• HubertManne
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    45 days ago

    This is an actual good example why it was put in though. You literally have people looking to disrupt the current office holder of the president getting people to lie in order to disrupt the function of the office. Its why it was a specific power given in the constitution.

    • @BilboBargains
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      15 days ago

      By ‘disrupt the current office holder’ do you mean ‘the people who have been pardoned were tried and convicted of crimes’?

      • HubertManne
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        15 days ago

        no I mean getting a person to lie to tie them to something that did not happen.

        • @BilboBargains
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          13 days ago

          If that is true, you don’t have a criminal justice system any more. That’s what I was originally arguing, this is a banana republic.

          • HubertManne
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            13 days ago

            unfortunately its a fact of society. Individuals can enrich themselves by cheating but it requires that most don’t and if to many do cheat you reach a tipping point where it falls apart. Like certain 3rd world capitalist utopias were everything is for sale.