European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse July 2007 stars and stripes Page 17 opinion comparison of Libby not sufficient Here we go no sooner had president Bush commuted the sentence of prisoner 28301016 Cheney to his and the Champagne begun to flow at Mary he Effington Matalino than the Media launched into its knee Jerk attempt to Analyse the response to the decision in terms of right airwaves and news pages were quickly filled with talk of out rage from the criticism from the and How the commutation will further drive the left its positively ring the Issue Bell and reporters Start to drool about right even when the facts show that the Libby com mutation like the War in like the War on like global warming is not an Issue that splits along in a Survey Usa poll taken immediately after the com mutation was 60 percent of those surveyed said they Dis agreed with the including 35 per cent of and in an earlier time 72 percent said they would disapprove of a so unless the left has recently had an incredible growth a lot of people on the so called right Are feeling outraged and if this was so clearly a How come Only Tom Tancredo and Sam Brownback offered an unequivocal yes during the new Hampshire debate when asked if they would Pardon Libby the other candidates either said or took a Waitan see is it really that hard for the Media to address this Issue without the Crutch or if journalists and pundits insist on hobbling along using that Musty Termi can they at least do a Little re search and see that there Are plenty on the right who Arent exchanging High fives Over Libby dodging the prison Bullet All they have to do is Click on the Post from conservative blogger who said you do the you do the this want double Lentendre in or they could have checked out Orin a conservative Law blogger who used to clerk for Justice Anthony Kennedy and we saw How Liberal he is this supreme court Kerr wrote i find Bush action very troubling because of the obvious special treatment Libby re and that the Bush Imperial chutzpah commuting Libby without even consulting with the Justice depart ment int a matter of right its a matter of right anyone who believes in the Rule of who believes that cronyism is who believes that All citizens should stand be fore the bar of Justice As equals and who believes that juries should be overruled Only in the most extraordinary knows that this decision was Flat you someone like George As governor of said i dont believe my role is to replace the ver dict of a jury with my unless there Are new facts or evidence of which a jury was or evidence that the trial was somehow and none of those exceptions applied in this can someone please Alert the Media not every Issue fits your cherished that Way of looking at the world is becoming less and less relevant and More and More a studies show felons smarter than liberals just in time for the fourth of John author of the ground breaking 1998 Book More less has released another amazing Book Freedom comics Why the free Market works Ann Coulter and other half baked theories this Book pro Vides studies and anal Ysis proving that your every righting instinct is based on sound economic anal to wit women vote what changed that explains the growth of govern ment the answer is women Fox news Channel int conservative even employees of Fox which is widely regarded As a conservative Chan donate 81 percent of their contributions to Public schools Are government reeducation Camps education was actually designed to spread govern men approved nothing Good has come from Abor Tion in increases felons vote Democrat it looks As if virtually All felons Are demo to make your flights even More enjoy Able this consider this interest ing incentive system described by Lott to receive disability benefits due to Job related air traffic controllers must present a Well documented stressful incident a collision or close Call that has caused a deterioration in their perform when it became easier to file for flights suddenly started experiencing More close it be even More deserving of a greater disability if the near miss involved an iranian air Jet Lott shows that there Are pretty Clear an Swers to what Lowers the crime what increases the crime rate and what Doest have any effect at despite their popu Larity As explanations for the remarkable drop in crime in the the aging of the population and the enforcement of Quali tyo life crimes both had virtually no of what did work was higher arrest and conviction concealed carry Laws and the re institution of the death the studies Lott prickly City by Scott Stantis that each execution saved the lives of roughly 15 to 18 potential murder so theres a much big Ger death penalty for having no death pen gun locks and gun self Tor age Laws Lead to More for the obvious reason that if the owner cant get to his gun in the beneficial effect of hav ing a gun is Lott also shows that crime skyrocketed in cities that implemented affirmative action policies that lowered allegedly biased and irrelevant tests for speaking of theres even some thing for Paris Hilton in this Book Lott says that when we Analyse the Overall consequences a criminal faces after con we find a surprising result Rich criminals face disproportionately High the los Angeles times recently did an analysis of jail sentences for Hiltons pre Cise offence driving with a suspended License after being arrested for Drunken the majority of these offenders served four exactly what Hilton got until she was returned to by serving 23 Hilton served More time than 80 percent of people arrested for the same in addition to losing their their inheritances and generally their according to wealthy felons also earn less Money pos conviction than poor not relative to their prior but in direct Lott after controlling for a variety of social and demographic wealthier a convicts on average earn a lower salary after their conviction than poorer lets Hope felons Are usually demo As Lott notes Michael Martha Stewart and Leona Helmsley share something in common besides being convicted felons they Are All dem while their wealth sets them apart from the typical their party registration is the same As most former i believe this Point was subtly highlighted when Willie Horton told the press in 1988 that of course he supported Michael Dukakis for according to Aca Demic Lott from 1972 to on 80 percent of felons would have voted an Over whelming 93 percent ostensibly would have voted for Bill Clinton in this is not As you might imag Blacks have High crime rates and also happen to be overwhelmingly Democrat Lott compares the voting patterns of felons and controlling for education religious pm age and country of wholly apart from All these felons were still More Likely to vote in the 2004 Lott felons in Washington state voted exclusively for democratic presidential candidate John with so Many felons being the party might want to think about Chang ing its Mascot from a Donkey to a needless to democrats Are neurotically obsessed with restoring the right to vote to but the exons themselves rarely express any interest in regaining this particular what exons want is the right to own a Lott who frequently live in High crime want to be Able to defend so the evidence is in on that too preferring the right to Bear arms to the right to vote for convicted felons have a Superior value system to
