Writer's Block: Pardon You, Mr. Nixon
Sep. 8th, 2008 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The power to pardon as used by the president in recent times should be revoked. Period end.
If a crime is committed on behalf of a particular administration, regardless of the position held by the persons suspected of said crime, it should investigated, prosecuted and punished through the same process any other person would be expected to face. To allow otherwise blocks open the door for further acts of tyranny like "signing letters" that give illusion that a president can edit law to fit his need.
It was Abraham Lincoln who said "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Of. By. For. Why then, should we allow the threads of the tyranny this country was founded to escape creep back into the oval office?
The power to pardon as used by the president in recent times should be revoked. Period end.
If a crime is committed on behalf of a particular administration, regardless of the position held by the persons suspected of said crime, it should investigated, prosecuted and punished through the same process any other person would be expected to face. To allow otherwise blocks open the door for further acts of tyranny like "signing letters" that give illusion that a president can edit law to fit his need.
It was Abraham Lincoln who said "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Of. By. For. Why then, should we allow the threads of the tyranny this country was founded to escape creep back into the oval office?
