Martha Stewart, prize goat, scapegoat...
Frances Morey
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Fri Mar 12 14:32:26 2004
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David,
I care passionately about Martha--she and I are both age mates and suffered harrowing divorces with lingering residual pain long after the fact. I hold a BS degree in Home Economics and I watched her shows religiously as only reason I had to even turn on daytime television. It came out in some news commentary that the actual statements that were the basis of the criminal conviction were not distinguished as potentially dangerous. They were prefaced with no "whole truth" oath, no Miranda rights being read or anything like that. She responded as though it were merely a conversation and not the legal tar baby it morphed into. I hope cable picks up her show after this is all over, because she is a class act, packed her shows with good ideas and information and rarely gave us a rerun even during the last harrowing weeks leading up to the final verdict. Hardly a Joan of Arc-type, she is the Leona Helmsley of the decade, too rich and famous to be perceived as victim and held up as an
example to warn us all that to speak up carries with it the possibility of grave consequences. Her right to remain silent is no lesson lost on us -- that the exercise of "freedom of speech" can be downright dangerous to personal freedom. Her biggest mistake was in not choosing a "sexier" lawyer, handsome and more agile in turning a phrase, ie. someone who the ladies on the jury couldn't resist no matter what he might have asked of them. A Tom Cruise clone would have appeased their demand for her testimony as they could have basked in his glow and would have been more inclined to grovel for his approval with a not guilty verdict.
FM
David Rubinson <rubinson@kab.com> wrote:
Do we care about Martha Stewart ?
Not too much.
Useful to show the basic unfairness of the Federal (In)Justice System-- dominated by pure partisanship, cronyism and headline grabbing -
Hey Look, Ken Lay is on the beach and Martha is going to the joint, see !
Or- they're only hitting her because she's a rich successful assertive woman.
Undoubtedly both true.
But there IS a real lesson to be learned- and if you have had even your one good eye open, one ear unplugged, and your nose in relatively decent working order for the past three years of Ashcroft and Company- you will know -
SAY NOTHING TO THE COPS.
NOTHING NADA RIEN ZILCH BUBKES.
Here comes March 20.
SAY NOTHING TO THE COPS.
In August when Bush and Company invade midtown Manhattan and walk all over the dying ground at the WTC-
SAY NOTHING TO THE COPS.
We all think we be smarter than them.
Probably this is true.
Doesn't mean a thing.
Cops are Cops.
SAY NOTHING TO THE COPS.
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What Nat King Cole Would Have Told Martha Stewartby Charles Adams
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/adams4.html
by Charles Adams
Nat King Cole was unquestionably one of the best, if not the best, crooners of his day. The unique record shape of the Capitol Records Building in Hollywood, has been called, the "House that Cole Built." He was financially successful, ranking with the richest in Hollywood.
His complicated financial affairs, as might be expected, caught the attention of the federal government at times. His attorney instructed him to tell the feds, if they contacted him: "I will sing for you, but if you want to talk, you will have to talk with my attorney." This lawyer, who passed away many years ago, told all his clients that they must never talk to a government agent under any circumstances, and if they did, he would withdraw from the case and they would have to find other counsel to represent them. This was not an idle threat; I know of one case where he did just that. Martha could have told the feds, "I will bake you a pie."
It is hard to believe that Martha Stewart had not, in her long career in big business dealings, been similarly advised by the many high-powered, and high-priced, attorneys she must have dealt with over the years. Not just once, but maybe many times. On the same score, she must have been told that to act as your own attorney, is to have a fool for a client, and a legal quack for an attorney. Martha certainly must have heard those pieces of horse sense.
Aggressive prosecutors, police, investigators, in all walks of government have a long history of making false charges, arrests, manufacturing evidence, and even convicting the innocent, especially when they can bring down the rich and famous. The most aggressive prosecutors are known in the profession as head-hunters, wanting to have the head of some celebrity, like Martha’s, mounted over their fireplace, or in some place they can crow about. Like it or not, we have to protect ourselves from over-zealous governments. And this is not a disease of our government, or of our age, but of all governments everywhere. As Thomas Paine stated at the founding of America, "Government is a necessary evil, at best; at worst, an intolerable one." If Martha Stewart didn’t know that, she does now.
David Rubinson
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<DIV>I care passionately about Martha--she and I are both age mates and suffered harrowing divorces with lingering residual pain long after the fact. I hold a BS degree in Home Economics and I watched her shows religiously as only reason I had to even turn on daytime television. It came out in some news commentary that the actual statements that were the basis of the criminal conviction were not distinguished as potentially dangerous. They were prefaced with no "whole truth" oath, no Miranda rights being read or anything like that. She responded as though it were merely a conversation and not the legal tar baby it morphed into. I hope cable picks up her show after this is all over, because she is a class act, packed her shows with good ideas and information and rarely gave us a rerun even during the last harrowing weeks leading up to the final verdict. Hardly a Joan of Arc-type, she is the Leona Helmsley of
the decade, too rich and famous to be perceived as victim and held up as an example to warn us all that to speak up carries with it the possibility of grave consequences. Her right to remain silent is no lesson lost on us -- that the exercise of "freedom of speech" can be downright dangerous to personal freedom. Her biggest mistake was in not choosing a "sexier" lawyer, handsome and more agile in turning a phrase, ie. someone who the ladies on the jury couldn't resist no matter what he might have asked of them. A Tom Cruise clone would have appeased their demand for her testimony as they could have basked in his glow and would have been more inclined to grovel for his approval with a not guilty verdict.</DIV>
<DIV>FM <BR><BR><B><I>David Rubinson <rubinson@kab.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Do we care about Martha Stewart ?<BR>Not too much.<BR>Useful to show the basic unfairness of the Federal (In)Justice System-- dominated by pure partisanship, cronyism and headline grabbing -<BR>Hey Look, Ken Lay is on the beach and Martha is going to the joint, see !<BR>Or- they're only hitting her because she's a rich successful assertive woman.<BR>Undoubtedly both true.<BR><BR>But there IS a real lesson to be learned- and if you have had even your one good eye open, one ear unplugged, and your nose in relatively decent working order for the past three years of Ashcroft and Company- you will know -<BR>SAY NOTHING TO THE COPS.<BR>NOTHING NADA RIEN ZILCH BUBKES.<BR>Here comes March 20.<BR>SAY NOTHING TO THE COPS.<BR>In August when Bush and Company invade midtown Manhattan and walk all over the dying ground at the WTC-<BR>SAY NOTHING TO THE COPS.<BR>We all think we be
smarter than them.<BR>Probably this is true.<BR>Doesn't mean a thing.<BR>Cops are Cops.<BR>SAY NOTHING TO THE COPS.<BR>
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<H1><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times" size=6><B>What Nat King Cole Would Have Told Martha Stewart</B></FONT></H1><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3><B>by <A href="mailto:cadams000@sympatico.ca">Charles Adams</A><BR><A href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/adams4.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/adams4.html<BR></A></FONT><FONT color=#ffffff size=1>by Charles Adams<BR><BR></B></FONT></DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>Nat King Cole was unquestionably one of the best, if not <I>the</I> best, crooners of his day. The unique record shape of the Capitol Records Building in Hollywood, has been called, the "House that Cole Built." He was financially successful, ranking with the richest in Hollywood.<BR><BR>His complicated financial affairs, as might be expected, caught the attention of the federal government at times. His attorney instructed him to tell the feds, if they contacted him: "I will sing for you, but if you want to talk, you will have
to talk with my attorney." This lawyer, who passed away many years ago, told all his clients that they must never talk to a government agent under any circumstances, and if they did, he would withdraw from the case and they would have to find other counsel to represent them. This was not an idle threat; I know of one case where he did just that. <B>Martha could have told the feds, "I will bake you a pie."<BR><BR></B>It is hard to believe that Martha Stewart had not, in her long career in big business dealings, been similarly advised by the many high-powered, and high-priced, attorneys she must have dealt with over the years. Not just once, but maybe many times. On the same score, she must have been told that to act as your own attorney, is to have a fool for a client, and a legal quack for an attorney. Martha certainly must have heard those pieces of horse sense.<BR><BR>Aggressive prosecutors, police, investigators, in all walks of government have a long history of making false
charges, arrests, manufacturing evidence, and even convicting the innocent, especially when they can bring down the rich and famous. The most aggressive prosecutors are known in the profession as head-hunters, wanting to have the head of some celebrity, like Martha’s, mounted over their fireplace, or in some place they can crow about. Like it or not, we have to protect ourselves from over-zealous governments. And this is not a disease of our government, or of our age, but of all governments everywhere. As Thomas Paine stated at the founding of America, "Government is a necessary evil, at best; at worst, an intolerable one." If Martha Stewart didn’t know that, she does now.<BR><BR></FONT><X-SIGSEP>
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Day:<BR><BR></FONT><FONT face=verdana size=3>"...Aristide did something far worse than stuffing ballots or killing people - he tried to raise the minimum wage, to the princely sum of two dollars a day..."<BR><BR></FONT>Chris Floyd, Counterpunch March 10,2004<BR></B></P></BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr SIZE=1>
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