Justice is indeed perverse

Posted on June 8, 2007 | Filed Under Editorial, Iraq, Politics

There are many strange things going on in our justice system right now that are, when you think about it, perverse.

Scooter Libby is a man who has been charged with the sin of having a different recollection of events than that others interviewed in the Plame-gate investigations.  I am not going to get into a discussion of whether he was right or wrong, lying intentionally, or anything of that nature.  Anyone reading this will fall into one of three camps, unlikely to ever change their mind:

  1. You hate the Bush administration and want to see Libby rot in jail as some kind proxy for your hatred
  2. You support the Bush administration and see Libby as the sacrificial lamb thrown to the hungry wolves on the left
  3. You don’t care (and some of you probably consider “Hollywood Insider” to be the evening news)

But here is the problem.  Scooter Libby was a dutiful public servant.  He did his job, and did it well.  He served the public by supporting the administration he worked for.  Then he was interviewed in an investigation that was unable to even establish that a crime had been committed.  I’ll repeat that because it is critically important -

An investigation that was unable to even establish that a crime had been committed. 

No other indictments were made.  No arrests or warrants served.  Special prosecutor Fitzgerald was never able to establish that what he was investigating constituted a crime.  Scooter Libby had a different recollection of events than anyone else that was interviewed.  Therefore, he must be lying! (sarcasm intended)  Now, his career as a public servant destroyed, he will serve 30 month as the scapegoat for a cover up of something that wasn’t even a crime.

Now let’s teleport to the West Coast where we have someone who did actually commit a crime - driving on a suspended license; a license that was suspended as a result of driving under the influence.  As a result of this actual crime, Paris Hilton was sentenced to 40 days, a sentence later reduced to 20.  After a song and dance about how she was going to serve her sentence and how she was upset that she got a “bad rap” from the media, Paris ends up spending 3 day in jail and was released for “medical reasons.”

My question is, if her medical condition was so bad that it could not be treated in jail, why wouldn’t she be taken immediately to the hospital?  She was taken to her mansion instead.  What a complete and total joke this makes of our justice system.

There is one other thing that is similar - people who break our laws of immigration cannot be referred to as “illegal aliens.”  They must be referred to as “undocumented immigrants.”  To refer to them any other way would infer that they are criminals.

I have three main points from all of this:

And the Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves…


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