To: Machaon who wrote (10421 ) 1/23/1999 2:02:00 PM From: Bob Lao-Tse Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Robert: It was little, threatened and self-interested minds like yours that made it possible for the Soviet Union and The People's Republic of China to engage in the wholesale slaughter of the Intelligentsia, or dissidents, or whatever the particular term to describe those who are intelligent and observant enough to recognize how the government in question was abusing the power they had been granted and articulate enough to explain it to others. You have still failed to grasp that Bill Clinton has been charged with the commission of what would, in a normal court of law, be a felony (well, two of them, actually) and for that reason, had to be impeached, as impeachment is simply the political equivalent of an indictment. And by the way, impeachment is the province of the House. The phrase "Senate impeachment" is meaningless gibberish. The Senate is now entertaining the question of the removal of said President, as the Constitution requires them to. The result of that process is still very much up in the air. But in order to protect us from the abuse of power by a sitting President this process has to happen. Blaming the Republicans for Bill Clinton's situation is ludicrous and dangerous. If he had simply told the truth from the beginning, none of this could have happened. It is entirely his own fault. Unless you actually believe that some people should, by dint of their position, be above the law. There are such systems. As a matter of fact, the United States came into being when they rebelled against one of them in order to set up this government under which "all men are created equal."
