Posted on 08/30/2017 10:17:00 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Feed Krispie Kristie Kreme another two dozen donuts and we will call the accounts equal.
"without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel."
The phrase here is "unfortunate guilt" not "contrition," and Arpaio's circumstance would seem to fit this more nearly than say a "contrite" cop-murdering drug dealer.
I am guessing Chris Christie isn’t on Donald Trump’s short list for Homeland Security.
“My understanding has always been that one of the prerequisites you look for in giving a pardon is contrition for what you were convicted of,” Christie said. “I didn’t see that in Sheriff Arpaio.””
How can he show contrition when he’s innocent? The judge that convicted him should show contrition for abusing his position to go on a witch hunt.
And Christie should show contrition for being a moron and a wind bag.
I think the hurricane was bringing up bittersweet memories of Sandy and his tender embrace with Obama, and he was feeling a bit melancholy.
We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Why should the Sheriff be "contrite" for favoring that "Posterity," over those in America illegally? So, he used common sense to track down the illegals? Is that a reason to be contrite? Does he need to accept the Judge's apparent bias as the "rule of law," even when it is offered as somehow trumping what the Constitution obviously intends?
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