Comments on: Spitzer Also Edited The Harvard Law Review

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:55:27 +0000

In the limit of an infinite number of laws, many of them contradictory, we are all technically “guilty” of some state-manufactured crime. Thugs in prosecutorial garb like Spitzer or Gonzales or Reno can throw people in jail for whatever reason – “lying to the government” is my favorite – as if the government does not lie to the people! We have a government throwing hundreds of billions of agribusiness subsidies to Archer Daniels Midland and trillions to the Iraqi Black Hole of Moslem Liberation while they put my money “on hold” when I move a few thousand {Weimar-inflated} dollars from one bank to another! Add in the hypocritical War on Drugs and one can see why Reverend Jeremiah Wright does his Jeremiahads of Black Power Ranting.

We are, sad to say, not CITIZENS of the State but rather its SUBJECTS and potential suspects who must prove that we are not terrorists when we move money around, earn money, start a business, fly on an airplane, etc. Spitzer is merely another “data point” on Lord Acton’s observation about “power corrupts”.

…. However, I fail to understand why ALL these {power hungry but pathetic} wives stand by their men instead of performing a bris { circumcision } like Lorena Bobbitt did.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:23:18 +0000

Spitzer must be a democrat as I never seem to see his party affiliation mentioned. If he were a republican I suspect the “trail leaving slugs” of the MSM would be shouting REPUBLICAN in every other line written.

By: Leonard

Leonard — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:00:30 +0000

um, … yes, Mr. Google shows you are correct. Not a word I use often. Ever, really, save maybe once on a blog.

By: Leonard

Leonard — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:59:47 +0000

As a man who enforced prostitution and money laundering statutes, it seems to me Spitzer is estoppelled from asserting his natural liberty on this issue. So, you should not feel bad about him getting hoist on this particular petard. [Very interesting comment. I agree with you. Btw, is it not "estopped"?--IM] That said, I agree with you on all the particulars. It's a damned shame he is not being destroyed for his flagrant abuse of the law, not this minor misconduct. One argument I've seen that's worth consideration is the idea that public servants should be held to the law even when it is stupid, because to break the law opens them to blackmail and possible abuse of the public trust.

By: sshaun

sshaun — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:36:52 +0000

I think it’s a shame that Spitzer could be pressured from office because of his relations with a hooker. Virtually all the men that I know, who have money to spend, have similar relations.

I don’t know much about the man, but I was told that he used to crack down on prostitution rings so karma has worked its magic (just a figure of speech, I don’t believe in karma).

If his dealing with business were as brutal as portrayed in Slate, his takedown has been long overdue.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:09:48 +0000

Ilana’s righteous indignation is a breath of fresh air among today’s endless moral relativism! Keep up the great work!