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Comment on: ANTI-LIBERAL ZONE

Congressional Report on Sticky Socks Berger

10 Comments

Thanks, GunnyG

This is such a travesty, and almost no one is talking about it. If he were a Republican, he would be in jail! It's getting to be a losing battle.

All the MSM seems to care about is Clinton's legacy. (Love the picture.)

Sandra Wise

That's why God created us bloggers.

To keep ramming the liberal lies and garbage down the necks of the sheeple until they choke on it and DO SOMETHING about it!

Licet Jovi, Non Licet Bovii

More or less means, "What the Gods are allowed, the cows are not."

Thus a crook under the arm of one of the Gods...read that political elite of EITHER party...will get a slap on the wrist while someone else with a streak of larceny will get a big-ugly cell partner for a couple of years.

Nixon was pardoned. Agnew (who lost his place with the Gods) was not.

Kerry goes to Paris and treats with the enemy;
Kerry lies to Congress;

Kennedy kills Mary Jo; Another
Kennedy gets a DUI; Other
Kennedys beat rape charges;

$90,000 in a Freezer compartment;

Land deals in Nevada;

Missing interns; Underage sex; DC mayor crack addict;.....get the picture? Understand where they will not be indicted YOU will get 10 years.

Licet Jovii, Non licet bovii.

The dichotomy of the ruling class

Buck's right. Both parties are prone to leniency regarding their "insiders".

Clinton could have been prosecuted for perjury and obstruction of justice, but Democrat jduges and prosecutors didn't push it.

If a regular citizen had done the same thing, he'd have done time.

William Jefferson (D-LA) took bribes (a criminal offense) but he'll never see the inside of a jail cell. Instead, we (the people) are chastised for not following the concept of "innocent until proven guilty".

That concept only applies INSIDE A COURTROOM. It doesn't apply out here on the street. Clinton, Berger and Jefferson all should be in jail.

DavidMac

Well said.

If anything, the insiders should get HAMMERED worse because they know better.

I've said it before, the people will only take so much....

Gunny, that's one of the concepts

from Plato's Republic that I remember and tend to like, that the punishment fits not only the level of the crime but the level of public trust and responsibility of the perpetrator, which would pretty much be the opposite of what we now have.

Using your perjury example, the average shmuck gets five years, someone who holds the public trust (i.e. a police officer or government official) doing the same thing gets MORE time not less, and the more important the level of public trust they hold (i.e. a judge, Congresscritter) the MORE time they get.

philosophocon

Unfortunately in our CJ system, the more MONEY or FAME you have, the lessor the punishment.

Criminal Justice

The more money you have, the more 'justice' you will receive.

Ask T. Cullen Davis

Which reminds me of a story Will Rogers used to tell about a Texas Criminal Attorney in Amarillo.
Seems he received a letter from a man in the Waco jail.

Dear Mr. Lawyer,
I am in jail, charged with killing my wife's boyfriend. I don't have an alibi but I do have $2000.00
Signed...
To wit the lawyer replied:
Dear Sir:
I am on my way to Waco with 2 eyewitnesses to your self-defense.
Signed

buck

That about sums it up. Will Rogers was a smart guy.