*** The Riverside Election Shortcomings.
*** Was Justice Served a Hundred Percent?
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| "Who cares about voting?" |
Mike Gardner, Andy
Melendrez, William Bailey, Ed Adkison, Devonne Pitruzzelo, Peter
Benavides and Aurora Chavez set a example to the rest of the country
of how political campaigns should be run.
They stuck just to the
issues.
The same cannot be said
for 80% of the registered voters, who completely ignored their
citizen and moral obligations staying away from the polls. What a
shame!
The word democracy comes
from the Greek language: Demos (people); Kratos (power.)
Democracy requires
people's participation in the election of their governments.
The fact that only 20% of
the registered voters in Riverside cast their votes, it is alarming,
it is disgusting, it is anti patriotic. It is a dagger in the heart
to our free enterprise system. In round numbers, 24,000 people voted
out of 120,000.
Out of those 24,000
voters, about 6,500 voters are the ones deciding who will govern all of us. In a City with 308,000 inhabitants! This is crazy!
Does that 80% have lost
faith in politicians? Do the bad examples of leaders as John Edwards,
George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have destroyed the faith in our
bellwethers?
We have to bring that 80%
to the polls, or the United States will become another China.
FINAL TALLY RIVERSIDE ELECTION FOR MAYOR:
Bailey: 9,869. Adkison: 8,190. Gardner: 5,028. Melendrez: 4,304. Pitruzzello: 1,094. Chavez: 1,068. Benavidez: 644. Total: 30,197. Registered voters (round numbers) 120,000. 25% of register voters cast their ballots. (Report by Donald Gallegos.)
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FINAL TALLY RIVERSIDE ELECTION FOR MAYOR:
Bailey: 9,869. Adkison: 8,190. Gardner: 5,028. Melendrez: 4,304. Pitruzzello: 1,094. Chavez: 1,068. Benavidez: 644. Total: 30,197. Registered voters (round numbers) 120,000. 25% of register voters cast their ballots. (Report by Donald Gallegos.)
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The
killing of Riverside Police Officer Ryan Bonaminio and the trial of
People v. Earl Ellis Green have been one of the saddest episodes in
the history of Riverside.
There were no excuses for
Green to kill the officer. It was an execution style assassination.
The jury (not a black juror in the jury) came up with a first degree murder with
especial circumstances verdict, and a recommendation for death in the
penalty phase. In June 25, 2012, the Judge will dictate sentence,
ratifying the jurors' recommendation, or change it to life in prison
without parole. This will be very improbable.
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| Earl Ellis Green |
But does justice have been
served a hundred percent?
As guilty is Green for
killing a young and magnificent RPD Officer, as society that never
took care of his killer, a child and an adult mentally and
emotionally traumatized by a broken home, by abused parents, knowing nothing but
violence around him during his whole turbulent and miserable life.
Green was abandoned by society. He had no help from us. He became a monster, insensible to
death, to the welfare of others.
Green was not and is not a
normal person. He has the mentally of a child. Could you image he was
laughing when the jury recommended the death penalty? Is it that
normal? He was laughing at the judge, at the jury, at the relatives
of the officer.
Convicted Earl Ellis Green
will be alive (maybe) for another 25 or 30 years in death row.
We, taxpayers, are going to pay for his shelter, food, and clothing.
He has found a new home.
He's happy. No signs of remorse visible.
When society is going to
be seated in the defendant's chair?
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