As I was watching the Libby verdict come in on CNN, a legal analyst was explaining how Libby’s defense team will try to stall their client’s incarceration until the president issues a pardon, probably in January 2009. Incredulous laughter began bubbling up from some offscreen presence. The camera switched back to the young, African-American anchor, who,with genuine surprise in his voice, asked something to the effect of, “You mean Libby may never serve a day?”<\/p>\n
I don’t know what was running through the anchor’s mind, but I wonder if it had anything to do with the number of people, disproportionately young and African-American, sitting in prison at this very moment for the heinous crime of possessing a dime bag. I wonder if he was marveling at the possibility of this rich, politically connected prick \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who made his fortune getting other rich, politically connected pricks<\/a> off the hook \u00e2\u20ac\u201c never serving a day despite lying us into a war that has killed tens, if not hundreds, of thousands<\/a> of people. I wonder…<\/p>\n Lest you get too distressed<\/a> or indignant<\/a> about Scooter Libby’s plight \u00e2\u20ac\u201c i.e., being convicted by a jury of his peers for multiple violations of uncontroversial laws \u00e2\u20ac\u201c take a minute to visualize the fenced-in golf course where Libby will likely do time (if he does any at all). Things could be worse<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I was watching the Libby verdict come in on CNN, a legal analyst was explaining how Libby’s defense team will try to stall their client’s incarceration until the president issues a pardon, probably in January 2009. Incredulous laughter began bubbling up from some offscreen presence. The camera switched back to the young, African-American anchor, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}