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| Ben Stein: Presumptions of innocence have vanished for good. |
| 2017-11-27 |
| [American Spectator] Now for a few words about the "sex scandals" rocking the nation: As usual, Mr. Trump put his finger on the exact issue about Judge Roy Moore a few days ago. A woman reporter shouted out to him something like, "Is it better to have an accused child molester in the Senate than a Democrat?" Mr. Trump hit it out of the park. "He denies it all. He totally denies it," said the President. He thereby got to the crux of the matter. Judge Moore is accused of various misdeeds. There’s no proof of any of it. It might be true and it might not be true. But if the voters of Alabama elect Judge Moore to the Senate, is Mitch McConnell seriously planning to destroy the will of the voters of Alabama and the Constitution because of the allegations of a group of teenagers? Would we really fail to seat a Senator because of gossip ‐ totally unproved ‐ about events forty years ago? Surely the question answers itself. Don’t get me wrong, we should not have a child molester in the Senate. But we don’t know if Mr. Moore ever was a child molester. We have the presumption of innocence in this country. To throw it all away because of the recollections of a long ago teenager seems almost unbelievable. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Ben Stein is a NeverTrump jerkoff who wants it both ways now. Yes, the presumption of innocence is a bedrock of US jurisprudence. If it's only going to be saved if morons like Stein are whining now about this particular example of dem hypocrisy, we are all already guilty regardless and bound for the gulag. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-11-27 18:00 |
| #4 Presumptions of innocence have vanished for good. Only applies for all but Donks. It's that hypocritical double standard thing. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-11-27 11:55 |
| #3 Is it better to have an accused child molester in the Senate than a Democrat? Yes. Because he's only accused of being a child molester - we don't know he's for a fact. A Democrat, on the other hand ... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-11-27 11:24 |
| #2 Is it better to have an accused child molester in the Senate than a Democrat? Yes. Especially so because, truth be told, a large proportion of Democrat senators are every bit as perverted as they say Moore is. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-11-27 10:44 |
| #1 The Democrats always tell the truth...especially if it is innuendo and unprovable. They did it to Hernman Caine and it worked...unproved and innuendo. Still is. And we all know the average Democrat is a person of Integrity. Hillary wasn't a Crook. And Bill Clinton didn't get a sucka suck and his nose isn't like WC Fields on one of his better days. And Nancy Pelosi says Captain Underpants is OK in her book. And we all trust Congress. Yeah? |
| Posted by: Angeash Crise6937 2017-11-27 09:25 |