just a thought...
Jan. 12th, 2013 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psybelleWhen the best minds of multiple generations are working against "your cause" maybe the proper response is NOT to prosecute them literally to death, but to seriously consider whether you're doing the right thing?
My sympathies, my heart go out to everyone who knew Aaron.
Memo to Carmen Ortiz (head of the US Attorney's Office in MA) and Stephen Heymann, the Assistant US Attorney doing the prosecuting: the "victim" of this case wasn't pressing charges, much less interested in criminal prosecution for what should have been a civil offense. "Prosecutorial discretion" must involve discretion. I don't know what sort of reward is worth hounding a young man to his death, but I hope you have it now... because this error in judgement and discretion will torpedo any aspirations you might have to elected offices. The Internet never forgets...
My sympathies, my heart go out to everyone who knew Aaron.
Memo to Carmen Ortiz (head of the US Attorney's Office in MA) and Stephen Heymann, the Assistant US Attorney doing the prosecuting: the "victim" of this case wasn't pressing charges, much less interested in criminal prosecution for what should have been a civil offense. "Prosecutorial discretion" must involve discretion. I don't know what sort of reward is worth hounding a young man to his death, but I hope you have it now... because this error in judgement and discretion will torpedo any aspirations you might have to elected offices. The Internet never forgets...