LEPAGE DOESNT CHALLENGE CHARGES

[david ring]

Originally Posted by 1855sc

Johnny,
Nicely put. I really feel for the fbi, state & local police because it just goes to show that even with all your "I"s dotted and "t"s crossed that money will give you a get out of jail free card.

Debbie Moses

Debbie and Johnny,

When the President of the United States commutes the 2.5 year sentence of one of his aides who was found guilty by a jury of perjury and obstruction of justice, do you find anything in our "justice" system surprising? Ignore Bush's comment about the sentence being excessive because it was well within the Federal government's sentencing guidelines. Remember that not even Nixon pardoned or commuted the sentences of any of the people involved in Watergate. On the other hand, President Ford's pardoning of Nixon was absolutely necessary to avoid the turmoil that this country would have gone through if an ex-president was on trial.

The rotten thing about Bush's pardon is that future Presidents will use it as a precedent to let their aides off when they get in trouble. Presidential aides will never tell the truth before a jury or a grand jury because they will expect to be let off the hook if caught for lying.

As for Regis, in New England in the early days people convicted of crimes were put in stocks in the public square for all to see. The fact that Regis got no time is an outrage, but the fact that we all know what he was convicted of and he in essence has been put in stocks in the public square for all to see is at least a form of early New England justice.