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Originally Posted by Tchocky
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Well that's a nice propaganda piece but just filled with inaccuracies
For example Terry Jones says:
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When Bush became governor in 1995, the average number of executions in the state was 7.6 a year. During his time in office, he managed to put down a further 24 humans a year, bringing the annual number of executions up to 31.6
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Maybe an foreign actor like Jones doesn't understand this but a US state Governor doesn't "put down" anyone. Juries and judges do that for capital crimes (like cold blooded murder) in accordance with long standing (read pre Bush) Texas law, but of course you knew that right?
Then there is the case of Victor Rita. Far from having an "umblemished record", Rita was first convicted of the crime of perjury in May of 1986, and sentenced to five years’
probation for making false statements in connection with the purchase of firearms. So if we are being asked to compare the two cases we see that Libby gets a jail sentence for his first offense and Rita gets probation for his. That sort of shoots down the whole analogy don'cha think?
Then there is the fact that Rita's second perjury case (you know, the one Jones claim was his first?) was part of an investigation into Rita buying illegal machinegun parts which the court found he deliberately attempted to conceal by switching the illegal parts for other legal ones. In Libbys case the investigators already knew he wasn't the source of the leak they were investigating so, unlike the Rita case, there was no underlying crime to justify the more severe sentance.
Really Tchocky, you should at least check up on your facts just a little before you present the word of a foreign actor as relevant to the discussion. Last I heard experience with Monty Python hardly qualifies him as an expert in American legal proceedings.