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Old 15th June 2001, 09:19 AM
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Sunny just don't get it. Nobody will disagree that the law can be used to harass people guilty of trivialities, like lying about sex. Yes, Clinton was guilty of lying about sex.

The law is also an interpretive instrument. It is not the voice of Yaweh. Thus guilt and punishment are determined and meted according to all kinds of cirumstantial factors. Indeed, pardons can be issued (remember Ford's?), executions can be stayed. Stupid laws are routinely ignored. (By Sun's logic, gay men in applicable states should be thrown into jail for breaking the sodomy laws. After all, the law is the law.) It ain't the black-and-white situation you depict it, sunnyboy.

More specifically: You seem in your rants about Clinton to miss a very salient point: He was not convicted in the impeachment effort. If you're going to be such a hardass about The Law, you need to pay equally slavish homage to its process.