How much "suffering" would they have to endure before your pardon? Inhumane treatment and torture or a little embarassment because they betrayed their country?
2007-07-03 09:30:14 · 21 answers · asked by -Tequila17 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I'd pardon Clinton of the ridiculous impeachment. You know, the one that the GOP spent thousands of hours and millions of taxpayer dollars trumpeting up to simply disgrace one of the most successful Presidents of our time?
Failing that, I would pardon any detainee at Guatanamo after a review of their "charges". I find it such a double-standard that we can detain suspected "combatants" for years without the proper legal representation as provided by the Geneva Convention, yet have a President that commutes the sentence of a convicted official who lied and disrupted an investigation into the leaking of a CIA agent, which seems more of a violation of security than any thing. What's wrong with this picture?
Oh yes.....the "Decider" is still in office.
2007-07-03 18:54:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Since the right-wingers are giggling about the outrage of decent Americans over the Libby pardon (and it IS a pardon, for all intents and purposes), I would pardon the following: Alger Hiss, Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg, Bobby Baker, all the Vietnam War draft-dodgers, John Hinckley, anybody arrested for trespassing on Bush's Crawford desert, I mean ranch, as a peace protest, and anybody prosecuted by the U.S. Attorneys that Bush decided were doing his bidding and thus shouldn't have been fired.
2007-07-03 16:47:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I would have pardoned those two border patrol officers MONTHS ago, and disbarred the idiots who prosecuted them in the first place. Scooter needs to do time. Maybe not 10 years, but at least as much as Martha Stewart did for HER crime of perjury.
2007-07-03 16:39:31 · answer #3 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I would pardon Dr. Kevorkian, although he has already did his time.
...anyway I sense you are thinking of someone specific when you mention "betraying their country." Who?
I agree that desertion shouldn't be a capital offense, but other than that I'm not sure who you could be thinking of. That "American Taliban" guy?
2007-07-03 16:38:44 · answer #4 · answered by perfectlybaked 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes I'm with dead marxist- Ramos and Campean, these are border agents that were railroded by an liberal vindictive prosecuter here in east Texas. An illegal drug runner shot at them, they returned fire hitting the guy in the but. Both border agents are now in prison for shooting an illeagal drug runner and chasing him back into Mexico.
One was recently severely beat up in prison by a Mexican prison gang who found out who he was. He deserves freedom! Both Do.
2007-07-03 16:51:04 · answer #5 · answered by Nacho 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would throw away the pardon pen, for starters. There is such a thing of rule of law, to which nobody is immune. There is such a thing as honor, which appears to be a foreign concept to this Administration. Perhaps "honor" is too French for them...
2007-07-03 16:42:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I agree with aquamarine... Those two border agents are practically political prisoners. A full pardon is the least this administration could do for two men who faithfully served their country for years.
2007-07-03 16:49:54 · answer #7 · answered by AJ242 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I would take it on a case-by-case basis and look at all the facts. I would use the pardon very sparingly.
2007-07-03 16:33:46 · answer #8 · answered by ItsJustMe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Border agents Ramos & Compean
The Haditha Marines
2007-07-03 16:35:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Nobody. Pardons should be used infrequently as possible.
2007-07-03 16:34:12 · answer #10 · answered by The Stylish One 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋