and strangling one to death. Her roomate survived only because she feigned death as he was trying to strangle her. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the rape-murder. Reed, now 57, has been on death row nearly 30 years.
Now the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Reed was deprived of a fair trial because the Dallas County prosecutors had improperly excluded blacks from serving on the jury. The prosecutors had followed a guidance manual which advised them to exclude blacks from juries because "they almost always empathize with the accused." The three-judge panel in New Orleans ordered Reed to be released unless prosecutors intend to retry him quickly.
How can they retry him after 30 years? What's happened to the evidence? What about the witnesses? Where are they now or are they even still alive? There has never been a question about Reed's gluilt, only questions about the trial procedures. Have these judges lost their minds? It is really frightening to realize that these judges sit on what has long been considered the most conservative of all federal appellate courts.
OH, DID I FORGET TO MENTION THAT JONATHAN REED IS WHITE?
(2) Two days ago, a judge granted a permanent injunction sought by the Los Angeles city attorney against six gangs in South Los Angeles - All for Crime, Barrio Mojados, Blood Stone Villains, Florencia 13, Oriental Boyz and Pueblo Bishops - which limits gang members' activity in a 13.7-square-mile area stretching from downtown to South Los Angeles.
In an unrelated gang injunction case brought by the Los Angeles district attorney's office against Florencia 13, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a "friend of the court" brief arguing that the proposed order violates gang members' basic liberty in their daily lives by putting them under a curfew and banning them entirely from Roosevelt Park.
What has gone wrong with our courts? Thank God for the American Civil Liberties Union! Those young street gang members are only trying to have a little fun by stomping, stabbing and shooting each other to death. Why would the courts want to infringe on the rights of these young men to engage in their favorite pastimes? Isn't that what America is supposed to be all about?
(3) And so we come to the most serious case of all. In its early days, it was a real pleasure to fly Southwest Airlines because that carrier hired only leggy young women as flight attendants and outfitted them in hot pants. I am sure the only reason for the hotpants was to allow these young women to move about more freely within the cramped confines of the cabin. Then, 30 years ago, some commie, no doubt, sued Southwest demanding they hire male flight attendants. After a federal judge agreed, the airline took off the hotpants. Flying with Southwest has become less pleasant ever since they dropped their hotpants.
Hooters restaurants are known for their comely waitresses in orange shorts and skin-tight shirts who occasioally stop to twirl hula hoops. Now this great American institution is under attack by what must obviously be another commie. A Houston employment lawyer is representing a 22-year-old male college student who was denied an application to become a Hooters waiter. He claims that by employing only "Hooters Girls" as servers, the rstaurants are practicing illegal sex discrimination and depriving him and other men of the right to obtain gainful employment as waiters.
As of now, one can only guess whether or not the court will agree. But if it does, all red-blooded American men will be deprived of a most enjoyable meal. No longer will they be able to drool over the luscious tantalizing boobs, I mean luscious tantalizing meals pictured on the menu. Mixing male waiters in with the Hooters Girls is just plain downright un-American!
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