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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Carpenter who wrote (11863)	2/24/1999 10:18:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

Ok, let's just assume you're right. But I don't think the President's press secretary assumed that everyone in the media audience would immediately know that he meant "verbal abuse" when he said "assault". People are arrested all the time on the charge of "assault & battery". Now clearly you can't be thrown in jail for calling someone a creep (verbal abuse). If a woman calls the police and says "my husband just assaulted me", she's going to look kinda stupid when the cop responds to the domestic violence call and she says, "officer, he said I was an idiot. That's verbal abuse, which is assault". The real world just doesn't operate like the textbooks.

To: John Carpenter who wrote (11863)	2/24/1999 10:28:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

There was a woman who was found naked and dead (shot) in her Dept of Commerce office. They called it a suicide. Its like, "I know, I'll take all my clothes off and then kill myself. Yeah. That's just what I'll do." I don't think so. More likely the victim was forced at gunpoint to strip, for a couple reasons: make them more compliant to orders. People aren't as brave when they're the only ones naked. The other reason to force a victim to strip would be so there is no place they can be hiding a gun, to be quickly brought to bear on the perp and fired when they are distracted for a couple of seconds.