By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
You knew this was coming: Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer won't be charged in the prostitution scandal that forced him to resign in disgrace.
Too bad. He should have had to go on trial, to set an example for others.
The stated reason for letting him off the hook: He didn't spend public or campaign money on prostitutes.
But in reality, Spitzer also was helped by the fact that prosecutors often don't take a hard line on clients of prostitutes.
U.S. officials said Thursday that "we have concluded that the public interest would not be further advanced by filing criminal charges in this matter."
Of course, prosecuting a high-profile person like Spitzer actually might have been good for the "public interest."
It would have shown that prosecutors take these crimes seriously.
After all, if being involved with a prostitute was bad enough to cause Spitzer to resign, shouldn't he have been held accountable by the justice system?
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Oops - Yael, Spitzer's a Democrat
You're a punk, Yael - you're a lousy Democrat punk, because you didn't even bother to state that Eliot was a Democrat, one who exulted in bringing down others.
Why is it, Yael, that you could not identify his party affiliation when it is without doubt you would have done so if he had been a Republican?
You're biased, Yael, and you're too dishonest to admit it. You left out his affiliation because you wanted to.
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It is a disgrace that Eliot spitzer will not be charged. Why does he get off when everyone else involved will be punished? Such a hypocrite! His family enables him to be the weak disgusting vermon that he is!
It's good to be Eliot Spitzer
Soooo not shocking
http://lifeisacookie.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/its-good-to-be-eliot-spitzer/
Laws are Made to Protect the Innocent
People will always look at Spitzer's children and think about what their father did. Spitzer's children will always think that people are thinking those things. Their lives will not be what they could have been. Do not be surprised if they start having trouble in school and drop out of college. Spitzer should have gone to prison for a very long time to protect the future innocent.
Silda gets what she gets for staying with him. People will always ask her children why she did that like they ask Clinton's children.
http://ewebsmith.com/gov/govnindex.html
how now old abouhalkah???
He should have had to go on trial, to set an example for others.
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An example of what or for what?
He's a broken and humiliated man who, to the satisfaction of the federal government prosecutors who with an unlimited budget divined that he didn't use public money to pay for and bonk a hooker (who didn't seem to mind doing what she was doing other than she didn't like that he kept his knee length black socks on [yet another public humiliation]) who has in every public utterance accepted blame and resposnibility for what he did.
So I ask you again, Yael T Abouhalkah, an example of what and for what?
P.S. Don't think for a moment that I think what he did was either a good thing or a good idea. And I am sure that any additional punishment he has coming short of when he meets g-d, will be ably administered and determined by his wife and children and perhaps even his ailing aged Dad. No need for you to butt in here with your usual trying to find another hook to impale some more readers with.
Typical LIberal Punishment...
Slick Willie gets a BJ and lies about it and gets nothing, so why does this surprise you or make you raise an alarm at the unfairness of the punishment?
Liberals treat women like crap and the women keep voting for them, so what's one to think? I tend to think they don't think, but perhaps there is another reason...