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March 24, 2005

Norman Porter: Homicidal Moonbat

Posted by Dave Blount at March 24, 2005 6:43 AM

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, "progressive" poet and activist J.J. Jameson — who has been on left-wing Pacifica Radio and was chosen March 2004 Poet of the Month by ChicagoPoetry.com, which refers to him as "one of Chicago's most beloved anti-war poets" — is actually a twice-convicted murderer by the name of Norman A. Porter Jr.

A "happy-go-lucky" pacifist, Porter was convicted of the 1960 execution-style shooting (shotgun to the back of the head) of a clothing store clerk in Massachusetts and the shooting death of a jail minister during a jailbreak the following year. Because the death penalty is all too rarely applied, Porter was able to bide his time until 1985, when the opportunity came to "walk away" from a facility where he was allowed to do maintenance work on the prison grounds.

Porter was arrested four times between 1989 and 1993 in Illinois and Washington state, but it wasn't until last Tuesday that his old murder raps caught up with him (actually, Michael Dukakis — of Willie Horton fame — had commuted one of Porter's murder sentences back in 1975).

Massachusetts state police Lt. Kevin Horton called it "a sweet, sweet day" when he finally tracked Porter to Chicago. His fugitive unit had been hunting him for 20 years.

Most moonbats seem to be harmless kooks. But Porter offers a useful reminder that no kook is truly harmless.