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Brooke's sentiments mirror my own.
Alton Stephens
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Brookemail@xxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 1:19 PM
> To: rtestes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: "The Seduction of a President" by Kenneth Starr
>
>
> I have the greatest respect for your opinion, Richard. You're not only
> knowledgeable on many subjects -- you're wise. You're absolutely
> right that
> the Metastock list is the wrong forum for political debate -- or
> mud-slinging.
> However, after reading all the notes attacking Clinton on the
> basis of Starr's
> lurid examination of his sex life, I felt compelled to speak out.
>
> I'm deeply troubled by the division in this country right now --
> and by the
> Republicans' efforts to bring down a freely and fairly elected president.
>
> In a recent article in the New York Times, sociologist Orlando
> Patterson says
> it well:
>
> "To the nonlawyer's mind, which holds the highest principle of
> justice to be
> fariness, Mr. Starr's expedient pursuit of the Lewinsky sex
> matter after three
> years in which he failed to find any wrongdoing by the President in the
> Whitewater episode smacks of precisely the kind of prosecutorial
> zealotry that
> Hamilton most feared. If the personal life of the most powerful man in the
> nation can be violated so wantonly by a Government-appointed
> prosecutor, then
> we are all at risk. ... Americans have traditionally trusted the courts to
> stand as the last barricade against intrusions of this kind. But now it
> appears that any determined opponent can use the legal system to
> invade our
> most intimate lives and that our prosecutors have almost
> limitless powers to
> entrap us and to violate the most fundamental element of our freedom."
>
> And: "The public's correct understanding of democracy parallels
> its concern
> with the preservation of individual liberty. This explains why
> most Americans
> still side with Mr. Clinton and against Mr. Starr. By objecting
> to publication
> of details of the President's sex life, Americans have
> acknowledged that his
> right to privacy justifies his attempt to conceal actions they
> consider to be
> his business and no one else's. The disingenuousness of the President's
> legalistic definition of sex is justificed by the equally transparent
> disingenuousness of Mr. Starr's tactic of using Mr. Clinton's relationship
> with Monica Lewinsky as a way of trapping him in a falsehood."
>
> Now Rep. Henry J. Hyde, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, says
> any efforts
> to expose members of Congress to the same scrutiny applied to Clinton's
> private life could lead to federal charges and imprisonment.
>
> This whole affair reminds one not of Watergate, but of McCarthyism.
>
> Brooke
>
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