ANNAPOLIS - Prior to the third Gubernatorial Debate between Governor O’Malley and Bob Ehrlich, the Maryland Republican Party issued the following questions for Governor O’Malley, because Marylanders deserve the truth:
- In the first debate you said that your tactic of arresting thousands of innocent people in Baltimore saved lives. Do you still believe that arresting innocent Baltimore City residents is appropriate and legal?
- Marvin “Doc” Cheatham of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP recently told The Afro Newspaper, “Due to the arrogance of a mayor and his administration, hundreds if not thousands of Baltimore City men were unconstitutionally arrested, not charged with anything, but left in Central Booking with an arrest record…” Do you still stand by this policy? (Source: The Afro: 6/30/10)
- In 2006, the ACLU and the NAACP filed suit against the City of Baltimore over these arrests on behalf of 14 plaintiffs. The City of Baltimore recently settled by agreeing to pay $870,000, retrain officers, and issue new policies. How do you feel about the ACLU and the NAACP filing suit over your tactics?
- Bob Ehrlich made it a major priority to rehabilitate nonviolent offenders by creating Project RESTART so they would be productive members of society upon their release. You have refused to make a similar commitment to nonviolent offenders. Why?
- Why have you abdicated your duty to exercise clemency powers to pardon or commute the sentences of prisoners who have rehabilitated themselves in prison? Legal experts have said that, “withholding this sort of official forgiveness is not sensible, and it's not safe.” (Source: The Washington Post 6/21/09)
- The U.S. General Accounting Office recently found that your Administration’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program – designed to help low income Marylanders heat their homes in winter – was filled with fraud and abuse, with wealthy homeowners getting heating funds at the expense of residents in need. You have offered no plan to fix this problem. Why?
- A recent state audit found “significant deficiencies” at the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, which included the untimely criminal background checks on employees and overtime payments to ineligible workers. Can you actually claim “progress” here? Where is the “progress” and what have you done to correct it?
I guarantee - GUARANTEE !! --- that if thousand of INNOCENT white people were arrested by the police without charge and then left with an arrest record, there would be hell to pay...And I wonder if the police would have the nerve to arrest thousands of WHITE people that they knew were INNOCENT of any crime?? The answer is yes, the police don't care about your rights ...most have never read or have any concern for, the Constitution. They have exposed themselves as armed agents of the government, doing their bidding, regardless of the legality of their actions. These are the FACTS. And the Governor has exposed himself as a champion, not of "we, the people" but of the continuation and furtherance of a "we know what's best for you" totalitarian attitude that is entirely contemptuous of our history and laws. And our other choice is Erlich...God almighty, we are in trouble.
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