Operation Reelect
Nov 3rd, 2006 at 7:02 am by Susie
Could they be any more obvious? This was just one big commercial for the Republican incumbency:
Deputy US marshals, federal agents, and local police tracked down and captured 433 fugitives in Massachusetts last week, targeting sex offenders, gang members, and other violent criminals.
In the third and largest multistate sweep of its kind, deputy marshals teamed up with more than a thousand other law enforcement agencies to arrest 10,773 fugitives in 24 states east of the Mississippi River between Oct. 22 and 28, according to the US Marshals Service and the Department of Justice. Officials dubbed the sweep Operation Falcon III.
In Massachusetts, 67 of those arrested were convicted sex offenders, including 30 who were not registered as required by law, and 73 were reputed gang members.
This is just a bigger version of something I used to see every election year when I was a reporter. All of a sudden, there’d be these massive sweeps - and of course, the press was always invited along.
It’s a subtle thing, but worth noting: Many of these people are only accused, not convicted. And though it’s not a fashionable distinction these days, I do like to make it.
