This week's lowlight

MANIFESTO

When does a man who's paid for his crime not paid for his crime? When he lives in Connecticut.

Governor Clubwoman and Connecticut's suddenly unctuous Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, have decided that they'd like to

confine a serial rapist beyond the completion ... of his 24-year prison sentence.

Rell asked Blumenthal to delay the release of David Pollitt after Southbury residents complained about Pollitt's plans to live in their neighborhood with his sister, an arrangement evaluated and approved by probation officials.

The president of the defense bar said Rell's attempt to keep Pollitt confined was "outrageous," while Superior Court Judge Susan B. Handy dismissed Blumenthal's intervention as without cause or legal standing.

"Mr. Pollitt has finished his sentence," Handy said in a terse decision issued from the bench in New London. "He is entitled to be released."

For the governor, it's just another example of pandering to her suburban base. Who knows what's on Blumenthal's little mind.

Colin McEnroe has much more on this idiocy here and here (the latter the tape of McEnroe's interview of Blumenfool on his radio show yesterday).

The Courant is conducting a poll wherein 75% of the respondents believe that Mr. Pollitt should be allowed to live in Southbury. It's nice to know that at least some of Connecticut's denizens understand the rule of law.

As Colin McEnroe says: "It suggests a special dimension to the intellectual laziness of M. Jodi Rell that she has spurred me to take the side, today, of a serial rapist." Yea, verily.

On a somewhat related note (in that it shows a type of hysteria evinced by people who should know better), take a look here to realize that things in Guilford, CT never seem to change.