Random Access Memories

Those of you that have known me for awhile knew I predicted this.

Maine’s online sex offender registry was taken down after two people listed on it — Joseph L. Gray, 57, and William Elliott, 24 — were shot and killed over the weekend. The suspect, Stephen Marshall of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, died Sunday on a bus entering Boston after shooting himself.

Maine officials say Marshall looked up the victims on the state’s online sex offender registry.

I knew it was just a matter of time before someone used the registry as a wanted list and took revenge for themselves.

When are we going to stop putting scarlet letters on these people?

I’m not sure how many of you know this, but the border watch group “The Minutemen” cannot stop anyone they see crossing the border.

It’s currently not enough of a crime for a? US citizen? to detain someone for.

If congress makes entering the US illegally a felony, it will be.

It would also be legal for someone to go down to the local day-labor streetcorner and make a citizen’s arrest on anyone that cannot prove themselves a citizen.

Of course the “arresting citizen” could later face court trouble, but that’s doubtful to stop many people who would consider it their civic duty and don’t care.

Just what we need, gunbattles erupting on streetcorners, gotta love it.

By a 6-3 vote, the court granted the administration’s request not to review the case of Jose Padilla, an alleged member of al-Qaida arrested in Chicago in 2002, because the administration last November met Padilla’s demand to be indicted in a civilian court and transferred from a Navy brig to a civilian jail.

So they hold the guy for? two years without charge? and it was all perfectly legal. lovely.

So, the jury decided he can be put to death.

Let’s all take a moment and cheer for revenge, and the justification of killing someone out of hatred and spite. We must kill all our enemies so that our view of the world prevails.

There, now you’re the same as Al-Qaeda. Feel good?

I’m becoming less and less impressed with the festival out here.

• The ticket price has gone up to 20$ each, but there hasen’t been much added to justify that price increase.
• The shows have become more PBS pledge drive show.
• There are very few new vendors or new foods.

What have they added?

• a 60$ feast.
• Alot of really cranky security.
• Alot more dust.
• A bunch of vendors making the same things as the vendors that were already there (I mean how many pottery shoppes can one person really be interested in)
• Higher prices (A simple oak goblet was 80$, the same thing in rare woods was 160$, that’s about twice the price you can buy such a thing for online).

just my 2 cents.. *shrug*