Perk of Perry Indictment.. Did he know this when he was smilin' for his mug shot?

[Cha]

Herman: Indicted Gov. Rick Perry can’t carry concealed gun or buy ammo

Forget that it could ruin his presidential aspirations. Look beyond the possibility he could spend about a century in prison explaining to fellow inmates (with names like Mad Dog and Widowmaker) the intricacies of constitutional law and vetoes.

Those of you who wish ill upon Gov. Rick Perry (and shame on you for doing so) perhaps will find delight in the fact that his indictment already has hit him where it hurts. It’s right there in federal law, specifically the federal law known as 18 USC 922(n), and I quote:

“It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person (1) is under indictment for, or has been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year.”

Thanks to last week’s indictment, your fun-with-guns governor is now in that category.

For those of you who’ve been sleeping since it happened Friday, Travis County grand jurors indicted Perry on charges of abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant. The first count carries a possible prison term of five to 99 years. The second, two to 10. I’m no expert on law or math, but I believe those potential sentences each exceed one year."

More..
http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local/herman-indicted-gov-rick-perry-cant-carry-conceale/ng5h2/#2e1d8bc1.257319.735464

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Just because..



"And, he noted, Perry can no longer carry a handgun while jogging on public property, as he was doing when he famously gunned down a menacing coyote in 2010."

[Cha]

1. ..

[Cha]

2. ..

[Cha]

3. .

[gordianot]

4. BANG

[Cha]

5. BAM!

[gordianot]

6. BOOM

[Cha]

7. No more for Perry.. he'll feel empty without his infamous sidearm.

[calimary]

9. Barrump-bump!

[Cha]

10. mahalo, calimary~

[Cha]

8. .

[Uncle Joe]

11. I love that pic.

Thanks for the thread, Cha.

[Cha]

12. You're welcome, Uncle Joe.. I thought it was worth noting that ol smilin Rick won't

be able to legally carry his beloved sidearm since he went and got himself indicted "on charges of abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant. The first count carries a possible prison term of five to 99 years. The second, two to 10. I’m no expert on law or math, but I believe those potential sentences each exceed one year."

The pic just goes with it..

[SunSeeker]

13. K & R

[Cha]

14. Oh good.. you already found it.. I just left

you a bread crumb on that other Perry thread as you know by now.

[TexasTowelie]

15. It's the rule of law, ya know.

I still wish they had banned him from leaving the state and require him to wear an ankle monitor though.

[Cha]

17. Yes, darn law.. and he'd better not break that one, TexasT!

[freshwest]

16. What you wanna bet he'll keep on being a tool? It's not in him to rise any higher. Gawd help us all.

[Cha]

19. Perry's DNA is riddled with TOOL. He'll never change.. he could even make this

exponentially worse for himself.. cause he's a FOOL, too.

Mahalo, freshwest~

[pinboy3niner]

18. Oh, noes! I fear that will leave a big hole in our border defenses...

[Cha]

20. OH NOES!!111.. He won't look like such a

bad MOFO now! Who will take Perry's place in the Gun OPs!?

"And, he noted, Perry can no longer carry a handgun while jogging on public property, as he was doing when he famously gunned down a menacing coyote in 2010."

[mwrguy]

21. No more toting

LOL

[Cha]

23. really, mwrguy.. whatever will he do without his trusty sidearm?!

[Live and Learn]

22. Does he get to keep any he already owns or do they confiscate them? nt

[Cha]

24. I don't know about that, Live and Learn.. just that he doesn't get to go packin' in public..

nor buy any news ones.

[Live and Learn]

25. That is how I read it but doesn't really make sense.

Most places wait until you are convicted and then make you give up any you have and forbid you from buying any.

[former9thward]

60. It doesn't make sense because the OP misread the law.

Perry can do whatever he wants with his guns including carrying them in public. The law applies to those selling weapons to someone under indictment.

[Gothmog]

26. I watched the booking yesterday live on the livestream

It was great

[Cha]

34. The visual must have been extraordinary, Gothmog!

[Gothmog]

37. It was fun

[Cha]

38. Ye-ah! After 14 years.. this where he's at.

Not that he won't slime out of it but he still can't go gun totin' photo-op for awhile!

[B Calm]

27. What cracks me up is when he said this was politically motivated. Kinda like

what he did when he cut off the funding?

[Cha]

35. Yeah, ol genius just thought he'd throw that out there..

That's all he could think of. lol

[B Calm]

42. That's what finger pointers do. Accuse the other person of doing what they are doing.

Republicans wrote the book on finger pointing!

[Cha]

43. Yep, that's what sociopaths do. smh Another page from the republicon playbook..

Missouri official apologizes for racist Facebook posts: ‘I was a very active Republican at the time’

Judi Lynn http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014875678

[sheshe2]

28. Ha! Good...

Poor poor Perry....not!

KnR and on the run.................I'm running late.

[Cha]

36. The streets are safer in the interim in good ol Texas, she!

Thanks for the K&R on the Run!

[Javaman]

29. so no more photo ops of side gunner perry?

I think we can certainly do without his sense of false bravado.

[Cha]

39. We're safe from Perry and his Gun Ops for awhile, Javaman.

[Javaman]

40. true, but we will never be safe from his massively inflated ego. nt

[Cha]

41. Right.. only the Gun OPs part. Perry's arrogant ego will continue.. maybe even worse

without his props!

[Rex]

30. There are three things Perry can't live without...

Clown makeup, a hidden gun close to his pecker and...and...er...um...

[Jefferson23]

31. I have no history of smiling upon hearing Perry's name, but now when I see his name in print

or hear it through the media...I smile, a lot.

[Cha]

44. Yeah, ol Perry getting his just desserts for at least being Indicted and losing his Gun Privileges..

is definitely worthy, Jefferson.

[Jefferson23]

46. Absolutely. He and his lawyers went for ice cream...the idiot's

legal team seems to think this will be a confidence builder..indicted? No biggie..lets get ice cream.

Perry's Mug Shot
Governor arraigned on two felony charges: Twitter goes dewy-eyed
By Richard Whittaker, 9:37AM, Wed. Aug. 20

Update: Perry has pleaded "not guilty" to both felony counts relating to abuse of power and coercion of a public servant. Perry's lawyers have waived his previously scheduled Friday arraignment at the Travis County courthouse.

At 5pm yesterday, Aug. 19, Gov. James Richard "Rick" Perry surrendered himself to Austin Police Department on two felony charges relating to criminal abuse of his office. From the Twitter response, you'd think he'd checked in for a glamour shot.

These are not light allegations. The first, abuse of official capacity, is a first degree felony that carries a sentence of 5-99 years. The second, coercion of a public official, is a third degree felony and carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.

However, unsurprisingly, the event turned into yet another sideshow, courtesy of Perry's legal team/press department (which has previously promised not to fight this in the media). After yet another in the now endless series of press briefings (already far more than Perry manages in the average legislative session), he continued to resmear Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg over her DWI conviction, rather than address the substance of the charges against him. He then retreated to Sandy's Hamburgers for an frozen custard. The GOP twitterverse then exploded with the #IStandWithRickPerry hashtag, as supporters turned the image into a proxy presidential campaign poster.

Undoubtedly, Perry's PR/charm offensive has won the first round, with multiple stories quoting the same national-level blowhards (such as former Obama White House adviser David Axelrod) undermining the indictments. However, the push back locally has begun, with stories about why the man who is now savaging the whole legal system is still A-OK with the beyond-shaky conviction of Cameron Todd Willingham, while Wayne Slater of the Dallas Morning News, amongst others, picked up on Progress Texas pointing out that Perry was seemingly fine with Republican DAs busted for drunk driving.

Implicit in all of the allegations is that this is all just a political conspiracy emanating from Democratic Travis County. The problem for Perry's supporters (at least the ones that let themselves be impeded by facts) is that the special prosecutor, Michael McCrum, and the judge that appointed him, Judge Bert Richardson, are both out of San Antonio, and that Richardson is actually the GOP nominee for State Court of Appeals. That may well make the grand jury itself arguably the easiest target, but then that would be predicated on the idea that Travis County is monolithically liberal Democratic (it's not, and neither was the jury). Some jurors are already firing back that, once the public and the court sees the evidence that was presented to them, opinions of Perry's actions will change greatly. Until then, it seems they will keep enduring the smear campaign coming from the right, underscored by the #IStandWithRickPerry hashtag on Twitter. Juror Jana Bessin told the Houston Chronicle, "It's too bad. But I guess that's his side's job – to really spin it."

http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2014-08-20/perrys-mug-shot/

[Cha]

48. Sorry, it took so long to get back to your post, Jefferson! Thank you so much for this!..

"Implicit in all of the allegations is that this is all just a political conspiracy emanating from Democratic Travis County. The problem for Perry's supporters (at least the ones that let themselves be impeded by facts) and that Richardson is actually the GOP nominee for State Court of Appeals. Tis that the special prosecutor, Michael McCrum, and the judge that appointed him, Judge Bert Richardson, are both out of San Antonio,that may well make the grand jury itself arguably the easiest target, but then that would be predicated on the idea that Travis County is monolithically liberal Democratic (it's not, and neither was the jury). Some jurors are already firing back that, once the public and the court sees the evidence that was presented to them, opinions of Perry's actions will change greatly. Until then, it seems they will keep enduring the smear campaign coming from the right, underscored by the #IStandWithRickPerry hashtag on Twitter. Juror Jana Bessin told the Houston Chronicle, "It's too bad. But I guess that's his side's job – to really spin it."

[Jefferson23]

55. You are most welcome, Cha. Things are getting interesting for Perry. I like

what I am reading so far, fingers crossed here and all that.

[Cha]

57. :)

[former9thward]

32. You are misreading the law.

The law applies to those selling firearms. The law you quoted has nothing to do with the person indicted.

[flamingdem]

33. k+R!!

[Cha]

45. Mahalo flamingdem!

[sheshe2]

47. KnR~

[Cha]

50. Thanks she.. I've been so

busy today to even get back to the Rick Perry/No more Guns for you, Buster.. thread!

[Cha]

52. P.S. look what Jamaal came up with, she!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5422092

[Jamaal510]

49. ...

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[Cha]

51. Freakin' Perfect, Jamaal!

[Gothmog]

53. My kids told me that the TDP is selling mugs with perry's mugshot

[Cha]

54. What's the TDP?

[Gothmog]

56. Texas Democratic Party

[Cha]

58. oh Haha LOL ROFL!

mahalo Gothmog. a rare mug it is. lol

[Gothmog]

59. I have a feeling that I will be buying a few of these mugs