DOES ANYONE REMEMBER "PUNCH & JUDY?" - Just A Minute Radio for Monday 100823

            Good Monday to you … we’re increasingly closer to the end of the hot weather – we think, or hope!

 

            What a letdown! – was what I heard mostly last week after the 15 months of jockeying… weeks of trial… a week plus  the jury’s out… and “All we get is one lousy paper-mache’ conviction?”  That seemed to be the prevailing opinion in the windy city – that more recently has been the ‘seriously warm’ city.

 

            I didn’t hear anyone in person or on the news bands cheering for the 23-1 score on the Blagaojevich vs. Illinois contest last week.  All in all what seemed by most accounts to be a milk-toastly unsatisfactory result.

 

            Mr. Patrick Fitzgerald, Federal Prosecutor, didn’t do himself proud.  There were several other faux-pas in his recent past… and the one we heard most about in this area involved the premature tide of opinion which turned against the Duke University LaCrosse team almost two years ago.  In the interim Mr. Fitzgerald has had some other mis-fires… and the unfortunate whispers going around the legal circles is Chicago lawbreakers aren’t getting a fair shot at justice – and the taxpayers are footing the bill for extreme legal cases.    

 

            Aside from that there’s a string of other complaints coming too close to Mr. Fitzgerald for it to do his legal career any good.  (Although there is that old P.T. Barnum bon-mot “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” ) Well maybe not… but Chicago seems to have a heaping helping of news that doesn’t do it any good.

 

            There’s the old saying… “Don’t be so open minded your brains fall out.”  OTOH… even an ex-governor with not the brightest of apparent smarts – and certainly not a family-related vocabulary – deserves a fair trial.  But in order for that to happen, most judges are going to make you keep your mouth shut.  Not an easy job with someone who has the jawbreaker name of  “Blagojevich.” for a growing family.  

 

Nobody said it wouldn’t be entertaining… Judicial ‘fairness’ is going to be a tough row to hoe.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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DOES ANYONE REMEMBER “PUNCH & JUDY?”

Just a Minute: -- Rod Blagojevich – ex governor of Illinois, who by most accounts, tried to sell the empty Obama Senate seat – walked out last week convicted on just one of the 24 felony counts against him.

Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney, now has a string of cases in which he’s spoken "beyond the four corners of the complaint," to use criminal law terminology, and is attaining an incompetent reputation.  

The AP expressed amazement at the 23 to one score in favor of “BLAGO” – who’s now attained a near folk-hero status in the eyes of Fox News’s Shepherd Smith.  Chicago’s increasing reputation as a high crime and corruption center may soon surpass its earlier seedy reputation as the hangout of the infamous Al Capone.

So what’s the outcome? The Justice Department indicates they’ll retry ‘Blago’s other 23 mistrial counts, if they believe they can get a prosecutor with a normal sized ego to fit within the boundaries of his duties. Then they may take another shot at spending more tax dollars to put Mr. Blagojevich in jail for an appropriate term.

<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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