Comments on: Oliver heads South

By: Servetus

Servetus — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:49:21 +0000

Fear not, Oliver North, the Prince of Lost Causes, has arrived. Fresh from a major loss in the Viet Nam War. Still dancing after botching the hell out of Iran/Contra by getting caught. He’s back. Oliver North: the raven circling the corpse. Now he’s circling the Mexican Drug War. As if the Mexican government didn’t have enough problems.

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By: brian bennett

brian bennett — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:05:17 +0000

because drugs are fun

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By: Tatiana Covington

Tatiana Covington — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:05:06 +0000

Why doesn’t everyone just stop taking drugs!

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By: Ed Dunkle

Ed Dunkle — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:32:53 +0000

God, I made the mistake of going to Town Hall and reading the comments. It is truly a logic free zone. The general defense of Oliver North seems to be that since he didn’t do jail time that he served honorably and his every word is a pearl of wisdom.

Note to townhallers: Many rich and powerful people do horrendous things and rarely serve any jail time. There is plenty of bi-partisan evidence to support this assertion. Stop worrying about political parties and concentrate more on the class divides in the US.

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By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:12:05 +0000

“Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Prison Daily.”

I would hope there would be morning as well as evening editions.

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By: Steve in Clearwater

Steve in Clearwater — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:18:22 +0000

Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Prison Daily – in a Perfect World – would have quite the lineup of contributing columnists….I nominate this as your next spoof project (ala the DEA Candlelight Vigil site). If you create the framework, I believe we have enough smart-ass…errrrr….smart as a whip fraternal friends that we could keep the PMITAPD website freshly updated with hard-hitting (ouch!) columns at least a couple times a week.

cheers from Clearwater where I’m currently away from non-profit work in hopes of making a few for-profit $$$…which then get rechanneled to non-profit DPR…and so the circle continues

my facebook profile link is hyperlinked to my name above

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By: permanentilt

permanentilt — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:34:38 +0000

Can someone please put up the money to get Castillo a decent lawyer?!?!?! The man is an AMERICAN HERO! His case is an obvious sham, person-to-person sales of firearms don’t even require a dealer’s license in Texas.
http://texasguntrader.com/
Most gun enthusiasts around here are constantly in the process of selling and buying guns without a license.
I guess he went with a public defender because he didn’t think this would be much of a case, but when you are a former DEA whistle-blower it seems like ANY legal issues would require extreme caution.

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By: Buc

Buc — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:03:04 +0000

“Oliver North should be writing a column for the federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Prison Daily, not Townhall.”

Hahaha.

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By: allan420

allan420 — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:49:22 +0000

Definitely worth reading beyond what I posted here.

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By: allan420

allan420 — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:46:31 +0000

@ JohnDoe… yeah, some deal about selling guns at a gun show. I’ll go find the article, brb.

Yeah, here we go… and from a good source: Cele Castillo ordered to report to federal prison

Posted by Bill Conroy – July 12, 2009 at 2:46 pm

Judge revokes former DEA agent’s bond even after being made aware of prosecutorial misconduct allegations

Iran/Contra whistleblower Celerino Castillo is being sent directly to jail in the aftermath of his encounter with the buzz saw of Texas justice.

Despite being represented by an attorney, Robert E. De La Garza, who has been suspended by the State Bar of Texas for misapplying clients’ funds, the federal judge in Castillo’s case, at the urging of the government prosecutor, determined that there is no evidence of Castillo’s defense being tainted by the stink of ineffective assistance of counsel.

The fact that the same attorney’s son is facing federal gun charges, similar to those brought against Castillo, also has been deemed by the judge to be little more than an “inference” of a conflict of interest on the part Castillo’s attorney. Hence, the judge, at a hearing held Friday, July 10, 2009, in federal court in San Antonio, Texas, ruled that Castillo is not likely to succeed in the appeal of his conviction now pending before the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

As a result, the judge — after extending in mid-February Castillo’s report-to-prison date by some four months due to the very same ethical concerns raised about his attorney — did an about face at the July 10 hearing and ordered that Castillo report to prison on July 30 — to begin serving a 37-month sentence for violating federal firearm regulations, a sentence enhanced due to the judge’s apparent belief that Castillo sold weapons in Mexico.

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