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Ernie Hotchkiss
Member since Jul 16, 2015
Recent Comments
Re: “Migrant Justice Plans Protest After Farmworker Is Detained”
There can never be justice on stolen land.
- KRS One
Posted by
Ernie Hotchkiss
on 12/04/2019 at 1:12 AM
Re: “Border Agents Need 'Reasonable Suspicion' to Search Devices, Judge Rules”
Americans are the most heavily surveilled population in human history. That's the hypocrisy of our "democracy". The East German Stasi Police would be jealous.
Posted by
Ernie Hotchkiss
on 11/15/2019 at 1:54 AM
Re: “Biden to Campaign in Bernie Country”
Joe Biden: "I like Dick Cheney; I think he's a decent man"
Dick Cheney, who lied us into an illegal war that killed a million people, flushed over $6 Trillion in military spending down the drain only to result in a destabilized region, and he had to torture people to cover up his lies and war criminality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-UfJtaKXU…
Posted by
Ernie Hotchkiss
on 10/23/2019 at 1:07 AM
Re: “Man Charged With Hate Crime for Alleged Threat to Migrant Justice”
Part of the sentence for these four racist imbeciles is they should be required to work on the farms milking cows, right alongside the migrant workers, and see if they can keep up, and see if they can live at the comfort level they are used to, on the wages paid.
Posted by
Ernie Hotchkiss
on 09/28/2019 at 7:56 PM
Re: “Seven Days Tracks Down Ex-Priests Accused of Sex Abuse in Vermont”
What this article fails to address is one very glaring question: Why is it that law enforcement has not been involved in sending any of these pedophiles to jail? And why has the leadership not been held criminally negligent in covering up these crimes? Their role in the decades long coverup makes them accomplices to the crimes against these children. If there really is a Hell, all of these people deserve to rot in it, and they have earned themselves an express ticket to a special place in Hell.
Vermont needs to do what NY State just did: pass a law suspending the statute of limitations for sexual predators, so these perpetrators can be sentenced for their crimes and the victims can see real justice served. Simply paying a settlement and outing a list of names is not enough.
"Justice" in this country is a farce, when it comes to the Church, big banks and the super-rich. Molest a child or crash the economy, no problem for or priests, the wealthy, or bankers, they all get a get-out-of-jail-free card, but if you are a poor person committing the same or lesser crimes, the justice system and law enforcement will come down hard on you. But with the Church, law enforcement and the entire legal system looks the other way and does nothing and makes it all go away by throwing money at victims. Absolutely shameful. Why is the church allowed to stay in business and allowed to continue getting tax breaks if they are harboring pedophiles and people who cover up for pedophiles?
Posted by
Ernie Hotchkiss
on 09/11/2019 at 9:54 PM
Re: “Judge Sides With Sanders Aide in Gas Price-Fixing Suit”
Yet more reasons why I will always boycott Vallee's Maplefields gas stations.
Posted by
Ernie Hotchkiss
on 06/06/2019 at 12:22 AM
Re: “Shaw's Grocery Worker in Middlebury Diagnosed With COVID-19”
With all due respect to all of the great restaurants I love in Vermont, and all of the great people who work in them, the current situation of restaurants being allowed to make take out orders is absolutely insane when there is no way to know if the thousands of restaurant workers in Vermont are possibly symptomless carriers of COVID-19. The Governor and his public health advisors need to read up on who Typhoid Mary was. She was a cook in NYC who infected 51 people with typhoid, 3 of whom died. She always appeared to be healthy and was asymptomatic.