Arkansas Blog

You had me at Mara Leveritt.

Certainly one of my favorite writers, period. This case, like the others she has written about with such poise and grace, demands our attention and outrage. When I get to the end of her works, along with rage and disgust for a broken system, I always wish there was another page (or a hundred more).

Bravo, Ms. Leveritt. And thank you for your tireless work on the part of victims of our broken system.

"Was it rape?"

It was and is rape. Rape of our system of justice. As one pointed out had a person lower on the food chain been accused the arrest and trial would have already happened.
These tiers of justice must end. These Two Americas must end at least at the court house doors. Dream on I guess. But this stinks. The vic is not too retarded so that she should have put up more of a fight or fled from the parent figure, and then she's too retarded to be trusted to witness her own abuse. Somebody make sense of that other than the usual trade-out deals that lawyers are infamous for.

Thank you Mara. Excellent work.
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Fortunately we have a free press that can smear, destroy reputations and, in essence, "convict" individuals that have not been tried in court for their alleged misdeeds, all in the name of news reporting.

Hopefully, this is one of those cases where it is deserved.

One does not have to be a sociologist to understand the culture of power that emanates from those holding positions of authority. I think much of what comes to light today not only about this case but others is the tone that was set by those at a much higher level. You see it in the attitude and actions of the pres, vp, and their minions. That attitude spread throughout the federal, state & local governments and reaches even into the smallest town in Arkansas.

Some folks might argue that what I write is a stretch but I don't think so, a lot of what has happened at the federal and local government levels over the last 7+ years can be attributed to the words & deeds that flow from the whitehouse. The cowboy attitude, with apologies to those cowboys who do know the ropes, to ride roughshod over law and rights became a attutude practiced by many agencies who have deep influence into American life: DOJ, Homeland Security, FEMA, EPA, IRS to name a few. Many political officals, from both parties, elected or otherwise must share in the blame, they let it happpen.

It is a self-perpetation of ignorance, non respect for individual rights, and even out right illegalities. The above the law attitude practiced by the pres is not some isolated set of actions, that attitude came down through all of the federal agencies and in some cases heavily influenced state agencies, notably law. That is where most of the so far known illegal actions took place at the federal level. The intensifying effect of the white house influence is that the federal "government" actively appoints and supports persons, at all levels, who believed in and practiced what came out of the whitehouse.

In reading this article, it was easy to sense the same attitude that comes out of the whitehouse and lately fading into ignominy as will this criminal. The sad part of this little diatribe is that like many others, this case seems to have ended as have all so far, with no legal action taken against those who commited the crime, and for those who suffered at the hands of such an evil criminal, only anger remains.

An unrelated note is that mcChimpy finally hit the lowest pres approval level ever recorded. Like the pres the snake at the center of this story has lost all credibility and hopefully will crawl back under the rock he came from...that of course is no solace to the daughter & family who were the victims of this criminal.