Jackson Free Press

Whoever thought you'd hear those words!?! It does seem like a long, long time ago when Ed Peters was the driving force behind Robert Smith's campaign for district attorney, appearing in Smith's ads to help oust a D.A. who had challenged his friends, and to put North Jackson's minds at ease, eh? Oh right, it was only a dozen weeks or so.

Or put another away, When will people learn to listen? Or, at least to question?

Sigh. It's time for the deaf-and-dumb herd mentality around these parts to cease and desist. Folks, could we please stop the madness and listen to someone other than well-connected Good Ole Boyz and N-Jammer corporate apologists? They've gotten us into as much trouble locally as the neo-cons and the American Enterprise Institute did the country.

It is funny how many crickets chirp when it comes to Peters (not to mention Lott) on the Scruggs-obsessed blogs. Why? Because the obsessors are people who defended these guys no-matter-what in the past. When they're proved wrong, such as with their blind devotion to Melton, they go silent rather than talk about what we can all do to figure out damage that might have been caused already, not to mention what to do to keep from this stuff happening in the future.

We could start with serious judicial and campaign-finance reform. But even that won't do any good if people can never believe that their heroes might have flaws.

Of course, if we had a real daily newspaper here, much of this could have been avoided years ago.

Previous Comments

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117340

Comment

...are we defending ole Ed here or what? I'm confused as to if this is good or bad.

Author

Ironghost

Date

2008-02-25T19:06:07-06:00

ID

117341

Comment

I think Ed won't be the first Peters to serve jail time if he is taken down. Let's pray that justice will be served here. I'm really beginning to think that DeLaughter and Peters think that since they were players in the Byron De La Beckwith trial they somehow they are better than the rest of us! Gasp, to think the State of MS wants to give more power to DA Robert Smith! Stop the madness!

Author

pikersam

Date

2008-02-25T19:28:24-06:00

ID

117342

Comment

Robert Smith has more power than he needs already. From the looks of things, he is as dangerous as a two year old with a loaded GUN! I'm not saying that Faye Peterson is laughing but I'm sure there must be a smile on her faceabout good old Mr. Ed.

Author

justjess

Date

2008-02-26T13:47:54-06:00

ID

117343

Comment

They have certainly both used the Beckwith prosecution in their PR enough. That was what most of Peters' bio was in the Katrina Group bios (which have been taken down, but I found it in cache). Ironghost, I'm not defending or going after Peters, per se. I'm commenting on the fact that it took a major federal investigation to get people, especially in North Jackson, to even question him, even as plenty of questions were raised. And now people are rather speechless about it all. To go from not believing someone was capable of anything wrong to an allegation that he took a million-dollars to help bribe a judge is ... something else. My bigger concern is the damage that might have been done to real people, many of whom are perhaps in prison although they're innocent, not to mention possible criminals walking the streets, if corruption allegations directed toward former judges and/or prosecutors prove to be true.

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2008-02-26T13:52:13-06:00

ID

117344

Comment

Well, justkjess, I will say that while people were waging a witchhunt against Peterson—filled with lies and false innuendo—she tried to warn people and media (without coming out screaming) that that office was in terrible shape when she got there. I suspect her legacy is going to be just fine once everything shakes out. This city has a habit of listening to tragically wrong people and eating its own. I hope we can change that people start to heed the warnings many of us put out there—because, well, they turn out to real. Perhaps it would help to state for the record that the JFP doesn't trash anyone due to politics; and we don't give anyone a pass due to politics. So if we're pointing to smoke, folks, please look for the damn fire and help save us all a lot of grief. We get burned way too often because people make so many decisions based on politics and nothing more. I think it's true that some of Peters' folks are back in the D.A.'s office, right? Not saying there is anything wrong with them, of course. It rather reminds one of Bush bringing back the lackluster members of the Ford administration, though, like Rummy and Cheney.

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2008-02-26T14:12:03-06:00

ID

117345

Comment

I understand. A lot of people just can't believe that "ole Ed" would do that. The Common Mississippian tends to trust people and not question how things are going, mainly because our state/local government is out of reach of most people.

Author

Ironghost

Date

2008-02-26T14:12:55-06:00

ID

117346

Comment

I couldn't agree more, Iron. Right on.

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2008-02-26T14:13:45-06:00

ID

117347

Comment

I was wondering when Ed Peters' chickens would come to roost. This is the proverbial tip o' teh iceberg....

Author

bill_jackson

Date

2008-02-26T23:17:41-06:00

ID

117348

Comment

Ya'll got Lange acting all weird with the Safe City story... Instead of addressing that issue and responding to questions on his own blog, he's trying to get people to come to this thread and comment... Odd one to pick. Isn't he a big Melton and Peters man?? On the Ledger forum people are saying he was a driving force behind 2991. That true??

Author

gipper

Date

2008-02-27T10:36:02-06:00

ID

117349

Comment

Let me guess: He's calling for boycotts of the JFP again. He's been doing that for years, even as he send us new readers. He's a card. ;-)

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2008-02-27T10:42:40-06:00

ID

117350

Comment

Rex: My Mom, who's getting closer to 70 that I'd like to admit, doesn't have too many good words for Ole Ed Peters. He comment was "They won't bury him, they'll screw him into the ground."

Author

Ironghost

Date

2008-02-27T16:08:14-06:00