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

To: Zoltan! who wrote (10987)	10/23/1998 8:46:00 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 67261

He said one. Sheesh!

To: Zoltan! who wrote (10987)	10/25/1998 8:22:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

>>> Parker and Battalino are but two of 115 people now serving time for committing perjury in federal court proceedings--the same charge that has brought President Clinton to the brink of impeachment. <<< 1. Not the same - these were their own trials, In federal court not Arkansas state court. 2. Not the same - Lewinsky never accused Clinton of harassment. 3. Not the same - Clinton has not 'been caught' lying about Jones, nor does she say that he had sex with her. 4. Not the same - these were active cases, not dismissed cases, and Clintons testimony was not deemed crucial to the case. 5. Not the same - the Postal service has explicit rules about this and has both the civil service and federal postal inspectors involved in enforcement. Doctors have additional rules that apply as well. In these cases they may well have been in borderline criminal violation, in that the act itself was against the rules, but in the case of Lewinsky nobody has tried to make the case that the sex itself was illegal. According to the Reverend Sung Yung Moons rather kookily right wing Washington Times, 115 people are 'serving time' for this. We don't know what this means, since they seem to think this includes staying at home during probation. But look at the numbers - 115 out of how many million depositions and testimonies per year, 99% of which were slanted (the reason we have judges and juries is because nearly all witnesses do this.) The vast majority of these were no doubt the kind of person who continues to tell their false story even after confronted. Usually a recantation is enough to get someone off the hook. The fact is that if every fact were made clear and acted on by every judge in this manner, nearly every witness would be in jail. Along with every cop and every lawyer. We don't do that because we understand human nature. This is just a witch hunt by people who should persue better motives than the ones they hold. Ciao, Chaz