No, Seriously, Get a Rope
Burnet County, Texas, Republican District Court Judge James Oakley is a straight ticket Republican who I suspect thought he died and went to heaven when Donald Trump was elected.
Judge Oakley just got a reprimand from the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct because he publicly on damn Facebook commented that a convicted African American defendant needs “a tree and a rope.”
Oh for Pete’s Sake. A whole big giant reprimand. But he also got four whole hours of sensitivity training. Four. Whole. Hours.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
Sickening enough if he were a DA. But a judge…?
I have been disgusted enough by some crimes (e.g. an adult raping a 4-year-old child) that I have said that, if properly convicted, the sumbitch should be taken out behind the courthouse and shot in the back of the head, but ropes and trees did not enter into my thinking. And I’m not in an official judicial position.
1How unfair. Oakley should have been given an opportunity to impose his own favorite choice of punishment on his own self – “a tree and a rope.”
2I’d like to put a rope around ole Jimmy’s head and between his teeth like a bit and ride him while wearing really big, really sharp roller spurs. We’d made a dozen laps around the public square on cobble stones while he’s wearing only his titey whities. That would be followed by tar and feathers, then a few days in the public stocks with a sign saying, “Here Kneels a Racist Judge. Be careful, or you could be next!”
3I am with Debbo
4Do unto others….
5He should be tied to a tree in public and the citizens should be given the opportunity to enlighten him.
Unfortunately, you can’t fix stupid.
It is a pre existing condition.
Since public lynching is probably out of the question, I’d suggest the stocks and a supply of rotten tomatoes for the public amusement for a couple of days, followed by disbarment.
6C’mon patrons.
I see the anger and the angst.
Judge Oakley used trigger words, seeming recalling a more pleasant, mythical, time when “He was sheriff, judge; he owned the hearse, a man you did not anger”.
His offense, while socially unacceptable, is on the continuum somewhere between “sticks and stones” and a Class A Misdemeanor of “Terroristic Threat”, assuming you have a like-minded County Attorney.
Some hours of sensitivity training seems a good idea, although I’m pretty sure four hours won’t even begin to push back on the tide of ignorance.
Great vents though!
7I’m with all of the above with a couple of provisions: forget the titey whities. Hang him by his gonads if you can find them. Preferably on a large cactus for four hours in 115 degrees. Now that’s sensitivity training.
8Jim should have to sit in a room with the convicted and a third person and be asked to explain why he says such things. I think 4 hours would be adequate to let the two men get to know each other.
9OKAYYYYYY! I reckon everything offered above amounts to a trip to the woodshed where a helluva big paddle lives. There is such a thing as an Administrator. Every court is alleged to have one. This is the one who can walk up to a misbehaving judge and take away his gavel and job and even threaten the judicial pension. Am wondering why this in particular is not happening? Is it possible that courts where he comes from do not have this feature? Maybe due to a lack of funding? Or an outright overdose of local “politics”? PS Sensitivity training only works if you can teach them where they are most sensitive themselves.
10I have said this before, we knew people who thought like this still lived out here. Now they seem to have permission to come out from under the rock were other the scum live. We need to get them back under that rock and keep them there. I actually thought by this time in my life comments like that would never been utter again. I am so disappointed and embarrassed for our children and in my case grand children. The learn by example what are the children learning now or in some cases still.
11It’s been said before, but we were taught in law school, the A student’s become professors, the B student’s make all the money and the D student’s are properly addressed as “Your Honor”
12Tilphousia, I like your amendment to my scenario. Thanks for the laugh.
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