printThe AP has reported that the Bahamas’ “Immigration Minister Shane Gibson resigned Sunday night in a flap over his relationship with Anna Nicole Smith.
Photos recently appeared in a Bahamas newspaper showing Gibson in bed with the former Playboy Playmate and embracing her. Both were fully clothed, but the pictures stoked a controversy because Gibson had fast-tracked Smith’s application for permanent residency on the island chain.
‘I want to apologize to all persons who may in any way have been offended by anything that I have said, done, or perceived to have said or done,’ Gibson said on state television.”
And the busy bodies partaking in the Anna Nicole Smith shout fest on Faux News have not stopped castigating the law in the Bahamas. They’ve also had plenty to say about the ability of the Indian reservation to investigate the death that occurred on their territory. (Yes, cable cockroaches have already “sans evidence and in contradiction to the coroner’s findings” raised the specter of a murder.) What American chauvinism! And what blindness given the reality of American justice.
There are many good books detailing the endemic horrors of our legal system: The Tyranny of Good Intentions, Constitutional Chaos–these are some of the best. The case of District Attorney Michael Nifong of the Duke “rape” case fame is not a fluke. Oh, Nifong has yet to resign or to be nudged in that direction.
Permanent residency? If Anna Nicole wanted to play snuggle bunny with me I would have made her Governor.
The beauty bias is always at hand, but here there were pictures to corroborate it. Mind you, Anna was a pig in my opinion (with the exception of when she was slim).
I wonder if there is any significant difference in somebody resigning, only to change titles and start again as if nothing happened versus somebody who doesn’t resign, apologizes (Nifong hasn’t), and then continues on as if nothing ever happened.
In the caes of Nifong, he deliberately obstructed the law and ruined the lives of three young men. He should be forced to resign.
Whether Nifong resigns or not I suspect he is going to get a lot of unwelcome attention from the attornies that those three families have no doubt aleady hired. And rightly so. He has picked on people who probably know how to get things done. I sincerely hope Mr. Nifong gets it in the shorts.
[The point about Nifong is that he ought to be in jail. He’s not. He practically framed and close-to-bankrupted innocent people with no evidence. But oh no, in the US, government is beyond reach. If it had happened to people like you and I, we[d be broke—ruined, in the poor house.]
Ilana, that’s a point I heard an attorney raise when analyzing Nifong’s conduct. If he is willing to do this to wealthy straight-laced people for votes, what would he do to those who would have no means at all to fight back, for votes.
Frightening, really.