From: Jasper
Date: 10/17/03
Time: 7:00:12 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.58.147
Charlie,
What’s new?
I see a man using his nepotism and the official power of his position to embezzle money, molest children, blackmail his victims and garner support from the people who gave him put him in office.
You see a black man in the “Democrat” party getting away with unspeakable crimes because he is black because he is a Democrat and because the black community is somehow so blinded by his color that they can’t see the man for what he is.
If you are looking for a pedophile, don’t look in your friendly neighborhood dirty bookstore. Look for him (or her) in a foster parent home, on the faculty of a K-12 school, on the deacon board of a church or in the active leadership of a Boy Scout troop. Look for this character where the kids are, where he can gain their trust and where you will also find responsible adults who truly care about children and give freely of themselves to help them grow into honest, competent and caring adults. That much of it is not about politics or color. It’s about criminality – or allegations of criminality that some black people believed and others didn’t.
I don’t know anything about Lexington politics.. I know a lot about party politics in general. I know that I would never vote for a conservative because I know that conservatives are philosophically opposed to too many of the things I think are essential to middle and lower-income people. If it costs the taxpayers money or threatens an old, established conservative order, the conservative is probably against it. Conservatives argued against the racial integration of the Armed Forces in 1945 because they believed the government had no business forcing the races to mingle. They voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because they felt is was a dangerous federal intrusion into “states rights,” the right of business to hire and fire according to its best interest and the right of property owners to sell or rent to whom they pleased.
Conservatives voted against the Head Start program because they though it cost too much money and they didn’t think it was right for parents who worked hard, paid their taxes and got involved in their children’s education to foot the pill for parents who didn’t. They did everything they could to publicize the programs that weren’t working and to cut off funding the programs that were working.
I believe YOU but I can see how Barry’s supporters might not have believed his critics (like ALL loyal constituents refuse to believe criminal charges against their favorite politicians). Some of them might have held their noises and demonstrated for him to keep a valuable program from going down in flames with him. From your description of what happed, the issue could have boiled down to a choice of two evils. The demonstrators could have decided that it was better to have Barry who MIGHT HAVE stolen some money and physically molested some children than a party that WOULD HAVE taken all the money and figuratively molested all of them. – Jasper