Comments on: We should be allowed to look down on Spitzer

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:41:44 +0000

Everyone knows my solution to corrupt bureaucrats and government officials.

By: suek

suek — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:41:32 +0000

>>I read gave me the impression that he was a crusader, using the law to rid the world of some evil. Heist on his own petard.>>

I disagee. I find him simply corrupt - enforcing a law on others that he feels free to break himself. Selective enforcement is the most basic form of corrupt government.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:19:14 +0000

When one prosecutes prostitution services- and in his office he had some choice regarding what he WOULD prosecute- one’s credibility is destroyed by using those same services. While I paid little attention to Spitzer, never having the option to vote for him, what I read gave me the impression that he was a crusader, using the law to rid the world of some evil. Heist on his own petard.

By: Oldflyer

Oldflyer — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:27:14 +0000

Book, the defense put up by Spitzer and his apologists is not surprising. In fact it is so old-hat that it is predictable and boring.

As I said below, one thing that separates Spitzer from other miscreants is that while citing the “public good” he pursued people involved in the same activities. Apparently he did not consider it a “private matter” when the shoe was on the other foot–so to speak.

One more personal observation. It has always chilled me to see white collar “criminals”, shuffling along in shackles; forced to do the perp walk before the public. Little grey haired men treated like dangerous animals in an exercise in pure and unjustified humiliation. To me this scene epitomized the arrogance of the all-powerful prosecutor. I look forward to seeing Spitzer shackled up.