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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (267421)	6/26/2002 10:20:33 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769667

The other problem is that the blacklist would have to include public officials too, which would make it about the size of a set of encyclopedia. The corruption in government dwarfs that of all the Enrons, Global Crossings, and WorldComs put together. Take, for instance, the Joint Chiefs, who recently informed their president that the armed forces were not prepared to occupy a minor third world country in the Persian Gulf, despite the terrorist danger of that country's government to the world. Yet, among the Chiefs, there wasn't a single suicide-much less an offer of resignation in disgrace-from any of them. Blacklist candidates every one of them! But they aren't even the tip of the iceberg. Perhaps, if we are going to include Generals, Congressmen, Cabinet members, judges, and bureaucrats, we should include at least one small sanction: Let's appropriate funds to build a large-capacity gallows in the middle of the Capital Mall, and initiate it's use during the planned Fourth of July celebrations there. Now, where are those fireworks?...

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (267421)	6/27/2002 4:01:19 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

>>Clinton's actions ruined the criminal justice system, a system that had been rendered weak already, thanks to the American left. The rebuilding of that system will take years, so we must-as Americans always have in situations like this-go around it.<< CK - We should "go around" the justice system? You mean the way Americans did when they lynched people and executed them without due process of law? We should forget about that silly old "innocent until proven guilty" thing? I don't think so. - Allen