Mr. Shaman
Seer
......'Cause "conservatives" (and, other-such-conspiracy-theorists) are STILL trying to forget!!!
Remembering Janet Reno!!!!
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......'Cause "conservatives" (and, other-such-conspiracy-theorists) are STILL trying to forget!!!
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
what was she about to say that she had to die just before the election?.....
Teflon Don
I'm back baby
I hope she is burning like she burned the poor people of Waco. Good riddance and good timing to help remind people the kind of scum the Clinton's could nominate.
I liked her politically, but I knew her personally for a time and can say she was a very good and uniquely genuine person.
Although she was very wealthy, she lived in the small house her mother built close to Kendall. No air conditioning, and no glass in the window's, their was plexi glass that could be put into the openings in th event of a hurricane or heavy rain.
In many ways she was very similar to my own grandmother, a simple old Florida type person who had absolutely no interest in the frills of life. She had a small old box type television with an rabbit ears instead of cable. She took five or six news papers and magazines and spent a lot of time reading. This was back at the time when she was running for governor of Florida. She had a 10 year old red truck that was her honest only vehicle, she drove that thing around the state from political event to political event. That was a seriously tough country woman.
She once came over to my girlfriends house in West Palm Beach, in that truck, to help us silk screen tee shirts for her campaign. Her Parkinson's had already set in back then and she was shaky and had to rest, but she was strong as an ox. When my father died, I hadn't spoken to her in years, but she heard about it from a common friend and called me to express condolences. I will never forget that. She invited me out for lunch but at the time my life was very busy, my daughter was born 6 days later. I wish I had called her back and taken her up on the invitation. Sorry to hear she has passed.
Although she was very wealthy, she lived in the small house her mother built close to Kendall. No air conditioning, and no glass in the window's, their was plexi glass that could be put into the openings in th event of a hurricane or heavy rain.
In many ways she was very similar to my own grandmother, a simple old Florida type person who had absolutely no interest in the frills of life. She had a small old box type television with an rabbit ears instead of cable. She took five or six news papers and magazines and spent a lot of time reading. This was back at the time when she was running for governor of Florida. She had a 10 year old red truck that was her honest only vehicle, she drove that thing around the state from political event to political event. That was a seriously tough country woman.
She once came over to my girlfriends house in West Palm Beach, in that truck, to help us silk screen tee shirts for her campaign. Her Parkinson's had already set in back then and she was shaky and had to rest, but she was strong as an ox. When my father died, I hadn't spoken to her in years, but she heard about it from a common friend and called me to express condolences. I will never forget that. She invited me out for lunch but at the time my life was very busy, my daughter was born 6 days later. I wish I had called her back and taken her up on the invitation. Sorry to hear she has passed.
Mr. Shaman
Seer
.....And, you still can't figure-out why Trumpy will be getting his ass handed to himself, tomorrow.
Teabaggers....
Teabaggers....
SmarterthanYou
rebel
if there's any justice in the afterlife, she'll suffer a century for each of her victims.
SmarterthanYou
rebel
we'll let the record reflect that you wildly supported her actions in incarcerating a dozen parents for child molestation when, in fact, they did no such thing.
Mr. Shaman
Seer
SmarterthanYou
rebel
oooooooooooooooooo.....geeeeeeeeeeeee.....I'm really convinced, now!!!
and now we'll acknowledge your complete lack of information and knowledge about her. that you support her solely because of her politics
Leonthecat
Racism Watchdog
Janet's only failure is that there weren't enough Wacos.
Mr. Shaman
Seer
David Koresh; A "Son" O' Jonestown
(....Coupled with Trumpy-style desperate-need for public-recognition.)
Mr. Shaman
Seer
Minister of Truth
Practically Perfect
I've been trying to decide which AG is/was more useless - Reno or Lynch. The fact that Reno was behind Waco, I consider a plus, because the Branch Davidians got what they deserved. Lynch has never done any useful service to this country, and there's been a lot more corruption for her to ignore/condone/cover-up than even what Reno got to not deal with.
SmarterthanYou
rebel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Reno
State Attorney
In 1978 Reno was appointed State Attorney for Dade County (now called Miami-Dade County). She was elected to the Office of State Attorney in November 1978 and was returned to office by the voters four more times. She worked actively in various civic organizations, including the Miami Coalition for a Safe and Drug Free Community and the Beacon Council, which was formed to address Miami-Dade's economic development. During Reno's tenure as state attorney, she began what the PBS series Frontline described as a "crusade" against accused child abusers.[6] An editorial in the St. Petersburg Times argued:
"Reno's reputation as a state attorney, the foundation for her eight years as the nation's attorney general and her [2002] candidacy for governor of Florida, was built in significant part by her aggressive prosecution of three sensational child abuse cases in Miami-Dade County. She pioneered a controversial technique for eliciting intimate details from young children and inspired passage of a law allowing them to testify by closed-circuit television, out of the possibly intimidating presence of their suspected molesters."[7]
Several of those prosecuted by Reno were either acquitted or later released by appellate judges. One defendant, "a 14-year-old boy, was acquitted after his attorneys discredited the children's persistent interrogations by a psychologist who called herself the 'yucky secrets doctor.' Another was freed by a federal appeals court after 12 years in prison."[7]
In May 1980, Reno prosecuted five white policemen who were accused of beating a black insurance salesman to death.[8] The policemen were all acquitted.[8] During the resulting 1980 Miami riots, eighteen people were killed, with looters in Liberty City angrily chanting "Reno! Reno! Reno!"[8] Reno met with nearly all of her critics, and a few months later, she won reelection in a landslide.[8]
Country Walk
Main article: Day care sex abuse hysteria § Country Walk
In 1984, Frank Fuster, the owner of the Country Walk Babysitting Service, in a suburb of Miami, Florida, was found guilty of 14 counts of abuse[9] and sentenced to a prison sentence with a minimum of 165 years. Fuster was convicted based in large part on the testimony of his 18-year-old wife, Ileana Flores, who pleaded guilty and testified against him.[7] According to a 2002 episode of Frontline, Flores maintained that "he was innocent, she was innocent and that she was coerced by Reno and others into denouncing her husband. She said she was kept naked in a suicide-watch cell and given cold showers and that Reno visited her late at night in pursuit of her confession and damning testimony."[7] Reno, then a candidate for Governor of Florida, refused to discuss her role in the case, leading one editorial to claim that she was "stonewalling."[7]
Bobby Fijnje
In 1989, as Florida state attorney, Reno pressed adult charges against 13-year-old Bobby Fijnje, who was accused of sexually molesting 21 children in his care during church services. The charges were driven by the testimony of children interviewed by mental-health professionals using techniques later discredited as a contemporary version of witch hunts.[10][11] During the trial, the prosecution was unable to present any witnesses to the alleged abuse. After two years of investigation and trial, Fijnje was acquitted of all charges.[12]
After the trial, Reno received a letter from the jury. The jurors in the Fijnje case wanted Reno to know why her office had failed to make a convincing case. They wrote: "It is our hope that this case will lay the foundation upon which a set of policies and guidelines are built so that when cases of abuse, especially child abuse, are alleged, the programs in place will allow for appropriate questioning and investigation by the police, physicians and child psychologists so as to drastically reduce the chances of conflicting testimony and charges of contamination that can and will raise reasonable doubt."[13]
