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upi402

(16,854 posts)
Mon Jun 10, 2013, 10:20 PM Jun 2013

Jesse Jackson Jr is frogmarched for peanuts compared to WAR CRIMINALS and BANKSTERS livin' large

You ask about WAR CRIMINALS and BANKSTERS?
"We're moving forward"

A Jackson? "Prison time baby, you screwed up and we know everything everyone does. Jail time for you small fish."

The government spied on Dr King and Jesse Jackson.
What would Dr King say to President Obama and Eric Holder?

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Jesse Jackson Jr is frogmarched for peanuts compared to WAR CRIMINALS and BANKSTERS livin' large (Original Post) upi402 Jun 2013 OP
It's no defense to a crime that someone else got away with it. Honeycombe8 Jun 2013 #1

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
1. It's no defense to a crime that someone else got away with it.
Mon Jun 10, 2013, 10:23 PM
Jun 2013

It's fair enough to point out an inequity, but that means the others should be prosecuted, too. Not that THIS criminal should not have to bear the consequences of his illegal actions.

If Jackson did the crime, he has to do the time. Others should, too. But first, there has to be proof of a crime. Therein lies the rub, as they say.

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