According to the Harris County website, Joe's charges for animal cruelty are on the docket for Thursday morning at 9 AM in the 11th Criminal Court. It shows his arraignment on these charges was reset and that the cases (still 2 pending) are on the court's motions docket. That's all I can tell from the website but more is obvious with just some tiny amount of common sense analysis.
It's TOUGH to fight back, to defend oneself, when nearly all of one's assets have been seized and/or coerced from one. Having taken nearly everything, the criminal charges proceeding is just plain abusive use of process by prosecutors; especially in cases like this. There are sadly many prosecutors who do what I call "kicking cripples" and that's what this amounts to. I like a good fight, a fair fight and let the best set of facts and law win. But continuing to beat someone you've already pinned to the ground seems despicable to me.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Seems to have morphed into "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, that I may see them completely crushed by the arrogant, abusive monsters we've raised up on these shores." Oh, and we'll arrest tourists too and our own, calling them all felons and worse, destroying their reputations via world-wide internet where the journalistic standards and just plain decencies of follow up and corrections are blithely ignored.
"But what happened to the civilized tenet of the punishment fitting the crime?" Good Question. Wish I had a good answer. "officer... He obviously goes by the presumption that you are guilty, until proved innocent". That brought a sad smile to me as the author is speaking of how tourists are treated upon arriving in the US and the author sees it as a tourist issue. Sadly, I see that "officer" all around us, that person/that attitude fills the halls of government at all levels now. How very sad and how very detrimental to our society and our economy. Still, I'm glad to see these issues being raised in all the venues where they are seen. The rest of that article can be found here.
"They don't really know how to spot the genuine bad guys; and so they suspect everyone." I couldn't agree more! Unfortunately, they don't stop with mere suspicion. They proceed with outright abuse. Have to admit they've learned the tenets of terrorism quite well, as evidenced by their ability to apply those tents so effectively and under color of law.