[DUMBGRUNT]

Helps if your family owns a castle.

[Manly Warrior]

My thoughts?

A jury of peers convicted and sentenced such criminals; all power resides with the citizen, therefore no executive, state or federal should be able to over-ride the effective will and judgement of the people- that is what appellate and supreme courts are for- in the case of error, due process violation or otherwise unjust prosecution.

We do not have a king ( divine rights etc), nor do our executives hold any higher power than the people via the courts and due process.

I am clearly convinced that money, influence and power make these commutation, pardons and other extra-judicial acts fully perverted and done only for ulterior motive ( well, maybe a few little fish are included to give the appearance of altruistic action).

[oblomov]

If I were attempting to write an authoritative book on any topic, I’d consult with many experts, and get many perspectives, even ones I disagreed with strongly.

I would definitely check the key facts of the account I would present with this body of experts.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

What the Patti Hearst Pardon Is Not

Necessary.

She and her friends should have been given a fair trial and shot in at dawn.

[alexander_busek]

Ruckman, who had taken issue with Toobin before, has been having a field day in his blog since as he tosses out examples of recipients of presidential clemency from two presidents. "I think it could be argued that it's just a nitpicky kind of thing," Ruckman told me after he noted the mistakes was "inexcusably sloppy" as a modicum of research would have shown the assertion was just plain wrong. I sympathize with Toobin. As every journalist knows, we all make mistakes, most of them avoidable.

Difficult to make sense of this.

Regards,

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember the last shootout with CinQ and his gang. The police came under full automatic rifle fire.
On the radio, some of the leftists in Cali were bawling about how the police should have used firehoses to flush them out rather than kill them.
The reporter ripped them apart saying the gang could have shot the firehoses to pieces and there was no other way than to kill them.

[upchuck]

But on the pardon front, Obama lags seriously behind.

nobama will make up for it with a 100% pardon to all members of the Clinton Crime Family.

[donna]

Groundwork for when Obama pardons every single democrat ex-con in the country so they can vote.