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On 2007-07-07 21:47:19 -0400, leroyblue@pillinor.net said:

> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 22:21:40 -0400, Slim <slim@pickins.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2007-07-06 20:12:10 -0400, leroyblue@pillinor.net said:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 11:01:12 -0400, Slim <slim@pickins.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 2007-07-06 00:28:35 -0400, leroyblue@pillinor.net said:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:02:21 -0500, David Agnew
>>>>> <DavidAgnew@nospam.nul> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Al Gore's son busted for drugs in hybrid car
>>>>>> Wed Jul 4, 2007 10:22PM EDT
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The 24-year-old son of former Vice President
>>>>>> Al Gore was arrested for drug possession on Wednesday after he was
>>>>>> stopped for speeding in his hybrid Toyota Prius, a sheriff's official
>>>>>> said.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Al Gore III -- whose father is a leading advocate of policies to fight
>>>>>> global warming -- was driving his environmentally friendly car at
>>>>>> about 100 miles per hour on a freeway south of Los Angeles when he was
>>>>>> pulled over by an Orange County sheriff's deputy at about 2:15 a.m.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The deputy smelled marijuana and searched the car, said sheriff's
>>>>>> spokesman Jim Amormino. The search turned up a small amount of
>>>>>> marijuana, along with prescription drugs including Valium, Xanax,
>>>>>> Vicodin, Adderall and Soma. There were no prescriptions found, he
>>>>>> said.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Gore was arrested on suspicion of drug possession and booked into the
>>>>>> Inmate Reception Center in Santa Ana, about 34 miles south of Los
>>>>>> Angeles, on $20,000 bail. Although he quickly identified himself as
>>>>>> the son of the former vice president, Amormino said Gore received no
>>>>>> special privileges.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Gore made bail and was released at 2 p.m., Amormino said. He will
>>>>>> receive notice of a court date within 30 days.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The youngest child and only son of the former vice president, Gore has
>>>>>> had previous brushes with the law. He was arrested in 2003 for
>>>>>> marijuana possession and in 2002 for suspected drunken-driving.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> In 1989, aged six, Gore almost died when he was hit by a car, and
>>>>>> required extensive surgery and physical therapy.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> A spokesman for the elder Gore said he was traveling and could not
>>>>>> immediately be reached for comment. The one-time presidential
>>>>>> candidate is one of the organizers of the Live Earth concerts taking
>>>>>> place around the world on July 7. The concerts are designed to raise
>>>>>> awareness of global warming.
>>>>>> http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0428148420070705
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> "Although he quickly identified himself as the son of the former vice
>>>>> president, Amormino said Gore received no special privileges."
>>>>> 
>>>>> Those damn chickens always come home to roost.
>>>> 
>>>> Like Scooter?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Scooter scooted! And the best part of the who;e deal is there nothing,
>>> NOTHING you whining liberals can do about it.
>> 
>> So much for equal justice under the law.
> 
> Everything was done in accordance with the US CONSTITUTION. Are you
> saying that the Constitution is biased?

It certainly was abused in Scooter's case since the BuSHITe's have been hawking
the DOJ for maximum sentences for felons....yet Scooter walks on a felony?

Kondracke asserted that Libby's 30-month sentence was "over the maximum 
for perjury"
On the "All-Star Panel" segment of the July 2 edition of Fox News' 
Special Report with Brit Hume, Roll Call executive editor Morton M. 
Kondracke argued that while he "thought that [former vice presidential 
chief of staff] Scooter Libby should serve some jail time," the 
30-month sentence Libby received "was excessive" and "over the maximum 
for committing perjury." In fact, each of the two counts of perjury (18 
U.S.C. 1623) for which Libby was convicted carries a five-year (or 
60-month) maximum. Libby was also convicted of one count of obstruction 
of justice (18 U.S.C. 1503) and one count of making false statements 
(18 U.S.C. 1001), for which the statutory maximums are 10 years and 
five years, respectively.
Even if Kondracke was referring to the maximum sentence under the 
federal sentencing guidelines, rather than the statutory maximum, he 
was ignoring the prosecution's argument that the sentencing guidelines 
provided for a sentence of 30-37 months. Judge Reggie Walton sentenced 
Libby to 30 months in prison, at the low end of the prosecution's 
recommendation. As The Washington Post reported, according to Libby's 
attorneys, the federal probation office, which also issues sentencing 
recommendations to the judge, "proposed a prison term of 15 to 21 
months" based on its view of what the federal guidelines called for, 
while also "citing potential grounds for a shorter sentence." Special 
prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald did not challenge the attorneys' claims 
about the probation office's recommendation. As the Post also reported, 
the federal probation office's "suggestion is officially secret."
The panel was discussing President Bush's July 2 decision to commute 
Libby's prison sentence.
From the July 2 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, 
with Fox News Washington managing editor Brit Hume:
HUME: How will this play more broadly politically, Mort, in your eyes?
KONDRACKE: Well, I think the country is so polarized that everybody is 
going to flip the way they do.
Now, what independents are going to say -- I suspect that they're going 
to -- some of them are going to say that this was a good thing to do, 
and some of them are going to say that it was a bad thing to do.
Personally, I thought that Scooter Libby should serve some jail time. I 
mean, he was -- I think the sentence was excessive, 30 months, it was 
over the maximum for committing perjury. But it is perjury. It is a 
national security case, at least. And the even the White House, as you 
pointed out, had lawyers look at the full transcript of the case, and 
the president concluded, and his aides concluded on basis of that, that 
Scooter Libby did lie.
So a perjury was committed here, and it seems to me that he should have 
served some time for it --
HUME: So, you're an --
KONDRACKE: -- but not as much as he was sentenced to.
—R.S.K.


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