Letters to the Editor
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How bad the GOP is
or how prostitution should be legalized is beside the point. Eliot Spitzer understood the law, had a duty to uphold the law and yet he broke the law. Evidently, behaving as if the rules didn't apply to him didn't make it true.
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@Silenced
I think he's a traitor to the Constitution
He took away the constitutional rights of other Americans over prostitution. That's what happens when you go to jail -- you lose most of the rights you've been guaranteed as an American.
I seriously doubt Spitzer ever prosecuted a sex worker for a misdemeanor infraction in his life. Prostituion is a misdemeanor, unless the worker has HIV and knowingly continues to work. Going after a sex ring would probably be a RICO prosecution. No hookers would be harmed in that kind of case.
If he goes out and hires hookers himself, then that means he doesn't take the Constitution seriously.
The constitution is mute on the issue of prostitution. Nothing about it in there. Nor God, or privacy, an Air Force. They didn't mention billions of things.
He's taken many oaths to protect and defend the Constitution during his various jobs in the public sector.
See above.
This is way more serious than Clinton's adultery.
How?
This is about the most incarcerated nation in the world, where the incarcerators allow themselves to break the same rules they've used to incarcerate others.
It is but like I said, he wasn't wasting his time jailing hookers or johns. Shapiro's article is crap.
This is a sick country and he is a symbol of our sickness.
It is a sick country but the prosecution of Spitzer is a symbole of the sickness. He's a victim. A stupid victim, but a victim nonetheless, being prosecuted for a victimless crime.
The powers that be wanted to put this one down because he made a career out of prosecuting them and they are the ones who do real harm to the country and the constitution, not Spitzer. Don't be a dope, like Shapiro here.
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@christies47
How bad the GOP is or how prostitution should be legalized is beside the point.
In what way? What Eliot Spitzer does with his wang is hardly any American other than his wife's primary concern. On the contrary, the uproar over this seems to me to be ginned up at the exact right time to distract from the mounting pressure the administration faces on the domestic spying issue.
Eliot Spitzer understood the law, had a duty to uphold the law and yet he broke the law.
Just like Bush, huh.
Evidently, behaving as if the rules didn't apply to him didn't make it true.
Rather unlike Bush, huh.
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the tragic fall of Eliot Spitzer
Prostitution between consenting adults should not be a crime. The moral outrage being portrayed in the media is absolutely hilarious. There has to be a hit Broadway play buried in all the goings-on. However ther is some not so funny collateral damage.
Mrs. Spitzer is being subject to public humiliation and private grief. The people of the state of New York have been deceived and misled by a man who appears to totally lack in integrity and have his common sense located at his groin. When a man makes a great deal of political capital from pursuing the conviction of those who break the duly approved but ludicrously laws of the land, then breaks them himself, one has to give thought to the moral turpitude of the nation's political elite. Given America's propensity for legally and illegally spying on its citizens one has to also question the man's common sense. He should have at least had the sense not to leave a visible trail.
Once again it appears that America will occupy itself with a issue which is of little or no consequence in the long term while important issues are set aside to solve themselves.
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"Tragic"? As if.
There is nothing in the least tragic about Gov. Spitzer's fall. With the exception of the effect on his family.
This is nothing less than divine retribution, or at the very least poetic justice of the most delicious kind.
He was a sanctimonious, self-serving, hyper-ambitious, bullying son of a bitch. And he cultivated a multitude of disciples in his own image to spread his own brand of legally shrouded venality.
Thus ever to zealots, Mr. Sptizer.
May you after a long life of humiliation, come to reside in that special room in hell for hypocrites who victimize others for their own advancement.
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-- christies47
Eliot Spitzer understood the law
Yes he did. He exhibited very bad judgement.
he had a duty to uphold the law
Yes he did but there are many laws on the books that no longer get enforced or prosecuted. Trust me on this. In an urban areas DA's office, or as attorney general, limited resources are marshalled depending on the politics of the DA or AG. He was mostly interested in White Collar crime and serious crime. The sex rings he prosecuted may have been sexual slavery and forced prostitution rings. I doubt he was going after this kind of high class operation but most of the press don't bother to look at this. Even Shapiro would rather go for the cheap short con to get you to read this drivel. If Spitz did go after a high end operation it was RICO and tax evasion/money laundering. He wasn't wasting time on hookers and johns. Those are misdemeanours. There is less hypocrisy here than you all realize.
and yet he broke the law. Evidently, behaving as if the rules didn't apply to him didn't make it true.
Yes he did and he'll pay for it. It's too bad because he was one of the good guys and the law he broke was pretty lame. He wouldn't have busted anyone for it. He may have gone after the operation as AG. Today he is the governor. Tomorrow he won't be. Those girls will go to work for someone else and the client list will go with them and every other high roller and politician will go right on paying them 5000 an hour.