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

To: one_less who wrote (11339)	10/27/1998 2:58:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 67261

>>> Do you think Dr. Laura should be protected from having her nude photos displayed on the internet. Presumably she signed no release for this medium. So, construing the question narrowly or broadly, I'd say no, they should not be published. It's none of my business and it's not legal. AFAIK. I also don't think Clintons woes should be publicized over and over in the search for an election victory or to reverse an election. Or for any other reason. If scandalous behaviour has resulted in real effects on society, for instance as with J. Edgar Hoover and the photos the mafia blackmailed him with (allegedly), or similar circumstances, then perhaps it needs to come out. But I ask you to note that the stories with Hoover and Cohn and Eisenhower and Roosevelt and Kennedy were allowed to rest under after the deaths of the main players. That's how we used to do it. Until Chappaquiddick. Now we are committed. Since so many of Clintons detractors and political enemies have skeletons in their own closets, they will be exposed in the name of exposing hypocrisy. Then the tables will be turned again and again, until there is nothing left that can scandalize us. Who will remember when the first political operator (having been Shocked! Shocked!) let us know they had discovered that politicians were lying and having sex and lining their pockets? And that therefor we should tear the democratic process asunder in an attempt to gain a victory not awarded by the voters. Chaz