Posted on 03/06/2007 9:22:15 AM PST by LM_Guy
Yep, in the Stewart case they never investigated the guy in the government who told them the drug was not going to be approved in the first place!
It's foreboding and chilling.
Bush should pardon him.
You got that right. Libby specifics aside, cases like this make it very easy to understand why so many witnesses to real crime refuse to say anything. Witnesses probably have more to fear from zealous investigators and prosecutors looking to convict anybody of anything than the possibility of retribution from criminals.
I often cannot remember things I did or said yesterday. Since this infallibility of mine can apparently put me in prison for many years if authorities every come knocking, I would be inclined to say nothing. No acknowledgement. No denial. Nothing perhaps just offering up a confused look and saying "Have a nice day. Buh-bye now."
So, Shrillery, who really is guilty of such many times over . . . runs for President and Libby goes to jail?
Isn't there some law against arbitrary selective prosecution????
GRRRRRRR
Of course it is.
But you have to understand that liberals literally have a different meaning for the word "justice". I highly recommend reading A Conflict of Visions, by Thomas Sowell. He explains this point very well.
Essentially, liberals define "justice" by the outcome, not by the process. If their guy, their cause, their goals aren't victorious, then there was no "justice". The way that "justice" is brought about is entirely beside the point. It's about who wins.
Liberals will declare that "justice" was done in this case, because their cause was victorious. The symbolic victory--Cheney is who they're really after--is theirs. What ever cheating, violations of rules or blatant bias existed in the courtroom, that's "justice" by the liberal definition of the word.
Conservatives, by comparison, define "justice" by the fairness of the process. If all the rules were followed, and everyone did their jobs honestly and to the best of their abilities, then justice was probably done. At least, it's the closest imperfect people can get to it.
The correct outcome usually follows the correct application of "justice" in the process.
That's just not the way a liberal sees it.
This violates everything we know about perjury charges, from the original intent of the investigation, to motive.
This is nonsense, and must be taken to the highest courts of appeal, no matter what the cost.
I'm in for whatever donations I can spare and I am practically impoverished. Frankly, I could care less about Scooter. This is a matter of Yellow Prosecution and a bad case to begin with. Who is the real law violator????.
Just a travesty of justice.
Silver Lining.
Libby will have the standing and the resources to take this to SCOTUS which should deliver a precedent that there must be an underlying crime to establish a charge of Obstruction of Justice.
He's probably guilty we should move on.
Any verdict based on Tim Russert telling the truth is fatally flawed.
Yes, he will get the opportunity to appeal.
I hate like hell to admit that we are quite possibly seeing the crumbling of American jurisprudence and ultimately .. the destruction of America.
Remember ... Clintigula and its bwitch are no longer on the sidelines .... they're front and center, in our face and more dangerous now than a few hours ago.
The bwitch's southern drawl gaffe just disappeared.
There was no such restriction from the President.
Good grief! Plame & Wilson get off scot free while sending an innocent man to jail. Smacks of the clintoons.
Libby was convicted of...???
and may be going to jail, for ...???
Berger steals original documents from the National Archives, gets caught, plants flowers for 100 hours in the National Mall and returns to public life in a possible Mrs. Bill Clinton administration?
What's up with that?!
Oops. "Infallibility" should be "fallibility". Hope I don't get sent to prison over this. ;)
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