The role played by the U.S. Senate candidate in a notorious sex case raises questions about her judgment.

By Emily Yoffe, via Slate:

In today’s Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz has a disturbing piece about the role Martha Coakley, who hopes to be elected to Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, played in extending the sickening miscarriages of justice that were the Satantic ritual abuse prosecutions that swept the country in the 1980s. The case of the Amiraults of Massachusetts was one of the most outrageous. This was a family of three—a mother, and her son and daughter—who ran a preschool and were prosecuted and jailed for allegedly committing heinous crimes against children. The accusations were made up. Coakley is not responsible for the initial madness that was this case. But when she became district attorney, after the prosecutions were revealed to be nothing but an abuse of power, she used her power to keep the son, Gerald, who by then had been in prison for more than a decade, from having his sentence commuted. Her theory was that the women were just pawns of the Satanic Gerald, and his conviction should stand. Eventually he was released, but because of Coakley’s efforts, he lives with an ankle monitor under a kind of house arrest, unable to work, ruined. Rabinowitz points out that Coakley thinks the treatment of the prisoners at Guantanamo has been an outrage. But she is perfectly comfortable being complicit with the destruction of the life of an innocent man in her own state.

Martha Coakley's Convictions

(01-17-2010 11:17 AM)bubbapt Wrote:  The role played by the U.S. Senate candidate in a notorious sex case raises questions about her judgment.

By Emily Yoffe, via Slate:

In today’s Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz has a disturbing piece about the role Martha Coakley, who hopes to be elected to Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, played in extending the sickening miscarriages of justice that were the Satantic ritual abuse prosecutions that swept the country in the 1980s. The case of the Amiraults of Massachusetts was one of the most outrageous. This was a family of three—a mother, and her son and daughter—who ran a preschool and were prosecuted and jailed for allegedly committing heinous crimes against children. The accusations were made up. Coakley is not responsible for the initial madness that was this case. But when she became district attorney, after the prosecutions were revealed to be nothing but an abuse of power, she used her power to keep the son, Gerald, who by then had been in prison for more than a decade, from having his sentence commuted. Her theory was that the women were just pawns of the Satanic Gerald, and his conviction should stand. Eventually he was released, but because of Coakley’s efforts, he lives with an ankle monitor under a kind of house arrest, unable to work, ruined. Rabinowitz points out that Coakley thinks the treatment of the prisoners at Guantanamo has been an outrage. But she is perfectly comfortable being complicit with the destruction of the life of an innocent man in her own state.

Martha Coakley's Convictions

(01-17-2010 03:19 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(01-17-2010 11:17 AM)bubbapt Wrote:  The role played by the U.S. Senate candidate in a notorious sex case raises questions about her judgment.

By Emily Yoffe, via Slate:

In today’s Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz has a disturbing piece about the role Martha Coakley, who hopes to be elected to Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, played in extending the sickening miscarriages of justice that were the Satantic ritual abuse prosecutions that swept the country in the 1980s. The case of the Amiraults of Massachusetts was one of the most outrageous. This was a family of three—a mother, and her son and daughter—who ran a preschool and were prosecuted and jailed for allegedly committing heinous crimes against children. The accusations were made up. Coakley is not responsible for the initial madness that was this case. But when she became district attorney, after the prosecutions were revealed to be nothing but an abuse of power, she used her power to keep the son, Gerald, who by then had been in prison for more than a decade, from having his sentence commuted. Her theory was that the women were just pawns of the Satanic Gerald, and his conviction should stand. Eventually he was released, but because of Coakley’s efforts, he lives with an ankle monitor under a kind of house arrest, unable to work, ruined. Rabinowitz points out that Coakley thinks the treatment of the prisoners at Guantanamo has been an outrage. But she is perfectly comfortable being complicit with the destruction of the life of an innocent man in her own state.

Martha Coakley's Convictions

Interesting. I take that to mean you think she's right on with her stance in this case. A considerable number of her potential constituents disagree. Maybe it's a right-wing conspiracy!

(01-17-2010 04:07 PM)bubbapt Wrote:  

(01-17-2010 03:19 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(01-17-2010 11:17 AM)bubbapt Wrote:  The role played by the U.S. Senate candidate in a notorious sex case raises questions about her judgment.

By Emily Yoffe, via Slate:

In today’s Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz has a disturbing piece about the role Martha Coakley, who hopes to be elected to Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, played in extending the sickening miscarriages of justice that were the Satantic ritual abuse prosecutions that swept the country in the 1980s. The case of the Amiraults of Massachusetts was one of the most outrageous. This was a family of three—a mother, and her son and daughter—who ran a preschool and were prosecuted and jailed for allegedly committing heinous crimes against children. The accusations were made up. Coakley is not responsible for the initial madness that was this case. But when she became district attorney, after the prosecutions were revealed to be nothing but an abuse of power, she used her power to keep the son, Gerald, who by then had been in prison for more than a decade, from having his sentence commuted. Her theory was that the women were just pawns of the Satanic Gerald, and his conviction should stand. Eventually he was released, but because of Coakley’s efforts, he lives with an ankle monitor under a kind of house arrest, unable to work, ruined. Rabinowitz points out that Coakley thinks the treatment of the prisoners at Guantanamo has been an outrage. But she is perfectly comfortable being complicit with the destruction of the life of an innocent man in her own state.

Martha Coakley's Convictions

Interesting. I take that to mean you think she's right on with her stance in this case. A considerable number of her potential constituents disagree. Maybe it's a right-wing conspiracy!

You have to understand Robert is only concerned with the rights of terrorists. Because he embraces radical Islam and the hatred it breeds it's of paramount importance that terrorists, if they must be prisioners, be treated with the utmost care so that they may someday return to the field and kill more innocent people.

(01-17-2010 04:07 PM)bubbapt Wrote:  

(01-17-2010 03:19 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(01-17-2010 11:17 AM)bubbapt Wrote:  The role played by the U.S. Senate candidate in a notorious sex case raises questions about her judgment.

By Emily Yoffe, via Slate:

In today’s Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz has a disturbing piece about the role Martha Coakley, who hopes to be elected to Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, played in extending the sickening miscarriages of justice that were the Satantic ritual abuse prosecutions that swept the country in the 1980s. The case of the Amiraults of Massachusetts was one of the most outrageous. This was a family of three—a mother, and her son and daughter—who ran a preschool and were prosecuted and jailed for allegedly committing heinous crimes against children. The accusations were made up. Coakley is not responsible for the initial madness that was this case. But when she became district attorney, after the prosecutions were revealed to be nothing but an abuse of power, she used her power to keep the son, Gerald, who by then had been in prison for more than a decade, from having his sentence commuted. Her theory was that the women were just pawns of the Satanic Gerald, and his conviction should stand. Eventually he was released, but because of Coakley’s efforts, he lives with an ankle monitor under a kind of house arrest, unable to work, ruined. Rabinowitz points out that Coakley thinks the treatment of the prisoners at Guantanamo has been an outrage. But she is perfectly comfortable being complicit with the destruction of the life of an innocent man in her own state.

Martha Coakley's Convictions

Interesting. I take that to mean you think she's right on with her stance in this case. A considerable number of her potential constituents disagree. Maybe it's a right-wing conspiracy!

I don't know much about the case other than what you have posted and a little bity on Wikipedia. I do know that she is a conservative and works for a conservative newspaper so I have to take anything written sceptically. Especially when it involves a church and satanists. Scare tactics and spin come to mind.

(01-17-2010 04:31 PM)RobertN Wrote:  Especially when it involves a church and satanists. Scare tactics and spin come to mind.

Are you deliberately ignorant? I mean really? Can any one person be as totally stupid as you are?

The article has nothing to do with scare tactics you ignorant piece of sh!t. It has to do with a miscarriage of justice against the Amiraults that Coakley helped perpetuate, ignoring evidence that showed her doing so was wrong.

I'm constantly shocked that someone as pathetically stupid as you continues to function as an adult.

(01-17-2010 03:19 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(01-17-2010 11:17 AM)bubbapt Wrote:  The role played by the U.S. Senate candidate in a notorious sex case raises questions about her judgment.

By Emily Yoffe, via Slate:

In today’s Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz has a disturbing piece about the role Martha Coakley, who hopes to be elected to Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, played in extending the sickening miscarriages of justice that were the Satantic ritual abuse prosecutions that swept the country in the 1980s. The case of the Amiraults of Massachusetts was one of the most outrageous. This was a family of three—a mother, and her son and daughter—who ran a preschool and were prosecuted and jailed for allegedly committing heinous crimes against children. The accusations were made up. Coakley is not responsible for the initial madness that was this case. But when she became district attorney, after the prosecutions were revealed to be nothing but an abuse of power, she used her power to keep the son, Gerald, who by then had been in prison for more than a decade, from having his sentence commuted. Her theory was that the women were just pawns of the Satanic Gerald, and his conviction should stand. Eventually he was released, but because of Coakley’s efforts, he lives with an ankle monitor under a kind of house arrest, unable to work, ruined. Rabinowitz points out that Coakley thinks the treatment of the prisoners at Guantanamo has been an outrage. But she is perfectly comfortable being complicit with the destruction of the life of an innocent man in her own state.

Martha Coakley's Convictions

Odd, I don't see much humor in an innocent man's life being ruined, at all.

(01-17-2010 04:31 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(01-17-2010 04:07 PM)bubbapt Wrote:  

(01-17-2010 03:19 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(01-17-2010 11:17 AM)bubbapt Wrote:  The role played by the U.S. Senate candidate in a notorious sex case raises questions about her judgment.

By Emily Yoffe, via Slate:

In today’s Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz has a disturbing piece about the role Martha Coakley, who hopes to be elected to Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, played in extending the sickening miscarriages of justice that were the Satantic ritual abuse prosecutions that swept the country in the 1980s. The case of the Amiraults of Massachusetts was one of the most outrageous. This was a family of three—a mother, and her son and daughter—who ran a preschool and were prosecuted and jailed for allegedly committing heinous crimes against children. The accusations were made up. Coakley is not responsible for the initial madness that was this case. But when she became district attorney, after the prosecutions were revealed to be nothing but an abuse of power, she used her power to keep the son, Gerald, who by then had been in prison for more than a decade, from having his sentence commuted. Her theory was that the women were just pawns of the Satanic Gerald, and his conviction should stand. Eventually he was released, but because of Coakley’s efforts, he lives with an ankle monitor under a kind of house arrest, unable to work, ruined. Rabinowitz points out that Coakley thinks the treatment of the prisoners at Guantanamo has been an outrage. But she is perfectly comfortable being complicit with the destruction of the life of an innocent man in her own state.

Martha Coakley's Convictions

Interesting. I take that to mean you think she's right on with her stance in this case. A considerable number of her potential constituents disagree. Maybe it's a right-wing conspiracy!

I don't know much about the case other than what you have posted and a little bity on Wikipedia. I do know that she is a conservative and works for a conservative newspaper so I have to take anything written sceptically. Especially when it involves a church and satanists. Scare tactics and spin come to mind.

But Emily Yoffe and Slate were featuring the the Wall Street Journal article on Slate Online's front page.

I enjoy reading Slate, but I would not consider it to be a conservative mouthpiece. Have they suddenly been hoodwinked by satanists as well?