"John R. Carroll" wrote in message
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Steve B wrote:
Bush and Cheney would be in jail by now.

But then, so would a high percentage of the US presidents in history.


Nixon, Reagan and Bush jr. for sure.
Ed Huntress and I had an extended conversation a while ago and his take
was
that it it's just bad to put Presidents in jail for stuff they do in
office.
He didn't really argue the merits, however. My point at the time was that
had Ford not Pardonned Nixon, Nixon might well have been tried and
convicted - thereby setting an example that his successors would have
heeded
regarding the law.

In the end, I concluded that both arguments have merit but having tried
the
former so often and gotten increasingly egrigious conduct, we ought to
have
a stab at the latter.
I think.
Maybe.


--
John R. Carroll



you'd think by the end (at least) of obama's term (if he makes it) there'll
be a vocal group falling all over themselves to put him in jail huh? i
wonder if this is the time enough people will agree that it's better to put
him (a black liberal rather than a white conservative) in jail than not and
make this thing happen. you know he's going to do something bad, they all
do/have, this time though people will probably "get tough" on him (whereas
in the past they let it slide).

b.w.