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Offline Hangtime

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« Reply #15 on: May 26, 2006, 11:06:02 PM »
* Whiskey Rebellion rebels (Washington, 1795; amnesty)
    * Confederate rebels (Johnson, 1868; amnesty)
    * Samuel Mudd (Johnson, 1869)
    * Eugene Debs (Harding, 1921)
    * Marcus Garvey (Coolidge, 1927; clemency for mail fraud conviction in 1923)
    * Oscar Collazo (Truman, 1952; commuted death sentence to life imprisonment for attempting to assassinate President Truman in 1950)
    * Jimmy Hoffa (Nixon, 1971; commutation)
    * Richard Nixon (Ford, 1974)
          o remarks by President Gerald Ford
          o lecture on the Nixon Pardon (Professor Benton Becker, University of Miami; formerly legal counsel to President Gerald Ford)
    * Tokyo Rose (Ford, 1977)
    * Clyde Wilson (Ford, 1977)
    * Vietnam draft resisters (Carter, 1977; amnesty)
    * G. Gordon Liddy (Carter, 1977; commuted sentence for Watergate break-in in 1972)
    * Irving Flores Rodriguez, Lolita Lebron, and Rafael Cancel-Miranda (Carter, 1979; clemency for machine-gunning the U.S. House of Representatives and wounding five Congressmen in 1954)
    * Oscar Collazo (Carter, 1979; clemency for attempting to assassinate President Truman in 1950)
    * Patricia Hearst (Carter, 1979; commuted sentence for armed robbery)
    * Peter Yarrow (Carter, 1981; clemency for a sexual offence in 1969)
    * W. Mark Felt and Edward Miller (Reagan, 1981; clemency for authorizing FBI agents to break into Vietnam protestors' offices without warrants)
    * Gilbert Dozier (Reagan, 1984; commuted sentence for extortion and racketeering)
    * Junior Johnson (Reagan, 1985; pardoned for liquor offences committed in the 1950s)
    * Albert Alkek (Reagan, 1987; clemency for withholding information from federal officials regarding an oil price-fixing scheme)
    * George Steinbrenner (Reagan, 1989)
    * Armand Hammer (Bush, 1989; pardoned for making illegal contributions to President Nixon's re-election campaign in 1972)
    * Caspar Weinberger (Bush, 1992)
          o full text of President Bush's pardon proclamation
    * Edwin L. Cox, Jr. (Bush, 1993; pardoned for bank fraud)
    * Aslam P. Adam (Bush, 1993; clemency for heroin trafficking)
    * Joseph Occhipinti (Bush, 1993; commuted sentence for violating the civil rights of accused criminals)

Of course, the clinton pardons are literally leigion.. several hundred of 'em!
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« Reply #16 on: May 26, 2006, 11:10:42 PM »
If yer gonna include hotlinks, at least make them working. This is rule # 3 in the Rip-N-Paste user's guide.
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Offline Mr Big

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« Reply #17 on: May 26, 2006, 11:11:23 PM »
Hang, that list is an example of a BIG problem in our government.

Might as well have a "king" of all law in the US. Oh wait, we do.
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« Reply #18 on: May 26, 2006, 11:15:37 PM »
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    * Tokyo Rose (Ford, 1977)
   


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Offline rpm

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« Reply #19 on: May 26, 2006, 11:40:06 PM »
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* Irving Flores Rodriguez, Lolita Lebron, and Rafael Cancel-Miranda (Carter, 1979; clemency for machine-gunning the U.S. House of Representatives and wounding five Congressmen in 1954)
Whoa Nellie!!!:O

I hadn't heard of this. That sounds like it would make a heck of a film.
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Offline Hangtime

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« Reply #20 on: May 26, 2006, 11:52:00 PM »
yep. Puerto Rican Seperatists.
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« Reply #21 on: May 26, 2006, 11:57:37 PM »
Wow, sounds perfect for Pacino.

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Offline WhiteHawk

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« Reply #22 on: May 27, 2006, 06:59:29 AM »
They will eventually go to prison, but only after a flury of lengthy appeals and legal delays allow them to be free until 85 years old.  They US simply cannot survive by letting this kind of crime go unpunished.
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Offline Debonair

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« Reply #23 on: May 27, 2006, 12:07:33 PM »
sure it can
he isn't the 1st billion dollar fraud artist & wont be the last
jail or the chair wont scare anyone off that kind of money
and US stock markets have been providing gains vast enough to satisfy the average level of greed since before lay of skilling were ever indicted
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« Reply #24 on: May 27, 2006, 01:42:28 PM »
No way, he wont.

He's done a lot of things I dont agree with...but I dont think he's that tarded.
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« Reply #25 on: May 27, 2006, 02:25:07 PM »
I hope Bush offers no pardon to the Enron theives.  They should do life for the devestation they brought to so many peoples lives.


Clinton Pardons in 2001
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« Reply #26 on: May 27, 2006, 02:28:53 PM »
Heh... did it work for Bernie Ebbers?  

I rode the elevators with that stunninghunk many a times in Jackson, MS.

Hope he's blowing poles.... and I don't mean Europeans.

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