The basic concept of equality under the law, while often abused, is probably the single thing that most vividly contrasts our country with the harsher and more oppressive nations of the world. You would seek to excuse Clinton's actions because of some reason that I've never been entirely clear on, but that is clearly personal as the legal aspects of this case are really quite simple.
Bill Clinton swore an oath to tell "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth," and then he violated that oath.
I personally believe that you would seek to excuse Clinton because you are, at heart, a dishonorable person. You do not lend any credence to the arguments based in honor and ethics because the terms are meaningless to you. But in helping to bring his acquittal about, you are helping to destroy the concept of equality under the law, and to replace it with a system wherein, at least:
If a powerful government official commits a crime, and if his or her accusers have anything less than the purest of motives for wanting to prosecute this official, then the government official in question is immune from the consequences of his or her crime, even if it is a crime entirely of his or her own doing.
This will be bad for everyone except, of course, the government official in question. Even for you, although you seem unable or unwilling to accept this.
It's your idiocy and short-sightedness that is the threat. You make me sad.
-BLT |
