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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (66777)	4/12/2000 3:13:00 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 67261

Yes, the term thief is used for merchants who charge too much, which they all do. And anytime you think you got a good deal on something it is acceptable to say I stole it. So, it is quite common and very acceptable to call merchants and traders thieves. You absolutely have to haggle to survive. I'm not saying that there aren't "real" thieves also but its wrong to call them all thieves if he meant the typical US interpretation.

To: DMaA who wrote (66777)	4/13/2000 1:53:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

He still doesn't get it! Thursday April 13, 2000; 12:57 PM EDT Clinton Cites Rule of Law for Elian, Won't Pardon Self Minutes after his attorney general acknowledged at a Miami press conference that she was abandoning plans to end the Elian Gonzalez stand-off by 2:00 pm today, President Clinton told reporters in Washington that the rule of law must be upheld in the case. "The important thing to me is the rule of law," Clinton said. "We have a system, if you don't think it's right you can say, well, we ought to change the laws. But we have a legal system and it has been followed. And the decision has been made that Elian Gonzalez's father was a devoted and fit father and could properly speak for his son, and therefore could make decisions for his minor son, was ratified in district court and is now on appeal in a court of appeals. None of the courts have granted any kind of interim relief that would justify opposition to the plain rule of law. So to me, this case is about rule of law." Clinton added that he has "done everything I could to stay out of it, to avoid politicizing it" but insisted that it's "our responsibility to uphold the law" in the Gonzalez case. After invoking the rule of law for Elian, the president was asked about speculation that he intends to pardon himself, prompted by reports that independent counsel Robert Ray is still considering indicting Clinton for crimes he committed in the Monica Lewinsky case. "I have no interest in (a pardon). I wouldn't ask for it. I don't think it would be neccessary," said the president, who then added, "I think it's interesting that you would ask that question without going through the facts here." Clinton went on to attack the Whitewater investigation, which eventually uncovered his criminal behavior in the Lewinsky case, as "a lie and a fraud from the beginning." Imagine this scumbag citing the rule of law. Hah! he doesn't sound too remorseful to me. Wonder when he got religion on the rule of law. All that baloney before and the pastoral counseling was more BS. JLA