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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Scumbria who wrote (144387)5/10/2001 5:55:18 PM
From: Peter O'Brien  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
The only problem with your reasoning is that Clinton and the
Democrats were _themselves_ the "inquisition"!

In the wake of the Thomas/Hill controversy, the "Violence
Against Women Act" was passed by the Democratic congress
and signed into law by Clinton himself in 1994 (before the
Republican wins in November of that year).

It is this law that was used against Clinton, just as it was used
against all those evil male business executives in the private sector.
Specifically, the law allows the accuser in a sexual harassment
lawsuit to question the accused under oath about their sexual
history with others in the workplace (even if it is consensual)
while shielding the accuser from such questions. It is supposedly
to allow a "pattern of behavior" of the accused to be established.

From 1994-1997 (before Clinton got entangled in his own law), it was
routinely used as a weapon against male executives in the private
sector to extract out-of-court settlements. The reason is that
that the executives would often prefer to settle rather than being
forced to testify about other potentially embarrassing workplace
relationships (even if they were entirely consensual and had absolutely
no bearing on the charge of sexual harassment).

So, Starr was not the inquisition. Clinton and the Democrats were.
Starr's tactics were no different than those used by Clinton's trial
lawyer friends against executives in the private sector.
The only difference is that, unlike the private sector executives,
Clinton was too stupid to settle out-of-court when he had
the chance, and he perjured himself instead.
But, when you elect a sorry piece of trash like Clinton, that's
what you should expect..
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