Mike Walton wrote:
> Make no mistake about it, Martha Stewart was not prosecuted, she was
> entrapped.

Trapped, maybe, but not "entrapped." That is a crime that police commit
when they encourage someone to commit a crime who is not predisposed to
commit the crime (this is why they can sting drug dealers and get away
with it, but not ordinary people with clean drug records).

Anyway, as the other poster said, this was not a police operation, so
"entrapment" is not even applicable.

> The jury sent the clear message that if you have Republican
> connections and you lie to the American people [somebody like John
> Poindexter] the Federal Government will hire you. If you are Democrat
> like Martha Stewart, you will be entrapped.

What about me, a registered Libertarian? They won't entrap me, but won't
hire me... either they just leave me alone or I get the death penalty
for standing for freedom ;-)

> The business of America is business...

True. My U.S. History I professor, a PhD, drilled that into our heads
many times. It is sad, in a way, but good, in a way.

> If Martha Stewart spends a single day in jail, the do-nothing regime
> of an idiotic administration that is screwing the small investor,
> should collapse even faster than Howard Dean did.

I hope Asscroft dies under the surgeon's blade. And I hope Bush loses
the next election. I may be a Christian, but that does not mean I will
not go to Hell ;-)

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John Gaughan
http://www.johngaughan.net/