She's easy on the eyes... that's about her only asset.
Posted on 09/15/2009 6:47:53 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Entrapment n. In criminal law, the act of law enforcement officers or government agents inducing or encouraging a person to commit a crime when the potential criminal expresses a desire not to go ahead. The key to entrapment is whether the idea for the commission or encouragement of the criminal act originated with the police or government agents instead of with the "criminal.
It's turning into quite the morning for NBCers to defend the left on Morning Joe . . .
First, Chuck Todd flatly rejected the notion that the MSM failed to adequately report on Van Jones, suggesting coverage would have been a waste of time. Later, Norah O'Donnell came on and suggested that the video of the ACORN employees giving advice on how to evade the tax laws in setting up a brothel with young illegal aliens "might be viewed as entrapment." [H/t FReeper mimaw.]
View video here.
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Even if they were LEO, they didn’t express a desire not to commit the crime. They were all about helping these folks to run their underage brothel.
I think an important point is demonstrated by this whole affair. If there is any organization that can be condemned by its own actions and speech, it was ACORN. But none of our fact-based arguments was worth a damn in the face of the ignorant, insane left. We have to accept the fact that logic and reason will never work against the left. Their corruption has to be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt with their own speech and videos (and even then, they will deny!). But kudos to these two people for understanding that and doing something about it. They are actually helping to bring down this entire organization which we are paying for.
The MSM continues to dig, having reached bottom many years ago.
when you have no defense attack the messenger......
While this may “look” like entrapment on the surface
(even I called it entrapment at the beginning, with some differences from the usual kind) , it is anything but.
According to the definition given, you’d have to make a case that O Keefe and Giles goaded those two workers into doing and saying things, or giving advice they ordinarily wouldn’t have. I guess the disposition of that question lies in the fact that they ordinarily “wouldn’t have” given that kind of information only because they never had an aspiring pimp and would-be importer of underage Salvadoran teenagers appear before them before. No kidding, who has? It’s the video itself that is damning: the workers appear forthcoming and rather interested in offering good advice for lawbreaking on many levels: the case will and has been made that it was only those two workers who were the bad apples, but how can anyone prove that? The only reason hundreds of these videos don’t exist, with more or less the same story, is that it hasn’t been attempted in hundreds of ACORN offices.
There have been the usual noises made about the possibility of prosecuting the two young people: IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. This story has still flown under the radar for millions of news-indifferent Americans, and to “re-open” it would be tantamount to introducing it for the first time to that same audience.
That is Catherine Zeta-Jones, and this is not a Maureen Dowd thread.
You have to understand that ACORN is owned and operated by white liberals. The black faces are their shock troops that they put out front. It is the slave quarters of the democrat plantation.
Good point.
That's what has been reported. Same office that investigates the Mafia.
Those people are good.
Yeah Norah,that’s the ticket,entrapment. Like “To catch a Predator.”
If any DA attempts to prosecute these two people,
The People need to show up at his office in droves and
have a nice old fashioned hippy “sit in”.
I'm not a lawyer, so what do I know, but I assume the answer depends on the state.
My guess is that they would have an uphill battle. Our system leans toward the release of information.
“O’Donnell *could* be viewed as a prostitute.”
She could, but then, why would you want to insult prostitutes like that?
She's easy on the eyes... that's about her only asset.
RICO is their middle name.
The administration and assorted Dems may see this as their opportunity to destroy Fox News through massive litigation, Scientology-style.
Not only that, they are receiving tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. IMO if a group is doing that, their records, and everything about them should be available to the public. They want to keep things private? Then operate on private funds. Don’t take public money.
was saying the movie Entrapment
Hmmmm...a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, and a Master’s in International Affairs...nope, she doesn’t have a legal degree, so she needs to STFU.
She must be Rosie’s brain twin.............
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