[ExI] s&p 500 growth, was: RE:

[John Clark]

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 7:42 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:



> ​> ​
> You answered my question John.  You are OK with the president having the
> ultimate security clearance.
>
> ​Who in the world wouldn't be OK with that? In a finite population
somebody has to be ​at the end of the security granting chain.


> ​> ​
> By that reasoning Nixon was justified in gathering intelligence on
> possible rivals.
>
> ​Don't be silly. No security clearance no matter
​ how​
high authorizes you to commit crimes, it just authorizes you to hear
secrets. ​And burglary is a crime but getting a blowjob is not, or at least
it shouldn't be.


> >
>> ​>​
>> …The Senate a *ACQUIT* *TED* Bill Clinton of perjury…
>
>
>
> ​> ​
> I see.  Does that mean he didn’t lie?
>
> ​It means the Senate didn't give a shit
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if
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he lied
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or not
​
because he never should have been asked the question. It means the Senate
was acting like a jury
​just as​
 the constitution says it should
​,​
and it means the Senate was OK with the idea of Jury Nullification. I'm OK
with Jury Nullification too, I though all Libertarians were.

I've
​ ​
had some experience with it
​
myself
​.​
​
I was called for jury duty and
​
was
​
still in the big jury pool room before being assigned
​
a specific case with hundreds of
​
other
​
potential jurors
​.
They
​
asked
​
all of us one by one regular boilerplate questions like "will your personal
opinion of the justice of a law have any effect on your verdict?" and
everybody said "no" until they got to me, I said "well
​ yes​
, I believe in Jury Nullification because..."
​
and
​
wow, in a flash the Judge said "
​​Thank
​
you Mr. Clark you are dismissed" and 30 second later I was on the sidewalk
outside the courthouse on my way home.

Judges don't want juries to know anything about Jury Nullification, they
just hate it when they do. I had almost contaminated hundreds of jurors
with libertarian ideas
​,​
but thanks to the judge's fast reflexes the situation was saved.
​ John K Clark​




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