IT'S ABOUT TIME FOR AN OLD TALMUD RULING TO BE APPLIED
There was the feeling among many rabbis that when someone brought charges against a person, and if those charges were not substantiated, then the person bringing the charges suffered the consequences of the wrongful charges.
In other words if someone charged another with adultery, and the person was found innocent of adultery, then the one making the false charge suffered the consequence of the charge... and in the case of adultery the penalty was to be stoned to death.
It is time for our legal system to apply the same rule of law to these type of charges. The ones making false charges against Gov. Palin should have to not only pay her legal fees for defending herself against the charges... but the false accusers should be required to serve the consequences of the charges.
That would put a quick end to this ridiculous litigation craze our society finds itself in.
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Sarah Palin ethics complaints rejected
The Alaska Public Offices Commission found Friday night that Palin did not violate state election laws by announcing her position on a controversial ballot measure requiring tougher environmental standards for new mines.
Photo: AP
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been cleared of two of the many ethics complaints filed against her.
The Alaska Public Offices Commission found Friday night that she did not violate state election laws by announcing her position on a controversial ballot measure requiring tougher environmental standards for new mines.
Soon after the commission’s finding, an attorney at the state’s Personnel Board announced that she also did not violate state ethics laws by using funds from her political action committee to travel to an a National Right to Life rally in Indiana.
More than a dozen ethics complaints covering a wide variety of issues have been filed against Palin, most since Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) chose her last year as his vice presidential running mate.
The governor has racked up more than $500,000 in legal fees to defend herself. And she set up a legal defense fund last month to pay her legal bills, though a complaint was quickly filed alleging she created it for personal profit.
Any Alaska citizen can file an ethics complaint as long as it’s detailed in writing and signed under oath – a provision Palin’s defenders are quick to cite as an opening for her critics to score political points against her.
“It’s staggering that the governor has accumulated more than half a million dollars of personal debt defending herself against a flurry of ethics complaints that have yet to substantiate a single infraction,” said her spokesman, Bill McAllister.
“It’s obvious,” he added in a statement, “that these ethics complaints — usually announced with great fanfare, violating the confidentiality provisions of the law — are intended solely for damaging publicity and not for true accountability in government.”
XtnYoda, shalomed
There was the feeling among many rabbis that when someone brought charges against a person, and if those charges were not substantiated, then the person bringing the charges suffered the consequences of the wrongful charges.
In other words if someone charged another with adultery, and the person was found innocent of adultery, then the one making the false charge suffered the consequence of the charge... and in the case of adultery the penalty was to be stoned to death.
It is time for our legal system to apply the same rule of law to these type of charges. The ones making false charges against Gov. Palin should have to not only pay her legal fees for defending herself against the charges... but the false accusers should be required to serve the consequences of the charges.
That would put a quick end to this ridiculous litigation craze our society finds itself in.
politico
Sarah Palin ethics complaints rejected
The Alaska Public Offices Commission found Friday night that Palin did not violate state election laws by announcing her position on a controversial ballot measure requiring tougher environmental standards for new mines.
Photo: AP
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been cleared of two of the many ethics complaints filed against her.
The Alaska Public Offices Commission found Friday night that she did not violate state election laws by announcing her position on a controversial ballot measure requiring tougher environmental standards for new mines.
Soon after the commission’s finding, an attorney at the state’s Personnel Board announced that she also did not violate state ethics laws by using funds from her political action committee to travel to an a National Right to Life rally in Indiana.
More than a dozen ethics complaints covering a wide variety of issues have been filed against Palin, most since Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) chose her last year as his vice presidential running mate.
The governor has racked up more than $500,000 in legal fees to defend herself. And she set up a legal defense fund last month to pay her legal bills, though a complaint was quickly filed alleging she created it for personal profit.
Any Alaska citizen can file an ethics complaint as long as it’s detailed in writing and signed under oath – a provision Palin’s defenders are quick to cite as an opening for her critics to score political points against her.
“It’s staggering that the governor has accumulated more than half a million dollars of personal debt defending herself against a flurry of ethics complaints that have yet to substantiate a single infraction,” said her spokesman, Bill McAllister.
“It’s obvious,” he added in a statement, “that these ethics complaints — usually announced with great fanfare, violating the confidentiality provisions of the law — are intended solely for damaging publicity and not for true accountability in government.”
XtnYoda, shalomed
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