Re: ditz in office

Even if the normal parts of the Bush and Clinton Administrations are
equally fascist, the Clinton Administration would win in net
fascism since it includes an added (unelected) fascist element
missing from the Bush administration: 

Linda Stasi reports in her column "Hot Copy" in the New York Daily
News today (Tuesday, March 1, 1994) that she and some other gossip
columnists were invited to have tea with Hillary Clinton yesterday.

[Hillary was in town to boost her health care program with a visit to a
very recently improved Kings County Hospital.  The units Hillary visited
were specially scrubbed for her visit and contained fewer patients than
usual.]

Linda says Hillary "...never wants to run for public office herself.  But
she'd probably get elected in a minute."  Think again Linda.  You also
provided us with another one of those `Hillary's Ominous Quotes of the 
Day':

"AT A CERTAIN POINT, YOUR RIGHTS MUST BE ABRIDGED FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD."

The statement might simply be her response to a question about convicted
rapists not having to submit to an AIDS test.

And then again, it might not.




--- WinQwk 2.0b#1165

Oh, please. Dislike Hillary Clinton's policies if you must, but
all this animus against Hillary Clinton as a person and as a 
fascist is grounded in sexism. 


--Mike

Duncan Frissell wrote:

(Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking in all caps:)
| "AT A CERTAIN POINT, YOUR RIGHTS MUST BE ABRIDGED FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD."
| 
| The statement might simply be her response to a question about convicted
| rapists not having to submit to an AIDS test.

	IMHO, there is a world of difference between abrogating the
rights of a convicted criminal and the rights of the accused.  Society
seems to have agreed that conviceted criminals should be stripped of
certain rights, such as their freedom and or their ownership of
property, after their conviction.

	Since the question of "Did he have AIDS?" clearly impacts the
severity of the crime committed and the impact it may have on the
victim, I don't see this as an amazingly shock provoking example of
the rights of a criminal being taken away, especially in light of how
difficult it seems to be to obtain a conviction for rape.

	I would not be willing to accept such testing on the basis of
anything but a conviction.  An accusation (in my mind) is not enough
to force a test, nor to force the disclosure of a previous test.

Adam

-- 
Adam Shostack 				       adam@bwh.harvard.edu

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