Posted by: Steven G. Erickson | January 21, 2008 12:32 AM

I just emailed all the elected officials on the Connecticut Judiciary Committee.

I let be known my thoughts on the Cheshire home invasion, how I think legislators only seem to act in behalf of the Blue Blood Elite, and asked whether the US Constitution still applies or not.

Posted by: laureen malone | February 15, 2008 5:50 PM

First of all The petits are from a working class family in plainville that owned a trinket store in town for years. Mrs Petit hawke dad was a minister and they were middle class folks down to earth good people. I am so so tired and disgusted by you people and even certain legislators who are so insensitive and cruel and disrespectful to the surviving Dr Petit, who because he happens to have worked his butt of to get thru medicial school in order to become a healer from people like you, has now become a symbol for what you percive as special treatment he as a victim of crime is getting from the system that failed him utterly. A heinous crime like this should be bringing people together but it seems that there is always this part of the citizenry who is petty and so full of ill will and envy for what they percieve that others may have- which they do not, that you seemingly lay in wait for something awful to happen to people that you regard as different somehow from you ie blue blood or affluent rich' Isnt this the very thing that you purportedly complain about-racism or classism?!
YOU start pointing fingers AFTER the horrific aftermath of tragic multiple rapes and murders of a mother and her two children! This crime is in the spotlight of the state legisalture because it has so glaringly exposed gravely irresponsible actions and inactions within our states judicial system.Wake up!
This family could have been black yellow pink-the fact is it was a horrendous set of crimes that took out an entire family, save one person who was almost fatally injured himself and had to listen a his wife was garrotted on the floor above him-just as his daughters also had to listen to thier mom begging for her life just prior to them having gasoline poured on them and set aflame! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!? These men that did this had been convicted of over 25 felonies betwen them-one just 26 years old! They were both paroled after one third and less than a half of thier collective sentences. This was done without either one even present in an "administrative parole" Classic for our parole system-this was done with next to no paperwork for the parole board to make this crucial life and death descision-and this for either criminal, including some very important sentencing transcripts for the younger of the two who was already showing sex criminal patterns within his many many home break ins-all done while the people were home-for the thrill" it gave him-his words)Both of them were serving what was already lenient sentences, one was caughtnwith contraand multiel times as well as being kicked out of halfway houses for breaking thier rules. They had no business being paroled, anfd the descision to parole them was done recklessly and it turns out this goes on all day long for years,So I hope your proud for planting the seed in some of these impressionable legislators minds that you feel that the only people that the state cares about are the wealthy bluebloods. Its simply imbecilic and utterly insensitive to all victims of crime no matter the color or class. These crimes transecend all of that, this is about what we all share not what sepeartes us and I am so sorry that you cand others like you fail to see this.