The facts presented must be analyzed as to whether they indicate guilt beyond a reasonable doubt by a jury made up of peers. Jurists with preconceived beliefs (biased) must be disallowed.
We now have one of the most serious hearings and judgments going on in the Senate, that being, of course, the impeachment of President Clinton. Is impartiality the rule? Will evidence determine the outcome?
No *blinking way will either ever enter into the judgment, whether the judgment be for President Clinton or against him any more than it did in the House.
First, neither the House nor the Senate is impartial. Both are controlled by warring, biased, closed-minded, rigid party members whose logic extends not further than what any decision will do for themselves or their party. Evidence will not determine President Clinton’s fate - political determinations will.
"He can no longer be trusted. And, because the executive plays so large a role in representing the country to the world, America can no longer be trusted," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde said in arguing that nothing but conviction and removal from office is justified.
This man is as politically biased as can be. He, along with many of his party members, have done as much, if not more, as Clinton to create distrust in the American people, to mislead the American people, and has had many sexual encounters under other than moral conditions. How does he defend his actions but not Clinton's?
He urged senators not to let their vote be swayed by either their own personal "moral condition," or that of House members. "Flawed human beings must, according to the rule
of law, judge other flawed human beings," he said. If this isn’t a bunch of crappola!!
First of all, his statement is one of admission of the extremely poor condition of integrity and morality in the House and Senate. This is strongly indicative that Clinton is the norm rather than being the exception? If so, then Clinton did not commit a crime against society.
If the Senate judges he did, then so did House and Senate members who also have lied repeatedly about their own affairs and other acts of immorality.
If the majority of them have extra-marital affairs, or homosexual encounters (still not the norm, Gays, sorry), cheat in other ways (oral sex in a closet or under the table is still sex, People, regardless of how our politicians in Washington define sex), and have lied under oath, including their Oath of Office, then, of course, President Clinton is behaving normally and as expected by politicians in our capitol. Therefore, he is as innocent as they are.
Since these people with their own violations have the sole responsibility for trying Mr. Clinton, since their society determines the outcome, impartiality and facts demand that Mr. Clinton remain in office as no crime was committed; he merely behaved as the norm.
If it is determined that Mr. Clinton committed a crime of the level necessary for removal form office, the party crap Hyde is trying to spread all over us with his party manure spreader must be stopped once and for all. This can be accomplished by Any who have done the same being impeached and being removed from their offices of trust.
But, you see, this has never been about a crime being committed. This has been months and months and months of nothing but political crap being doled out to the people of this nation. The entire mess, from start to inevitable conclusion, has been party politics at its worst.
The decision by the Senate concerning President Clinton will be determined by party politics, by political perceptions, not by the letter of the law, the Constitution.
If others are to have their actions excused away as Hyde and others are attempting to do, then so must Mr. Clinton’s be excused away as a human failing.
Sure, he probably did conspire to keep it from coming out - but who of them have not conspired to keep their own sexual encounters outside of marriage from coming out?
Who of them have not lied about their affairs? Who of them are moral enough to judge others on morality? Who of them are unbiased and impartial?
In all probability, none of them are. Therefore, a fair and impartial hearing with a decision based on facts is as likely as me being the next President of the United States.
So, Republicans, just stop it and quit wasting money and time and just do your job, which isn't a personal political witchhunt.