Letters to the Editor
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If she wasn't MURDERED,
If she wasn't MURDERED, let's see the mainstream media publish the list of her customers!
Fat chance that will happen, eh?
If you think she committed suicide, you probably are stupid enough to vote for a WAR STOOGE for President - like Clinton, McCain or Obama, all of whom cannot wait to bomb Iran.
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Feds lynch the D.C. Madam
Most Americans are happily ignorant about the terrifying threat posed by jaded, career-obsessed, breathtakingly powerful federal agents and prosecutors.
They've yet to realize the Bill of Rights, which otherwise might protect them from voracious impulses of a "justice sytem" gone wild, has long since been gutted in Congress and the Supreme Court.
It never dawns on most citizens that all that stands between them and ruin at the hands of rogue agents and prosecutors is their anonymity...their relative insignificance...their lack of ability to prompt headlines splashy enough to justify the time and energy required to put them behind bars.
But Deborah Jeane Palfrey's mother and other surviving friends and family members no longer harbor illusions about the justice system.
My eyes were opened recently when someone I care about was summarily destroyed by agents and prosecutors who valued winning a conviction above determining the truth or furthering the cause of justice.
The D.C. Madam was prosecuted under quasi-constitutional federal RICO statutes crafted decades ago to make it easier for government prosecutors to convict mob bosses and drug kingpins.
Had she been charged under more appropriate, less draconian state laws, she might have paid a fine and served a few days, weeks or months in county lockup. She might even have been acquitted at trial.
Under the all-but-indefensible RICO scheme, acquittal was an astronomical long-shot from the outset, and she most certainly would have gone to prison for a minimum of 4 years and a maximum of 8...for what at worst amounted to a victimless moral transgression involving consenting adults.
How did things get so skewed? The simple answer: decades of "get tough on crime" chestbeating by legislators and opponents seeking to displace them has corkscrewed America into a mean, unrestrained, merciless police state.
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I don't believe Palfrey killed herself
Frankly, I find it highly suspicious that Palfrey and also, a woman who was a call girl in
her operation, both committed suicide. I don't believe it. I suspect that they were murdered -- because very powerful men who they serviced did not want that known. I find it really
amazing that their suicides have been taken as such apparently without any kind of real investigation.
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You're pretty well missing the point here. The objection isn't that breaking the law leads to complications, but that it only gets complicated for the seller.
You must have missed that newscast where Spitzer had to resign his job in shame.
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Wow, comic - do you not get it...
Eliot Spitzer is a coddled rich boy who got the job he had because he professed a bunch of principles he didn't really believe in -- or didn't believe in for himself. So he lost his pretend job.
That leaves him STILL a coddled little son of a rich man who provides him a free place to live. And any second now, once he's done licking his wounds (or paying for someone else to lick them) he's going to quietly go to work for some big, posh firm because, being a rich guy, he has rich-guy connections.
Momentary embarrassment, with no long-term consequences, is not the same as a jail term.
God almighty, you sure do represent well the type of guy (NOT all guys, but some) who actually believe that a momentary inconvenience is the same thing as a hardship. I bet you think you've experienced discrimination as a white man too, don't you?
Huh-larious...
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God almighty, you sure do represent well the type of guy (NOT all guys, but some) who actually believe that a momentary inconvenience is the same thing as a hardship.
I'm a woman.
ow sorta blows yer whole "men do everything to make prostitute's lives horrible BECAUSE they're women" theory, huh?
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comic...
You think the notion that you're female "blows [my] whole "men do everything to make prostitute's lives horrible BECAUSE they're women" theory"?
No, not unless you're a cop. Or a judge (for pay). It does blow my theory that you were a logic-challenged man inadequately defending his gender. Now my theory is that you're a logic-challenged water carrier.
Which is certainly your right and God knows there are enough of you out there...