From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.clinton,alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Why Bush would/will burn for the delay in florida
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Date: 12 Sep 92 01:01:31 PST
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In article <1992Sep11.140452.17935@dbsun.uucp> hulsey@dbsun.uucp (hulsey) writes:
> In article <mykes.0dl8@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG>
>    mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:
> >
> >The Bowlen amendment was unconstitutional.  If congress is allowed to make
> >laws that restrict or eliminate the presidential powers of foreign policy
> >institution, then congress becomes the only branch in government.  A GREAT
> >example of spitting on the constitution.
>
> Would it have been too much trouble to get a majority of those nine
> people known as the Supreme Court to agree with your statement before
> they broke the law?  The law may have been unconstitutional, but it
> is up to the Supreme Court to decide, not the executive branch.
>

I am in 100% agreement with you.  And I am sure that Reagan agreed with
both of us, as well as Ollie North and the rest of the gang.  However,
it takes time to get a supreme court decision, and during that time, the
contras could have been overwhelmed.

We see similar misuses of the laws by businesses and private parties all
the time.  For example, a case I am VERY familiar with :)  Sega sued
Accolade to prevent Accolade from developing, marketing, and selling
Accolade developed products.  The 9th district court ruled in favor of
Sega for an injunction against Accolade until the case was heard.  The
injunction cost Accolade 10s of millions of dollars.  And the case itself
still is not decided.  Fortunately for Accolade, an appeals court dissolved
the injunction, but by that time, products that would normally have been
developed, delivered, and shipped in time for the big Christmas marketing
period were NOT.  And accolade is out all those bucks.  And Sega wins,
even if they lose the court case.

Another example...  I did some consulting work for a man named Bob Ogdon
in 1983.  My contract called for a $5K final/delivery payment.  I delivered
the product and he shipped it.  But the $5K never was paid.  By the time
I took him to court and won, the $5K was spent on attorney fees - and then
some...  And that was entirely Ogdon's scheme - to abuse the legal system
in that manner.  I should mention that I won the case, but still never
collected the money - the bastard moved to another state...

So you see, the courts aren't a win, even if you do win.  To get results,
you sometimes have to take action that avoids the courts...  In my case,
I could have (not that I would have or even considered it) hired a guy
for $250 to go and break Ogdon's legs - I likely would have gotten my
money that way...

> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> hulsey%dbsun.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu (Jim Hulsey)   TBDBITL '84 ('85 Rose Bowl)
> An Ohioan living in Misery (Missouri, same difference)
>
> Watch what you say!                Won't you sign up your name
> They'll be calling you a radical   So you can be their dependable
> A liberal, fanatical criminal      Respectable, presentable vegetable
> --  Supertramp "The Logical Song"

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