Letters to the Editor
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Padilla; the 800 pound gorilla
His name is pronounced with the L sound, like gorilla. Many commentators think they are so politically correct and culturally sensitive using the y sound for the double l's. Amy Goodman straightened that out one day on her show.
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These people are liars
In the digital age, everything is backed up somewhere. Just need to run that down.
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"politically correct and culturally sensitive"
So they get it wrong. What's with your accusation that their attempts to get it right is a bad thing?
To quote King Kaufman: "Politically correct is what some people call you if they don't like it when you ask them to have some respect for other people."
Fine that you point out that it's mispronounced, but what gives?
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Mock(ery) Trial
A couple years back, I joined the mock trial team at my school. And one of the first things I ever learned from it was this: when you're the prosecution, you and the defense need to play from the same book. You need to share evidence. To withold important evidence is to render the entire trial moot and possibly put yourself up for some serious trouble.
I thought that this would be apparent. But apparently our government has discarded sch trivialities as "the rule of law". This is stunning news. I literally cannot put into words how angered and (yes) saddened I am at this turn of events.
Hiding key evidence in the equivalent of a felony trial? For shame.
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About all sorts of things about this case....
I think Ms. Luntz was making a point that the attempts to be oh-so with it in pronouncing Mr. Padilla's name are kind of condenscending. Like a rich politician who crosses the tracks to a rough neighborhood and tries to chat up the young folk to show how hip he is. Myself, I'm rather amused to notice how NPR reporters with Spanish surnames will roll their R's in their names, but not while saying other words. I guess it's a cultural thing. I never hear them saying "rrrrrrraaaaaaailroad" or "rrrrroof rrrrrrack."
(Come to think of it, I picked up the habit from Mexican guys I knew in the Army of saying "Chure!" instead of "Sure!" Weird world, isn't it?)
Anyway....When I read that the video of the interrogation had disappeared, my first thought was "The interrogation with the hot irons? Or the one with the German shepherd snapping at his crotch?"
Or perhaps this is a way to turn this into a mistrial, or otherwise impose more delays that will buy time until after the next election. Or until Mr. Padilla commits himself a suicide.
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Ruff!
Perhaps their dog ate the DVD.
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It probably got accidently shredded
by Rumsfeld and the seven dorks he was given who have been feriously shredding documents pertaining to his eventual war crimes indictment, just down the street from the Black House. I think they borrowed the shredder from the movie set of "Fargo". Bloody stumps and all...
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Oops!
Probably dropped it off in the return slot at Blockbuster instead of the usual porn they watch. Maybe it will show up on YouTube?
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Too true...
Maybe it will show up on YouTube?
It'll show up there before it's ever seen inside of a courthouse.
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Lost evidence? No problem...
What with our system of justice going to the kangaroo's, they will probably allow the interrogator to enter heresay evidence about what Padilla said in the 'lost' interview....
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Mystery Solved
The Padilla CD is, no doubt, filed away with the Bush military records.
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Same reason the police
Same reason the police never have the cameras in their cars turned on when the tape would make them look bad.
They only have the tape when they want to!
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copies?
Please.
I work against the U.S. Attorney's Office, and there's no way there would be just one copy of a crucial piece of evidence like that.
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Padilla video
Not surprising at all that they "misplaced it". Perhaps it went the same place as the missing words in the Nixon tape.
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Lost evidence
Alternate theory: the government prefers to have the case lost on technicalities rather than to withdraw it or lose it on the merits.