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.
Nooooooooo. Please, anything but that.
Now, if you'd like to try some chains and whips... Yeah, now we're talking! :)
But you forgot to add the part about being cleared. Let's see...do I believe Castro or anti-Castro forces? Easy. Next.
Bush also freed Aslam Adam, a Pakistani serving a 55 year sentence for importing $1.5 million of heroin into the United States.
First, I notice you amended your initial error by changing "pardoned", since his sentence was commuted. There is a difference. Unlike with the many Clinton pardons that even his closest associates found inexplicable (I'm sure they'd get it if they really tried), George H. W. Bush's decisions were not made against the advice of others.
Thanks for playing.
I didn't wear JUST a green leisure suit. I also wore a purple silk shirt with emblazoned yellow flowers. Now that may hurt your eyeballs a bit, and I can understand that, but imagine the pain I caused to citizens nearby who looked my way.
Fortunately we weren't affected because we all wore sunglasses the size of TV screens. That's how we survived the 1970s,
Yeah, baby!
How about the Justice Department and the FBI, who wanted him deported because he was a known terrorist? Yet Bush let him go free to live in Florida.
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