Tuesday, December 09, 2003
The People vs. Arrogance
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This is one of the amazing stories of the year.
One of the Republican Party's most arrogantly powerful icons was convicted last night by a true jury of his peers. "His people." His actual people, that is.
In a South Dakota town of approximately 4,000 people, many in the jury knew Bill Janklow and his family personally, and some even shook his hand as they left the courtroom.
Still, they rebuffed their long-time political leader's looney diabetes defense and convicted him of manslaughter.
Who knows how they would have reacted if Janklow had committed this crime elsewhere, or committed some other crime.
But the fact they couldn't get over was that he had killed one of their own: he killed "Randy" [Scott].
Let the powerful among us take this to heart. The American people do have limits. Exceed them at your peril.
posted by Gotham 8:04 PM
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