Isaiah Kalebu was found guilty on all counts. When someone does something as horrible as he did we still give him a fair trial. We still give him an attorney and let him speak in his defense to a dozen members of the public who will decide his fate.
The good in our justice system doesn’t come up as often as the flaws on this blog. We talk a lot about the failures of the drug war. We talk about racial disparities. We talk about the very real problems with the death penalty. We focus on these and other problems instead of the good because the problems can, hopefully, be fixed. Hopefully more attention can help alleviate the problems.
But the system does work sometimes. It does put away a murderer. It showed evidence. It was fair. It gave the defendant his day in court. Hopefully, the surviving victim can find some comfort in the verdict. Hopefully we’re a little safer with Kalebu behind bars.
Good post! I think we need more like this, not just because it’s showing that good was done, but because it speaks to who we are.
Well said Carl. Some people simply belong behind bars. This guy is at the top of the list.
But the system does work sometimes.
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That’s for sure, our liberal immigration system does a great job of bringing in third world trash. Congratulations, libholes, he wouldn’t have been here without you.
And at the other extreme, it’s fantastic that Cory Maye is now free.
AF- from what I can find he was born in Seattle. So go suck on it, asshole.
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To work in industries that are dominated by Republicans! Sorry, you’ll have to convince cheap labor Republicans to change their ways if you want less immigration.
I, also, can’t find anything that says Isaiah Kalebu was in the country illegally or was an immigrant.
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According to a profile by Eli Sanders, Kalebu was born in the Seattle area. Although one of his parents was an immigrant, which makes him similar to tens of millions of other Americans…
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Yep, another mentally ill American that slipped through the cracks and people wound up dead. It’s a story that plays out over and over again. It’s one that we could, mostly, fix. But, fixing it would not only cost money, it would mean spending money on people that most people would rather not admit exist. Just look away and push it out of your mind…
Personally, I’d rather spend the money and fix the problems.
re Lee @ 4. Thanks for the update. I was wondering about this recently.
@3 This is why you have zero credibility on this blog. It’s one thing to milk a tragedy for propaganda; it’s another thing to slander a whole group — immigrants — by getting a basic fact wrong: This guy isn’t an immigrant. I’m a propagandist, but it’s people like you who give propaganda a bad name; as one propagandist to another, you’re a wormy piece of possum meat, AF.
My apologies to dead possums.
This guy apparently was telling the court that “God” told him to do it. Anytime a defendant think “God” is directing his or her actions, the result is usually a guilty verdict, and a guilty verdict that’s well-deserved!
He’ll go to “big boy” prison now for a long, long time, and I’m sure he’ll be popular with the boys on Cell Block C!
Oh, my. I just found out that my presence in this country is due to immigrant forebears. I will need some time to let my thoughts percolate concerning this troubling revelation.
Whenever somebody complains about immigrants, I like to agree with them, get them all hyped up in trashing all the immigrants, and then ask them “And what tribe do YOU belong to?”
@10. Roger Rabbit spews:
This guy isn’t an immigrant.
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A nice pile of rodent droppings from you. You fail to realize that even if he is a second generation immigrant as the kook newspaper claims he is still here because of the post-65 elimination of Third World quotas.
Oh! Can’t have too many people of the wrong shade of skin color invading our shores can we?
Kook indeed.
Hmmmm. I remember Raygun and just about every right winger opposed “quotas”..
Oh that was affirmative action.. Nevermind..
Right wingers are for quotas until they’re against them I guess..
LOL… I’m the descendant of pirates.
When the last pirates from the Isle of Wright were rounded up and shot one group of them managed to escape and make their way to the new world. Those would be my peeps!
I think we can all agree that it would have been much better if those people had been attacked and killed by a violent and mentally ill man of European decent.
@15 As this continent was unpopulated 100,000 years ago, you’re a descendant of immigrants, too. And unless you’re 100% Native American, you descended from people who immigrated here within the last 402 years.
@17 It was rightwingers who opened the floodgates to illegal immigration because they wanted cheap labor.