Texas Gov. Rick Perry indicted for alleged abuse of power in veto dispute

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**Frazzled**

That would be awesome.

**Ouze**

whembly wrote:
Well... that DA is going to get what she wants...

Perry is turning himself in to the authorities to get fingerprinted and mugged shot.

As I read elsewhere - What, they're not going to roll a tactical team in a bearcat at 3am, throw flashbangs in the windows, shoot his dog, and scream at him to put his hands up, freeze, and lay on the ground all at the same time before tasering/pepperballing him?

Because if this was a guy named Jamal Perry who was wanted on 2 felony charges and had pictures like this on his facebook....

Fox News couldn't wait to call him a thug.

**Frazzled**

Interesting how...er racist that post runs the edge of being.

They won't roll the tactical team, because that man is wielding a Long Colt .45. You don't have to respect the man. You don't even have to respect the office (and in Texas we..don't). But you have to respect the single action Colt .45 revolver.

Its the 1964 Mustang of pistols.

**Ouze**

Frazzled wrote:
Interesting how...er racist that post runs the edge of being.

Please, tell me more about how racist I am for imagining that a powerful white man might get better treatment in our legal system than an average black man, for I wish to know. Explain my racism in detail.

**Jihadin**

Ouze wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
Interesting how...er racist that post runs the edge of being.

Please, tell me more about how racist I am for imagining that a powerful white man might get better treatment in our legal system than an average black man, for I wish to know. Explain my racism in detail.

Racial connotation and RItide ask everyone to refrain from using the word being its becoming racially charged in the Ferguson thread

**d-usa**

And here is a good example of how it can be considered racially charged, because nobody used it for the white guy posing with his posse and guns.

**Ouze**

Jihadin wrote:
Racial connotation and RItide ask everyone to refrain from using the word being its becoming racially charged in the Ferguson thread

RAW, he asked people to stop using that word in that thread.

I was using it to show a double standard with how suspects are treated by the media, not to actually call Mr. Perry a thug.

If we stop using it at all, period, on Dakka, I'd be glad to. It's been my experience on these fora that the use of that word leans very strongly towards a certain complexion.

**Ensis Ferrae**

Frazzled wrote:

Historically Travis county DAs are known for political witch hunts. They even tried to go out after Hutchinson and got the judge so mad he empanelled a jury and directed verdict so the DA couldn't drop the case and restart it again.

I don't like Perry. I never voted for him, but these charges are nonsensical.

One article I've seen around my FB feed from uber conservative friends/family posited an opinion that they wished the DAs office could have charges levied against it for all the damage they do with their political witch hunts.

**Jihadin**

d-usa wrote:
And here is a good example of how it can be considered racially charged, because nobody used it for the white guy posing with his posse and guns.

Not really. Do we not have white Caucasians portraying themselves as "T****" in today society?

**Ahtman**

(Some language NSFW)

We wouldn't want to embarrass him in front of the community.

**Ouze**

Great example.

**Frazzled**

Ouze wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
Interesting how...er racist that post runs the edge of being.

Please, tell me more about how racist I am for imagining that a powerful white man might get better treatment in our legal system than an average black man, for I wish to know. Explain my racism in detail.

When was the last time a black man was indicted on trumped up charges by the Travis County DA?

Also you're ignoring the greatness of the .45 Long Colt. Barbarian.

**sebster**

whembly wrote:
Even the NYT editorial board think this is lame:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/opinion/is-gov-perrys-bad-judgment-really-a-crime.html

That article sums it up very nicely. It explains very well why the indictment is a terrible idea, and also explains very well why the people in this thread attempting to defend Perry's actions are being ridiculous.

**Frazzled**

Australian opines on a Texan affair. Love it.

EDIT: Travis County DAs have a very bad rep here for 1) being drunk (several including one pulled over IN MY CHURCH PARKING LOT; 2) Playing BS partisan games.

There's a reason its a Travis County DA, and it has nothing to do with jurisdiction.

**Ouze**

I've got to make a bingo square for "Australian, so shut up".

**Frazzled**

Ouze wrote:
I've got to make a bingo square for "Australian, so shut up".

Damn straight. Also you need a Godwin card. Lets put them together.

Mentioning Australian killer attack bears on a thread about a state maybe 15,000 miles away is naziesque and worthy of Godwin! Damn killer drop bears, taking our jobs!!!

Do I get candy now?

**SlaveToDorkness**

Loving the Trollface:

She's doing it wrong...

**Ahtman**

Ouze wrote:
I've got to make a bingo square for "Australian, so shut up".

Make it more malleable, like "Not American, so shut up" and I think you'll have it. No one understands laws and governance but us, of course.

**dogma**

whembly wrote:

Perry's political career is toast maaaaaaaaan... toast!

I doubt many people who would be willing to vote for Perry will be swayed by this matter in any way. I can think of numerous politicians who have faced fare more serious scandals and gone on to have long political careers, Bill and Hillary Clinton immediately spring to mind.

**whembly**

dogma wrote:
whembly wrote:

Perry's political career is toast maaaaaaaaan... toast!

I doubt many people who would be willing to vote for Perry will be swayed by this matter in any way. I can think of numerous politicians who have faced fare more serious scandals and gone on to have long political careers, Bill and Hillary Clinton immediately spring to mind.

That's a fair point.

Did ya see that Perry mugshot? I like that "adios mofo" grin.

**sebster**

Frazzled wrote:
Australian opines on a Texan affair. Love it.

EDIT: Travis County DAs have a very bad rep here for 1) being drunk (several including one pulled over IN MY CHURCH PARKING LOT; 2) Playing BS partisan games.

There's a reason its a Travis County DA, and it has nothing to do with jurisdiction.

Well, yeah, the drunk driving charge is bad, and that the indictment is partisan politics. I said exactly that in the post you're responding to. Which you didn't read, despite it being two sentences and less than 50 words. I mean, we all have a TLDR point, but when you hit that point on a post that's shorter than The Very Hungry Caterpillar then you probably best starting taking a long look at yourself.

Anyhow, I'll repeat myself so you can fail to read it again, because that's pretty much how we do things around here;
The linked article did a very good job of explaining why the indictment is terrible.
The linked article did a very good job of explaining why the attempts in this thread to defend Perry's actions are ridiculous.

That came in at 37 words. I wonder if you've got the stamina to get through such an epic?

**Ensis Ferrae**

dogma wrote:
whembly wrote:

Perry's political career is toast maaaaaaaaan... toast!

I doubt many people who would be willing to vote for Perry will be swayed by this matter in any way. I can think of numerous politicians who have faced fare more serious scandals and gone on to have long political careers, Bill and Hillary Clinton immediately spring to mind.

I guess you could call his career Texas Toast then

**Laemos**

Ensis Ferrae wrote:
dogma wrote:
whembly wrote:

Perry's political career is toast maaaaaaaaan... toast!

I doubt many people who would be willing to vote for Perry will be swayed by this matter in any way. I can think of numerous politicians who have faced fare more serious scandals and gone on to have long political careers, Bill and Hillary Clinton immediately spring to mind.

I guess you could call his career Texas Toast then

i thought he was retiring as governor anyway.

**Frazzled**

He is. Greg Abbott is the next governor.

I like that unflappable bullet proof hair.

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Turns out one juror is a delegate to the Texas Democratic Party Convention, and was at events with one of the witnesses.
http://mediatrackers.org/national/2014/08/20/perry-grand-juror-active-democratic-party-delegate-jury-proceedings

Rho Chalmers, who disclosed to the Houston Chronicle yesterday that she was a member of the grand jury that indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry, was an active delegate to the Texas Democratic Party convention during grand jury proceedings. Chalmers’ active participation in Democratic state politics is important because she claimed yesterday to the Houston Chronicle that her decision to indict Perry, a Republican, was not based on politics.

“For me, it’s not a political decision,” Chalmers told the newspaper. “That’s what a grand jury is about – take the emotion out of it and look at the facts and make your best decision based on your life experience.”

More troubling, however, is the fact that Chalmers attended, photographed, and commented on an event with Democratic state Sen. Kirk Watson while grand jury proceedings were ongoing.

Watson was a witness in front of the grand jury. On June 27, 2014, Chalmers shared a photo of the Watson event on a community Facebook page she started called Developer’s Dungeon. “Senator Kirk Watson telling the story of the Wendy Davis fillibuster (sic),” she wrote in a comment accompanying the picture.

**whembly**

Well isn't that something Frazz...

Isn't that like, breaking the law to speak like that?

Anyhoo... Perry's supports are having fun with this:

**Jihadin**

Really starting to believe Frazz that Austin a Quarantine Zone for Dem's...

**kronk**

Jihadin wrote:
Really starting to believe Frazz that Austin a Quarantine Zone for Dem's...

It's the biggest and brightest blue island in the sea of red that is Texas.

Also, hotties on 6th street.

**jasper76**

kronk wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
Really starting to believe Frazz that Austin a Quarantine Zone for Dem's...

It's the biggest and brightest blue island in the sea of red that is Texas.

Also, hotties on 6th street.

Dude, did you see that Bar Rescue show that featured the Austin bar "Metal and Lace"? I am still traumatized.

**Frazzled**

Jihadin wrote:
Really starting to believe Frazz that Austin a Quarantine Zone for Dem's...

Also grand jury members just speaking publicly is a crime in Texas.

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kronk wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
Really starting to believe Frazz that Austin a Quarantine Zone for Dem's...

It's the biggest and brightest blue island in the sea of red that is Texas.

Also, hotties on 6th street.

i didn't know you liked drunken frat boys...

The fairer sex are best found , like lounging gazelles, on the bluff above Barton Springs. Delicioso!

**kronk**

jasper76 wrote:
kronk wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
Really starting to believe Frazz that Austin a Quarantine Zone for Dem's...

It's the biggest and brightest blue island in the sea of red that is Texas.

Also, hotties on 6th street.

Dude, did you see that Bar Rescue show that featured the Austin bar "Metal and Lace"? I am still traumatized.

Nah, I missed that. I don't recall all of the names of the bars on 6th street (and they probably change ownership as often as a painted grey Knight army on swapshop), but they ran the gambit of good to gak-hole.