Comments on: The Underlying Criminal http://www.mahablog.com/2007/05/29/the-underlying-criminal/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:38:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: spaghetti happens http://www.mahablog.com/2007/05/29/the-underlying-criminal/#comment-221305 Wed, 30 May 2007 11:58:35 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/05/29/the-underlying-criminal/#comment-221305 So, now that Scooter has been removed from the situation, will Fitzgerald pick up where he left off in his original investigation, the one that was obstructed by Libby's perjury? Because if not, then the bad guys will have won and the phrase "taking one for the team" will take on new meaning in the stinking mess that is American politics. So, now that Scooter has been removed from the situation, will Fitzgerald pick up where he left off in his original investigation, the one that was obstructed by Libby’s perjury? Because if not, then the bad guys will have won and the phrase “taking one for the team” will take on new meaning in the stinking mess that is American politics.

]]> by: uncledad http://www.mahablog.com/2007/05/29/the-underlying-criminal/#comment-221285 Wed, 30 May 2007 07:29:03 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/05/29/the-underlying-criminal/#comment-221285 http://uncledad.org/blog/ If I had blood in my heart, it would bleed for this poor woman today? http://uncledad.org/blog/

If I had blood in my heart, it would bleed for this poor woman today?

]]> by: Generik http://www.mahablog.com/2007/05/29/the-underlying-criminal/#comment-221274 Wed, 30 May 2007 05:58:06 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/05/29/the-underlying-criminal/#comment-221274 <i>Does it make you wonder? What's this country coming to when people can stand in honor and praise of a convicted liar? Not only a liar, but a liar who betrayed our national security for political gain.</i> No offense to Swami, who asks a legitimate question, but does he (or she) not remember Oliver North? Republicans have a fairly long history now of honoring and praising traitors, dissemblers and convicted liars.<i>Especially</i> those who lie for political gain! Does it make you wonder? What’s this country coming to when people can stand in honor and praise of a convicted liar? Not only a liar, but a liar who betrayed our national security for political gain.

No offense to Swami, who asks a legitimate question, but does he (or she) not remember Oliver North? Republicans have a fairly long history now of honoring and praising traitors, dissemblers and convicted liars.Especially those who lie for political gain!

]]> by: Swami http://www.mahablog.com/2007/05/29/the-underlying-criminal/#comment-221247 Wed, 30 May 2007 03:35:40 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/05/29/the-underlying-criminal/#comment-221247 <i> In mid-May, Libby was a featured guest at a New York dinner honoring Norman Podhoretz, one of the neo-Conservative movement's intellectual godfathers. According to reports from the scene, the dinner, organized by Commentary Magazine, opened with cheers and a "standing ovation" for Libby.</i> Does it make you wonder? What's this country coming to when people can stand in honor and praise of a convicted liar? Not only a liar, but a liar who betrayed our national security for political gain. In mid-May, Libby was a featured guest at a New York dinner honoring Norman Podhoretz, one of the neo-Conservative movement’s intellectual godfathers. According to reports from the scene, the dinner, organized by Commentary Magazine, opened with cheers and a “standing ovation” for Libby.

Does it make you wonder? What’s this country coming to when people can stand in honor and praise of a convicted liar? Not only a liar, but a liar who betrayed our national security for political gain.

]]> by: Douglas Hughes http://www.mahablog.com/2007/05/29/the-underlying-criminal/#comment-221225 Wed, 30 May 2007 02:35:20 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/05/29/the-underlying-criminal/#comment-221225 The greatest pevrsion of Democracy by Bushies has to be the manipulation of the justice system. IMHO it is supposed to be adversarial, prosecution vs defense in free and open hearings where both sides can be heard. Lawyers have always tried to bend the system to their individual benefit, but over the past 200 years the overreaching concept of an open trial where both sides have the chance to present arguments has been sustained. Along comes George W Bush. Trash the right to face your accusers, you can be forced to testify agianst yourself (under torture or the threat of torture), you can be held indefinately without being charged, and now portions of arguments can be held secret to protect the identieties of your influential friends. Righties honestly believe they are patriots; how can they NOT see how dangerous to freedom this all is? The greatest pevrsion of Democracy by Bushies has to be the manipulation of the justice system. IMHO it is supposed to be adversarial, prosecution vs defense in free and open hearings where both sides can be heard. Lawyers have always tried to bend the system to their individual benefit, but over the past 200 years the overreaching concept of an open trial where both sides have the chance to present arguments has been sustained.

Along comes George W Bush. Trash the right to face your accusers, you can be forced to testify agianst yourself (under torture or the threat of torture), you can be held indefinately without being charged, and now portions of arguments can be held secret to protect the identieties of your influential friends.

Righties honestly believe they are patriots; how can they NOT see how dangerous to freedom this all is?

]]> by: Donna http://www.mahablog.com/2007/05/29/the-underlying-criminal/#comment-221209 Wed, 30 May 2007 01:24:05 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/05/29/the-underlying-criminal/#comment-221209 'What Righties Would Say About This' might make an easy book to write......'cept it would be boring to read after a few pages, what with the rightie responses being, ahem, predictably juvenile and repetitive and fact-challenged. ‘What Righties Would Say About This’ might make an easy book to write……’cept it would be boring to read after a few pages, what with the rightie responses being, ahem, predictably juvenile and repetitive and fact-challenged.

]]> by: QrazyQat http://www.mahablog.com/2007/05/29/the-underlying-criminal/#comment-221188 Tue, 29 May 2007 22:40:06 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/05/29/the-underlying-criminal/#comment-221188 But we're talking <i>mocked</i>! Surely such a fate is beyond the pale... mocked. Cruel, and all too unusual, punishment for these pearl-clutchers. But we’re talking mocked! Surely such a fate is beyond the pale… mocked. Cruel, and all too unusual, punishment for these pearl-clutchers.

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