Re: jury nullification, jury veto, jury pardon

"Mr. Jance" wrote:

> Ken Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > Frank Ney wrote:
> > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:54:00 GMT, an orbiting mind control laser caused Ken
> > > Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to write:
> > >
> > > >  Consider Rush Limbaugh's predicament.  It wasn't his fault that
> > > >his doctor prescribed OxyContin, which is frighteningly addictive.
> > > >But he became addicted, and committed any number of felonies.
> > > >And near as I can tell, he hasn't harmed anyone but himself.  Are
> > > >society's interests really being served by having Rush sent up the
> > > >river for ten years?
> > >
> > > Depends on whether doing so gets the message across to the neocons that the
> > > Drugged War really isn't such a good idea or not.
> > >
> > > Rush deserves to get it in his fat ass, considering how he get medieval on
> > > anyone with a dependency issue on practically a daily basis.  Hoist on his own
> > > petard.
> >
> >   For me, this is a tough one.  If it were anyone else but Rush, I'd be
> > inclined to forgive -- but when you live in a glass house, you shouldn't
> > be in the habit of throwing stones.  Putting the neocons' most virulent
> > spokesman behind bars might get them to reconsider the wisdom of
> > this War.
>
> Rush is every talk stations cash cow so none of them would ever drop
> his show.  I hear a lot of the left and anti Rush crowd say how Ted
> Kennedy should be happy now since he was Limbaugh's whipping post over
> his alcohol addiction.  So Ken, Rush never killed anyone right?

  A lot of people have gone to prison who never killed anyone.  Rush
has been a good soldier in the war against illegal narcotics, and virulent
in his demand that offenders be punished.  I submit that, because Rush
has taken that manifestly unforgiving position, he should do the time he
has demanded that others endure.

> Remember in Chappaquiddick, Mass., Teddy-boy had driven off the edge
> of a bridge.  He wasn't severely injured, however, Mary Jo Kopechne
> the woman that was in his vehicle with him was KILLED.

  I'm not defending TeddiScotch, any more than I would TeddiBeer.
I'm a Republican, who happens to agree with William F. Buckley on
this issue. Let's admit that we've lost the war on drugs, and work on
restoring some semblance of sanity.
  But since we're on the subject of abuse of prosecutorial discretion,
let's talk about the felonious breach of securities laws committed by
our gallant President.  Do you mean to tell me that a Harvard MBA
doesn't know the basics of insider trading?  LOL!

  And as Republicans, I just think we have to be a little better than
Paul Begala.  If we're going to diss Kennedy for his alcohol abuse,
we have to do the same for Rush and his felony violations of drug
laws.  If we are going to diss Bill Clinton for his lies, don't we also
have to diss morals maven Bill Bennett for his?  And if we're going
to diss Bill Clinton for his adultery, there are legions of Republican
politicians who haven't been able to keep their pants up and/or their
skirts down.

  Let's not forget that when TeddiScotch was driving his car off the
road, one George Walker Bush was nabbed for a DWI. (Whether
Bush was busted for cocaine possession is debatable, but I tend to
accept the assertion as fact, given that the document which would
have indicated that fact has mysteriously been destroyed.)

  By your logic, we have to let Malvo walk, because he wasn't quite
as bad as Adolf Hitler.  Rush did the crime, he ought to do the time
-- unless you agree that drug abuse is a victimless crime, drug laws
are draconian and unreasonable, and we have far better things to do
than locking people up for growing, selling, and using marijuana.

> PS.  Ken, do you need reading eyeglasses?

  P.S.: Mr. Jance, do you need a moral compass?