Black Unicorn wrote:
On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Dale Thorn wrote:
Black Unicorn wrote:
On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Dale Thorn wrote:
Example: George Bush's old pal at the Wash. DC P.R. firm hires the niece(?) of a Kuwaiti official to testify in front of Congress in full view of the American people on television, that the Iraquis were throwing babies out of incubators in Kuwait, thereby securing the necessary votes in Congress to prosecute the Gulf War.
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Fraud is an excellent answer because it is a meaningless answer. Fraud is traditionally used to prosecutue those not-quite-a-crime cases because the definition essentially comes down to : "That guy did something we don't like."
[much drivel snipped] So what you're saying is I (or we) can testify in front of Congress on essentially any topic, telling a blatant lie (that we know is false, and which they will subsequently prove is false), and totally get away with it. You and I can do that, is that what you're saying? If that is true, then my original contention that things are far worse than the person I originally responded to was imagining, stands as correct. Things are bad indeed.