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chaloobi
SFN Regular
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 Posted - 03/31/2008 : 08:28:55
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As I understand it, Spitzer got nailed because of the Patriot Act - you know, the one designed to nab international terrorists so we shouldn't be worried about it? Yeah, that one. The Patriot Act requires banks to notify the FBI when money over a certain amount - I think it's $5k - is passed around in lump sum. Spitzer was passing money around like that to pay his prostititute(s). The FBI investigated his transactions and found out where the money was going and acted on that 'intelligence.'
What's Spitzer got to do with international terrorism? Nothing. I wonder if the FBI would have run this one down if it was some average business man rather than a Democratic governor of New York? Because he was such an asshole for spending a gazillion dollars on prostitutes, while at the same time he had been working as a prosecutor to go after prostitution, nobody seems to give a shit that he got nailed. But to me, this is proof positive that assurances from our government that their new powers were only going to be used to keep us safe from terrorists was a lie.
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-Chaloobi
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
Posted - 03/31/2008 : 10:00:34 [Permalink]
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Blah, blah, blah, you're a commie pinko, got it:)
Well the trasaction did send up the money laundering red flags, I see no problem with them investigating and if a secondary crime is revealed during the investigation, it should be prosecuted.
That said, *$?! the Patriot Act. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 03/31/2008 : 14:07:54 [Permalink]
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Chaloobi.....
Spitzer has paid and will continue to pay severe personal, political, and possibly criminal penalties for his highly lubricated zipper problem. It has done some damage to the Democrats (I currently am one), but I honestly think it will be forgotten by November.
Subliminal perception of Democrats as as sexually venal as the Rabid Republicans may remain, but I think it tends to generalize into a sort of general contempt for politicians in general. Excessive libido is present in many quarters, entertainers are usually rewarded by such publicity, politicians are damaged.
I think Obama and a Democratic Congress should rewrite the Patriot Act, rename it The Political Purge Program, greatly expand it's Gestapo-like powers, and legally restrict it's use and application solely to investigation of the malfeasance of Bush, Cheney, Rove, the entire neocon cadre and all of the Bush Administration's criminally incompetent Cabinet members and political appointees.
Police, judicial and criminal justice authority should be granted to those select liberals making up this Star Chamber, and their powers should extend to unseating criminal members of the Supreme Court!
This would be done by a totally impartial alphabetical rating. Justices with last names beginning with A and R would be summarily dismissed on grounds of unacceptable alphabetization. Justices with surnames beginning with B, G, or simple S (no c) would be automatically immune from investigation. Any justice with a K name would be subjected to intensive evaluation with prejudice, that prejudice being a strong predeliction to dismiss! Any justice with a surname starting with Sc or T would be immediately arrested, defrocked and waterboarded!
If Obama would select me head up such a commission, I would gladly accept the honor! |
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The Patriot Act?
