I'm always amused when the Nortés are exposed to our Texas ways. They always miscatagorize (my word) Texas by putting it in the south, or calling it southwest. Texas is neither. Texas is Texas. We made this very clear when we annexed the United States back in 1846. We knew the Yankees were a bunch of screw ups, but frankly, we thought we could straighten them out. I'm sorry to say but we failed. You can't fix stupid.
We march to a slightly different drummer down here. Texas common sense is legendary. Little things like drunken DAs, and gun laws get viewed with a jaundiced eye. We take complicated issues, mix them with a little brisket and beer and voila! Common sense! Now common sense doesn't sit well with some people, especially people from say, California, who subscribe to just about anything so long as it's weird and they can blow a joint while doing it. Men marry men, women marry women and dogs marry cats. All's fair in Californication. And they make fun of US! I hate to be the one to tell them, but we stopped dragging people behind pickups a long time ago ... well, mostly.
So, I give to you the case of the accident down near Houston about two years ago. Man pushing his car on a country road with his two sons, ages ten and twelve or so, and a drunk driver comes along, hits the car and kills the two boys. Now this was just a regular drunk driver so Lehmberg immunity did not apply in this case. Anyway, to make a long story short, the father shoots the drunk driver, and he shot him good 'cause he died! Saved Harris county a ton of money. Well, as luck would have it there were charges filed on the father and the case had to go to trial. Lots of talk in court about right and wrong, and the letter of the law, you see, that's how lawyers work. They will bamboozle a jury with word games, telling them, "You MUST do this, or you MUST do that," and that they need to throw common sense out the window because "de book say..." Well, the district attorney only forgot one tiny detail. He was in Texas! The jury packed it in his kazoo by rendering a "not guilty" verdict. Of course the DA came out, rubbing his butt telling the press that he wouldn't have taken the case to court had he not believed it was winnable.
I want to kiss every ONE of those jurors on the lips! Texas justice! Folks, I hate to be the one to tell you this but justice is not in a book. Justice resides in the human heart. A man lost his two sons. He will never get over that. There are some things a man should never get over. The drunk deserved to be shot...by a firing squad! The message is plain and simple; we don't play that in TEXAS! In the perfect world we will vet our DAs a tad bit better.
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