Reply #26: It's healthier not to grasp at straws. The reality is that impeachment and criminal prosecution [View All]

[bean fidhleir]

couldn't be more different.

Imagine a public mass-murderer being first convicted in federal court on a "violation of civil rights" charge and getting a wrist-slap, and then convicted in state court and sentenced to hang.

Who would sympathize with him apart from other mass-murderers and the terminally soft-headed?


Is there anything uglier than to see some scumbag who has bilked millions of their life savings in some stock-fraud deal get a wrist-slap because "he's already suffered enough" by being revealed as the disgusting, criminal betrayer of people's trust he is?