We are one day close, one step closer,
waiting moment by moment,
watching always.
To us of course it seems like a no-brainer: the right thing should happen.
But the right thing doesn't always happen. The people who are supposed to be the most accountable get to lie and cheat their way out of accountability. The people who are some of the most vulnerable and conservatively to be most protected, women and children (children who are becoming women), are extended to the wolves so the men in robes can keep their authoritative positions in society. It isn't isn't some kind of threat to good men to hold culpable men responsible for their own actions - why would it be? Why would it be an attack to conservative idealism to properly support and protect women and children?
We want to re-visit something.
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Letter to the Editor:
Adrian says public relations firm was hired to spread lies across nation
AUGUST 1, 2022 | BY ROBERT K. ADRIAN
"I would like to respond to the opinion letter written by Kate Daniels, chairman of the Adams County Democratic Party, as well as others.
It is not surprising she does not like me speaking out about the Drew Clinton case, because once the truth is known, it will be obvious that this is a political attack on me, a well-known Christian and conservative. The political underpinnings were further exposed when the left paid people to show up at my announcement of candidacy for retention (as judge) in an effort to shout me down. The shouts were led by — you guessed it — Kate Daniels, chairman of the Adams County Democratic Party."
Fact Check: The letter he is responding to can be found here:
Letter to the Editor: Adrian should not be retained as judge
It was not primarily authored by Katherine Daniels. It was not in any way paid for, sponsored by, or professionally affiliated at any level with the Democratic Party. Stand With Cammy has always been strictly non-partisan, with supporters who self-identify as being from a myriad of different political alignments. We don't agree that lying is Christian moral and as a good number of us identify as Christian, that was never a consideration for why our group assembled. No one paid anyone to show up at his retention campaign.
"This controversy was started by QUANADA, which issued a statement about the Drew Clinton case which lied and misrepresented what I said and what I did. This was very curious for them to do. The alleged victim had not been their client, nor had any of their advocates been present at the trial or any of the hearings on the case."
Fact Check: Stand With Cammy has never been paid by, sponsored by, or professionally affiliated at any level with QUANADA. Although our local network for persons affected by domestic abuse has been a tremendous help to countless victims in our community, and there is clearly overlap between people who support victims and people who support Stand With Cammy, our group was not created by QUANADA, and we had not read their statement prior to starting this petition. We didn't need to be at the hearings on the case, because we have read the transcripts of what was said, and unless Judge Adrian is saying the transcripts are not accurate, we know what was said. That's why the transcripts exist, dummy.
"Then a public relations firm was hired to spread these lies across the nation and internationally in an effort to smear me and ruin my reputation. The news media, of course, made a big deal over the story, because it was a national controversy — a controversy that was bought and paid for but was never reported as such."
Fact Check: Absolutely not. We have never been paid. Also, again, where we have sourced all of our information is from court transcripts and public records. We have never had any motivation to start a "smear campaign" against Robert K Adrian to "ruin [his] reputation" -- although that is ironic, since a big part of this is because he was really fine throwing a 16 year old girl's reputation under the bus and just telling her to get over it because getting raped is just one of these things that happens when girls aren't careful enough at parties. But again, our movement was never reported as being "bought and paid for" because we have completely self-financed out of our own pockets, and trust us our pockets are not as deep as the ones in those judicial robes.
"I did not speak out sooner, because it is an ethical violation for a judge to comment on a pending case. The case is no longer pending, as the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed the mandamus petition and the Fourth District Appellate Court dismissed the appeal, affirming my decision was correct. In hindsight, it would have been better for me to come out right away and explain my decision and actually give the Judicial Inquiry Board a real reason to file charges against me."
Fact check: Purposefully exploiting a case known to have caused such a degree of discord in our community to fuel attendance at a retention campaign kick-off announcement is corrupt whether the case is still pending or not. It also sounds like he is saying he does not respect the authority of the Judicial Inquiry Board.
"For anyone interested in the truth about Drew Clinton case, I am providing the supplemental order which I prepared months ago to memorialize the decision in the case and the reasons for that decision."
Fact check: If you go to the MRN article, you can find the supplemental order he's talking about. It's absolutely disgusting. He says in the supplemental order that he wrote that he heard Drew Clinton testify that he committed the digital penetration. Judge Adrian wrote that he heard Drew Clinton confess to digitally penetrating the victim. Adrian goes on in that order to say the State did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the victim did not consent to the penetration. However, the victim was 16. The "age of consent" in Illinois is 17. No one under 17 is ever able to fulfill legal consent to sexual activity at any time. Her age is a fact and a fact stands at face value in a court of law - there is no burden of proof to determine a fact. There is no burden to prove the assailant is or is not aware of a victim's age. There is no "Romeo and Juliet" loophole in Illinois - essentially, even if the victim says it is consensual, the fact of the victim's age prevents the legal definition of consent to be fulfilled. It absolutely could not have been consensual, for reasons the State did not have a burden of proof to demonstrate, coupled with the assailant's direct confession. And we'd also like to point out, that supplemental order is not signed, Bob.
"Finally, I would like to address the (assistant state’s attorney) Josh Jones issue. I was totally wrong to take the actions I did, and I take full responsibility for that matter. I called Mr. Jones a couple of days after it happened and apologized to him for my actions. There is not now, nor ever really has been, a problem between me and Mr. Jones.
My only excuse for my action is that God created us all human, even judges."
Fact check: An apology to a man and assigning blame to God - this sounds right on par for what we expect from Robert Adrian.
Respectfully submitted,
Robert K. Adrian
Judge, Eighth Judicial Circuit
Quincy, Illinois
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In conclusion, this publicly published letter to our community is a clear demonstration of how little respect Adrian has for the Judicial Inquiry Board, how very easy it is for him to lie about community members and advocate groups he doesn't agree with, and his own lack of understanding of consent laws in the State of Illinois.
One final note about his Letter to the Editor - please notice the photo; it is from Adrian's retention campaign announcement. When he was faced with opposition at his announcement to the public, he and his supporters defected to the private property at Schnack Law Offices. Schnack Law defended Drew Clinton in the case. This demonstrates Adrian's clear favoritism toward the defendant from the case.
How gross.
See you next week, Bob.