RP>On 01-31-98, JOHN SAMPSON declared to ROBERT PLETT:
JS>Let's get reasonable here. Granted, it's a crime. It's prosecutable.
JS>you honestly think you could find a jury in the District of Columbia
JS>would CONVICT him? Remember this is the same city that re-elected it
JS>crack smoking Mayor AFTER he was convicted. Marion Barry. So do you 
JS>that they'll convict Clinton?
RP>I don't disagree with you about that, John.  But, how is it we've come
RP>to such a state?  Isn't it because people like us haven't insisted on
RP>calling it the crime that it is?  If we don't say it, who will?  If we
RP>don't call for enforcement, who will?
We got there by subscribing, as a society, to the philosophy of such great 
minds as Crosby Stills Nash and Young. You know, "If you can't be with the 
one you love, love the one you're with." Or "Dr." Tim O'Leary, Dr. Spock, 
and the rest of the usual suspects. 
We got there because the onus of pregnancy was removed by birth control and 
abortion. Once that problem was "resolved" then promescuity was a hop skip 
and a jump into the bed or wherever else one had a notion.
We got there because the LIbEral dogma of the "ends justify the means" 
became acceptable. Because the media made it so. Because Hollywood shoved 
enough of it down our throats that it became second nature and acceptable.
Or to quote Sen. Tom Daschle, the public just gave up. 
When I watched the "Stand By Your Man" speach on 60 Minutes on Sunday (it 
was the rerun of the 1992 interview with Bubba and Bubbette) it was 
patently obvious to me that Clinton, with Hillary's approval (she was 
nodding her head) avoided answering the question despite the best efforts 
of Steve Croft. What he said was that he wasn't going to commit to a black 
and white answer and left it to the imagination and interpretation of the 
American people as to whether or not he had an affair with Jennifer (or 
Gennifer) Flowers. He neither denied or confirmed. People heard what they 
WANTED to hear. Those who favored Clinton heard it as a denial. Those who 
opposed him heard it as an admission. 
He sidestepped the issue of Lewinsky today despite having said the American 
people are entitled to a forthright answer to that question. He has yet to 
deliver that forthright answer unless you count that 20 second finger 
wagging tirade posing as a denial as an answer. 
What it boils down to Robert is that sadly, the American people are a 
selfish self centered lot who are concerned about their comfort and their 
financial security. The majority now living on either coast could give a 
hoot if the President watched kiddie porn much less have an affair with a 
21 year old woman.  
If I were one of those NCOs in Leavenworth, I'd be having my attorneys 
filing an appeal on my conviction for rape. If the CIC can do it, why would 
any of the NCOs be held liable? I agree that the CIC should be just as 
liable, but the fickle public doesn't see it that way. Ergo, where is Jesse 
or Al, or Kwesi or Major, screaming racial inequities. The, pardon my 
phraseology, Great White Father gets a pass on this, while African American 
NCOs are prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned for virtually the same 
conduct. 
The outcry from the White House and especially from Hillary about a "right 
wing conspiracy" reminds me of a line from Shakespeare: "Methinks thou dost 
protest too much."
John , jnsampson@ibm.net 
 "To find reasonable doubt, one must first be capable of reason."
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