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serial killer identified
Jul. 8th, 2011 09:14 pmIf anyone can tell me the difference between Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, and Ted Bundy, I'd be really glad to hear it.
A few years back, it was shown that Cameron Todd Willingham, stupid enough to have been born in Texas, had been convicted of a crime that didn't exist: he'd been railroaded to a death sentence by forensics testimony indicating the fire that had killed his kids was arson. Later forensics evidence showed the stuff presented in court had been a mixture of superstition and pseudoscience (and I'm being charitable): there was no reason to believe the fire had been anything other than an accident caused by bad wiring.
Worried his psychopathic pig-ignorant electorate might punish him for being "soft on crime" should he pardon an innocent man, Perry insisted the killing of Willingham go ahead. When a State of Texas legal committee tried to stop this murder, Perry rejigged its membership to fill it with his cronies.
Killing for gain? That's murder, isn't it?
And now he's played a similar jolly little trick on Humberto Leal Garcia, a Mexican convicted on likewise dodgy (quite possibly concocted) forensics; further, Garcia's conviction was invalid under international law, since as a Mexican citizen he should have had access to his consulate, access effectively denied by the State of Texas's failure to inform any of the relevant parties. Even President Obama, who doesn't mind bombing the shit out of innocent Afghan civilians, was worried enough about the welter of human-rights cases building up in the International Court against Democracy's Champion to try to intervene on Garcia's behalf; no reaction from Perry, keen to court the votes of the most vicious, ignorant and racist people in Texas.
I have no idea how many other innocent people Perry has killed to advance his political career. A writer like Rodney Balko might know. Go google.
There's a word for people who put personal gain ahead of the lives of other human beings. Perry's one of them. There's also a term for people who are so rejective of basic science that they'd rather pursue the dictates of their reality-divorced ideology than accept basic, easily comprehensible facts placed in front of them; Perry's one of those, too.
The history books are, obviously, going to list the guy as a serial killer; isn't it about time we all of us started calling him out on this before he kills another innocent?
