Here is a jaw-dropping old Janklow quote!

[MinnFats]

I should clean out my basement desk drawers more often. Today I found a copy of "Politics in Minnesota," a consistently interesting little rag published in the Twin Cities.
It was dated Nov. 15, 2001 -- more than two years ago but after Sept. 11. Here is the important part:

"The next time you wonder why the people of South Dakota are not leading the guffaw choruses about their Minnesota neighbors being saddled with Gov. Jesse Ventura, just remember this news item: Last week, 16 Republican governors met in Las Vegas to discuss a range of issues, particularly those developing following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. In their number was South Dakota's Republican Gov. Bill Janklow, who, according to the New York Times, "... having heard talk about the rounding up, jailing and trial of terrorists, {Janklow} grabbed a microphone and blurted: "We're in a war with people who want to kill us. And somehow, we're talking about 'arresting' them and 'bringing them to justice.' I don't get it. We need to kill them until the rest surrender. No lawyers and no courts. Then we need to capture their leaders. We can try them -- and then kill them."
Some governors applauded, the Times reported.
Added the PIM editor:
"Can you see the new billboard campaign? "Move your business to South Dakota! No taxes, no constitution, no rights!"


but Janklow reserved enough juice for his own self to get off with 100 DAYS in a county jail.
I wanted to puke when I read this.

[G_j]

1. here is another:

from, "Response to William Janklow's Conviction"
from Leonard Peltier
December 10, 2003

www.freepeltier.org/121003_william_janklow.htm

This is the same man who said - "the way to stop AIM is to put a bullet through their head".

This decision is from a state that historically practiced a program of polarization and racism toward Native People. A place where the native people still own the Black Hills yet, are forcibly denied access to their own land; a place where previously the cries of a young native girl went unheard by South Dakota officials, when she cried rape by Janklow; where her death by a supposedly unknown hit and run driver was quickly forgotten; a state where Janklow, as Attorney General called in a riot squad to beat and eject all court room observers who would not "stand" for the judge.

I could go on and on but alas, it took the death of one white man to make a difference, or for someone to care.
I heard Janklow cried on the stand.

I truly wonder where his remorse started. Was it for his behavior or was it because he got caught? It will be interesting to see what his sentence will be. I suppose he'll get a fine that he won't have much trouble paying; a suspended sentence, maybe lose his driving privilege for a time, and get a couple years probation. I wish somehow someone could read the statements he made to Bill Clinton about my clemency back to the judge, substituting his name for mine. Oh well, I guess that level of poetic justice won't come around for a while.
...more...

[izzie]

2. I think it is some thing in their genes. Do not laugh.

It does seem to go with that party to think like that.Their moral out look seems to be off center. Your are their business but theirs are no ones business but their own. Clinton does sex and it is a sin, Bush steals his own stock holders blind so he gets rich and he is a man of God.

[Old and In the Way]

3. A-friggen-men

It takes a special kind of person to be a Republican today.....and no one I would want to associate with.

When the pendulum swings, they are going to be stunned with the changes that'll happen.

[KG]

4. a repook gettin' all hypocritical when it's their turn in the barrel?

who'd've thunk it?

[RC]

5. Boycott Sturges

He killed a biker.
What do you think our sentence would be under the same circumstances?

[MinnFats]

6. you make a good point...if some, ahem, 'outside the mainstream' driver..

...meaning most of those who head to Sturgis annually, had killed an, aheam, 'outstanding citizen' of Janklow's ilk,they would be looking at a long stretch in a state prison, which is bound to be a lot less pleasant than a county jail...