Ron Paul on Eliot Spitzer: He acted badly but didn't deserve this

Politico ^ | 3/14/08 | Staff/Ron Paul

[God luvs America]

bump for later....

[StolarStorm]

I dont know. There is plenty of hanky panky going on, but we in this country like to lie about it rather than be open about it.

In a recent study, 1/3 of all children born (in the USA) have a different father than the husband.... indicating that we are quite "active" already. But, by how people talk though, you'd think we were in a puritan enclave. My problem is that we have become a nation of liars and hypocrits when it comes to sex.

Americans (or maybe just people in the south were I am) can be such fakes. I get tired of some of my more "relgious" bible thumper friends talk about purity and all that... when I was just with them at a "club" the night before. I can't stand two faced behavior and that is what I'm seeing going on nowdays. Its seems to be more the rule than the exception.

At least the Europeans, who probably actually have LESS illicit sex than we do, are honest about it.

[StolarStorm]

"It was unusual BANK TRANSFERS "

They weren't that unusual. He had some serious enemies that were just waiting to get him. He may well have deserved it, but the same "methods" could be used against anyone... even the innocent.

[Yankee]

Ron get back on your meds. You’re making Kucinich appears sane for heaven’s sake.

[plain talk]

Its “entrapment” if it takes place over ten years?

[Snardius]

I don't think it would have mattered. Bill and Hill were already working for them.

How cynical of you...LOL. I believe slick and the witch have played all the angles that benefit them politically and monetarily. Once they are no longer so powerful, someone will expose them for the criminals they are.

[Lakeshark]

If you can't stand two faced behavior, you might want look in the mirror and solve your own problems instead of putting up the strawman of the eeeevil anti-sex bible thumpers.

Try it for a while, perhaps by Memorial day you will be perfect and can then come back and work on the rest of us.

[StolarStorm]

???

[StolarStorm]

Was that a personal attack? Hmmmm.... sure seemed like it.

[John D]

He may well have deserved it, but the same "methods" could be used against anyone... even the innocent.

But if the innocent did not do anything wrong they do not have anything to worry about.

[Lakeshark]

You mean you're not perfect yet?

Dang.

[plain talk]

Objectively speaking, what Spitzer did was really not that bad

Being indicted and breaking the law is not "really that bad"? Is that what you mean?

[StolarStorm]

Oh really??? That’s sarcasm right? How about we all just install cameras in our houses so the feds can watch us.... well... you know... if we don’t have anything to hide.

[justiceseeker93]

In either of which offices, had he caught a pol doing what he was doing (and thought for a moment it might be good for the resume), my impression is he'd have run the sucker over and not even left skidmarks).

Most assuredly, if the malfeasant was a Republican - especially a white male heterosexual professional. That's the demographic of choice for a vicious 'Rat prosecutor to target.

[TNCMAXQ]

As I understand it, Spitzer used the power of government to threaten and intimidate some innocent people. I thought Paul and the libertarians stood against that kind of government abuse.

[tacticalogic]

Ron Paul is an anarchist.

An anarchist legislator. Now there's a concept to ponder.

[StolarStorm]

Never said I was. Not sure how you got that from my comment. You seem a little sensitive for some odd reason. Weird attack on me there buddy.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Ron Paul: "Spitzer was brought down because he legally withdrew cash from a bank — not because he committed a crime. This should prompt us to reassess and hopefully reverse this trend of pervasive government intrusion in our private lives."

You: "Now if he wants to talk about eliminating this Orwellian law requiring banks to snitch on us when we spend our own cash, I’m listening."

Now I'm confused. That's exactly what he IS talking about, isn't it?

[Emperor Palpatine]

Once again Paul proves himself to be a lunatic whackjob.

[blueheron2]

The banking transaction reporting laws were the result of banks gleely taking money from drug smugglers and cleaning it up for them.

Miami in particular was a mess. It was actually the killing of bystanders in the streets that put the pressure on the govt. Up until then not many were paying attn.