William, I think you're commenting on the wrong article. The incident you are referring to happened on September 25th. This article is abotu a different incident that happened on December 13th.

So robwhitetrash, where did you get your figures from? You claim that "Since the top 1 percent control %85 percent of the wealth in this country, they...should be paying %85 of the taxes"

But your 85% figure is completely fictional.

Depending on what source you want to use the actual number is somewhere between 32.4% (CBO) and 38.7% (WSJ) [NYT split the difference at 34%)

Please troll elsewhere (or feel free to reply and provide an actual source for your data)

Hey Sun Jon, a few more facts for your list:

According to the CBO, the top 1 percent paid 27.6 percent of all federal taxes, including:

38.8 percent of federal individual income taxes

4.0 percent of federal social insurance taxes (Social Security and Medicare)

58.6 percent of corporate income taxes (indirectly, through stock ownership)

5.5 percent of federal excise taxes (on such things as gasoline, tobacco, alcoholic beverages and telephones.)

The top 1% are paying more of the total federal taxes (almost 28%) than anytime in the last 40 years.

So in every category the top 1% are already paying far more thgan their proportionate share (24% of incomve -vs- 38.8% of income taxes, etc.)

Tell us, what percentage do you feel is appropriate for them to pay? 80%? 90%? 100%?

@bghs - your statement "...there has never been any evidence the the death penalty would actually make it any less likely that you would become a victim." has got to be the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Wishful thinking at it's worst.

Numerous studies have shown that someone who has killed before is more likely to kill again than someone who has never killed. Every killer executed is guaranteed to never kill again. End of story.

Of course if you'd like to let all of those convicted killers stay at your place (because you think they pose no further threat to anyone) then by all means, let's get you set up as a halfway house for repentant killers.

@bghs - Yes, I believe that one innocent having to die in order to get 99 killers removed from society is acceptable.

@geezlouuise - Please provide actual backing for your ridiculous claim that 15% of all people in prison are innocent. The actual statistics are far different from your claims.

Ignorance of the Bill of Rights? Really KillerB?

Please enlighten us as to exactly where in the Bill of Rights (hint, that would be the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution) you find "freedom to travel"...more specifically "freedom to travel by automobile".

Specific location and quotation please.

Of course I expect you to disrespect me. You haven't shown yourself capable of respect for anything...ever.

Irrelevancy, however, is something you apparently know a lot about since you have a habit of pulling quotes out of context in a vain hope that people will be deluded into thinking they are relevant.

For example, can you please explain how Beria's quote above applies to a man tried and convicted by his peers after careful presentation of the evidence...who then lost an appeal after yet more evaluation of both the evidence and the trial itself?

Remember, your vain hope to prove innocence for your son (and yourself) by insisting that just because one person was wrongly convicted somewhere at some point in history is no more valid then the claim that someone committing a crime somewhere at some point in time proves your guilt.

Wow, "irrelevant"...ooh, that stings. Guess that was so much easier to type than trying to explain that you're just a criminal, from a criminal family, bashing the cops and courts every chance you get.

Now if you want real work, take the examples you cited above and divide them into the total number on convictions for all of the years your examples cover. Now look at the resulting percentage. I dare you to find anything else in your life with that kind of accuracy percentage. (Heck, multiply your examples by 10 or even 100 and you're still at over 99.99%)

Ignore KillerB. He just explained his bias in a comment on another article. Apparently is son is a double felon, but he's convinced that his son never did anything wrong. Therefore he will always claim that all criminals are innocent and all cops/prosecutors/judges are just railraoding them.

I'd suggest that he take as many of these "law abiding citizens who got railraoded into false convictions" as possible into his home and show them that he trusts them completely. Then we'll see how long his faith in their better nature lasts.

Actually KillerB you apparently didn't even read what YOU wrote since your reply is addressing what he was "stopped for", buy your question was "what crime did he commit".

But your most recent reply now makes it all clear. Because you son is a criminal (and I would suspect from your comments that you are as well) you feel that the criminal is always right and the cops are always wrong.

At this point the rest of your comments get filtered as you have now made your bias 100% clear.

(and I'll bet you $1000 that your son is guilty and is a criminal)