Your morning Amy Bishop roundup

By adamg on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 9:41am

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Okay... not sure what the Amy

By anon
Tue, 02/16/2010 - 10:31am

Okay... not sure what the Amy Bishop case has to do with political correctness! Clarification, anyone?

My reading of it (clarification, as I understand it, added in brackets): "Political correctness run amok. That was the excuse then for why everyone ignored the warnings [in the Hasan case]. What’s the excuse now [in the Bishop case]?"

Anne

Okay, she's different

By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 02/16/2010 - 10:54am

We get it: different is bad and dangerous, QED. However, it somehow isn't creepy for all the local predatory news outlets to stalk her family, friends, neighbors, associates, oil delivery guy, etc. for comments and interviews on a 24 hour basis?

Am I the only one who sees the total absurdity of this highly parochial "protect your cronies" business that shielded her from some hard brother-killing scrutiny being cast as "liberal political correctness run amok"? Sounds like the standard traditional conservative patronage bullshit to me - just the same as it is when it is applied to a conservative judge's grown kid caught trying to wiretap a senator's office. Or the FBI not having enough evidence to charge her with anything in the mailbomb situation being attributed to a soft judiciary? I thought that was just good due process like the founders intended!

What really bothers me most: seeing people from a minority group known to be singled out for bogus arrests asking why the university hired her given her association with certain events - even though she was never charged with anything. I guess grief trumps any storied history of systematic abuse of authority. Or, perhaps, their loved one simply wouldn't have been there because they wouldn't have ever been hired due to the "stain" of having ever had contact with the police, justified or not?

That made no sense

By Marc
Tue, 02/16/2010 - 11:41am

Hi SwirlyGrrl,

I did not follow much of your past comment. What is your point?

Read the Linked Post

By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 02/16/2010 - 2:10pm

The blogger makes some comment about Bishop not being charged with her brother's murder as "political correctness". It looks like old fashioned "who you know" to me. As for her not being charged in the bombing, well, lack of evidence means no charges according to original intent.

Gotcha

By Marc
Tue, 02/16/2010 - 3:12pm

Ok, makes sense.

From what relationship/clout does it seem most likely that Amy Bishop's parents would have acquired the power to achieve a cover up a murder of their son by their daughter? I mean, this isn't exactly a commonplace amount of power is it, even if the mother was involved in police hiring in Braintree?

I read one speculation that maybe, at one time, they'd been police informants (whitey, etc) -- but that doesn't seem too likely does it?

Surely...

By cursedtofirst
Tue, 02/16/2010 - 11:15am

The Hub blogger you linked (no comments section there) isn't suggesting with his columnist quote that being anti-Iraq war is somehow among the warning signs of this kind of behavior? The way it's quoted and the way that quote is stated sure make it seem that way.