I’m sure you’re all dying to hear Don Surber’s take on the Rod Blagojevich story, so here it is (in his annoying Q & A style):
Question: Is Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich going to resign?
Answer: Nope. His lawyer said he ain’t guilty. I don’t see a crime yet either. He did not sell the office. He talked about selling it, but he didn’t. Even a crook has to commit a crime before you arrest him.
Don Surber, meet the United States criminal code:
18 U.S.C. § 1349. Attempt and conspiracy. Any person who attempts or conspires to commit any offense under this chapter shall be subject to the same penalties as those prescribed for the offense, the commission of which was the object of the attempt or conspiracy.
Attempting or conspiring to commit a crime is also a crime. While the boundaries of conspiracy can certainly be stretched by prosecutors in some instances, in general it’s a good thing that, for example, a man can be arrested before the hitman he hired actually murders his wife, and also a good thing that he faces some kind of criminal punishment even though she wasn’t actually killed.
Also, while the selling of Obama’s Senate seat is what has everyone worked up into such a frothing frenzy, there are other allegations against Blagojevich for crimes that he actually went through with, not just crimes that he conspired to commit. This is readily available information, if the Surb would bother to read the complaint (pdf). Blagojevich’s scheming to sell Obama’s Senate seat is just the most recent example of the corrupt things he has been doing for years. Allegedly.
That was almost too easy…
“18 U.S.C. § 1349. Attempt and conspiracy. Any person who attempts or conspires to commit any offense under this chapter shall be subject to the same penalties as those prescribed for the offense, the commission of which was the object of the attempt or conspiracy.”
Is this title 18? …and of course title 14 is important.
I know of a judge and prosecutor that could be brought before a federal judge, charged under “18 U.S.C. § 1349.
We can only hope!
It all depends on the outcome of a case that has been in WV courts since 04.
Corruption at the judicial level in WV is at a pathetic new height.
Some of us will be able to make our views public on a wide scale in 09
Just shake your money maker and it can all fall into place. …hee hee
Benjamin and Maynard along with former Chief Justice Davis are beyond disgraceful for some of their actions. However, I would love to be the wife of Segal and or the WV alums’ friend.
I might be as much as $25 million dollars richer, but I still would not have the natural fire of a RED
Go get em Red!
Rage on!
(see i made a comment without one cuss word, that is why I added the shake your money maker comment so as to at least annoy someone)
YEP!
The Bushies did this!!!
Yep!!!
The Bushies did this too!!!!
Here is just another application of said mentioned title…
Featured this week at the home of the people trying to spread knowledge to the common folk about the “Home Cooked” corrupt WV Judicial system, and corrupt law enforcement practices-the CalPatty Press!
The special litigation section has authority to investigate state and local law enforcement agencies and is authorized to take action if there is a pattern or practice of illegal conduct!
CONSPIRACY AGAINST RIGHTS!
section 241 of Title 18 is the civil rights conspiracy statute. Section 241 makes it unlawful for two or more persons to agree together to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the Unites States!
DEPRIVATION OF RIGHTS UNDER COLOR OF LAW
Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, these include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within the their lawful authority, but also acts done beyond the bounds of that official’s lawful authority, if the acts are done while the official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties.
RED PLEASE UPDATE YOUR BLOG!
I am addicted!
Can’t a sister get a little help?!
We all need some more raging! So please walk away from the brief!
Just walk away Red and write! Come on Red, throw a fit!
We need you!
So…are you knee deep in briefs and law action?
No update? No cool fricking raging!
You know what that is…. don’t ya?
Take a break!
Blog, woman! People want to hear what you have to say!
Letters…
A plea!
I am even on my knee’s!
Come back red! Please come back!
Raging Red, Raging Red …
Wherefore art thou, Raging Red?
This sucks!
Come back Red come back!
There once was a blogger called Red
Whose musings were what we were fed
She’s done done a runner!
bloody hell, what a stunner!
Come on back, this is what we’ve all said!
….so get writing. Or I’ll do *another* one. And nobody wants that.
Thanks, Spike. Allow me to submit my own bit of poetic “enhanced interrogation”:
DEAR RED: Found your blog. I was lucky.
Commentary. Words of wit. Devil Duckie.
I bookmarked your site!
I check back every night!
So write something new, dammit! LOVE, CHUCKIE.
Update your freaking blog, why don’t you.
I’m gonna, if only to remedy the travesty of having a Don Surber post at the top of the page for the past seven months. He’s so not worth it.