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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (27837)	1/14/1999 10:35:00 AM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

TigerPaw, You sound like Bill Clinton. I still love his first response to Henry Hyde's 81 questions. Question: Do you admit or deny that you are the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America. Answer: There is nothing in the Constitution that states that the President is the chief law enforcement officer. What a riot. Not only does Clinton use a semantic argument to avoid admitting that the President is the CEO, LEO, and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, but he answers the question (put specifically to him) in the third person. The fact of the matter is that the Constitution is implicit that perjury is a serious crime. That is why the 5th Amendment to the Constitution was added so that the defendent has the right not to be forced to testify. The guilty have the right not to self-incriminate. It is the burden of the State to prove someone guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, without forced testimony, that someone is guilty. In the words of James Madison, the founder of the United States Supreme Court, "It is better that some of the guilty go free than to punish an innocent." Without question, the need to punish perjurious statements is very important in our system of law. Our entire Constitution is built around that concept. I know that everyone in America wants to rewrite the law books to save their beloved Bill Clinton, but what is more important to America? The Constitution of the United States or a lame-duck Democratic President? If I was on the Senate, I would have no choice but to vote to remove him from office. -john