{"id":3334,"date":"2007-03-06T15:53:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T22:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/06\/misplaced-sorrow\/"},"modified":"2007-03-06T17:20:42","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T00:20:42","slug":"misplaced-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/06\/misplaced-sorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Misplaced Sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lew Rockwell <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.lewrockwell.com\/lewrw\/archives\/012457.html\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I know that Scooter Libby, like any high-ranking apparatchik, has blood on his hands. Still, I find it hard to celebrate his conviction. First, punishing anyone for the crime of naming a CIA spy violates the first amendment. Second, he was not accused of this offense, but of lying to the FBI, etc. about it. [&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the Bush administration had wanted to repeal the Intelligence Identities Protection Act at any time before the Plame incident, thereby making us all a little bit freer in a way we&#8217;d probably never notice (and themselves much freer to lie us into war), they could have. Hell, the GOP controlled Congress at the time! It would&#8217;ve been a breeze. But they did not wish to decriminalize that behavior, or any other. Moreover, they would have thrown me or Lew <em>under<\/em> the goddamn prison had one of us done the revealing.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the fact that Libby was convicted of perjury and such instead of <em>mass murder<\/em>, which he is certainly an accomplice to, should be filed under &#8220;Some Guys Have All the Luck.&#8221; It&#8217;s as if Charles Manson had simply been convicted of hate speech for carving that wacky swastika on his forehead: I&#8217;d be against the law, but I wouldn&#8217;t be out holding a candlelight vigil for the defendant. And since Scooter has the best lawyers money can buy and a sure pardon coming his way, now ain&#8217;t the time for anyone&#8217;s tears (except maybe Cheney&#8217;s).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lew Rockwell writes: I know that Scooter Libby, like any high-ranking apparatchik, has blood on his hands. Still, I find it hard to celebrate his conviction. First, punishing anyone for the crime of naming a CIA spy violates the first amendment. Second, he was not accused of this offense, but of lying to the FBI, [&hellip;]<\/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-3334","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\/3334","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=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}