Barbie Gets Her Way (Part Two)

This is just a follow up to my last post, because I thought of one more thing to point out.

I find it fascinating that prosecutors in Raymond Jessop's case decided to separate the sexual-assault-of-a-16-year-old charge and trial from the bigamy charge and trial. Obviously, it would be rather difficult, in the same trial, to argue both that Jessop and the girl were absolutely NOT married, and also that they absolutely WERE married. It's easier not to sound like a fool when you tell conflicting stories several weeks apart.

What I find even more compelling is the fact that, as a result of this decision on the part of the prosecutor, Jessop will be tried distinctly for the crime of polyga-bigamy, a crime which I have insisted (ad nauseam) is no longer prosecutable in a post-Lawrence era. Schleicher County and Her Noble Holy-Highness, Barbarous Walthug, should expect a vigorous challenge, especially now that the poor guy has been effectually "harmed".

What I also don't get is why the Texas appeals court isn't already racing to review the protested, ostensibly illegal search and seizure of evidence on which all of these scheduled trials are disingenuously based. What will Barbie do if, after three or four trials (and maybe a conviction or two) the appeals court comes back and once again reminds her that she egregiously overstepped her judicial province and trampled on huge sections of the Constitution? It will all have to be unwound, and Texas will have yet more egg on its Yellow Rosy face.

Maybe today's abrupt adjournment was less about a juror's child with swine flu (can you say "Alternate"?) than it was a tactical maneuver in light of a woefully weak case.

They say some criminals are boneheads and do boneheaded things. What conduct of Texas in this affair has not been boneheaded?

Maybe the Pat Robertsons of the world were not wrong when they said that our nation's escalating misdeeds are sufficient to incur the wrath of a just God. The private central banks have looted 24 trillion dollars out of the America's treasury in the last twelve months. Saudi Arabia, Japan and China are each holding at least a trillion of our Federal Reserve Note "dollars", and the recent 25% decline in the dollar's value will inevitably induce them to "dump" their dollars - most likely all on the same day. If that happens, our economy will take a cataclysmic nose-dive. Folks, there's only about three days worth of food in the grocery stores. When you get REALLY hungry, on whose side will you be?

Go Tito !