McKinney Faces a Grand Jury
I am so tired of people giving a pass to people like Cynthia McKinney just because they cry racism. According to Captain Ed over at Captain’s Quarters, the prosecution is punting by turning the whole matter to a grand jury rather than just filing charges himself:
This may represent a bit of a punt on the part of the prosecutors, who already have a complaint and eyewitnesses that apparently substantiate the story. Under normal circumstances, they would have skipped a grand jury and simply filed charges against the offender. However, with McKinney screaming racism and her peers in Congress oddly silent, the prosecutors have made the politically wise choice to defer the decision to a grand jury. Given the evidence already in hand, chances are very low that the grand jury will find that the prosecutors don’t have a case for indictment, let alone conviction.
I for one do not have as much confidence in the grand jury. They may step up to the plate and do what is right and indict the congresswoman, but with the prosecution giving a pass, it makes me wonder.
There is someone who has not given McKinney a pass and that is the Capitol Police Chief who has stood by the officer who tried to stop the Congresswoman when she went around a metal detector. And yet there is a group of people who are remarkably quiet during this whole affair, the Democrats with the exception of Nancy Pelosi. With most of the Dems playing a see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil game, it is almost like they wish McKinney would just go away. The Republicans are not much better. McKinney is such a hot potato that most of the conservative members of Congress, with the notable exception of Tom Delay, are willing to give her a pass as well. Its time for Republicans to grow a set and call McKinney for what she is: a rabid racist. I just hope the grand jury sees the same thing and returns an indictment against the Congresswoman for assaulting a Capitol Police Officer.
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Ms McKinney is indeed a racist and a disgrace to every resident of Georgia. She uses the race card as a crutch every time she doesn’t get her way. She expects special treatment in everything she does but with people like that, you can never do enough for her. I hope she is arrested, convicted and forced to resign.
Let the congresswoman have her day in court. There is a possible case for her, I think. If she can prove or reasonably claim that the officer in question was quite aware of who she was and then baited or harrassed her, she would have a case. Lacking that, I think it looks bad for her.
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