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HOW COULD SHE DO THIS?
HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?� HOW COULD ANDREA YATES HAVE KILLED HER FIVE CHILDREN?� IF YOU THINK I HAVE THE ANSWER TO THESE QUESTIONS, I DON'T.� BUT THOSE QUESTIONS RAISE MORE QUESTIONS FOR ME.� FOR INSTANCE, HOW COULD A RADIO TALK-SHOW HOST HAVE BEEN CALLING THIS WOMAN A "B*TCH" ON PUBLIC AIRWAVES WITHIN 2-3 HOURS OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE CRIME.� HE DIDN'T KNOW HER OR THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THIS HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.� I WONDER IF HE HAD THE SAME PUBLIC AND INFLAMMATORY ANGER AND PASSION WHEN SAMMY "THE BULL" GRAVANO ADMITTED TO KILLING AT LEAST NINETEEN PEOPLE AND PROBABLY MANY MORE AND DID LESS THAN FIVE YEARS IN PRISON BECAUSE HE HAD INFORMATION THE GOVERNMENT WANTED.� TOO BAD MRS. YATES DIDN'T KNOW ANY MOBSTERS.� SHE COULD BE LOOKING FORWARD TO A VERY LIGHT PRISON SENTENCE, GOVERNMENT PAID PLASTIC SURGERY AND PROTECTION.� IF SHE WANTED TO, LIKE SAMMY, SHE COULD THEN LEAVE THE GOVERNMENT PROTECTION (WITHOUT ANY RAMIFICATIONS) AND SELL ILLEGAL DRUGS TO KIDS.�
��� WELL, I DON'T THINK SHE KNOWS AND MOBSTERS, BUT MAYBE SHE IS RICH AND COULD HIRE AND TEAM OF ATTORNEYS.� THAT WAY SHE COULD HAVE TAKEN A FEW DAYS TO PLAN THE MURDERS AND GATHER THE NECESSARY EQUIPMENT AND SET UP AN ALIBI LIKE O.J.� ALTHOUGH UNLIKE MRS. YATES, SIMPSON HAD A HISTORY OF VIOLENT AND ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR TOWARD HIS WIFE AND OTHERS.� YET WITH UNBELIEVABLY COMPELLING PHYSICAL EVIDENCE THAT HE WAS GUILTY, TWELVE SUPPOSEDLY REASONABLE MEN AND WOMEN SAID "NOT GUILTY" AND HE WALKED.� THE ONLY TIME HE DID WAS IN COUNTY JAIL FOR LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR AWAITING TRIAL AND SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS FOR COPS.
��� IN THIS TALK SHOW HOSTS' HOME STATE OF TEXAS, WILLIAM HENSON (A FORMER DEPUTY SHERIFF OF CAMP COUNTY) STOOD ACCUSED OF RAPING AND OR SEXUALLY MOLESTING AT LEAST SEVEN WOMEN USING THE INTIMIDATING POWER OF HIS BADGE.� TWO OF HIS ACCUSERS TOOK AND PASSED A POLYGRAPH TEST. HENSON TOOK AND FAILED A POLYGRAPH TEST AND ADMITTED HE WAS LYING, YET HE WAS NEVER CONVICTED, NEVER SPENT A NIGHT IN JAIL AND IS STILL LICENSED TO BE A PEACE OFFICER.� DID THIS RADIO PERSONALITY CALL FOR HENSON'S PUBLIC LYNCHING?
PLEASE DON'T GET ME WRONG, I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND WHY MRS. YATES KILLED HER CHILDREN NOR DO I THINK WE SHOULD LOOK THE OTHER WAY AND LET HER WALK.� BUT BEFORE WE START SCREAMING FOR AN IMMEDIATE EXECUTION WITHOUT A TRIAL FOR THIS WOMAN WHO IS CLEARLY INSANE, LETS ACTUALLY PUNISH SOME OF THESE MEN WHO COMMITTED ACTS JUST AS HORRIBLE IF NOT WORSE INSTEAD OF LETTING THEM WALK AWAY WITH A SMIRK AND A WINK.
��� MRS. YATES IS INSANE AND SUFFERING FROM A PSYCHOSIS THAT WAS SPOTTED AND TREATED, ALTHOUGH INADEQUATELY, BY HER DOCTORS.� HER DOCTORS FAILED HER, HER HUSBAND FAILED HER AND ULTIMATELY HER OWN STATE OF MIND FAILED HER.� NOW THE TEXAS PROSECUTORS ARE ASKING FOR A DEATH SENTENCE.� IRONICALLY I THINK THAT ASKING 12 REASONABLE MEN AND WOMEN TO SEND THIS SICK WOMAN, WITH NO VIOLENT OR CRIMINAL HISTORY, TO DEATH WILL BE HER TICKET OUT.� AFTER ALL ISN'T TEXAS THE HOME OF "COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM?" |
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