> As for Linda Tripp -- this is the first I've heard that she is actually
> going to be prosecuted. Yeah. And what about her moral indiscretion --
> figuratively screwing a 'friend' -- why is that any less horrendous an
> indiscretion?
Without wishing to seem arrogant, I see that, not being an American,
you are not familiar with our Constitution, nor how we run our government.
I may be wrong, but I think, she saw obstruction of justice and
decided it was her Duty as a citizen of the United States to do something
about it. If so, she should not be charged, but thanked. We, as citizens
of a democracy, have the right to arrest those who violate the law. It is
part of our duty to uphold our Constitution. Mr. Clinton, you see, works
for us; not the other way around. And we are beginning to get the feeling
that he has not been working out that well. He seems to have taken
liberties not allowed him -- tampering with evidence and lying in an
official capacity TO US!!!
> While the decision to publish the Starr report online was a huge
> endorsement of the Internet itself, the report's real attraction for
> millions of Americans was in its sexual explicitness. Ordinary American
> people logged on to find out what exactly happened in that dark corridor
> next to the Oval Office. The report's publishers knew that.
I don't quit think so. I think it was, in large part, outrage at what
Clinton did! Perhaps part of that outrage was over sexual matters; but far
more the part about gross abuse of power and Obstructing Justice! That, I
should remind you, is what got Nixon booted out of office, not sex.
Kennedy had sex in the office; he was not booted out because he did an
excellent job upholding our Constitution and promoting Democracy.
> It's a pity that this is the first major government document to go
> online
> in such a public and well publicised way. It's pretty obvious that the
> surge in traffic was fuelled by the report's sexual content. And it's
> pretty obvious that those who fought to get it published online wanted
> to
> ridicule President Clinton and force him to resign.
It is by no means the first major government document to go online.
It is, however, one that many people wanted to see. It would be
interesting to compare the statistics on that, vs say, The Constitution o
the United States, and The Declaration of Independence, both of which have
been online for a long, long time, and mirrored on many, many sites. I
suspect you will find that those two documents have a rather large number
of hits as well, though over a longer period of time. Quite a few people
do ask the search engines about those documents every day.
> US and the use of the medium for what essentially amounts to US domestic
> problems is, in my opinion, arrogant and irresponsible.
The packets do not pass through your part of the internet except
where other people ASK for it. We did not seize the net, nor ram this
content down anyone's throat. We only allowed those who wanted to see it,
the FREEDOM TO CHOSE to see it. And it is obvious that a very, very large
number of people VOTED with their fingers in favor of having it made
available to them. It was, often by a factor of three to six, the most
asked for item on ALL the search engines polled, every hour of the day for
six days running! (Search Engine Stats will be available Monday, as
usual.) As my sig file says:
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