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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- Message-ID: <9212310015.AA16974@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.politics
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:15:38 -0800
- Sender: Forum for the Discussion of Politics <POLITICS@UCF1VM.BITNET>
- From: Andy Freeman <andy@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU>
- Subject: Re: well, pardon me!, Version 5
- In-Reply-To: <9212302032.AA00775@wizard.netx.com>
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- >> So? Is "willing to break the law" a crime?
- >No, it's not.
- >But doesn't it bother you that the president of the United States is
- >willing to break the law?
-
- Lots of things "bother me", but I don't expect anyone to go to jail
- over them. I don't expect govt to throw $60 million at them either.
-
- Just as there are issues that aren't constitutional, there are issues
- that are not criminal.
-
- EVERY president or serious candidate appears to be willing to break
- the law, so if you're annoyed by that, you're stuck.
-
- >I think that he is guilty of incredibly bad judgement and history
- >ought to remember him as such.
-
- Then what was the special prosecutor doing?
-
- Bad judgement isn't against the law. Selective prosecution of people
- associated with someone who exhibits bad judgement is an abuse of the
- system. Once we set that precedent, we're going to have even more
- problems with witch hunts, and they don't always go after the "right"
- targets.
-
- -andy
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