Posted on 03/16/2007 5:52:23 PM PDT by jrooney
Democrats Alter Oath For Witnesses: Leaves Out God
Henry Waxman just swore in Valerie Plame. He said it was the custom of his committee to put all witnesses under oath. He then administered this oath:
"Do You promise to tell the truth and nothing but the truth?"
That seems awfully weak. Waxman omitted, the traditional "So help you God" He also omitted the requirement to "swear" to the honesty of her testimony. She was only required to "promise" which seems to be a much lower standard. People break promises all the time; they dare to break oaths much less frequently.
Given this lame formulation was Plame actually under oath? Probably not.
The Democrats have gone out of their way, once again, to single-mindedly erase any ceremonial use of the word "God" in public life. This is very odd, since the Supreme Court has specifically OK'd ceremonial uses of the word.
One commentator on Findlaw said that " in the absence of an oath, Americans are ordinarily free to lie."
I do not know.
This whole thing was a sham. I don't mind so much the pubbies staying away, but I'm wondering if they don't come out now and explain why they weren't there, make public the restrictions and the list of questions that were verboten whether they have the fight in them that we need. Somebody on our side needs to start throwing some verbal punches.
These deluded people are deceived, and deceiving!
Good catch.
The customary invocation of God is not what makes it legal. This has come up even in early times because Quakers would not swear oaths.
The thing is, No Democrats will ever be prosecuted for perjury. This is a crime only Republicans can committ.
Then she's a perjurer, and the committee knows it.
Let's see if any of the spineless jellyfish known as Republicans even thinkof bringing it up. If they hd any principles left, they'd demand that Fitznifong or some other prosecutor brign charges against her. But the odds against any of them doing anything but apologizing are about 300 million to one.
That is a good point....if the GOP stayed away "for reason"....it would have been nice if they would have let us know.
If they didn't stay away for a good reason...then I want to know what their reasoning was...either way, it sure as heck didn't help Pres. Bush....which I pray is NOT their motive.
There is. But she is often hard to find because she relocated her offices and redeployed from DC long time ago, and is now in the process of redeploying from several other major cities in several states as well. By strange coincidence all these cities and states are occupied in overwhelming numbers by Democrats, and their color is currently described as "blue".
All the witnesses took the same oath. They were all under oath.
Wow, how did you manage to register yourself tomorrow?
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Anyway, welcome to FR.
I don't know....I'd be inclined to believe Waxman if he swore under oath that his nostrils picked up HBO....
I did notice that. It's a neat trick. We need people here who wouldn't miss it. Glad to have you here on FR, hope you find it a nice and warm place.
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