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

To: jlallen who wrote (25718)	1/3/1999 5:53:00 PM
From: Big D	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Alan Keyes, African-American, (isn't it a sorry mess when you have to qualify these statements for the Liberal Pimps) an obvious member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Put the thugs on trial Last week a federal judge denied the Clinton administration's request to end the probe of Democratic Party fundraising by Larry Klayman's Judicial Watch. He ordered further testimony from John Huang and former Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor in an attempt to evaluate charges that staff aides to the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown removed and destroyed fund-raising documents from Brown's files shortly after his death in 1996. The judge stated openly that there was significant shredding and removal of documents from Brown's office. He said that "the circumstances strongly substantiate the claim that the agency was deliberately destroying and jettisoning documents." He cited evidence of the sale of seats on overseas trade missions in exchange for political donations, and deliberate interference in investigations into donation irregularities. Many people try to pretend that the Clinton impeachment is an isolated instance caused by a mere lapse on Bill Clinton's part. We know that this is nonsense, of course, even in terms of the President's own behavior. But it is also nonsense because of the environment of lying, cover-up and law-breaking that permeates the entire administration. Such offenses have been constant characteristics of this administration, noted even by members of the press when they say that these are people who will never tell you the truth if a lie will do. This pattern of deception has also been recognized officially before, as it was in the case of Ira Magaziner when he lied about activities of the health care task force. Clinton administration officials work for a real prince of lies -- Bill Clinton -- and the administration has been characterized by a steady stream of lies. I believe that this culture of lies extends even to the phony statistics that the administration releases. The Clinton administration is simply incapable of basic integrity in dealing with the business of the country, because everything has to be twisted and distorted to serve its various power agendas. And in the current case a federal judge reached the same conclusion, noting that in the case of the investigation of the Commerce Department the Clinton administration showed "disregard for law." So these things all fit a pattern. Very often recently we have seen the impeachment discussion conducted as if it can take place in isolation from the rest of the activities of the administration, but that is not true. This administration has been characterized by a pattern of lying, cover-up and destruction of evidence, and that pattern has been noted in several situations that the administration has been involved in. As noted, the list includes Ira Magaziner's lies about the health care task force and the Commerce Department cover-up of illegal fundraising. In both instances we have judges from the bench saying that Clinton administration officials are liars, destroyers of evidence, and obstructors of justice. The list goes on to include things like the loss of the "suicide note" and various files from Vince Foster's office, the lack of any explanation for the abuse of FBI files, and many other irregularities that that we are supposed to pretend did not happen -- including, of course, a great deal of evidence that our national security has been deeply compromised by Bill Clinton's corrupt dealings with the Communist Chinese. And we are supposed to be surprised that the president also lies and obstructs justice? Lies are the heart and soul of the Clinton administration, and everyone now knows it. The people who obstinately continue to support Bill Clinton, whether in the Senate or elsewhere, announce by their support that they are people of no integrity. This is a harsh judgment, but it is where the evidence inescapably takes us. Anyone who can stomach this administration must have a stomach for all kinds of immorality, wickedness and lawbreaking. Bill Clinton has become a litmus test for the thuggery in our citizenry. Thugs are people who take what they want and don't care how. A certain portion of the people in this country are basically just thugs -- so long as they get theirs, they don't care by what means they get it or whether we tear down the Constitution, the laws, and the system of justice. They are content to take us from a system of self-government to a gangster-style polity, the way that things were run in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, as long as they are "taken care of" by an administration that they ludicrously assert to be "competent." People died on battlefields and risked their lives throughout many decades to make sure that we would not be subject to such thuggish, brutal rule internationally from the Soviet Communists. And yet now we are supposed to just sit back and accept it from these American thugs. We need to start right now to put the people in the Senate on notice that this is not a choice about what precisely calibrated species of censure to settle for. We understand what is really at stake here -- it is the thugs versus the rest of us. The reason we must have a real trial and a real vote in the Senate is that we need to know which senators are on the side of thuggery. We need to know which senators support the introduction of the gangster style into the politics of this nation's life. It is imperative that we find out who is willing, in the end, to stand with these criminals. Because this is a criminal administration. It is led by a criminal president; it has been characterized by criminal practices; and those who support it are identifying themselves with a criminal gang that has taken over the government of the United States. The Senate Democrats are eager to avoid a trial because they know that in a trial the truth about this president will come out, and that just as it affected the minds of many so-called "moderates" on the Republican side of the House when they finally looked at the evidence, so it will affect the mind of the public in a full and open trial. When it comes right down to it, the vote on whether or not to remove Bill Clinton will be a vote for or against respect for law, decency, and the integrity of the Constitution. It will be a vote about whether we will conform ourselves to evident facts or to the corrupt will of thugs. Democratic senators, many of whom have carefully cultivated reputations for integrity, know that this is the truth, and that if they fail this test they will, in effect, be passing judgment on their own integrity. They do not want to have to face this test of integrity. The fact that Clinton is now being impeached for lying and obstruction of justice is symbolic of what has been true of his entire administration, not just of one episode of his conduct. Removing Bill Clinton is a responsibility of the Senate. Senators who avoid this responsibility and succumb to the will of the criminal ambition of the Clinton White House by giving in to a dirty deal will discredit the entire political establishment in this country. They will be announcing that we have now got an thoroughly corrupt political class in America -- all of them will be tainted by this corruption. And it will be clear that this republic is at the stage before the end, when the political leadership is so corrupt that it cannot defend the rule of law against the thugs taking over our government. This has happened before. It happened in the Roman republic, it happened in Germany in this century, and sadly it appears to be happening here. And our national capacity to resist such thuggery is what is really about to be tested in the Senate of the United States.