On 7/3/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > RoMunn wrote: > > Pardon power is a function of the executive branch > > (1.) Fibby never asked for the commutation, Bush just up and gave it > to him, and commuted his entire jail term rather than part.
Every sane person in America asked for a pardon. > (2.) The entire justice system, including 3 Bush appointed judges, has > not only found him guilty, but found no reason to adjust his sentence. The appeals process is ongoing. > (3.) There are currently 3000 pending requests for commutation. Think > Bush will consider any of them? I'm sure someone will weed throught the pile and present several to him. > So the bottom line is that President Bush believes, through his own > actions, that the US Justice system should not be applied equally to > all. > > That is not a man who deserves to be President of a country of laws and > justice. So you're saying the Constitution is flawed by allowing presidential pardons? Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate, that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed. - Alexander Hamilton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:237794 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
