I Would Have Fired Him Too!

No, and the worst was using the taser on a kid! Can you imagine!?

No, Mike should not be a state trooper. Governor Palin is being investigated on whether she fired the public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, when he didn't do as she recommended and fire Mike Wooten for the things he did while on the job that were against regulations. Obviously if Monegan was not doing his job in dealing with the offending state trooper, he should not be in office. Palin has never been afraid to take on corruption and obviously this one is coming up again because it hit a little too close to home and probably involved hostilities of family members in the middle of a bitter divorce. I think she will be exonerated.

I would have fired him on the spot and not only that, barred him from being in any law enforcement capacity. Anyone who would booze it up in his patrol car and fire a tasar at his stepson and threaten the governor's father is not that nice of a person and is a danger to the community.

I agree completely. All it takes is one bad cop to make an entire department look bad. The person to blame is the one who allows such acts to go unpunished. Police are paramilitary and need discipline to be effective. If I recall his excuse for tasering his 11 year old stepson was "He wanted to see how it worked". Yeah, we need people like that enforcing the law.

So what if he did those things, what is wrong with them? He is an alpha male, and it has always been survival of the fittest, kill or be killed; do you think this has suddenly changed because of our level of evolution? Palin had no right to take his job away as a worker; the workers should have united to bring lawsuits against her! Regardless, President Obama will win the election, and he will reign supreme! Vote Obama 2008!

Very interesting - here is a few things that you might have missed on the issue. The troop just happened to accidently be involved in a vicious custody battle with Palin's sister. That was the issue. Further, at first Palin said that she had nothing to do with any of it and now has back tracked and said that it was a aide who did this totally on their own. The evidence that they have seems to include a phone converstation that shows Palin was at least agreeing to it and at most orchastrating it. Are you aware that Commissioner Walt Monegan has told roporters that he was pressured by Palin's saff and family to get rid of Wooten. Are you also aware that she is sought for questioning relative indicted Senator Ted Stevens but let's save that for a different discussion thread. After we look at that those issues, we could probably discuss the firing of the chief of police when she was first was elected as mayor of her little town so many years ago. If you ask for more information, I will dig out the research. Long live the Internet.