“You must be mistaken. I’m a sheep.”
The law only applies to what Republicans WANT it to, not what it actually says, evidently. You might recall this little bit from last month’s “Love and Kisses from the Land of the Freed Balloons” (it was right below Sean Hannity’s raging against the ’socialist’ underpinnings of Halloween, e.g. giving children free candy):
And Michelle Malkin reveals with considerable glee that NOTHING will stop the anti-abortion agenda:
107 criminal counts against Planned Parenthood in Kansas
By Michelle Malkin • October 23, 2007 09:03 PMI’ve written many times about the predators of Planned Parenthood. The latest effort to hold the abortion racket accountable comes from Kansas. There, Johnson County D[istrict] A[ttorney] Phill Kline filed a 107-count criminal complaint last week against a Planned Parenthood operation. The counts range from falsifying documents to performing illegal late-term abortions. Planned Parenthood, of course, is crying “anti-choice politics!”
A hearing is set for Nov. 16.
And she quotes this, from “Medical News Today”:
Kline while serving as state attorney general in 2004 subpoenaed the records of 90 women and girls who in 2003 underwent late-term abortions at Comprehensive Health or Women’s Health Care Services in Wichita, Kan., saying there is probable cause that each record contains evidence of a felony. The state Supreme Court in February 2006 ruled that Kline could seek access to the records but that he must return to Shawnee County District Court Judge Richard Anderson and present his reasons for seeking the subpoenas. Anderson turned over the records to Kline’s office in November 2006 after removing information that would identify individuals.
State Attorney General Paul Morrison (D) — who defeated Kline in the November 2006 election — in June in a letter to PPKM attorney Pedro Irigonegaray wrote that he has ended the investigation of Comprehensive Health. Morrison added that the attorney general’s office “found no evidence of any criminal wrongdoing” by the clinic. Morrison in the letter also said that Kline forwarded copies of the medical records from PPKM patients to the Johnson County district attorney’s office on Jan. 5 — three days before he left the state attorney general’s office.
Er, well, it turns out that super-duper Mr. Law & Order, former Kansas State Attorney General, Mr. Phill* Kline has some legal issues of his own. From KC Blue Blog ["Phill" is how he spells it, go figure]:
Monday, November 26, 2007
BREAKING NEWS: KCTV 5 BUSTS PHIL (sic) KLINE
KCTV 5 Exclusive 8 month investigation into Johnson County DA Phil Kline has uncovered major news that is likely to force the DA to resign or be removed from office.
An investigation started in January of this year first uncovered–after a lawsuit due to Johnson County refusing to cooperate–that Phil Kline is making $147,000 per year while only working an average of 29 hours per week.
There are also 6 weeks worth of information that was not included because Johnson County claims “sometimes the system purges information.”
So KCTV 5 began to dig even further to find out where Phil spends his time.
Law requires that Phil Kline reside in Johnson County, where he serves as DA. If he doesn’t he must “resign or be removed from office.”
After weeks of staking out a crummy apartment–located on top of a storage facility owned by Phil Kline supporters where he pays $400 per month–KCTV5 never once saw Mr. Kline or his wife come home to the apartment.
Then after following Mr. Kline and his wife on camera numerous times from work they found both Phil Kline and his wife driving to Topeka and staying at a residence they own there. His wife also regularly picks up his daughter from a Topeka school and she too stays at the Topeka home with her parents.Again, the law requires Phil Kline not just rent or own property in Johnson County but also reside in that property.
It is apparent that Mr. Kline does not reside in the crummy apartment. The people of Johnson County deserve better. Therefore, we at the KC Blue Blog are calling on a complete investigation and/or the resignation or removal of Phil Kline from his position as Johnson County DA.
[To see the video of the report, go here.]
This is reminiscent of Mitt Romney’s electoral shenanigans (e.g. his criminal flouting of residency requirements to run for governor of Massachusetts), and Dick Cheney’s electoral shenanigans (e.g. his criminal flouting of residency requirements to run for Vice President, emphasis on “vice.”) Gee. When you get into office by flouting the law, I guess you suddenly follow the law, once elected? Evidence suggests otherwise.
Because the “law and order” bunch don’t actually feel that laws are for THEM.
(Laws are only for US. Why do you think that the jail cells of America are filled with non-”Rich White Republicans”? Because the law applies to “just us.”)
No word from Malkin on the troubles of her latest ideological “hero.” (Understandable, since she’s preoccupied with saving our nation’s children from the scourge of mathematics courses. Turns out some children WERE left behind.)
Courage.
