Friday, February 29, 2008

today's hot item

Local Rabbi, who hit, killed pedestrian gets sentenced:
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Is it fair?

Reference Seattle Times story of 29 February, 2008 (by Nancy Bartley).

And, Seattle Weekly opinion piece from several weeks ago (Column, "The M.F. Truth" by Mark D. Fefer, Seattle Weekly, January 30, 2008).

Each has a complement of archive stories, dating to late 2006 from the incident in West Seattle that led to the death of Seattle councilman's aide, Tatsuo Nakata, at age 29.

Register your opinion on how the level of justice fits, or doesn't fit.

3 comments:

Francesca said...

I read both articles and as a Jew and a fellow human being, I am ashamed that this man was not jailed, removed from the road for more than 2 years, rejected by his congregants...
He had already hit another person in the summer and had a miserable driving history, he was talking on his cell phone when it happened! Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Anonymous said...

yep..me too...im kind of fluster..
why they let this man stray in the street..

Anonymous said...

I think this case is totally unfair.
based on the two articles it seems like because he's jewish, his community wants to protect him, pers also not playing big role to bring justice to him,pers seem like don't care with this matter.
It is become more unfair because he has a bad record in his driving, that means he was a trouble person, he must go to jail and pay money to Nakata's family to support their life.

I think the judge is really unfair with this case, killing a person because of reckless and not go to jail and not even give money to support Nakata family?
i thunk it is clear that theret is a conspiracy in this case.