Intruder in the Dust

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18. I think all of us who were around back then have been thinking about this.

I keep wondering how different things might have gone if Nixon had not been pardoned. It isn't so much that he didn't deserve a pardon, that can be argued on many different grounds. Here is WHY he was pardoned:

"The prospects of such trial will cause prolonged and divisive debate over the propriety of exposing to further punishment and degradation a man who has already paid the unprecedented penalty of relinquishing the highest elective office of the United States."

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Proclamation_4311

This is what seems to be fucking us right now and into the foreseeable future. This is where we slipped off the rails and began our move from being a constitutional republic (rule of law) toward embracing a system of democratic fascism (rule of the manipulated majority).

We need to somehow work our way back to basics. All men are created equal. That sort of thing.