Justice?
Mere rhetoric, I suppose, as there can not possibly be an acceptable, logical answer to this query.
There are two stories today regarding charges of Child AbuseResulting in Death. Why is it that they carry such dramatically different sentences? A Fort Carson soldier and Iraq War veteran, Johnathon Klinker, is facing these charges for dropping his infant daughter four inches while playing with her in their home. Her head hit too hard and she died of a hemmorage. This soldier accepts full responsibility for his actions, shows great remorse and faces 30 to 64 years in prison.
Meanwhile, Gil Smith, the moron who some time ago killed his 2-year old son by dragging him (while drunk) at 30 mph on an inner tube behind his boat with no supervision, gleefully waved to rescue workers as they searched for his lost son’s body while boating by, shows no remorse whatsoever and now has been arrested again for drunk driving, assaulting a deputy and causing a car accident
Why the dispcrepancy in these sentences for a similar crime? It just goes to show that justice truly is blind.
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Gil Smith is a doubly protected minority in our Politically Correct society, which is why he got the light sentence. Heck, Gil might even be a treble protected minority if his apparent lazy eye is an actual physical problem.
Being a semi-disabled black moron means Gil is the perfect loser in the eyes of the PC set. I'm surprised Bill Johnson didn't take up Gil's plight.
Posted by QBT on April 29, 2007 11:18 PMQBT said it all concerning Gil Smith!! One question HOW was Klinker playing with his INFANT daughter??? I mean you just don't toss INFANTS around in play..you know wobbly head and neck and all?? Enlighten me, Mr. Harrington.
Posted by T on April 30, 2007 11:59 AMBoth a couple of folks who did extremely stupid things, but one will pay and the other won't.
Posted by Jay on April 30, 2007 03:07 PM