Posted on 11/24/2017 3:24:24 PM PST by John Semmens
Arnold Reed, attorney for Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich), asserted a claim of "constitutional immunity" in a bid to shield the congressman from charges that he wrongfully spent $27,000 in public monies to purchase the silence of a woman he is alleged to have sexually harassed.
"My client is no ordinary person," Reed said. "He is a member of Congress. As such, he is entitled to privileges granted to such members by the Constitution. Among these privileges is immunity from arrest for any crimes save treason, felony, and breach of the peace. Even if true, the allegations made against him do not fit within these categories. Unwanted sexual advances are neither treasonous nor felonious. And paying hush money would seem to clearly constitute an effort to keep the peace rather than breach it."
"Further, the Constitution makes Congress the sole judge of the behavior of its members," Reed added. "In fulfillment of this responsibility, Congress established the Office Of Compliance (OOC) and has paid out $17 million over the past 20 years to induce victims to sign nondisclosure agreements to protect members of Congress from having damaging allegations be publicized. While not specifically part of the OOC process, my client's payments were within the scope and in the same spirit of the OOC's payments to persons victimized by other representatives and senators."
"Finally, the Constitution gives Congress the authority to keep certain actions secret," Reed observed. "Quite reasonably, this currently includes the payouts made by the OOC. It would be discriminatory for my client to be penalized for mirroring the OOC's practices. Rep. Conyers is asserting his right to equal treatment under the rules of Congress and demanding that the same immunity from embarrassment that has been purchased for his peers by the OOC be extended to him."
House colleague Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif) rallied to Conyers' defense, calling him "a man of impeccable integrity on all of our issues. He didn't do anything that most of the white boys in congress haven't done. Singling him out like they're doing is racist."
In related news, Lois Lerner, Obama Administration's director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service, who used her position to illegally discriminate against conservative organizations, is demanding that the testimony she gave in exchange for a grant of immunity be permanently withheld from the public, claiming that "if the full details of what we did to these people were to become widely known my personal safety would be threatened." Lerner's public plea for secrecy came in response to a lawsuit seeking civil damages being pursued by Citizens for Self Governance.
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/229884-2017-11-24-semi-news-semi-satire-november-26-2017-edition.htm
Grow up. You keep posting stupid crap that’s not even funny. It’s just fake news, in world that’s already awash in fake news.
Well, there you go. The "best satirist on FR" is a pathetic hack.
Satire is Dead. Find something else to do.
Perhaps he could learn Indian music ... then he could be a sitarist. The world needs a few good sitarists.
Satire is intended for thinking people. Obviously, you are not the proper audience for it.
You may intend it for thinking people, but you have missed the mark. You’re not even on the paper.
Try sitar instead.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3607960/posts
"“Because there is no point in operating a caricature website of Feminism anymore when real life Feminists are now more insane than any caricature we could ever dream up,” the publisher continued."
This is the point. It used to be funny. But the libs went over the edge. Nothing you can satirize is substantially different from the reality of the left.
I won’t dispute that point at all. However, you still need someone to caricature it in order to show its absurdity. It needs contrast, otherwise it is just a picture of the norm (no matter how absurd the norm may be).
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