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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jim-thompson who wrote (54492)	2/25/2006 11:08:34 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

Theodore Roosevelt---"Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy. We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong. No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1906 (excerpt from his acceptance speech, upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize). The sharp contrast between President Theodore Roosevelt's philosophy, and that of Democratic Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton - as well as the other apologists for terror on the left - is striking. T. Roosevelt's "coward and . . . voluptuary" foreshadow Carter, Clinton, and the whole new millennium Democratic Party.

To: jim-thompson who wrote (54492)	4/15/2006 11:32:57 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 93284

HOWLING MOB By DAREH GREGORIAN nypost.com ________________________________________ BRODERICK JOHN HEHMAN nypost.com April 15, 2006 -- The four [black] teenaged punks [yelling "Get Whitey"] who chased an [white] NYU student into the path of an oncoming car looked and laughed as he lay on the street dying, a prosecutor revealed yesterday. "They didn't call for an ambulance. They didn't call for help. Rather, they stood on the street corner and laughed," prosecutor Joel Seidemann said of the 13- and 15-year-olds who chased Broderick John Hehman into traffic. Hehman, 20, died four days later from his massive head injuries. And the wolf-pack thugs, who allegedly laid in wait for their victim, could have even more to smile about now. Prosecutors lost their bid to try the teens as adults yesterday when their cases were transferred to Manhattan Family Court - where they face about half as much time behind bars if convicted of the top charge against them, felony murder. Had they been tried as adults, the 15-year-olds would have faced nine years to life behind bars. Now, they face a maximum of five years in "restrictive placement," said Laurence Busching, head of the city Law Department's family court division. If they're convicted of the lesser charges against them, including manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide, they could get off with as little as 18 months in juvenile detention. Seidemann acknowledged that the case had to be transferred during a court appearance for Denzell Fell, 13 - but not before he revealed new details about the teens' sick reaction to Hehman's being mowed down. The prosecutor said Fell, Humberto Guzman, 13, Hassan Mayfield, 15, and alleged ringleader Andre "Chris" Johnson, 15, had gone out on the evening of April 1 "looking to rob somebody." It was on East 125th Street between Park and Lexington avenues that the group spotted Hehman, who'd just gotten out of the subway on his way to visit a friend. The pack of muggers immediately went after him, determined to steal his cellphone, Seidemann said. One "held him in a bear hug" and "punched him in the side of the head" before [Hehman] managed to break free, the prosecutor said. "The group pursued him" and "converged on him" from two sides, Seidemann said - forcing him into the street as he tried to run back to the subway. A silver Mercedes hit Hehman as he darted into the street. "His feet were knocked out from under him," he was thrown into the air, and "his head smashed into the windshield" so hard that the glass shattered, Seidemann said. The impact left Hehman lying in a bloody heap in the street - to the great amusement of his attackers. "[They] stood on the corner - laughing," Seidemann said. The teens were arrested a week later. Seidemann said the grand jury that investigated the case interviewed 14 witnesses to the attack. Only the two older kids could have been tried as adults, but the grand jury wasn't able to indict the pair on high enough charges due to what Seidemann called "a quirk" in the law. That quirk was a provision that allowed them to be indicted for second-degree murder only if they had successfully robbed Hehman before he was killed. dareh.gregorian@nypost.com