Washington, DC (TLS). Here is today's Second Amendment News Roundup:
Snow Flakes in Hell has a reason why, if you are a hunter who lives in California, you might as well drop 'em, bend over, and grab 'em, because your state legislature has just stuck it to you:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=954
Gun Law News has even more bad news from OSHA, which has proposed new regulations that are a definite threat to the firearms and ammunition industry:
http://www.gunlawnews.org/Other-News/nssf070207-2.html
Nicki at The Liberty Zone has some good news. Blackmail doesn't work in the legislature of the state of Pennsylvania after all:
http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2007/07/blackmail-doesnt-work-so-well-in.html
Say Uncle has info on the infamous ATF and how they try to skirt around the law:
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/07/03/atf_and_the_law/
Armed and Safe posts the good news from the state of Illinois and the move by various counties to pass pro-gun resolutions in order to defy the anti-gun bigots in the Chicago area:
http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2007/07/do-i-hear-twelve.html
Alphecca gives us yet another example of a woman who defended herself against armed intruders:
http://www.alphecca.com/?p=282
The Volokh Conspiracy has a problem with many of us bloggers who agree with Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence. Here are two dissenting opinions:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_07_01-2007_07_07.shtml#1183476772
The 2nd post on Libby from The Volokh Conspiracy:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_07_01-2007_07_07.shtml#1183437010
Showing posts with label Libby sentence commuted by Bush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Libby sentence commuted by Bush. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Bill Clinton Avoided Jail, Why Not Scooter Libby?
Washington, DC (TLS). President Bush late Monday did the right thing and commuted the sentence of the former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby.
Libby had been sentenced to a jail term of two and a half years after a jury found him guilty of perjury and obstruction in the investigation of the leak of the identity of former covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.
U.S. Prosecuting Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald never charged anyone with a crime in 'outing' Plame.
The charges against Libby had nothing to do with the original 'crime' but were connected to the after-the-fact activity that ensued during the ongoing investigation of the 'crime' of disclosing Plame's identity--which was already known by everyone in the Beltway to begin with.
This sham of an investigation is one that never should have been launched in the first place. It was entirely political and aimed at Vice President Dick Cheney.
The sentence of Scooter Libby was just one more example of a political witch-hunt and the search of a scapegoat. After all, former President Bill Clinton lied to a GRAND jury. He was impeached by the Congress. Yet he never faced jail time. He never received a fine or faced any consequences of his actions other than being disbarred by the Arkansas State Bar.
If Bill Clinton avoided jail, why not Scooter Libby?
Not surprisingly, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama stated that, 'This is the kind of politics we want to avoid in Washington.'
You mean, like, a Congress that is full of Democrats who are corrupt, such as William Jefferson, Dianne Feinstein, John Conyers, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, Keith Ellison, Patrick Leahy, oh, and, uhhh, HILLARY CLINTON, just to name a few?
Until your cronies in the Congress clean house, Senator, you have very little moral and ethical authority to stand on in lashing out at the President's actions in commuting the sentence of a man who did nothing more than BILL CLINTON did in court.
And by the way, Hillary Clinton weighed in on Bush's action today, condemning the commuting of the sentence. This is in spite of the convicted felons her own husband pardoned precisely because of their close relationship to the Clintons.
Thus, Hillary's words can be dismissed outright for the hypocrisy on display.
The fact that B. Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton are part of the most corrupt, inept, and unpopular Congress in history should be ample evidence that their opinions about the matter should be dismissed along with the rest of the imbeciles who run the place.
As for Scooter Libby, we all can be grateful that he will not have to endure a politically-motivated sentence that was the result of a witch-hunt.
Libby had been sentenced to a jail term of two and a half years after a jury found him guilty of perjury and obstruction in the investigation of the leak of the identity of former covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.
U.S. Prosecuting Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald never charged anyone with a crime in 'outing' Plame.
The charges against Libby had nothing to do with the original 'crime' but were connected to the after-the-fact activity that ensued during the ongoing investigation of the 'crime' of disclosing Plame's identity--which was already known by everyone in the Beltway to begin with.
This sham of an investigation is one that never should have been launched in the first place. It was entirely political and aimed at Vice President Dick Cheney.
The sentence of Scooter Libby was just one more example of a political witch-hunt and the search of a scapegoat. After all, former President Bill Clinton lied to a GRAND jury. He was impeached by the Congress. Yet he never faced jail time. He never received a fine or faced any consequences of his actions other than being disbarred by the Arkansas State Bar.
If Bill Clinton avoided jail, why not Scooter Libby?
Not surprisingly, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama stated that, 'This is the kind of politics we want to avoid in Washington.'
You mean, like, a Congress that is full of Democrats who are corrupt, such as William Jefferson, Dianne Feinstein, John Conyers, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, Keith Ellison, Patrick Leahy, oh, and, uhhh, HILLARY CLINTON, just to name a few?
Until your cronies in the Congress clean house, Senator, you have very little moral and ethical authority to stand on in lashing out at the President's actions in commuting the sentence of a man who did nothing more than BILL CLINTON did in court.
And by the way, Hillary Clinton weighed in on Bush's action today, condemning the commuting of the sentence. This is in spite of the convicted felons her own husband pardoned precisely because of their close relationship to the Clintons.
Thus, Hillary's words can be dismissed outright for the hypocrisy on display.
The fact that B. Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton are part of the most corrupt, inept, and unpopular Congress in history should be ample evidence that their opinions about the matter should be dismissed along with the rest of the imbeciles who run the place.
As for Scooter Libby, we all can be grateful that he will not have to endure a politically-motivated sentence that was the result of a witch-hunt.
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