Ann Coulter (who some are trying to excommunicate from conservative circles and inflict other punishments for having said a bad word about John Edwards, and they're doing it mainly because she had the nerve to be Ann Coulter--but that's another story) had an excellent column in Wednesday's WorldNetDaily.
Lewis Libby has now been found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice for lies that had absolutely no legal consequence.
It was not a crime to reveal Valerie Plame's name because she was not a covert agent. If it had been a crime, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald could have wrapped up his investigation with an indictment of the State Department's Richard Armitage on the first day of his investigation since it was Armitage who revealed her name, and Fitzgerald knew it.
With no crime to investigate, Fitzgerald pursued a pointless investigation into nothing, getting a lot of White House officials to make statements under oath and hoping some of their recollections would end up conflicting with other witness recollections, so he could charge some Republican with "perjury" and enjoy the fawning media attention.
As a result, Libby is now a convicted felon for having a faulty memory of the person who first told him that Joe Wilson was a delusional boob who lied about his wife sending him to Niger.
This makes it official: It's illegal to be Republican.
Since Teddy Kennedy walked away from a dead girl with only a wrist slap (which was knocked down to a mild talking-to, plus time served: zero), Democrats have apparently become a protected class in America, immune from criminal prosecution no matter what they do.
As a result, Democrats have run wild, accepting bribes, destroying classified information, lying under oath, molesting interns, driving under the influence, obstructing justice and engaging in sex with underage girls, among other things.
Meanwhile, conservatives of any importance constantly have to spend millions of dollars defending themselves from utterly frivolous criminal prosecutions. Everything is illegal, but only Republicans get prosecuted.
She gives examples of the double standard. Plenty of them. But she seems subdued, not quite as full of her usual invective, though there are detectable traces of it.
In the end, what stands is her point that what we've suspected is true. Not only are Democrats given more of a pass in the press than Republicans are, but that pass carries over into our court system as well.
2 comments:
CF,
Your question is very vague. I'm not sure how to answer you.
What underlying substantive issue is she lying about that I haven't been impressed by?
CF,
Valerie Plame was not a covert agent during the time period for which it would have been a crime to reveal her name. Revealing her name was not a crime. What Ann Coulter said was not a lie.
Perjury is a crime. Ann Coulter's point was that when Republicans commit perjury and other felonies, they get the book thrown at them. When Democrats commit perjury and other felonies, they get their wrists slapped, accompanied by a stern scolding. Here in the States, we call that a double-standard.
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