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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?
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To: PiMac who wrote (12276)5/10/1999 12:50:00 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 13994
 
Since the first paragraph is not, how shall I say, perfectly lucid, I think I will pass on commenting on it...
We are better off of as a nation for having asserted the subordination of our rulers to the impartial majesty of the law. We would have been even better off had the man been removed from office...
The magnitude and nature of the fines were irrelevant to the question of whether or not Clinton appealed. Had he won, they would have been reduced or absolved. Had he lost, he would have paid them, and been none the worse off. Whatever verbal threat may have been involved had to do with the possibility that the hearings would drag out at even greater length Clinton's illegalities...
Les made the obvious point that Clinton could have appealed the ruling that he had to answer those questions. Under the statute that he signed into law, he had to answer those questions. Only when his own ox was being gored did he decide that he was against such discovery. To ratify that is the very essence of the rule of men, not law, or the privileged status of the well- connected...
The assumption is that the judge ruled correctly until she is overturned, not that Clinton was justified until she is NOT overturned...
It may sometimes be right to take the law into one's own hands, but not, I think, in this instance...
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