Just a few hours after police caught a crazy man shooting into the White House earlier last week Lauren E. Pierce, president of the College Republicans at the University of Texas Tweeted:
Y'all as tempting as it may be, don't shoot Obama. We need him to go down in history as the WORST president we've EVER had! #2012."
This has received a smattering of press coverage but again, membership seems to have its privileges.
Juvenile Issue 3 (Ohio) , if passed, would require all juveniles to speak with an actual attorney before waiving their right to anything. It doesn't take a lot of brainpower to figure out exactly who this type of legislation benefits most.
Poor and minority children are often thrown in the slammer for the same types of crimes and misdemeanors that kids of means get out of by talking with their Daddy's lawyer friends from college.
Moreover, if the law passes it could also speed up the juvenile justice system since kids would get adequate counsel from jump rather than agreeing to sentences that are unfair – then spending 12 months trying to backtrack through the legal system.