Don Gwinn
Moderator Emeritus
Hey, if Arafat can win. . . . folks in Illinois are familiar with Governor George Ryan. Lyin' Ryan. King George. The man who ran the Secretary of State's office when it was passing out CDL licenses to people who couldn't even read street signs in return for cash. The man whose close associates are all going to prison rather than turn on him. The man who broke every single campaign promise he made. The RINO-In-Chief.
Well, now he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by an anti-death-penalty college professor here in Illinois, for you see, George found time between getting innocent children killed on the highway and banking his bribes to enact a moratorium on executions in Illinois. In fact, until the public outcry singed his eyebrows, he was hinting last month that he might issue a blanket commutation for everyone on death row before his term ended! Now that looks unlikely (though not impossible, and you can never trust this man.)
I understand that there were concerns with Illinois' justice system. I share those concerns. However, everyone who has a reasonable claim to having been wrongly convicted has already been released. What we have left are people like the guy who shot up a bar in Kane county and was caught by the police in the bar, still firing his weapons. He was convicted with that testimony plus nine eyewitnesses, and he is now proclaiming his innocence and demanding more appeals. There seems to be a real danger that Ryan might commute this idiot's sentence.
Well, now he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by an anti-death-penalty college professor here in Illinois, for you see, George found time between getting innocent children killed on the highway and banking his bribes to enact a moratorium on executions in Illinois. In fact, until the public outcry singed his eyebrows, he was hinting last month that he might issue a blanket commutation for everyone on death row before his term ended! Now that looks unlikely (though not impossible, and you can never trust this man.)
I understand that there were concerns with Illinois' justice system. I share those concerns. However, everyone who has a reasonable claim to having been wrongly convicted has already been released. What we have left are people like the guy who shot up a bar in Kane county and was caught by the police in the bar, still firing his weapons. He was convicted with that testimony plus nine eyewitnesses, and he is now proclaiming his innocence and demanding more appeals. There seems to be a real danger that Ryan might commute this idiot's sentence.