Sedona AZ (June 14, 2015) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:
June 14, 2015
Subject: Misused Terminology
Ref: Front Page and Editorial; Verde Independent 6/14/2015
Editor;
I remember a joke from year’s past. A foreigner came to the United States and after a time went back to his Home Country where his friends asked him about America to which he replied, “America is okay, but the people are hard to understand – a big tall guy, they call him Shorty, a bald headed guy, they call him Curly!”
Fast forward to today and we have a government branch called the “Justice Department” headed by an “Attorney General” often called “Top Cop” because he/she is the most influential individual in the nation about the Law.
Unfortunately, in this Administration, it is about as far from being “Just” as the bald man is from being curly headed.
The Front Page and Editorial of the Verde Independent today, June 14, 2015, personifies that perfectly.
10 Years in Prison is the initial Front Page headline, then it tells the story from two years ago, in which a frenzied maniac (Mario Chagolla, Jr.) grotesquely beat and then dismembered another man to death. Chagolla cut Dwayne Beauty’s body to pieces trying to hide any means of identification.
If a case ever cried for “Capital Punishment” this is the type, however, because this crime was committed by a non-Tribal member against a Tribal member on an Indian Reservation (Yavapai-Apache Nation), the Federal Government with its questionable “Justice Department” automatically took charge — and allowed or encouraged a Plea Agreement with the charge of Voluntary Manslaughter instead of First Degree Murder.
This man (I use the term loosely) who intentionally butchered another human being is to serve a sentence of Ten Years in prison (Less two years for time served and whatever else may be knocked-off), plus a possible fine of up to $250,000.00 and a possible restitution to victims of up to $500,000.00.
What does up to mean?
So to sum this up: This bizarre, obsessed maniac will be back on the streets in eight years or less and, although he may pay some of the imposed fine, it is very doubtful that any restitution to victims will be paid.
This joke has no humor in it.
Like so many other humorless jokes that have been told by the Master Jokesters in the Obama Administration, especially in the Justice Department, the punch lines of, “We will find out…” and “We will hold them accountable…” have proven to be as mythological as the Tooth Fairy, the Rainbow’s Pot of Gold and Magical Unicorns.
Anyone who believes there is any sincerity in the Federal Justice system today is seriously delusional.
Is there any reason not to suspect a payoff in the rendering of the Plea Agreement that was reached in the Mario Chagolla, Jr. sentencing?
And what about the Look-i-lu’s who watched this murderous madman perform his “Circular Saw Dismemberment Surgery” and said nothing? Is there not something about Accomplices or Enablers that would apply in this case?
Situations like this definitely give credence to a call for some form of Vigilante Justice, which I have opposed almost universally because I have steadfastly stood in support of Law and Order with only openly justified exemptions.
Another thing I do not buy into a lot is racial discrimination; partly because it has been overused for financial gain of glory-hound activists like Sharpton, Jackson, Farrakhan, etc. However, in this case, does anyone seriously believe the sentence would have even been similar had this been a “Crime by an Indian against anybody other than an Indian?”
I think not. With all the flaws and apparent corruption just chalk it up as another first to be accredited to the Half-White President’s Reign.
Dale Gohr
Clarkdale Arizona