From: busta@vicki.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: Weinberger's Pardon
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 11:55:50 GMT


In article <1992Dec29.221407.24874@ryptyde.cts.com>, scott@ryptyde.cts.com (Scott McClure) writes...
>patth@panix.com (Patt Bromberger) writes:
> 
>>In article <1992Dec28.200756.18681@cs.ucla.edu> pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce) writes:
>>>In article <BzzH4s.M60@well.sf.ca.us> sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
>>>writes in "alt.conspiracy":
>>>
> 
>[..]
> 
>>>|I applaud President Bush's pardon of Cap Weinberger and the others.  It is
>>>|not a question that these patriots are "above the law" as President Clinton
>>>
>>>  "Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."
>>>        -- George Bernard Shaw
> 
>Well, you know what they say about opinions...  8-)
> 
>>>|fears. The real issue is justice and the balance of power between the
>>>|Congress and the Executive. Nazi Germany made racial laws, were they just?
>>>
>>	The "real issue" is that Special Prosecutor Lawrence E.
>>	Walsh was appointed by the RayGun Administration to find
>>	the truth and ferret out the weasels involved in 
>>	Iran/Contra-Gate! One of Walsh's initial reactions was
>>	** the fish smells from the head down **
> 
>So?  What's the big deal about?  


  The big deal is that Reagan/Bush and company felt they could do
 anything they damn well pleased even though Congress and most of
 the American people said NO to giving military support to the Contras.

  To Reagan/Bush this obviously meant, lets sell some arms to `moderate'
 Iranian leaders so that maybe they'll release our hostages, take the 
 money made from the deal, skim a percentage off the top to line our
 pockets for the good idea we came up with and send the rest down
 to support the Nicaraguan opposition.

  No big deal.... Laws? What laws?


>It's all just a big liberal-sponsored
>witch-hunt.


  Oh sure. Lifetime conservative Republican Lawrence Walsh is now a
 liberal on a witch hunt. Too bad we don't have more like him. You know,
 the kind of person who doesn't take sides based on their political 
 affiliations......



>  Why should such a powerful position be given to just one
>person?


  Because the legislative and executive branches granted him that
 power......


>  He doesn't have to answer to *anyone*.  That's just not right,
>IMHO.


  That's the whole point. He's not a liberal on a witch hunt nor a 
 conservative trying to protect his buddies. He's out solely for the
 truth wherever the cards may fall....



> 
>>	Line 'em up right alongside the lies, bank deals, oil
>>	deals, arms deals, etc. of soon to be Ex-President Bush!
> 
>Right, like the Clinton administration will be any different.  It's always
>the same.  It doesn't matter if it's Republicans or Democrats.  Sometimes,
>you have to do "unpopular" and "politically incorrect" things to get
>the job done.



  Doing "unpopular" or "politically incorrect" things to get the job done
 is fine with me and most likely the rest of the people of the country, it's
 when people break the law and feel they are above the law when caught is
 what, well frankly, pisses me off......



>  It's the way the world works.  It may not sit well with
>the average citizen whose only link to the rest of the world is CNN Headline
>News.

 Seems to me that may be YOUR only link to the rest of the world from your
above statements.....


> 
>>	what some view as Walsh's fanaticism others view as
>>	his passion to uphold and defend the law and to bring
>>	to justice those who would trash it for their own
>>	power and greed.
> 
>Ah, but this is all speculation on our part.  The only one who knows
>the "real" story are the people involved.


  Yeah, like Gene Hausanfus, Ollie North, Poindexter, Secord, McFarlane
 (who for all intents and purposes admitted to what was going down), etc.,
 etc.,....ad nauseum.....



> 
>>	Yeah - let's throw Special Prosecutor Walsh right
>>	off the podium; then we won't have to look at the
>>	uglinees and greed of 12 years under a Republican
>>	administration!
> 
>Naw, let's keep him around to do the same thing when we've had a few
>years of ugliness and greed under a Democratic administration!


  Ahh... something we can agree on. IF the Clinton administration pulls
 anything similar or feels THEY are above the law, then I hope Walsh
 will be re-instated as a Special Prosecutor and go after those people
 with the same amount of enthusiasm.....



> 
>>-- 
>>Patricia Ann Bromberger                            patth@panix.com
> 
>Just my $0.02.  8-)
> 
>Scott


  Mine also....;^)


> 
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