Comments on: A few thoughts on Plaxico Burress

By: ecthompson

ecthompson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:32:59 +0000

TE –

Deserves? Really. I don’t think that deserves to go free but your point is well taken.

OJ taught everyone about lawyers. Whoever has the best lawyers – win!

By: Talmadge East

Talmadge East — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:11:24 +0000

He deserves to go free because he is a resident of the state of Florida and has a gun permit there. New York violated his constitutional rights by not allowing him to receive a gun permit (as he is an out-of-state resident), but also not recognizing his Florida license as almost ll other states do. As far as his playing career goes, he should be fined and suspended, but that's about it. Regardless, he DOES NOT deserve to go to jail, and any person that is charged with a crime that doesn't "lawyer up" is also an idiot. I have written a lot more about it here, if you would like the read.

By: ecthompson

ecthompson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:06:16 +0000

Plaxico will be doing some time.

Thanks for your comments!

By: Read the actual text

Read the actual text — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:45 +0000

Whether or not he was licensed, the FEDERAL guarantee of the right to bear arms should be enough to keep plax out of jail. The federal law should supersede any local law, including New York’s foolish Sullivan Law

Actually, thats a common misconception. The Second Amendment only LIMITS what the FEDERAL government can do- ie, the FEDERAL government cannot infringe on the rights of the People (note capitalization) to bear arms. This interpretation has been upheld since the initial United States v. Cruikshank ruling, up until we gained the lunatic idiot known as the “Honorable” Justice Scalia. Yet even his written court majority in D.C v. Heller only applied to the ownership of licensed guns within the home.

I suspect we’ll have all kinds of NRA nuts coming out of the woodwork again to misinterpret this sentence written by the most classic anti-Federalists of all time- our founding fathers- to infer that the Federal government has MORE power to limit what States can do, not less….

Let the tobacco-chewing, gun-toting philosopher-fest begin!

By: JeffLeon

JeffLeon — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:39:57 +0000

Playa hatin’? Nah. Forrest Gump said, “Stupid is as stupid does.”

Millionaire athlete Plaxico Burress packs gun (in NYC with notorious Sullivan Law, no less), and shoots himself in the thigh?

That’s stupid.

Till this, pretty much all Burress had to do for life was Not Screw Up Precisely The Way He Just Did. That wasn’t such a bad place for anyone to be.

Now what?

Now Burress’ best strategy may be to find God. Don’t laugh. Finding God sure worked for George W. Bush, also a famous, non-genius, millionaire screw-up.

By: manuel occhipinti

manuel occhipinti — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:55:45 +0000

Whether or not he was licensed, the FEDERAL guarantee of the right to bear arms should be enough to keep plax out of jail. The federal law should supersede any local law, including New York’s foolish Sullivan Law

By: cinco

cinco — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:46:50 +0000

He made his choice when he signed his $35 million contract. Even if the law of NY was not broken, he broke ‘NFL laws” that he is familiar with. I certainly don’t think he deserves to further show he’s ‘special’ by getting anything less than the average person would get.

To completely ignore the potential ramifications and say ‘fuck you to the world’ is wrong.

He made a poor decision, and now he’ll be poorer for it.

By: Mike Glaser

Mike Glaser — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:05:50 +0000

Let’s see… Plaxico Burress is carrying a gun illegally (what in New York City isn’t illegal?). He accidentally shoots himself in the leg. Many New Yorkers now apparently believe that sending him to prison for 3 1/2 years, where he risks being beaten and raped by other inmates, is somehow “justice.” After all, they’re tired of seeing rich athletes get off easy, and hey, if it was they themselves who had committed the crime, they’d get the book thrown at them. So if a criminal “justice” system that is out of control is unfair to everyone, it’s O.K., right? And of course, your emperor Michael Bloomberg, who has purchased the right to reign over New Yorkers, states that it would be an “outrage” if Burress were not to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. What is actually an outrage is that this self-appointed ruler of New York City is still in office. If the people of New York had not lost their spines a long time ago, there is no way that this tyrant would still be trying to micromanage the lives of everyone in the City. After all, none of you are capable of controlling your own behavior – you need the likes of Michael Bloomberg to dictate what you eat and drink, where you can go and when, and whether or not you have the right to defend yourself. Yes, Plaxico Burress committed a crime, according to the letter of the law. Keep in mind that, in the near future, more and more of us are technically going to be labeled criminals, as more and more behavior is criminalized in the name of “safety” by the likes of Michael Bloomberg. The truth of the matter is, if anyone really wants to think about it, that we should remove the word “justice” from the term “criminal justice system.” The System more often than not gets in the way of real justice. Our prisons are an abomination, joked about and winked at, and those authorities who send people there at the drop of a hat are as guilty of prison-rape as are the rapists themselves. Incidentally, just the other day, a Pittsburgh Councilwoman by the name of Tonya Payne was quoted as stating, “Who really cares about it (a gun law proscribed by Pennsylvania’s Constitution) being unconstitutional?” She went on to state that she knew that City Council was engaging in activism, but that their end justified the means. Perhaps Plaxico Burress was not attempting to break the law, but rather engaging in activism against a City and a Mayor who despise the thought of anyone who might choose not to be at the mercy of the depraved and totally dependent upon government for protection. Your liberty, all of your liberty, is disappearing, and you continue to be distracted from what is happening by class envy, self-righteousness, and fear. Michael Bloomberg should go to prison for undermining the
Constitution before Plaxico Burress ever spends a single day there… but that would truly be an “outrage,” to use Bloomberg’s terminology, now wouldn’t it?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:54:09 +0000

Doc:

You say: “It is a privilege to play in the NFL. Plaxico Burress, Adam (Pac Man) Jones and many others need to understand that playing in the NFL is not a right. ”

While I make no defenses of Burress, I have to wonder what the idea behind that statement is. I feel that a job is a privilege, not a right, and should be treated as such.

But in the past, you’ve mentioned the “right to work”, specifically in connotation with Obama’s policies. So, why is it that Burress doesn’t have the right to a job with the NYGiants, but Joe Everyman has a right to a job at, say, GM?

By: cinco

cinco — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:09:12 +0000

These guys know the risks. They choose to roll the dice. When they ‘lose’ they want to call foul or play ignorance at the situation. You’ve been given a chance that so many others haven’t and the best thing you can do with your opportunity is to go ‘clubbing’? Please give me a damn break. Din’t you have a wife Plaxico? Aren’t you old enough to not need the club scene? I’m not empathetic. Loaded,, concealed weapon without a permit in a state where you have been privy to the law? It’s a mistake that will cost him alot more than money, and he deserves it. What can he use as a reason to plead not guilty? Insanity? Drug/alcohol problem? Fear of his life or safety? What Plaxico something wrong with obeying the law and rules of your career? You just thought you wouldn’t get caught. And apparently you didn’t even know how to use the damn gun.

By: ecthompson

ecthompson — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:12:33 +0000

All good points.

Doubt Plax will be playing in the NFL any longer. I hope that he learns how to say, “would you like some fries with that?”

Thanks for your comments.

By: Robin Majumdar

Robin Majumdar — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:35:50 +0000

Good points – unfortunately we hear about these silver spoon athletes living up to the nasty side of having life easy… easy money = easy problems with no respect for the situation they are in.

However while the “blame” is being passed around:

1) Security really let in a loaded weapon because the guest was VIP yet not a LEO (law enforcement)? Huh?

2) Hire some security for yourself, like you mention, if you don’t trust the environment, in this case the Latin Quarter and their security…

3) A ready to fire Glock “tucked” into sweatpants?

Yikes.

3 years, 18 months minimum – and pull that NFL career, it isn’t that big a blow for him.