Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick Under Pressure, Refuses to Apologize for his September 11th Comments

  Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick has been under pressure from the Republican state party chief to apologize for remarks he made during his September 11th memorial speech. Yes, there still are some Republicans in Massachusetts, not many, but some. He refuses to apologize. Why? Because he was misunderstood. Isn’t that always the excuse from liberals, it seems like it.

“Let me be clear. I don’t think that America bears any fault for the attack on us on 9/11, and I don’t think that any of the family members with whom I spoke heard it or saw it that way,” Patrick said.

“I was there, I know what I said. I was as clear as possible in condemning the terrorist attacks, and I hope I’m clear right now,” he said.

  But, there is at least one family member of a victim who did hear it that way.

The Democratic governor had been criticized by the state’s Republican party chief and the prominent brother of a Sept. 11 victim.

  That brother of a September 11th victim is also a Republican running for a state office, he has made a speech at the memorial services for September 11th every year, except this year. He was not invited because he is running against a Democrat that Deval Patrick is endorsing. Pathetic.

  So, let’s look at what Deval Patrick said one more time and see if we can figure out how he was mis-understood.

Because among many other things, 9/11 was a failure of human understanding.  It was mean and nasty and bitter attack on the United States.  But it was also about the failure of human beings to understand each other, and to learn to love each other.  And it seems to me that that lesson and that warning is something that we must carry with us everyday.

    Was he trying to say that terrorists need to learn to love us? I don’t think so. But maybe he was trying to say the terrorists don’t love us. Now that’s an understatement. The terrorists do love, they love their version of Allah, and they believe Allah condones killing us. Maybe, just maybe he was alluding to the terrorists in his speech.

  In order to gain perspective lets delve into Patrick’s past to see if he may be talking about terrorists being unable to love us. When I look into his past I see a man who is very soft on crime. I see a man who is compassionate to violent criminals. He worked uder the Clinton administration, there are the Clintons again, it’s just a coincidence though, it always is with the Clintons, as assistant attorney general.

 Patrick’s representation of Carl Ray Songer, who was convicted of the 1973 killing of a Florida highway patrolman. In the 1980s, while working for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Patrick successfully argued that Songer had been denied opportunity to present details about his background and upbringing before a jury awarded him a death sentence.

  Patrick won a stay of execution for an admitted cop killer hours before he was to be executed because the jury wasn’t allowed to hear about his troubled childhood. Was this also a failure to understand and love a cop killer?

  Then there is  the case about Benjamin LaGuer. LaGuer tied up with telephone cords and beat and raped his 57 year old neighbor for over eight hours. He left her thinking she was dead. She wasn’t, she identified him as the attacker having known him as her neighbor. He has maintained his innocence and said a DNA test would prove it. What role does Patrick play in this?

Patrick had petitioned the parole board in 1998 and 2000 for LaGuer’s freedom and had contributed financially to the DNA testing. In his letters to the parole board Patrick characterized LaGuer as “thoughtful and eloquent.”

  LaGuer is thoughtful and eloquent, wonderful. Ask his neighbor how thoughtful he is. Patrick helped pay for the DNA test, which proved LaGuer’s guilt.

  Now I give you one last piece of his background and it goes back to the Clinton’s again. This time we are talking about the government attacking and killing a mother while she is holding her infant baby. That’s right, Ruby Ridge.

As the Justice Department’s chief civil rights prosecutor, Deval Patrick made the controversial decision not to criminally prosecute an FBI sniper who shot and killed an unarmed woman as she held her infant daughter in her arms during a 1992 standoff in Ruby Ridge, Idaho.

The incident, in which U.S. Marshall William F. Degan of Quincy and the wife and son of white separatist Randy Weaver were killed during an 11-day standoff, is cited by experts as the spark that started the anti-government militia movement that exploded after the standoff in Waco, Texas, less than a year later.

In 1994, Patrick, the Democratic candidate for governor who was then assistant attorney general, concluded there was insufficient basis to prosecute FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi for shooting and killing 43-year-old Vicki Weaver. Horiuchi had testified that he opened fire on the woman’s husband and his friend, Kevin Harris, when he thought they were about to fire on an FBI helicopter.

  So now I ask you, was Patrick  talking about the terrorists when he said that there was an inability to understand and love each other, or was he talking about us?