To be announced any minute.
With all the tax dollars spent on this, I guess it makes it worthy of a post here.
Fox5 Atlanta is carrying it live. They switched to an Obama presser. Missed it, but AJC has the details.
Fresh Political Pickins From The Peach State
To be announced any minute.
With all the tax dollars spent on this, I guess it makes it worthy of a post here.
Fox5 Atlanta is carrying it live. They switched to an Obama presser. Missed it, but AJC has the details.
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If he doesn’t get 50% +1 is there a runoff? Cause that will be more expensive than the Saxby/Martin runoff
Guilty all 54 counts
The suspense was killing me.
Updated above. For some reason, I can’t do that fancy strikeover stuff. Fox 5 said they were cutting to the Obama presser and would switch back for the verdict. Still showing Obama (who just took some bizarre crack at Nancy Reagan over seances), and have yet to update or add a crawl about the Nichols verdict.
This is the same station that still thinks Dick Williams’ opinions are worthy of a weekly show…
That jury must have made its decision based purely on race. Obama will be able to pardon Nichols to get this injustice fixed right.
I’m sure “Vic” is thinking this very thing.
Obama needs to pardon him or at least commute his sentence. Racism is real and sometimes evoked violent and justifiable reactions. White people need to get a clue. You are causing this rage and if anything you reap the evil you ancestors sowed. I say give him a few years to cool off and get some counseling.
No one deserves to die, but the real cause is the racist system not Nichols. Now White people know they are just as victimized by the system as anyone else. Electing Obama and sympathetic Whites like Martin will help bring closer, not imprisoning a fellow victim.
I HOPE YOU REALIZE I AND JOKING.
Uncalled for
Grift,
I think it was perfectly called for.
Unsportsmanlike conduct on #Jane…. 15 yard penalty from the spot….1st down.
Whatever Bill. I used to think you were a reasonable person. I’ve been proved wrong a lot lately.
But Jane makes more sense than his defense team.
(…just shakes head..)
Grift,
I AM reasonable. But, when I see racist scumbags like Shirley Franklin and John Lewis get on the air last week whining and bitching at Karen Handel for NOT breaking the law to extend voting hours through the weekend (nevermind the fact that in order to magically “extend” voting hours you have to be ready with people to insert into those voting polls to allow them to be open…and, it doesn’t look like Fulton County would have been able to do that), AND no one addresses their bovine effluent (like, say, you), that’s when I have to accept it that there IS a lot of “racism” out there…and it’s all coming from Left-Wing Socialist Black America who think all whites are out to get them.
SO, I’m just getting into the spirit of what Lewis and Franklin clearly desire and espouse. (Note to Rugby: You gotta learn to read between their lines)
Bill, if your fellow Republicans choose to follow you down your rabbit hole of absurdity, your party gets the doom it deserves.
Bill/Jane
The jury was made up of 8 African Americans, 3 Caucasians, and One Asian American.
The jurors had to listen to weeks of a cooked up explanation of Slave derrangement syndrome as a defense.
The jury found Nichols guilty on ALL counts. They now will decide whether he dies after 20+ years of appeals at the hands of the state, or if he dies 40 years from now as a prisoner of the State of Georgia.
Instead of trying to make some magic leap to connect this case to the lunacy of Shirley Franklin and John Lewis’s campaign commercials, you would be better served to look at the fact that the judicial system appears to have worked. And this is with a jury filled with African Americans. Not grandstanding, race-baiting politicians. Just everyday folk, doing their civic duty, and doing it correctly.
For that reason, your statements are off base, and uncalled for.
was there ever any doubt as to his guilt? After all he was recorded on video killing people
Ic, you surely don’t support the system that allowed unnecessary millions of dollars to be spent on this case due to technicalities, do you?
“(Note to Rugby: You gotta learn to read between their lines)”
All I will say to that is you once launched into one of your articulate and edifying diatribes when I “read between the lines” to identify racism.
JSM,
I’m not sure I understand your exact question, but I’ll offer this.
We have an imperfect system with flaws. Our country takes the position that it is better a guilty man go free than an innocent man be robbed of his liberty, and so the deck is stacked from the beginning on behalf of the defense. Even so, the defense in this case was able to abuse the system with the aid of the first trial judge. Utimately, based on overwhelming evidence, the jury reached a verdict, unanimously and swiftly. Therefore, I will say the system worked.
Icarus,
All I’ve heard from Lewis and Franklin is when some white Republicans somewhere has done something that they don’t like, they get on their friggin’ soapboxes and make a scene.
I just figured I’d beat them to the punch.
AND…trifling things like “evidence” or “the law” has never been anything those two particularly care much about.
Jane
I don’t know anything about the case but I do know some WHITE folks who think he got a raw deal with double jeopardy. But with the killings, I think it’s a bad case to hang your hat on.
And, by the way, it’s comments like this one in this post from Vic. that have a tendency to set me off:
“i’m a blonde haired, blue eyed, dixie flag waving, arian ho, bought and paid for by candidate XYZ”
(Source: http://www.peachpundit.com/2008/11/06/re-glenn-richardson/#comment-144537
)
“Arian ho?” Yeah, that’s the type of language we can all look forward to be expressed more and more over the next 4-8 years.
Well if it makes you feel better-
I am a sophisticated debutante Magnolia – who loves to joke around ( a little too much maybe) but loves my babies and keeps plenty of guns around to protect them!
Jane –
I was about to say-
” Girl, I picked my own damn cotton!”
I don’t owe anyone a darn thing but to LOVE them – and that is priceless – PLEASE know it!
Black nationalists will argee that any Black person who does not agree with them is a Tom. They say the same thing about Black Jurors, Black Policemen, Black Republicans, and Black politicians who do not tow the line.
Jane,
The word is “toe” as in “toe the line” as in “put your toe on this line”.
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