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infoviro

(59 posts)
Thu Jan 23, 2014, 08:06 AM Jan 2014

McDonnell defense likens U.S. prosecution to Caligula

Within hours of the indictment, McDonnell's legal team launched a forceful attack on the government's case.

The lawyers made two legal filings in federal court in Richmond, one of which invoked an ancient ruler whose tyrannical reign was reputedly marked by financial greed and misdeeds.

"It has been a long time since the Roman Emperor Caligula imprisoned people for violating laws written in tiny lettering on a pillar too high to see," the lawyers wrote in making a comparison to the federal government's case against McDonnell.

McDonnell's lawyers argued his innocence and said the charges were built on a "rickety legal foundation.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/21/former-virginia-gov-robert-mcdonnell-faces-charges-over-gifts/

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McDonnell defense likens U.S. prosecution to Caligula (Original Post) infoviro Jan 2014 OP
I hope he and Christie end up in federal prison davidpdx Jan 2014 #1
What is it with right-wingers and their persecution complexes? tanyev Jan 2014 #2
I think his lawyers need to look up what happened to Caligula hobbit709 Jan 2014 #3
What? They are like a bad 70's soft core porn flick? n/t n2doc Jan 2014 #4
Have you ever seen it? It's actually hard core porn... joeybee12 Jan 2014 #9
the flailings of a failed fool. nt Javaman Jan 2014 #5
Poppy Bush was like Caligula. Octafish Jan 2014 #6
Ridiculous. Aristus Jan 2014 #7
Get a load of this photo from the NY Times joeybee12 Jan 2014 #8
 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
9. Have you ever seen it? It's actually hard core porn...
Thu Jan 23, 2014, 11:44 AM
Jan 2014

They put in all these porn actors to actually do it at the banquets and orgies, and everything is shown...it juxtaposes all the sex with horrendous violence...one of the more sickening movies ever made.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
6. Poppy Bush was like Caligula.
Thu Jan 23, 2014, 11:34 AM
Jan 2014
George Bush : the unauthorized biography

EXCERPT...

INTRODUCTION: American Caligula

The thesis of this book is simple: if George Bush were to be re- elected in November
1992 for a second term as the president of the United States, this country and the rest of
the world would face a catastrophe of gigantic proportions.

The necessity of writing this book became overwhelming in the minds of the authors in
the wake of the ghastly slaughter of the Iraq war of January- February 199 1 . That war was
an act of savage and premeditated genocide on the part of Bush, undertaken in
connivance with a clique in London which has, in its historical continuity, represented
both the worst enemy of the long-term interests of the American people, and the most
implacable adversary of the progress of the human species.

The authors observed George Bush very carefully as the Gulf crisis and the war unfolded,
and had no doubt that his enraged public outbursts constituted real psychotic episodes,
indicative of a deranged mental state that was full of ominous portent for humanity. The
authors were also horrified by the degree to which their fellow citizens willfully ignored
the shocking reality of these public fits. A majority of the American people proved more
than willing to lend its support to a despicable enterprise of killing.

By their role-call votes of January 12, 1991, the Senate and the House of Representatives
gave their authorization for Bush's planned and imminent war measures to restore the
Emir of Kuwait, who owns and holds chattel slaves. That vote was a crime against God's
justice.

This book is part of an attempt to help them to survive anyway, both for the sake of the
world and for their own sake. It is intended as a contribution to a process of education
that might still save the American people from the awesome destruction of a second Bush
presidency. It is further intended as a warning to all citizens that if they fail to deny Bush
a second term, they will deserve what they get after 1993.

As this book goes to press in the autumn of 1991, public awareness of the long-term
depression of the American economy is rapidly growing. If Bush were re-elected, he
would view himself as beyond the reach of the voters and the popular will; with the
federal deficit rising beyond a billion dollars a day, a second Bush administration would
dictate such crushing austerity as to bring the country to the brink of civil war. Some
harbingers of what might be coming are described in the last chapter of this book. Our
goal has been to assemble as much of the truth about Bush as possible within the time
constraints imposed by the 1992 election. Time and resources have not permitted us
meticulous attention to certain matters of detail; we can say, nevertheless, that both our
commitment to the truth and our final product are better than anything anyone else has
been able to muster, including news organizations and intelligence agencies with
capabilities that far surpass our own.

CONTINUED...

http://www.archive.org/stream/GeorgeBushTheUnauthorizedBiography/BushUA_djvu.txt
 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
8. Get a load of this photo from the NY Times
Thu Jan 23, 2014, 11:43 AM
Jan 2014


The article is about Mrs. McDonnell, essentially that she's the impetus behind all thsi criminal activity...from that photo, I believe it!
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