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To: Katelew who wrote (257288)	2/22/2008 4:33:01 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 281500

I don't like scandals like this one for several reasons. 1) The lack of substance in the allegations creates a general destructive distrust that permeates society. Well, unless they are born out by proof which in this case isn't likely. 2) If an unfounded allegation is exposed as an insideous conspiracy, it may have a back lash effect that makes the victim look like a good guy. An evil scheme that victimizes someone, does not make the victim automatically a good guy but that's the way it gets interpreted. 3) Number 2 suggests another problem. Someone can create a scheme to make themselves look like a victim to garner sympathy the result being, 'Wow he is a wrongly accused good guy'. I always suspected the Danny Williams allegations about clinton were actually leaked by clinton for example. At the time clinton was under very loud attacks from every direction. When we attacked him over Danny Williams and found we were falsely accusing an innocent man, the clinton scandal noise all became a whisper for a while.