Libby, The story of a guy who won’t go to jail
Well folks,
Let’s play a little word association;
Big - Small, Book - Read, Jumbo - Shrimp, Politician - jail…
It has happened again. A poor innocent politician has lost his appeals process and may be going to jail very soon. I may be jaded, but I’m not old enough to remember a time where politicians were loved, trusted and revered by the public.
I was born in the early ’70’s and while Nixon was going down for Watergate as I was scraping my knees, I was thinking of my knees and the monsters under my bed. I could care less about “Tricky Dick”, now and then. Since it is rude to speak of the deceased, I shall stop right now.
I do remember the Iran-Contra stuff a little. I wasn’t paying much attention in my wild teenage years. I was too busy being anti-establishment by sitting around and being lazy.
But now in my adult years I have taken to observing the going-on’s of Washington. Two reasons why;
1. I enjoy it as a hobby. I like elections, I enjoy the scandal as much as the next guy and even though Canadian, my neighbour to the South has his fingers in everything I worry about my own welfare by association.
2. Well let’s admit it, Canadian politics is so boring that I have no choice but to be a voyeur on Uncle Sam’s ill-behaved children.
So here I am, peeking through your windows and what do I see? An actor turned politician usher in a such a colossal wave of greed that people are still talking about it.
A weaker vice-president so unimpressive that he had to confirm people that he wasn’t a wimp.
A charismatic but questionably moral dude who was so well loved that the people could care less where he was getting his B.J.’s.
And certainly not the least of them, the son of the second guy and truly the prodigal son. A man so hated across the globe and so mired in corruption that his effectiveness as a leader is questionable.
But enough about the Bush’s, the late Ronnie Reagan and “Slick Willie.” Let’s talk about another man with a name so ridiculous that he should go to jail just for that. Let’s talk about Scooter Libby. Please. Let’s talk about him.
*** UPDATE ***
Wow in the time it took me to finish this blog things have totally changed. You’re saying to yourself, “Lance, do you mean Libby is actually going to jail? That he’s going to accept responsibility for his crimes?”
No, sorry there America, that’s not the case. According to all the news outlets and programs it seems that Governor Bush has fulfilled his part of the arrangement. You know the one; Libby agrees to take the fall, be tried and no matter the outcome of events, Bush would pardon him. Libby is such a smart guy, I mean I would have done it too. There was no fear of actually going to jail. I’m shocked that Libby looked so despondent during the trial. I would have been smiling and saying “You can’t touch me! You can’t touch me!”
It’s like that scene from De Palma’s “Untouchables” where Capone has bought off the jury and is all smiles knowing that he’s won. Libby was never going to jail and I’m just shocked that it took so long for Bush to actually pardon him. Libby was never the sacrificial lamb, he had the power. Libby knew all the players and who did what and who issued the command to betray a loyal agent of the government and threatened national security.
National security! That annoying little thing which is being touted as the motive for losing all of your rights and having the Bushies continually circumvent the law. Karl Rove and Cheney were certainly in the loop and quite possibly gave the order to have Valerie Plame outed to our enemies. Come on! An agent of this government was betrayed, her name released to the f**king press and no is accountable.
And before any jackass tells me that Clinton did the same thing, he lied about getting a BJ in a situation when no one had the right to ask.
Libby was part of a conspiracy to publicly threaten the life of a CIA agent because her husband was a critic to the Bushies and therefore a threat of their plans for world domination. I swear, come September of 2007 a cell of Al-Qaeda is going to blow up an important city or fly a plane into the Capitol and Bush will use that excuse to declare martial law and become the dictator he’s been wanting to be since he first stole won the election.
But what Bush lacked in enthusiasm he made up with cleverness, I’ll give him that. This last move was so good it had to been someone else who thought it up, since we all know that Dubya is as dumb as a fence post. You’re saying to yourself “But Lance, he didn’t pardon Libby.”
No he did not, if you want to be technical about it. He commuted his sentence, which means that Libby got the benefit of a full pardon without the political problems for Bush.
Very clever.
Who would have have thought that Governor Bush could have been so smart? Oh what am I saying!? Cheney gave the order to commute the sentence.
I bid adieu.
your Origami reporter,
L.Manly
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