Since January, apologists for Bill Clinton had been claiming that he didn’t have sex outside of marriage, and certainly not with Monica Lewinsky. After even Slick Willy sort-of-admitted to it, their story instantly changed to "it’s only his personal life", as if such events, occurring as they did during the scope of Clinton’s (and Lewinsky’s) employment and in the Oval Office of the President of the United States, were expected to be private business.

Now the apologists, spinmeisters, and media shills are calling for censure of the President, as if slapping his hand, together with the embarrassment he’s already suffered (and Clinton himself is responsible for that embarrassment, anyway...not Kenneth Starr, Matt Drudge, or anyone else), should be enough punishment for anyone.

Well, ignoring the lurid tales of sex that we’re all tired of, and ignoring even things such as "abuse of power", we’re left with what even the New York Times calls an obvious perjury. But let’s call things what they are: perjury is a felony, the most serious type of crime there is in American law. In fact, according to this citation in Federal Law, perjury can be considered as serious as other felonies such as murder, counterfeiting, forgery, embezzlement, robbery, burglary, arson, and piracy. When you’re convicted of Federal perjury, it’s no laughing matter: you lose your right to vote as well as many other civil rights, and you’re subject to penalties up to five years in prison and $250,000 fine.

So the attempts to convince the American people that the case against the President is based on nothing but sex or that the charges are not impeachable offenses are nothing but attempted fraud. And if the President gets nothing but a slap on the wrist for perjury, the signal that would send to every judge, jury, and accused person in America is simple: the truth no longer matters. If that’s the outcome, we can bid our system of justice farewell forever...not to mention that it will be impossible for any parent to look their child in the face ever again and talk about lying, George Washington, and cherry trees.
-- David Fiedler

Here's someone else who apparently agrees with me.

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