Track 18 - Bootlegging Blues
Posted on 03/04/2005 2:16:48 PM PST by Libloather
Bush pardons eight, including convicted bootlegger
WASHINGTON - President Bush has acted to pardon eight people, including a man convicted of bootlegging 45 years ago.
It's the first round of clemency orders in the president's second term -- and brings his total since taking office to 39 pardons and sentence commutations.
Those pardoned include three men from Texas, and one each from New York, Florida, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Their offenses range from misusing mortgage funds to theft of government property. The bootlegger, Charles Russell Cooper of Corpus Christi, Texas, was given three years' probation.
By historical standards, Bush has issued relatively few pardons. Most presidents issue hundreds. Bill Clinton gave out 456, including 176 on his last day as president.
Franklin Roosevelt issued the most pardons -- more than three-thousand during his four terms. Only two presidents never pardoned anyone -- James Garfield and William Henry Harrison.
We certainly will go there.
BTW, it is up to you to back up your claim with documentation.
From the web -
Bootlegging
In Texas, this means transporting alcoholic beverages into a “dry” area with intent to sell them. If you are transporting more than one quart of liquor, 24 12-ounce bottles of beer or the equivalent of 228 ounces into a dry area, the legal presumption is that you intend to sell it. An eight gallon keg contains 1024 ounces, and parts of Lubbock County are dry.
Punishment: minimum $100 fine or confinement in county jail for up to 12 months or both.
http://www.campuslife.ttu.edu/ReadyReferences/legal_issues/alcohol_concerns.asp
The example does not apply here. Bootlegging is still going on here in Texas.
You live in Bronte, your neighbor is going into San Angelo to buy beer. He picks up a few cases for you and someone else and ya'll pay him back when gets back into town. He is now a bootlegger. The tax was paid for state & federal.
Beer Run lyrics
From the album Unknown album
twenty-five minutes past quitting time
Seven of us crammed into that truck of mine
Paying no attention to them highway signs
Doing ninety miles an hour toward the county line
Quick sack, twelve pack, back again
It's a b double e double r-u-n.
My buddies and their babies letting down their hair
As long as we're together is don't matter where
Ain't got a lot of money but we just don't care
Knowing half the fun is in the getting there
Aztec, long necks, paychecks spent
Oh, it's a b double e double r-u-n.
I can't stop thinking
What the hell they were drinking
Whan they made this county dry
I got a week-long thirst
And to make it worse
Lord, it's my turn to drive
Laughing and bragging and a' carrying on
We loaded up the wagons and we headed home
I guess half a dozen cases doesn't last that long
Come tomorrow morning it'll be all gone
Them, it's turn around, leave town, sounds again
Like a b double e double r-u-n.
Garth Brooks ;)
Bush breaks the rules. Pardons don't come on his last day in office.
If you've gotta pardon someone, seems like it ought to be someone who was convicted of bootlegging 45 years ago.
You live in Bronte, your neighbor is going into San Angelo to buy beer. He picks up a few cases for you and someone else and ya'll pay him back when gets back into town. He is now a bootlegger. The tax was paid for state & federal."
Boy, the state line really is the end of the earth for you Texans, isn't it? I understand what you're saying and did hastily try to clarify my point (see #39).
Do you have any of the details on the guy Bush pardoned and what he was doing?
"If you've gotta pardon someone, seems like it ought to be someone who was convicted of bootlegging 45 years ago."
I totally agree.
Track 18 - Bootlegging Blues
Nah, let's do go there. Who were these people? Tell us something about them. Even if it's all true, I was never a big fan of Bush the Elder to begin with.
Bill Clinton's hands give me the creeps. I can't stand a soft handed man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This included Mark Rich who was recently named as a player in the UN Oil for Food Scandal.
He was only trying to pay off his debt to Clinton.
LOL!!!!
I've heard those rumors, too! :)
Robert Mitchum - Ballad of Thunder Road.....
"...about the mountain boy that ran illegal alcohol...
His Daddy made the whiskey......
Son, he drove the load.......
When his engine roared they called the highway, Thunder Road."
For some reason, I've always thought of Junior Johnson as the Son, in that tune. Just me.
Oh, yes. Nascar has a skeleton or two in the closet!
And that makes it all the better. At least it did, until the advent of the "Young Guns".
Blah.
Forgive me for rambling on. I like Nascar. In fact, starting the 11th of March, I, my 10 yr old son, and two very close friends from the hometown - are going to live - eat - breath Nascar for 3 glorious days.
Did I mention that I like Nascar?
Come on Mark Martin - Dale Jarrett - Sterlin Marlin - Rusty Wallace. The "veterans"!!
LVM
Good God! How awful! But then you are talking to a woman who forced her husband to wear jeans to the wedding.
Yes, a man spends 45 years in jail for hauling some liquor. But a pedophile goes free because the victim (molested at age 3) died in a car accident.
Yes, a man spends 45 years in jail for hauling some liquor. But a pedophile goes free because the victim (molested at age 3) died in a car accident.
Sick.
That's really cruel. You should be locked in stocks and whipped.
The terrorist was Orlando Bosch, then in jail for entering the US illegally. He wasn't allowed in because he was a known terrorist and advocate of violence, suspected of bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing 76 people. Since Bosch was staunchly anti-Castro, the Florida anti-Castro community had been lobbying for his release for a while, trying to portray him as a freedom fighter. They finally succeeded when a business associate of theirs, one Jeb Bush, lobbied on their behalf.
Bush also freed Aslam Adam, a Pakistani serving a 55 year sentence for importing $1.5 million of heroin into the United States.
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