Rachel Maddow, whom I’m not much of a fan of, hit the nail on the head with this one.

“A New Legal Regime” is what bothers me most about this whole statement.  Will this regime operate within the current legal framework or will they have a whole new set of laws outside the current Justice System and Consitution?  Will they be above the current Justice System?  Will a judge in the current system be able to review their rulings and be able to overturn them?  Or will they be above all others and answerable to no one?

Free Republic Article

When Jason R. Beatrice, 31 of Raynham took his 4 year old son to Market Basket he didn’t expect to have to protect him from molestation by an employee of the supermarket while using the restroom.  But that is exactly what happened.  Valerio Rodriguez, 71, of Providence reached under the bathroon stall partition and was touching the child’s leg while the child was standing on a bucket.  I am assuming he was using the bucket as a step stool.  Mr Beatrice threw open the stall door and punched Rodriguez in the mouth to stop him from molesting his son.

Guess who went to jail?  Remember it’s Massachusetts!

That’s right Beatrice went to jail.

I received a comment from Beatrice’s sister correcting me on his going to jail.  Beatrice was not arrested but was charged with assault and released.

Rodriguez, who is also an illegal alien, was given a court date to answer to the molestation charges but wasn’t even arrested.  the man confessed to police through a translator and they still didn’t arrest him.

In fact he wasn’t even fired by Market Basket.

A spokesman for Tewksbury-based Demoulas’ Supermarkets, owner of the Market Basket chain, said Rodriguez “has been suspended pending investigation by law enforcement authorities.”

This is what Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley had to say about it.

“We can’t have people taking the law into their own hands. The father should have waited for the police.”

That’s right, if someone is in the act of molesting your child don’t stop them. Call the police and wait!!

Here is Martha’s contact info. Let her know what you think.

E-mail:
office@marthacoakley.com

Phone:
617-628-4200

Mailing Address:
Martha Coakley Committee
PMB #312
One Kendall Square, Building 600
Cambridge, MA 02139

Office Address:
Martha Coakley Committee
56 Roland Street
Suite 207-C
Charlestown, MA 02129

Also since Market Basket won’t fire the illegal alien molester even after he confessed I think a boycott of Market Basket stores is in order.  I am trying to find contact information for their main office but it isn’t wasy.  Their main website(www.mbfoods.com) is currently not working.  But I didn’t find a contact form here.

UPDATE – July 17, 2008
Raynham Police Chief Lou Pacheco doesn’t understand what anyone is upset about.

“It is unfortunate that there appears to be some type of public assumption that the police stopped a father from protecting his son and let a child molester go, that is absolutely not true,” Pacheco wrote in a prepared statement.

Really?

The story stirred up a media frenzy, much of it critical of police for arresting the father.
Pacheco said people have left anonymous phone messages at the station assuming, wrongly, that police arrested the father and let the suspect go or that there was incontrovertible evidence of a sexual assault and the father used force to stop it.
But, Pacheco said, his officers had probable cause to believe that both parties had possibly committed arrestable felonies. Neither party had any record or warrants
And while the father claims the incident was an outright sexual assault, there was an arguable dispute on the facts as the elderly man who could only speak through an interpreter, said he was “just joking around,” he said.
He said his officers used their discretion not to arrest the man right away because the reason for an arrest is to protect the public by stopping the crime or similar ones from continuing and to ensure the parties will appear in court.
“None of those are the facts as I know them or as the officers knew them at the time. Innocent until proven guilty is still the law of the land and people on their own can’t become judge jury and executioner. That is not the way the system works,” he said.

Another Massachusetts Official that believes that you have no right to defend yourself or anyone else.  Just let the crime continue to occur and wait for the police to arrive and stop it.  Oh and it’s not sexual assault if you’re “just joking around”.

You can let Police Pacheco know what you think using the contact info on the Raynham Police Depratment webpage.

UPDATE – August 31, 2008

According to the Patriot Ledger the assault charge against Jason Beatrice, the father charged with assault for defending his 4 year old son from a child molester, has been dropped.  He still faces a battery charge but that will likely be dropped as the “victim” is unavaliable to testify.  The child molester Valerio Rodriguez, 71, ran away back to Guatemala when he was released instead of arrested.

Oh and here’s another nugget about Ms. Coakley.  She was interviewed on 96.9 WTKK radio in Boston and when asked about charging the father for defending his child she responded:

We… We try and discourage people from self help.

Michelle Malkin has a post on it too.

UPDATE As of 09/05/2007 I have received no reply. The holiday could contribute to a slow responce.

After reading Sanctuary or sovereignty on Michelle Malkin’s blog I decided to write and email the following letter to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley

Martha Coakley 1 Ashburton Place Boston, MA 02108-1698 Madame Attorney General, I am writing to you today to ask what your position is on the enforcement of immigration law in Massachusetts is. In the wake of the murders in Newark New Jersey it is clear to me that amnesty for illegal aliens with criminal records is a very dangerous position. Had those people been deported when they were taken into custody originally than those students would not have been executed and would be alive today. I want to know what you will do to prevent this type of tragedy from occurring in Massachusetts. Many other states have agreements with ICE that allows them to hold illegal aliens until ICE can pick them up and deport them. That looks like a great way to prevent such things from happening. Disallowing law enforcement to determine if someone is in violation of immigration law only tells that person that our laws mean nothing, as we don’t value them ourselves. How can we expect people that are coming to our country from other countries to respect any of our laws when they blatantly violate laws and we just release them? Are you in favor of enforcing immigration laws or are you in favor of setting an example that our laws are meaningless? Are you in favor of deporting illegal aliens or in favor of risking further tragedies such as the one in Newark New Jersey? Sincerely,

I sent it via email and US Mail. I will post an update if I should get a response. The response I expect will be a “Not My Job” response. She will likely answer the way Massachusetts Governor “Cadillac” Deval Patrick wants.

Massachusetts GovernorDeval Patrick

He has already made his agenda known. He plans to give them driver’s licenses and “In State” tuition rates. For those that don’t know what “In State” tuition is, it’s a 1/2 price tuition break that Massachusetts residents get to all state schools. United States Citizens that are residents of the other 49 states pay full price tuition to attend any of the state schools in Massachusetts. However “Cadillac” Deval plans to put these United States Citizens in a category under Illegal Alien law breakers as he will allow them to attend Massachusetts state schools for 1/2 price. The lawful residents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts footing the bill for the other half of their tuition. “Cadillac” Deval has said Denying kids who qualify in every other way to be an in-state student is unfair. We shouldn’t be trying to erect barriers. In every other way except that they are Illegal Aliens, hence NOT residents. Seems quite a large disqualification for a resident discount to me. And not erecting barriers is what got us in this mess in the first place.