"ScratchMonkey" > wrote in message
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> So founders of the US were wrong and had no right to violate the King's
> laws? The US should accept its punishment and rejoin the UK as a colony?
> Rights transcend laws. If a law says you can't speak your mind, the right
> enumerated by (not granted by!) the first amendment overrules the law.

Everyone has the right to determine which laws they should obey and whick
can be ignored?
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>> She did something out of greed, got caught, paid her time. Move on.
>> She let greed take the place of common sense.
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> Define "greed". Everyone has self-interest. Everything you do is guided by
> it, even so-called altruism.

But if she used insider information, she let self interest transcend the
law. That would be illegal.

It would be in my self interest to grab the cash from the register at the
supermarket. Should that be allowed?




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> Martha's plight was a witch hunt, pure and simple, instituted by greedy
> federal prosecutors looking for ways to further their careers. But unlike
> Martha's, their greed was sated only by hurting others.

It is a combinationof both. Yes, it probably got out of hand, but if she
was honest up front, she would have probably done little or no time and the
prosecutors would have missed on the publicity. She is now reaping the
benefits of self inposed martyrdom since she made the decision to do time
instead of waiting for appeal. Good move on her part.