October 5, 2005
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Indicted Again?
They Will Do Whatever They Can To Destroy This Man
"The Texas prosecutor overseeing an investigation of former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) fired back yesterday at criticism by DeLay's lawyers that he brought a new indictment against the powerful legislator on Monday to fix a legal flaw in the first indictment of DeLay last week."
"Travis Country District Attorney Ronnie Earle said in a written statement released late yesterday that the new indictment charging DeLay with the criminal felonies of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering was based on new information that "came to the attention of the District Attorney's Office" last weekend."
Ronnie Earl came back yesterday with a second indictment because the law in the first indictment didn’t even apply to Delay because it was written after the event. Its obvious what’s going on here. The crime they accuse Delay of wasn’t even a crime when Delay supposedly did it. Ronnie Earl has one goal here. As you all know, Tom Delay has stepped down. You see, under House Republican rules once Delay is indicted he has to step down.
That is the goal. Ronnie Earl doesn’t care about the flaws in his indictment, all he wanted was to see Tom Delay step down as Majority leader. Everything Delay did was totally legal. Was it morally acceptable? Maybe. But Ronnie Earl is going out on a limb here to label the right wing of this country as "corrupt". Its completely ridiculous. In 2002 the Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee did the exact same thing Ronnie Earl and the left wing media are accusing Delay of. Why does the media look the other way for the Democrats? Because they want a mug shot of Tom Delay so they can place it in the face of every Republican and claim the GOP is full corruption. Unfortunately, it looks as if that just might happen.
Morrison
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Maybe a slightly more neutral perspective than that offered by Focus on the Family is in order:
Christian Science Monitor: Campaign Finance in Age of DeLay
Fox News (gasp!): Charge Based on Rarely Used Law
(Note that "rarely used" does not translate into "legal.")
Why would you simply defer to the notion of "the Democrats did this too" (whether this is true or not)? Whatever happened to that oft cited conservative mantra of personal responsibility? This isn't third grade, and "he started it" isn't a reasonable justification.
"Was it morally acceptable? Maybe."
-Please. DeLay has been crossing the ethical boundaries for quite a while now, and nobody should deny that. We will see whether his acts were illegal, but we all know that DeLay pushes the ethical limit way too far.
Clarification*
(Note that "rarely used" does not translate into "legal.")
...that meaning, that just because a law is rarely used, does not excuse its violation.
Take this with a grain of salt since UT's law school is filled with LIEberals.
George Dix, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law and an expert in criminal law and procedure, said he doesn't believe the changes to the Texas election code in 2003 have any effect on the conspiracy charge.
The penal code allows for the conspiracy charge if the defendants allegedly conspired to commit any felony, including an election code felony.
Just because the election code was silent on the penal code provision until 2003 doesn't mean it wasn't a valid charge before 2003, Mr. Dix said. "To me it just says, 'We really mean what we said implicitly before,' " he said.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/dmn/stories/100405dntexdelay.f32d334d.html
while we're on the subject of Tom DeLay
Moved by the sworn testimony of U.S. officials and human-rights advocates that the 91 percent of the workforce who were immigrants -- from China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh -- were being paid barely half the U.S. minimum hourly wage and were forced to live behind barbed wire in squalid shacks minus plumbing, work 12 hours a day, often seven days a week, without any of the legal protections U.S. workers are guaranteed, Murkowski wrote a bill to extend the protection of U.S. labor and minimum-wage laws to the workers in the U.S. territory of the Northern Marianas.
So compelling was the case for change the Alaska Republican marshaled that in early 2000, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Murkowski worker reform bill.
But one man primarily stopped the U.S. House from even considering that worker-reform bill: then-House Republican Whip Tom DeLay.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/09/real.delay/
The fact is, what he did was illegal. On the first charge, there was a chance to get off on a technicality. There isn't on this one.
*tsk tsk*
Righto. I may blog on this myself. I drafted an idea a work today.
Just an interesting note on Tom DeLay, he has Dick DeGuerin for a lawyer. Dick DeGuerin got a looney, admitted murderer,and dismemberer named Robert Durst off scott free. The man admitted he murdered his neighbor,chopped him up, and threw his body parts in Galveston Bay. I'm sure Tom DeLay is well versed in the "ethics" of Washington, which is why he gets around so well, whether he did anything illegal only time will tell. Ronnie Earl has his own ax to grind, I'm sure it is far from ethical. I can hardly wait for the film with him as the "star".
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