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.

I have to admit, when I first heard this on the news this morning I was ready to declare this girl the dumbest person alive and advocate throwing the book at her. I thought it must be another MIT prank. Then I saw this picture.

The thing on the left is clearly not a bomb to anyone that knows anything about electronics. The person on the right used really poor judgment. Neither is criminal. They are charging Star Simpson with possession of a hoax device. It’s a bread board a battery some LEDs and some jumpers(short pieces of wire). A bread board is used by technicians, students, whoever to assist in designing and building an electronic circuit. Electronic components can be “plugged” into the bread board and “unplugged” to build a circuit. It’s used to build test circuits. As an electronics guy myself that is a really bush league setup she has there. It was clearly put together in a hurry. It was a REALLY bad idea to wear it into Logan Airport with the level of paranoia today. But it’s not a bomb and wasn’t intended to be a hoax bomb.

How many terrorists outside of Hollywood put lights on their bombs?!?! When terrorists try to sneak bombs onto planes they generally try to conceal them, not wear them in the middle of their chests with lights in star shaped patterns on them!!! Think about this people. It’s a young girl that had a serious lapse in judgment.

I will be following this as she doesn’t deserve a criminal record for this. Once they figured out what they had she should have gotten a stern lecture about how stupid it was to walk in there with that and that’s it. She should be back on campus with her sweatshirt and “artwork” feeling quite embarrassed. I don’t knock the police reaction to the report they got. Until they had control of her and could inspect what she had all they knew is someone thinks she has a bomb.

Mr. Micheal Righi was arrested over the weekend for not allowing his rights to be trampled at a Brooklyn, Ohio Circuit City. Mr Righi purchased two items and was on his way out the door when a Circuit City loss prevention employee asked for his receipt. Mr Righi had people waiting for him and declines with a polite “No Thank You” and went out the door. The LP then called for his manager and he and the manager blocked the vehicle he was a passenger in from leaving the parking lot. Mr Righi called the police and when the officer arrived he was arrested for not handing over his license at the demand of the officer. Since Mr Righi was not driving he does not have to provide his license only his name, address, and date of birth. The officer then arrested Mr Righi and he was transported to the station, booked and released on $300 bail. He was NEVER read his Miranda rights which is required by law.

Please take a look at his site above for ther details and consider a donation if you agree that the police and businesses should not be allowed to trample your rights as a citizen just so their lives are made easier.

From CBSNews.com

William Beebe, 42, pleaded guilty in November to one count of aggravated sexual battery for his attack on Liz Seccuro while at the University of Virginia. In March, a judge ordered a 10-year prison sentence with all but 18 months suspended.

6 months for rape. That’s disgusting.

The victim didn’t even get a chance to address the parole board.

Seccuro was shocked when informed Tuesday by Beebe’s parole officer of his impending release. She said she was never given the opportunity to speak to the parole board.

This is just disgusting.

The state medical examiner confirmed that Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, was strangled and that her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela, died of smoke inhalation. The deaths were ruled homicides.

I can’t imagine what it’s like dying this way.

Hayes and Komisarjevsky each have more than 20 prior burglaries on their records. At the time of the killings, both were free on parole after serving prison time for burglary convictions in 2003, Bail Commissioner Garcia Harris said. They spent time last year in the same halfway house in Hartford before being paroled in the spring.

20 offences!! Clearly they are no risk to the community and should have been released.  At what point does it become obvious that someone is a repeat offender and isn’t going to change for anyway except maybe for the worse?

What’s really infuriating is that this mess could have been prevented had one of the victims been armed.  But there are too many people that would tell you a gun would only have made things worse, and even more people who don’t know any better and believe them.  Maybe all the bleeding hearts will call for a ban on fire now.  After all if it saves one life….  It’s for the children.