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- From: busta@vicki.enet.dec.com
- Subject: Re: Weinberger's Pardon
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 11:55:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.221407.24874@ryptyde.cts.com>, scott@ryptyde.cts.com (Scott McClure) writes...
- >patth@panix.com (Patt Bromberger) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Dec28.200756.18681@cs.ucla.edu> pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce) writes:
- >>>In article <BzzH4s.M60@well.sf.ca.us> sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- >>>writes in "alt.conspiracy":
- >>>
- >
- >[..]
- >
- >>>|I applaud President Bush's pardon of Cap Weinberger and the others. It is
- >>>|not a question that these patriots are "above the law" as President Clinton
- >>>
- >>> "Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."
- >>> -- George Bernard Shaw
- >
- >Well, you know what they say about opinions... 8-)
- >
- >>>|fears. The real issue is justice and the balance of power between the
- >>>|Congress and the Executive. Nazi Germany made racial laws, were they just?
- >>>
- >> The "real issue" is that Special Prosecutor Lawrence E.
- >> Walsh was appointed by the RayGun Administration to find
- >> the truth and ferret out the weasels involved in
- >> Iran/Contra-Gate! One of Walsh's initial reactions was
- >> ** the fish smells from the head down **
- >
- >So? What's the big deal about?
-
-
- The big deal is that Reagan/Bush and company felt they could do
- anything they damn well pleased even though Congress and most of
- the American people said NO to giving military support to the Contras.
-
- To Reagan/Bush this obviously meant, lets sell some arms to `moderate'
- Iranian leaders so that maybe they'll release our hostages, take the
- money made from the deal, skim a percentage off the top to line our
- pockets for the good idea we came up with and send the rest down
- to support the Nicaraguan opposition.
-
- No big deal.... Laws? What laws?
-
-
- >It's all just a big liberal-sponsored
- >witch-hunt.
-
-
- Oh sure. Lifetime conservative Republican Lawrence Walsh is now a
- liberal on a witch hunt. Too bad we don't have more like him. You know,
- the kind of person who doesn't take sides based on their political
- affiliations......
-
-
-
- > Why should such a powerful position be given to just one
- >person?
-
-
- Because the legislative and executive branches granted him that
- power......
-
-
- > He doesn't have to answer to *anyone*. That's just not right,
- >IMHO.
-
-
- That's the whole point. He's not a liberal on a witch hunt nor a
- conservative trying to protect his buddies. He's out solely for the
- truth wherever the cards may fall....
-
-
-
- >
- >> Line 'em up right alongside the lies, bank deals, oil
- >> deals, arms deals, etc. of soon to be Ex-President Bush!
- >
- >Right, like the Clinton administration will be any different. It's always
- >the same. It doesn't matter if it's Republicans or Democrats. Sometimes,
- >you have to do "unpopular" and "politically incorrect" things to get
- >the job done.
-
-
-
- Doing "unpopular" or "politically incorrect" things to get the job done
- is fine with me and most likely the rest of the people of the country, it's
- when people break the law and feel they are above the law when caught is
- what, well frankly, pisses me off......
-
-
-
- > It's the way the world works. It may not sit well with
- >the average citizen whose only link to the rest of the world is CNN Headline
- >News.
-
- Seems to me that may be YOUR only link to the rest of the world from your
- above statements.....
-
-
- >
- >> what some view as Walsh's fanaticism others view as
- >> his passion to uphold and defend the law and to bring
- >> to justice those who would trash it for their own
- >> power and greed.
- >
- >Ah, but this is all speculation on our part. The only one who knows
- >the "real" story are the people involved.
-
-
- Yeah, like Gene Hausanfus, Ollie North, Poindexter, Secord, McFarlane
- (who for all intents and purposes admitted to what was going down), etc.,
- etc.,....ad nauseum.....
-
-
-
- >
- >> Yeah - let's throw Special Prosecutor Walsh right
- >> off the podium; then we won't have to look at the
- >> uglinees and greed of 12 years under a Republican
- >> administration!
- >
- >Naw, let's keep him around to do the same thing when we've had a few
- >years of ugliness and greed under a Democratic administration!
-
-
- Ahh... something we can agree on. IF the Clinton administration pulls
- anything similar or feels THEY are above the law, then I hope Walsh
- will be re-instated as a Special Prosecutor and go after those people
- with the same amount of enthusiasm.....
-
-
-
- >
- >>--
- >>Patricia Ann Bromberger patth@panix.com
- >
- >Just my $0.02. 8-)
- >
- >Scott
-
-
- Mine also....;^)
-
-
- >
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