JS>Mike:
JS>This was one of the most eloquent postings you've written. I am in tota
JS>agreement with you which I guess will draw the ire of the likes of Mr. 
JS>Hooton. 
JS>Where is the outrage? It got sold down the river in exchange for a good
JS>economy and personal wealth and comfort. My question is what will Ameri
JS>do when it all comes down like a house of cards? 
 
    I don't know, but if we base the future of our nation on such
quicksand, placing no value upon the character of the men who lead us,
and are only concerned with the immediate results, we are building the
type of attitude and acceptance of the unacceptable that can be easily
transformed into a threat to our republican form of government.
    It's really not that far a leap from accepting the illegal behavior
of a national leader in personal affairs, so long as he produces the
desired results in public affirs, to accepting illegal behavior by a
president in public affairs so long as those results are achieved. 
When we reach a stage that an individual can ignore the law, and
therefore the Consitution and justify his or her behavior with results,
we have reached a point where tyrrany has replaced reason and where the
foundations of the Republic have been allowed to crumble.
     Not so long ago the German people allowed a man to be immune from
the laws and constitution of their own nation because the results he
produced, at first, seemed to far outweight the cost of demanding he
obey the law.  Today the American people, overwhelmingly, seem prepared
to ignore the laws of this nation and accept the perceived results of a
leader as evidence of good cause.  While Clinton is most certinaly not
a man capable of leading a nation to the extremes that the German
people were once led, he, and the attitudes of compliant acceptance he
has created, could very well be the precursors to such a man.
     The depth of danger these events expose this nation to cannot be
overstated.
JS>At least the whores on East Colfax acknowledge that they sell themselve
JS>and their self respect. For that, they're more honest than the likes of
JS>Clinton and those people in America who aren't outraged.
 
        My alarm is not set off by Clinton.  Men such as Clinton have
always existed in societies and always will.  Rarely, however, are they
embraced with such open arms by the people once they have been exposed
for what they are.  It is the acceptance, on behalf of the electorate,
that such behavior can be tolerated int he leader of this nation that
alarms me.  If a President can violate the laws we lives by, if he is
above reproach for his acts and his conduct, and is to only be
measured by the results, what constitutional protection posessed by
any of us remains sacred? 
 
                                           /\/\ike
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