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In Reply to: Sure, it's just some elaborate 40+ hear old conspiracy, posted by morgan fairchild on December 24, 2010 at 19:55:53:
... another for the poor.
You're a pathetic apologist, ...
"Ted Kennedy, after consuming numerous alcoholic beverages, leaves a private party with a young lady not his wife. His wife, you see, is pregnant and is at home back in Massachussetts.
Sen. Kennedy is driving with a suspended license.
A local peace officer wonders if Kennedy's car is lost after seeing it first go one way and then back up and start going a different way. He approaches it on foot. The car then takes off at a high rate of speed.
Shortly after this, the car drives off of Chappaquiddick Bridge, flips over and lands upside down in 8 feet of water. Sen. Kennedy exits the vehicle. The young woman with him does not.
For the next 9 hours, instead of simply calling the police and rescue workers, Sen. Kennedy desperately goes to work on an alibi.
Kennedy confesses the accident to two people, one of whom is his cousin and lawyer, Joseph Gargan. They press him to report the accident, which he is understandably reluctant to do. The two men press Kennedy so much, he surprises them by shouting that he will report the accident and then dives into the lake and swims the harbor to the hotel where he was staying.
Taking Kennedy at his word, Gargan and the other man remain on the Island. In the morning, Gargan is stunned to find Kennedy chatting with friends and getting ready to head for breakfast.
Not only did Kennedy not report the accident, he also took pains to be seen by a hotel staff member late that night and madee a point of asking the man what time it was.
Two fishermen discovered the upside down car next to the bridge that morning, while Kennedy was still feverishly working on his alibi.
To drink and drive is a crime. To flee the scene of an accident is a crime. To fail to render aid to someone injured in an accident you caused is a crime. While sleeping around on your wife is not a crime, it does display poor judgement and a low moral character.
Senator Kennedy did all these things and because he is a Kennedy, he got away with it. Had you or I gotten drunk and driven off a bridge with someone in the car with us, and we left them to die while we chose not to report the accident and instead tried to invent an alibi, you or I would go to prison. We are not Kennedys.
The key merit of this book is that it demonstrates how in America today someone with power and influence can engage in criminal conduct and not only never be called to account for their crimes, but can even flourish and sit in position of moral authority over others.
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Follow Ups
- No, you're an apologist, who favor 2 seperate scales of justice. One scale for the rich and powerful, ... - Jack Seaton 12/25/1004:10:15 12/25/10 (12)
- In America, we live by the rule of law. - morgan fairchild 05:55:30 12/25/10 (11)
- I am not sure you would held the same discourse if, say Jed Bush, would have been at the wheel. - Colonel Sanders 06:11:08 12/25/10 (10)
- Exactly my point. He'll grant Teddy a free pass, just because he likes the man's politics. Justice? Hmmm, ... - Jack Seaton 07:46:03 12/25/10 (8)
- Sorry, Mr. Seditionist, sir, if I don't conform to your way of doing things. - morgan fairchild 08:35:51 12/25/10 (7)
- You're a partisan apologist. You hate justice. - Jack Seaton 08:45:59 12/25/10 (6)
- Last time I checked, Richard Nixon was pardoned after trying to overthrow the government - morgan fairchild 09:00:25 12/25/10 (5)
- Fortunately, I'm not a blind partisan, as you obviously are. - Jack Seaton 10:29:33 12/25/10 (4)
- Oh, no, you're not partisan or anything like that. You just carry multi-decade grudges - morgan fairchild 12:10:48 12/25/10 (3)
- Multi-decade grudges? - Jack Seaton 16:16:48 12/25/10 (2)
- I really do not understand the bashing Clinton got. - Colonel Sanders 00:29:30 12/26/10 (0)
- A little extra "medication" for the Holidays, then? - morgan fairchild 17:25:39 12/25/10 (0)
- Well, his brother's death toll is north of 5000, and that's just the American's. - morgan fairchild 06:18:42 12/25/10 (0)
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