FBI Arrests 2 Pa. Senate Legislative Aides

AP ^ | 5/31/6 | MARYCLAIRE DALE

[brityank]

State Senator Vince Fumo (D-Philadelphia)


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[Gondring]

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[Lancey Howard]

Those aids are in a real pickle. If Meehan is not corrupt (big "if" in my opinion) then those aids will be prosecuted relentlessly on every conceivable charge and threatened with substantial jail time. In REAL jail. The idea is to make them roll over.

However, if they do roll over, they would likely have to spend the rest of their lives in witness protection. Yep, they are in a real pickle. That is, if Meehan is not corrupt. (This is what scares me about Meehan: "We have to assume that valuable information is lost forever." - - Patrick Meehan)

[Smokin' Joe]

SO who ordered the wipe?

Sheesh!!

This is like busting the cleaning lady for getting the blood off of the floor. In the meantime, someone else is likely getting away with murder...

I bet they 'turn' the geeks and get them to testify!

[Luke21]

No D in the story, of course. Typical media bilge and obfuscation.

[old republic]

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound condescending. I think that you misunderstood the meaning of what I said. I said the use of money in a transaction by which I meant the simple use of money does not create federal jurisdiction. In the next sentence I make the exception for the types of cases which you refer when I mention that Federal monies which have been embezzled or misused are under federal jurisdiction.

You also mention that local governments are more of a threat to liberty than the federal government. It is true that local governments are closer to the people, but as I see it a threat is still a threat. The local governments may be more of a threat to your liberty owing to its proximity to you, but that doesn't change the fact that the Federal government still could pose a threat to your liberty. The Constitution was designed as we all know with checks and balances in order to prevent a concentration of power in the hands of one unjust group or man. We often think of the three branches as having the checks in the system, but we often overlook the fact that the states are also a pivotal player in the system of checks and balances. The states are now losing all of their power to the federal government. Most of the checks that they have had on the national government have been removed, by constitutional amendments such as the 17th amendment which took their voice out of the Senate. The point is that the states and the federal government are supposed to fight over power and jurisdiction because they check each other, but the problem is now that the states can't have few ways left to check the federal government so it goes unrestrained. In order to stop the out of control system which we now have, I mean to say that it is necessary to refortify the states against federal incursion. As long as the states and the federal government are struggling with each other for power, the people will be more safe than if one single group can dominate and tyrannize the other. I think the best system is not one that has an all powerful state or an all powerful federal government, but rather the system in which the federal government and all of the state governments are all checking each other.

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[Palladin]

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