Perry Losing It

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Rick Perry is picking a bad time to act ignorant. His defense in the Willingham, "Innocent Man" execution is now not only that, "everyone else said he was guilty," but that Willingham was a bad guy... a wife beater... oh, and he cursed shortly before being put to death. For one thing, just because everone else jumps off a bridge to their death, do you feel obligated to follow suit? If so, you're not qualified to be governor. And, the guy cursed? Wow, you mean someone about to die for something they didn't do... cursed?!?! Wow, yeah, someone like that obviously deserves to be put do death. And we all know how many wife-beaters are on death row. /sarcasm

How very pathetic. Words are one thing, of course, but there are also actions. One action was Perry's removing of those commissioners. Another is that he is refusing to disclose the information he had prior to the execution. Smells of cover-up more and more.

I also read some very ignorant comments on chron.com from people who just don't get it, one actually complaining that the Hurst report had too much glorification about Hurst. Uhh... ok. Say you're Thomas Edison and you're relatively unknown. And you want to weigh in on an important matter that's within your expertise...

Hi, my name is Tom Edison, I discovered electricity. I also discovered this thing called a light bulb that will allow you to see in the dark. I also did (this), (that), and the (other) and am considered an expert in electricity. In my professional opinion, the squirrel formed a conduit and thus exploded due to electricity, and not due to tiny elves living in trees, as the original investigation determined. I base my findings on facts and the scientific method, not the old wives tales. So please disregard the prior investigation since it is not based on science, and let Bubba live. Thanks, Tom. P.S. Don't forget that the courts were all relying on the tiny elves theory as the cause of the tragedy, so this is all up to you.

So yeah, maybe Hurst tried to prove that he was an expert so that his report would be taken seriously. But it appears that either it never made it up to the Governor, or worse, it made it to the Governor and was ignored.

I'm not anti-death penalty this or pro-whatever else. This is about an innocent man getting executed. This is about fixing whatever went wrong to allow an innocent man to be executed. And more and more, it looks to be about a crumbling governor who probably didn't do his job on something as important as sending a man to his death. Where the hell is Ronald Reagan to teach these upstart Republicans about intergrity and taking bold action? Today's republicans continue to be plagued with unethical behaviour and corruption. It's amazing how far the party has fallen. I'm so disappointed with Perry that I'm getting mad. I've already decided I won't be voting for him, but now it looks like he's about to embarras himself and Texas by acting like an ignorant bafoon. "Uhhh, all the courts said he was guilty!" "Uhhh, he was a bad man! Yeah, a wife beater! A Monster!"

Uhhh, you're so fucking pathetically clueless, Perry. This is probably going to be your undoing. Fuck off now, plz k thx.