Freepers are more pissed off at Bush than at the Judge, interesting.

[Raven]

I went over there to take a look and now I have to take a shower and fumigate my computer.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1850218/posts

[yardwork]

1. This is my favorite.

Isn’t it possible that Libby has asked Bush not to pardon him unless he can not clear his name thru appeal?

I'm dying! rotfl!

[Buzz Clik]

4. that is a good one.

You can be guaranteed that Bush has not received any such message. This is Cheney's mess, and Mr. Dick is seemingly detached.

[yardwork]

7. That place provides me with hours of entertainment.

And it's free.

[Deep13]

10. I expect a reversal of the verdict any minute now.

Bush could commute the sentence and allow all appeals to continue. The fact is criminal convictions are hardly ever reversed. The rules are so routine that trial courts hardly ever commit reversible error.

[Buzz Clik]

2. How in God's name can you follow that conversation.

The bulletin board software is so primitive, it's not much better than scratching marks on the wall of a cave.

From what I can tell, half of them want a pardon, some don't feel sorry for Libby, some are just angry for no reason. It's like trying to follow a conversation between my dog and cat. You can tell that both of them are animated, and one of them is unhappy, but you have no idea what the hell is going on.

[yardwork]

9. LOL! My son commented that they have "bad html" on that site.

I explained that the site was invented back in the early dawn of the computer age and that nobody there knows how to update it.

[jobycom]

14. It symbolizes their rejection of science and progress.

Free Republic was good enough for Adam, it's good enough for them. It's six thousand years old, you know, no matter what Al Gore says!

[unpossibles]

18. hahahaha!

it actually reminds me of what I like to call "the first chat room" - you know; the one with the toilet in it. Same bad spelling, anger, "logic" and difficult to read conversations...

[Buzz Clik]

27. Yes. I used to post on that one back in college.

All you needed was a little spare time and a pencil.

[sabra]

3. here's a good one: "This is not a surprise. Judge Reggie Walton has proven to be corrupt."

I also like how they refer to * as Jorge... :crazy:

[Buzz Clik]

8. It's a trend -- every judge who rules against them is corrupt, ...

acting in defiance of the Constitution, or simply stupid.

[Deep13]

12. proven?

Who proved it? With what? And if if the judge is corrupt, how does it exonerate the defendant? The jury convicted him. Are they corrupt too?

[blondeatlast]

15. And yet he's a conservative. But he'll be a "liberal, activist" judge by 4PM

Eastern today...

[Bake]

25. Freeper had better be careful ... that's slander.

Even at the level of a public figure (for which NY Times v. Sullivan requires "actual malice", i.e., knowing OR reckless disregard of the the truth) that statement could be libelous: "PROVEN to be" ... really? Where? "Corrupt" defames a sitting judge in his business or occupation and is libelous per se.

Bake

[madokie]

5. I'd have to throw the damn computer out in the yard then drown myself

that shit just wouldn't wash off me is my scare

[Deep13]

6. This one is great...

"I think that his having to serve before the appeal is over is BS. I am not commenting on the guy himself. It does seem the prosecution was not fair, though"

I'm in appellate court all the time and no one gets an appeal bond unless it is for a misdemeanor. For a felony, the flight risk is too great. Why is this asshole different? If anything, his financial resources increase his flight risk.

Yeah, suddenly we are too hard on crime. Those bastard prosecutors who make Scooter look guilting why presenting evidence to a jury!

[BlooInBloo]

11. Never forget: GW *appointed* judge Walton.

EDIT: Forgot link to bio: http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/walton-bio.html

[Deep13]

13. Damned liberal, Republican judges! nt

[blondeatlast]

16. Indeed, but he'll be an "activist liberal: judge by 4 PM Eastern.

Amazing how those political conversions go once the HF interns latch onto them.

[ck4829]

29. Why do they think that?

That because someone appointed these judges, now they owe them or something.

Have these Freepers ever heard of a little thing called JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE?

[Minimus]

17. This one gave me a good chuckle:

Presidential pardon power is absolute. If Bush wants to pardon him there is nothing to stop him. If he is an ingrate prick and does not do so he can go back to Crawford and hide in the bottom of a Jim Beam bottle.

34 posted on 06/14/2007 10:51:14 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182

[Raven]

21. I know! Amazing isn't it. These people elected a drunken bum

and they knew it. Here little chickies, come home to Papa to roost!

[treestar]

19. Several of them are angry at * over "amnesty" for the illegals

Crossing the border illegally is way worse than what Libby did, you know. :sarcasm:

[unpossibles]

26. I noticed that too.

several people saying he needs to be Mexican to get away with crime and other not-so-thinly veiled racist remarks like how "Bush is taking the Mexicans' side on this one"

um. Genius. The Mexicans don't have a side on this one, unless you mean Gonzales.

[Buns_of_Fire]

20. Question: If Scootie-Poot accepts a pardon, doesn't he also

have to accept guilt?

And if he accepts guilt, wouldn't that potentially jeopardize his assets in any upcoming civil suit (like one filed by the Wilsons, for example)?

[Virginia Dare]

22. Good point, hopefully somebody here can answer...n/t

[ET Awful]

23. What's wrong with this thought process . . .

MSNBC claimed Clinton pardoned only 100 people at the end of his term. Looks like a few more to me and not all at the end of his term.

http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/clintonpardon_grants.htm#november231994

Hehehehe, now correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks to me like 100 people were pardoned at the end of his term . . .some were pardoned before, but, as MSNBC claimed, 100 were pardoned at the end.

This guy must have had a big bowl of stupid for breakfast :P

[unpossibles]

24. wow. They are so seriesly diluted

my favorite so far:
"I am rather amazed that this misinformation regularly pops up here."

funny. I'm not at all.

[TahitiNut]

28. My favorites ...

"If Libby does one day in the joint, Bush’s name will be mud with the people who elected him."

"I’ve lost all faith in the President at this point. Every day, he gets farther away from what I thought I was getting when I voted for him twice."

"Sheesh. This administration can’t close up shop fast enough for me at this point."

"Just shows how cowardly Bush has become. "

"If Bush wants to pardon him there is nothing to stop him. If he is an ingrate prick and does not do so he can go back to Crawford and hide in the bottom of a Jim Beam bottle." :rofl:

"I’m ordering my ‘FREE SCOOTER LIBBY!’ t-shirt." (Shopping is the response to Life, the Universe, and Everything?)

"I have more faith in the Easter Bunny." (I knew the faith-based crowd would weigh in.)

"It is a legal lynching." (It looks like Clarence Thomas posts on FreeRepublic.)

"Bush is hiding under his desk. And, he does not know how to fill out the pardon forms." (Well, you guys voted for the coward.)

"I wonder if they will house him in the Martha Stewart Wing?" (This FReeper wants Scooter to have a sex-change operation. Well, I could go along with that half-way.)

"OK Dubya, I think you are a cowardly little punk who forgets his friends." (Sounds like a Sopranos fan.)

"I wouldn’t blame him if he left the country." (Ahhh... the 'love it or leave it' crowd weighs in.)


I can only think that board is populated with 16-year-olds on meth.

[Ioo]

30. Odd how they want Libby pardoned and Clinton hung, Libby Guilty

Clinton was found not guilty... funny how easy they change their minds when it is one of their guys