The Judiciary ...Again

The law is in place to protect the most vulnerable amongst us...
The law is in place to protect the most vulnerable amongst us...
The law is in place to protect the most vulnerable amongst us.

Bill O'Reilly offers the most telling example I've ever read of a broken system in great need of repair - or destruction.

[On Tueday morning], Judge Walter Heinrich told the confessed killer of 13-year-old Sarah Lunde he would be denied bail. But last month, Heinrich released convicted sex offender David Lee Onstott on cash bond of just $100 after he violated state law by failing to register as a sex offender. So Onstott, who was convicted of brutally raping a woman, was walking around unsupervised before he strangled Sarah.

Heinrich has done this before. In June, 2003, 40-year old Mark Pickens stood before him, charged with rape and battery against a law enforcement officer. Big time accusations, right? Judge Heinrich allowed the guy's mother to post cash bond of less than $2,000 and Pickens walked out. --The cops were furious. Six months later, he raped a 39-year-old Tampa mother of two.

But did Judge Heinrich learn from that? Apparently not. (link)

In the Terri Schiavo case, where a mentally impaired woman was starved to death by court order, all the appeals courts, right up to the United States Supreme Court, deferred to one weak-minded judge - again in Florida - who was hell-bent on killing her in the most gruesome manner imaginable.

Here, a judge seemingly doesn't have any comprehension of the consequences of his actions, an attribute that you'd think would be a prerequisite for the profession. But apparently not.

Instead of standing in defense of the weakest of our citizenry, the judicial system in this country is structured to protect its lowest common denominator; awful judges making terrible decisions. To sustain and even exalt the likes of Judge George Greer and Judge Walter Heinrich. And, despite the certain contempt this closing of ranks engenders, the judiciary continues to demand respect. And fealty.

What these judges deserve is scorn. Denunciation. Unemployment.