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Even Paris did more time than Scooter will do


Mark Morford

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

 

So there you have it. Bush shrugs and smirks and then commutes the easy
soft-focus sit-on-your-ass-all-day-and knit white-collar prison sentence of
a hollow political lackey who took a bullet for his sneering Mafia thug of a
boss, Dick Cheney, who was complicit (along with lead flying monkey Karl
Rove) in the appalling illegal outing of a CIA operative, which itself was a
tiny but particularly nasty link in the giant chain of lies and deceptions
undertaken to lead our wary and tattered nation into an unwinnable,
impossible costly, brutally violent war that will now last, if current
estimates are correct, until the goddamn sun explodes.

 ...


It was so cute as to be actually damaging to the soul. Bush ambled forth and
said that, while he "respects the jury" in the Libby case, the 2 1/2-year
sentence was simply "too harsh." Baby, if 30 months in a comfy,
well-stocked, rape-free Martha Stewart-decorated facility for compromising
national security is too harsh, I've got a draconian little thing called the
Patriot Act to sell you, cheap.

 

Here's a swell side note: You know who gets harsher sentences than 30 months
in white-collar prison, George? Pot dealers. That's right. The average
sentence for a convicted marijuana dealer in California is

3.3 years. In real prison, George, not that namby-pamby Club Fed where
Scooter would've played badminton and sipped tea. In places like Oklahoma
and Alabama, you can get a life sentence for possessing a single marijuana
bud ...
 

You know who's now done more jail time that Scooter Libby? Paris Hilton.
Paris Hilton has now accomplished more in the eyes of the law to pay her
debt to society than the VP's former chief of staff ever will for assisting
BushCo in corrupting the soul of the nation. Isn't that cute? Cute enough to
cause sharp stabbing pain in your abdomen requiring great amounts of scotch
and marijuana to anesthetize? You bet it is.

 

Lest we forget, Dubya's latest abuse of law follows hot on the heels of Dick
Cheney declaring himself a a unique and unassailable branch of government,
free to ignore the law and refuse to hand over detailed reports of how he's
handled classified information to the federal, Bush-approved oversight
agency in charge of making sure people just like Dick don't take too many
liberties with power and ego and dictatorial megalomania. Whoops, too late.

 

Just another appalling notch in the belt for Dick. To be added to the
collection, right alongside the ones for endorsing torture, and initiating
the secret detention of foreigners in brutal Eastern European prisons, and
loving military tribunals, and detaining foreigners illegally for years at
Guantanamo Bay, and working to derail freedom of the press, and abusing
environmental law and rearranging the federal budget as he sees fit all
while sucking up Halliburton kickbacks, and ...

 
....
 

Mark Morford's column appears Wednesdays and Fridays in Datebook and on
SFGate.com. E-mail him at mmorford@sfgate.com.






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