Perusing what I could in front of the Courier Tribune's paywall Wednesday morning (I'd insert links, but it's pointless), I'm not sure what is worse . . .
Obliviously donating many thousands of hours of your life to provide volunteer services to a small-town "non-profit" hospital that very quietly pays its CEO over $700,000 per year for his strong record of monopolizing the medical landscape and legally terrorizing good physicians who report bad things on his watch (while the County Commissioners huff and puff over cutting supplemental teachers' pay) . . .
OR a local legal system stocked to the rafters with grandstanding Neanderthal DA's who sway from one extreme to the other . . . not-to-mention, burned-out/barely-there judges who STILL have not yet figured out how to treat/protect allegedly-abused children from additional psychological trauma - and strike a reasonable medium/balance as they attempt to properly vet these kids in a Court proceeding . . .
Or (drum roll please) a dying, over-compensating-albeit-too-little-too-late POS newspaper whose new "business model" would poison all the wells in the-process-of-what-passes-for-due-process in Asheboro, AND allow its reporters to sensationalize the misery and abject terror of the "beautiful little 5-year-old" in the aforementioned child abuse trial (ala, "I want my Mommy, I don't want to talk, the little girl sobbed") . . . all but identifying her via her familial relationship to her named attacker - who was also a minor at the time the assault alledgedly occured.
At least the children are beautiful. But can anyone else hear squealing pigs and banjos in the distance?
Saturday AM Update: A friend sent me the CT's story on the verdict in the child abuse case - in which the young man (tried as an adult in Randolph County because N.C. is one of only eight states in our union that allows those over 16 to be charged in that fashion . . . STILL HEARING THE BANJOS) was convicted.
Based on prior experience with Mr. Dozier and his tactics, and from what I read in our glorious newspaper about the family dynamics for the child (all I can say about that is GOOD LORD WHAT A MESS!!!), it's a case that's RIPE for reversal on appeal . . . .
. . . the adults involved being all the evidence one needs for reasonable doubt.
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Paddle faster.....I hear banjo music!!!
It's like the land that time forgot. It doesn't matter how hard you paddle, you're not getting out before something devours you.
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