Attention, Bigoted Old, White Men:
You know this thing called “email?” Those little messages that shoot through the air and magically land in your computer, then you click on them and read them? Those things don’t disappear. They will never go away. Not only are they still on your server, they are still on the servers of the bigoted friends you have sent them to. And I promise, you are not computer literate enough to delete them permanently. So, perhaps you should not be sending your hateful vitriol through those little electronic missives, magic though they seem, especially if you’re a sitting Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice, like J. Michael Eakin. At the very minimum, this genius managed to send the emails that are making up the new email scandal through his personal email account, rather than from his work account. But, for real, dude, save it for the country club or the strip club with your cronies.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane-Democrat, has risked her own career to bring these emails to light, and is now facing indictment for leaking these emails to the Grand Jury.
Of her arrest, she said:
“You can arrest me two times, you can arrest me 10 times. I’m sure this isn’t the end of the game. But I will not stop until the truth comes out, and I will not stop until the system operates the way it’s supposed to be.”
Eakin’s communications in this email scandal contained jokes about a variety of things, including a fictitious woman constantly being beaten by her husband, and advised by her doctor to stop talking, after which the beatings stop. Another series of emails joked about how 30 percent of female murder victims are killed by their boyfriends or husbands, which means that 30 percent “should have just shut the expletive up.”
We all know that domestic violence is a real problem, and although the laws are changing in the US, it is still a cultural force that many women have to deal with.
Other so-called “jokes” include pornographic content and punch lines about Muslim children as suicide bombers. Chris Rock, he ain’t. Not only are the jokes not funny, but they obviously call into question Eakin’s ability to impartially adjudicate cases.
Eakin’s email scandal is currently under investigation by the state Ethics Commissioner. Here’s hoping they give him what he deserves– that would be justice served.
