Showing posts with label pardongate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pardongate. Show all posts

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Scooter Libby, Pardongate 2?

Greetings and Blessings to You The Reader,
The buzz pertaining to the second guessing game of George W. Bush in regards to the Scooter Libby pardoning question is growing in decibals daily. Was Mrs. P covert? Did Scooter really have that bad of a memory, is that possible?
The Correct View here seems to point to what we shall for the sake of argument address as "the conscience issue", or CU. Basically it is this: does your conscience or "gut" tell you the faithful reader that a) said reader or ANYONE that said reader knows, if on the stand with the same set of memory blank spots in a case even half of this important, would the averege person in America get convicted or not, and b) do the original charges seem like a ligitement charge or an attack upon the already lackluster view of The Bush Administration?
Let us look at "a)", this is the easy part, is it not? After all there is no way, under even the most drug induced influence, even with a magic lamp and a Genni full of wishes, NO WAY that anyone reading this can assume that the averege man would be found anything but 100% guilty. The prisons are full of people who are only half as guilty sounding as Scooter Libby is.
Now, for question "b)", well - things get foggier here. To start with, the question has not really been addressed as to how the charges went from outing a covert agent to what they have since morphed into. Then add to that the fact that it is not even noted as certain that the agent was covert at all, and if it was then how did Dick Chenney not also get called to the stand?
Now that we have worded ourselves into a terrible mess at this point, let us go back to point one and remember the fate of the poor, averege man. To prison with the averege should mean to prison for rich attourneys as well, to this we shall concede. However...
If we are in fact throwing away the key on Mr. Libby and Mr. Bush decides to pardon him, where are we left then? Yes, cries of "cronnieism" could not be scoffed at, for such a move would bolster such attacks, but here is another question to ponder - are we then ready to also condemn and also use our "cronnieism" mantra towards Mr. William Jefferson Clinton who while leaving office pardoned some of the most offensive individuals within the prison system himself? Drugs Lords, Drug Runners, Tax Cheats, and listen - The Correct View is not saying that the drug laws are not too strict or that the IRS is honest - NEVER! Rather, The Correct View is asking why were not very many Democrats were up in arms with Mr. Libby when he along with Mr. Clinton was part of a deal to pardon Marc Rich, a deal that went down with a handshake, a wink, and a crisp $100,000 bill?
Here is The Correct View: what one administration is ok with, future administrations will be ok with. Ford pardoned Nixon in a move that many still question. Ever since then Reagan, Bush Sr, and Bill Clinton have made some rather questionable moves in terms of who they chose to pardon. After such a deal, the kingdom (and with all this Bush and Clinton talk, and with Mrs. Clinton looming at the White House door like a horrible gargoyle from a Vincient Price movie is what we have - A KINGDOM) always reeks of money, brandy, and yes, cronnieism. What is needed is not a decision to pardon Scooter Libby, but a decision to not allow every administration to worsen the office that they leave behind by uppeing the ante with every possible move.