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- From: tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin)
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- Subject: Re: Bush's Pardons
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.193512.19722@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 19:35:12 GMT
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- In article <1icchdINNmki@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> gerberrl@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Richard L. Gerberding) writes:
- >dodsonsl@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
- >>
- >> So what do you conservative types think of the Bush pardons?
-
- My opinion - there went the rule of law. Now it is the rule of patriotism,
- and the rule of lie (to congress).
-
- >I'm a conservative type who is all for it. In this month's reader's
- >digest (maybe last months, I read it while at home over break) there is an
- >article by Fred Barnes about how special prosecutor Walsh went after
- >people for anything that might have caused anything to happen. Walsh has
- >spent OVER 20 MILLION DOLLARS, and what has he discovered as a result of
- >this - NOTHING.
-
- North and Poindexter were convicted. CONVICTED. They were found to be guilty.
- Their convictions were overturned not on the basis of any new evidence, o
- that they were in fact innocent, but the fact that some of their admissions
- of guilt in testifying to congress may have tainted the court proceedings.
- Note, that if they hadn't admitted culpability to congress, then there
- could have been no tainting.
-
- Walsh discovered a lot. It's just been effectively reversed, or pardoned.
-
- > I realize the need for watchdogs and keeping politicians
- >honest, but I also think that the special prosecutor law should have been
- >modified so that there is a limit on what may be spent - say 5 million or
- >so (funny how that seems like pocket change anymore) and if no solid leads
- >are found, the investigation should end.
-
- In other words, you give the Presidency a goal - if you can get enough
- Lt. Col's to lie to lie to congress long enough, and if you can bury the
- evidence deep enough, so that it will take more than XXXX dollars to find,
- you win the game? Not very palatable.
-
- Should we do the same thing for murder trials for mob figures? If you can't
- convict John Gotti for less than $100,000, then we should forget it?
- In that case, all he has to do is buy enough crooked laywers to make it
- too expensive through injunctions, motions to dismiss, etc...
-
-
- > Walsh for the past year or so
- >has been desperate to find anything he can to save face.
-
- Either that, or he is showing the righteous indignation of a man who has
- seen massive government corruption, and yet cannot bring the villians
- to justice.
-
- >while Walsh is throwing away millions which will benefit no one. As for
- >people who wonder why Bush would pardon people he claims are innocent, Why
- >not? Is it better to see how many more millions could be thrown down the
- >drain?
-
- I don't wonder... one, cover his own ass, and two, he doesn't give a damn
- about the law, constitution, and the American people. Just like Reagan.
-
- Now we find out what he holds sacred - patriotism, not the law.
-