Perjury: just a little crime?
Mike Spenis doesn’t blog much but when he does, you should be reading:
I have zero patience for the intellectual dishonesty already on display in some corners of the internet. On the one hand, we have people saying that perjury is a serious crime when the other guys do it, but when our guys do it, it’s only a technicality. On the other, we have people here who equate indictment with proof of a massive administration conspiracy, unless it was our president’s staff who was indicted, in which case it’s just unproven character assassination.
Let’s cut the crap here. Perjury under any circumstances is a serious crime. It’s serious because it undercuts one of the primary mechanisms of the balance of power; it’s serious because those in a position of public responsibility and public trust are rightly held to a higher standard when they misuse of their authority, and, most importantly, it’s serious because if I did it, I’d be in trouble, so if they do it then they don’t get a free pass.
October 26th, 2005 at 4:13 pm
Bravo.
I admit I had to snicker when I saw the clip of Kay Bailey Hutchinson saying that if indictments did come out of this, she hoped they were for a “real crime” and not something “silly” like perjury. I was thinking, “What was it they got Clinton on again?”