Re: The Saga Of Joe Horn: Texas Man Cleared In Shotgun Shootings

"redc1c4" <redc1c4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Nigel Brooks wrote:
>>
>> "D. Spencer Hines" <panther@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:Hrick.45$AB3.380@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > Bravissimo!
>> >
>> > Another Victory In The Continuing Battle Of The Right To Bear And USE
>> > Firearms In The U.S.A.
>> >
>> > DSH
>> > Lux et Veritas et Libertas
>> > Vires et Honor
>> > -------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > Texas man cleared of shooting suspected burglars
>> > By JUAN A. LOZANO
>> > ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
>> > 1 July 2008
>> >
>> > HOUSTON -- Ever since he fatally shot two men he suspected of 
>> > burglarizing
>> > his next-door neighbor's home, 62-year-old Joe Horn has been both 
>> > praised
>> > and vilified for his actions.
>> >
>> > Horn called 911 and told the dispatcher he had a shotgun and was
going 
>> > to
>> > kill the intruders. The dispatcher pleaded with him not to go
outside, 
>> > but
>> > a
>> > defiant Horn confronted the men with a 12-gauge shotgun and shot both

>> > in
>> > the
>> > back.
>> >
>> > Some community activists wanted Horn to face charges for the deaths.
>> > Sup****ters of the retired grandfather said what he did was justified 
>> > under
>> > the law.
>> >
>> > After listening to evidence in the case, including testimony from
Horn
>> > himself, a grand jury on Monday cleared him of the shootings.
>> >
>>
>> Not so fast there - Apparently US Rep Sheila Jackson Lee has now
weighed 
>> in
>> on the case.
>>
>> *********************************************************************
>> "U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on Sunday called for congressional
hearings 
>> to
>> investigate what she calls ''the many downfalls" of the Harris County
>> judicial system.
>>
>> Recent incidents, including a grand jury's decision not to indict a 
>> Pasadena
>> man who shot and killed two men suspected of burglarizing his neighbor,

>> have
>> brought into question whether the system is fair and unbiased, she
said.
>>
>> Jackson Lee said she plans to bring the congressional hearings to
Houston 
>> in
>> the next couple of weeks.
>>
>> The hearings, for example, will *****s how the evidence in the Joe Horn

>> case
>> was presented to the grand jury. Jackson Lee questioned why the case
did 
>> not
>> go to trial.
>>
>> Jackson Lee said the federal government has an obligation to look into 
>> these
>> matters because they deal with civil rights issues. Also, the jail and 
>> the
>> district attorney's office both receive federal funding through the 
>> state,
>> she said."
>>
>>
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>>
>> 1.  The case did not go to trial because a Harris County Grand Jury, 
>> after
>> considering all of the evidence including the testimony of Mr. Horn and
a
>> Police Officer who witnessed the shooting - decided that Horn was 
>> justified
>> in using deadly force.
>>
>> 2.  Sheila Jackson Lee does not even represent the citizens of the City

>> of
>> Pasadena which lies in the Congressional District 29 of Rep. Gene
Green.
>>
>> 3.  Civil Rights Issues???????? -  Was it a civil rights issue because 
>> Joe
>> Horn is white and the two dead crooks were black?
>>
>> 4.  A day after white Joe Horn shot and killed the two black crooks, 
>> another
>> Harris County man fatally shot an individual who was burglarizing his 
>> home -
>> Damone Barone told investigators that he awakened at 2:30 am to the
sound 
>> of
>> glass shattering.  Barone discovered Steven Dunbar crawling through a
>> shattered window and shot and killed him. Does Sheila Jackson Lee rise
to
>> the defense of Dunbar demanding that the case go to trial????  Of
course
>> not - both Barone and Dunbar were black and Jackson Lee only sees a 
>> problem
>> in the Horn shooting - but clearly both Horn and Barone were acting in
>> accordance with the law.
>>
>> Nigel Brooks
>
> actually, the two dead criminals in this case were both illegal 
> Hispanics....
>
> redc1c4,
> not that race should matter when a criminal is killed while committing a

> crime.
> -- 


They were Hispanic only because they were Colombian Nationals - Their skin

color was black.
And their skin color is the reason for the outrage from Sheila Jackson Lee

and the other rabble rousing clowns.

Had they been Latinos or White - no-one would have given a ****.

Nigel Brooks

Had they been