sheelz
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Thu Mar-02-06 07:44 PM
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What is the Value of a Presidential Pardon? |
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Edited on Thu Mar-02-06 07:47 PM by sheelz
Is there any value anymore? Please discuss.
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Greeby
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Thu Mar-02-06 07:46 PM
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1. Quiet admission of Presidential guilt? |
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Thu Mar-02-06 08:17 PM
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8. Not quiet, BLATANT--Old Cap the Knife said he would SING like a |
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pretty yellow canary if he did NOT get that pardon, and that he would take Poppy down with him.
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Thu Mar-02-06 07:48 PM
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'Speshly if ya really need one--like Scooter, KKKarl, Bolton, Hadley, Deadeye Dick, etc. are maybe gonna need 'em after Fitz gets done. And then there's Cunningham, Bugman & all that crowd. Maybe even one for KennyBoy.
Priceless, I tellya.
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sheelz
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Thu Mar-02-06 07:56 PM
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3. I want them to do hard time! |
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We've got to stop any pardons, how do we do that?
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Thu Mar-02-06 07:56 PM
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4. Kennyboy better pony up soon. I heard that he's gone from |
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Edited on Thu Mar-02-06 07:58 PM by shain from kane
$40 million to $600,000 in net worth. Based on that, I'd say a presidential pardon was worth about $600,000 transferred to a Swiss bank account.
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Jackpine Radical
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Thu Mar-02-06 08:06 PM
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6. $600,000 cash on hand, maybe. |
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Still quite a few mil salted away in less liquid assets, plus maybe a few shekels in hidden foreign accounts.
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Thu Mar-02-06 07:57 PM
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5. Many on the people Bush 1 pardoned are in W's administration |
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They were pardoned BEFORE the trial. So most of the details never came out, and Ollie took most of the heat.
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sheelz
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Thu Mar-02-06 08:13 PM
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Currently, the only way to change the pardon power is by constitutional amendment, though history has shown that the scope of the power can be modified by the courts (as in the acceptance doctrine).
What courts and what is the acceptance doctrine? Anybody know?
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Fri Mar-03-06 01:58 AM
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9. I'm sure there will be a firesale on pardons in Dec 2008 |
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