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Bush Twins Busted For Alcohol-Public Deserves To Know |
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by Sam Smith
(No verified email address) |
31 May 2001
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Editor's Note: You won't find this out from reading the News-Gazette, but you can follow these links for the story:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/05/30/jenna.bush.02/index.html
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/police/bush2_0105.htm
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PUBLIC BUSINESS
THE ALCOHOL AND/OR DRUG OFFENSES of the Bush, Clinton, and Gore families - just to name a few - are very much public business, whatever the White House would like us to believe. The growing exemption of the powerful and rich from the laws of the land combined with zero tolerance towards the weak, poor and vulnerable is one of the clearest signs of America's sickness and entropy. This is not an ideological matter and to view it as such contributes to the insanity for it creates a kind of moral vote pairing, i.e. we won't talk about Roger Clinton if you don't talk about the Bush twins. This exonerates celebrity and punishes obscurity. If we were free of this madness we would, for example, treat addiction as a health problem, return the right of 18-year-olds to drink, and end arrests of marijuana users. We would return to the days before the Reagan Drug War during which, for example, the Carter administration helped reduce heroin overdose deaths by two-thirds by providing more hospital beds.
Instead we are engaged in a hypocritical, ineffective, and unconstitutional charade as wrong in its way as was the Old Testament approach to leprosy. The war on drugs - when you add violence to the wages of poor and non-existent treatment - has killed more Americans than did the Vietnam conflict.
One way to start working our way out of this dismal situation is to end the exemption of the powerful from the consequences of what they prescribe for others. Badly as one may feel, as a personal matter, for those involved, as long as the high and mighty get high whenever they mighty well feel like it, while others do hard time or suffer other consequences, this obscene privilege is among the most public of our concerns. - SAM SMITH |
See also:
http://prorev.com/indexa.htm
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One Can't Help But Wonder... |
by Mike Lehman
(No verified email address) |
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31 May 2001
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Reports on this vary, with earlier ones saying police had not yet issued citations, while the AP is reporting at 7:24pm on May 31 that citations have been issued.
Whatever the case, I wonder what W would have thought about his daughters being handcuffed and strip-searched, as the Supreme Court recently ruled was allowed for even the most minor of offenses?
Is the Secret Service required to witness such searches of the Presidential daughters?
After all, they COULD have been carrying concealed drugs or weapons (the daughters, not the SS.)
Perhaps some would consider such questions as being in bad taste, but if it's good enough for the masses, according to the Supreme Court, why isn't it good enough for the Presidential offspring? |
See also:
http://www.allhatnocattle.net/BushTwinsCaught.htm
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