David Gregory will not be prosecuted.
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The law is for little people: David Gregory will not be prosecuted.
This despite the fact that the D.C. Attorney General even admits that Gregory clearly broke the law.
This travesty more than anything demonstrates how pointless these laws are. Gregory waved a high capacity magazine on camera to illustrate the need to ban such items, even though he was doing so in a place, Washington, D.C., where such magazines were already banned. Not only did Gregory prove the law was stupid, the decision not to prosecute him proves that the law exists merely for political reasons. It is used only when it benefits the powers in control. Gregory is on the side of gun control, so of course he gets a pass. Innocent gun owners and supporters of gun rights who happen to be caught traveling in DC with such a banned item, however, can expect jail time.
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The law is for little people: David Gregory will not be prosecuted.
This despite the fact that the D.C. Attorney General even admits that Gregory clearly broke the law.
This travesty more than anything demonstrates how pointless these laws are. Gregory waved a high capacity magazine on camera to illustrate the need to ban such items, even though he was doing so in a place, Washington, D.C., where such magazines were already banned. Not only did Gregory prove the law was stupid, the decision not to prosecute him proves that the law exists merely for political reasons. It is used only when it benefits the powers in control. Gregory is on the side of gun control, so of course he gets a pass. Innocent gun owners and supporters of gun rights who happen to be caught traveling in DC with such a banned item, however, can expect jail time.
It’s beginning to become pretty clear that we are no longer a country of laws but are devolving into a country of men. So much for applying the law equally.
Was there ever any doubt?
I feel like such a little people now.
The laws are only for us little people.
Gregory is pretty small potatoes compared to larger cases of “too big to jail.”
http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=51&articleid=20121225_51_E1_CUTLIN622284
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-20/criminal-prosecution-of-bank-ceos-sought-by-lawmakers-after-ubs.html
And, by the way, these cases have much more serious and wide ranging implications, and both parties are complicit in neglect.
One more article that sums it up…something we can all be outraged about.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/opinion/sunday/no-crime-no-punishment.html?_r=0
Are these cases somehow supposed to make it justifiable to excuse Gregory?
Also, the selective nature of these links appears somewhat partisan to me. Did you notice the one prominent Democratic banking bigwig whose name was somehow missing from all these links? While I absolutely agree with you that banking corruption should be punished, what about Jon Corzine, who literally embezzled a billion dollars of customer funds in an effort to save his company, MF Global. Why has he not been prosecuted? Could it be because he was a fund-raiser for Obama as well as a powerful Democratic governor and senator?
I try my best to use links that are not left wing. That is why I posted Bloomberg (business) and Tulsa (red state). Can’t help myself on the Times…its still (to me) the paper of record. I don’t see this as a left wing or right wing issue…its a big vs. small issue. There are a whole host of left wing people other than Corzine you could mention here that I think got off scott-free. Have at Gregory, but I think at the end its inconsequential to any larger point. But all these titans of finance, that is another story. Their actions have changed the way we will live for decades. To me, their lack of prosecution defines the difference between big vs. small. Gregory is just an anecdote.