The 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.
