The more I read some of the comments here the more I’ve come to understand that the American people have accepted one form of justice for the left and another for the right.
If O’Keefe had been a democrat senator, or a democrat in the Obama administration he could have walked into a federal building, stolen documents, hid them in his pants and went home and burned them without penalty.
If O’Keefe was a democrat bundler he could have walked into the White House, bypassed the secret service and lied about having an invite. He could have even had access too and had his photograph taken with the president with a big ‘ol smile on his face and got away with it. In fact, do we know that the only reason O’Keefe was there was to get a photo of himself with the good Ms. Landrieu?
If O’Keefe had been working for the Obama administration he could have stood outside of a government owned building during an election and, holding a club, threatened and intimiated voters and got away with it.
If O’Keefe was a drunken philandering democrat senator he could drive his car off of a bridge and leave a woman to drown inside with no attempt to save her and never see a day in jail. Need I go on?
If O’Keefe had been working for the Obama administration he could have cheated on his taxes to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars and got away with it.
The mere fact that O’Keefe is being thrown under the bus without so much as hearing his version of what happened tells me that some aren’t even bothered by the fact that there are two set of laws in this country. One for the left and one for the right. One for democrat politicians and party operatives and another for the little people.
The people that really need to be in prison for 10 years are sitting in congress on a daily basis and working in the White House and stealing trillions of dollars from the American taxpayer with impunity.
We don’t know yet whether O’Keefe did something risky and foolish or he is a patriot trying to anything to motivate our law enforcement to do it’s job. He went into one of the most corrupt cities in the country. A city that has had leftist politicians stealing money from the taxpayer and committing fraud upon us for a very long time. Excuse me if I don’t lose any sleep about the fact that he may have broken a law or two.
What we should be bemoaning is the fact that nothing has been done about the ACORN problem. What has happened here is rather small potatoes compared to a muslim terrorist living amongst our military for years and walking right into an area with a weapon and murdering a bunch of them. It’s small potatoes compared to a muslim terrorist being able to get onto an international flight when he is on the no-fly list and almost succeed in detonating a bomb over Detroit.
Instead of throwing O’Keefe under the bus we should be screaming to high heaven that it’s time the media and the authorities paid more attention to the real crimes going on here that are being covered up and ignored.
In the meantime, good for O’Keefe. The only thing I’m sorry about is that he didn’t get away with whatever he was planning on doing. Whatever it was I’m sure it wasn’t as bad as intimidating voters in front of a polling place or blowing up an airplane over Detroit.
Our laws mean nothing when they are not fairly enforced. Justice hasn’t been blind in this country for a very long time now.
on the one hand, I doubt you’d seen my last post just before yours, b/c I am not assuming (now) that it will turn out to be any felony or even a crime at all...... I simply don’t know enough about what statutes might or might not apply, what the real facts are, what the defense will be, etc.
also, upon a bit of reflection I am willing to *hope* that O’Keefe & co. had/have some sounder plan than many of us see at the moment..... I just speculated that maybe this is even some kind of set-up against the Democrats to draw attention and then backfire on the liberals.... but I really have no idea, and it would seem to be a severely high-risk strategy in “personal” terms unless they have reasons to be sure they stopped short of violating laws or at least stopped short of felonies..... I simply don’t know.
But what I don’t accept is that the obvious and appalling double-standards in media, law, and politics mean that conservatives don’t have to be better, more honest, living according to OUR best beliefs and laws...... the sleaziness of so many Democrats and Mediascum does not justify breaking the law against them (if that did happen here), although the stench of hypocrisy will be very foul as liberals jump to condemn these guys when they do nothing about ACORN, New Black Panther Party, and on and on and on.... not to mention Eric Holder’s involvement in pardons of terrorists in the Clintonista era etc. etc. etc.
No one needs to convince me that the Democrats and MSM are a cesspool of low standards, chronic dishonesty, blatant biases, immorality, and treason
but while all that justifies many kinds of political “hardball” tactics to oppose and expose them, I believe that *we* must remain within the law