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Andrew Sullivan: In His Own Words

Posted by GayPatriot at 2:33 pm - September 12, 2009.
Filed under: Gay Politics,Leftist Nutjobs,Liberal Hypocrisy,Mean-spirited leftists,National Politics,Palin Derangement Syndrome

(h/t – Instapundit & Internet Scofflaw)

My view is that no one is above the law, and that when a society based on law prosecutes the powerless and excuses the powerful, it is corroding its own soul.

Andrew Sullivan – April 17, 2009

I wonder why Andrew changed his mind so quickly?

Political commentator, author and writer for The Atlantic magazine Andrew M. Sullivan won’t have to face charges stemming from a recent pot bust at the Cape Cod National Seashore — but a federal judge isn’t happy about it.

U. S. Magistrate Judge Robert B. Collings says in his decision that the case is an example of how sometimes “small cases raise issues of fundamental importance in our system of justice.”

While marijuana possession may have been decriminalized, Sullivan, who owns a home in Provincetown, made the mistake of being caught by a park ranger with a controlled substance on National Park Service lands, a federal misdemeanor.

The ranger issued Sullivan a citation, which required him either to appear in U.S. District Court or, in essence, pay a $125 fine.

But the U.S. Attorney’s Office sought to dismiss the case. Both the federal prosecutor and Sullivan’s attorney said it would have resulted in an “adverse effect” on an unspecified “immigration status” that Sullivan, a British citizen, is applying for.

Stupid is as stupid does, I suppose.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

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  1. C’mon Bruce, you left out the kicker. ;-)

    Assistant U. S. Attorney James F. Lang jumped in and said that Collings had no power to inquire why the U.S. Attorney had decided to have the charge dismissed. [ed: which was untrue]

    Collings says he expressed his concern that “a dismissal would result in persons in similar situations being treated unequally before the law. … persons charged with the same offense on the Cape Cod National Seashore were routinely given violation notices, and if they did not agree to [pay the fine] were prosecuted by the United States Attorney … there was no apparent reason for treating Mr. Sullivan differently from other persons charged with the same offense.”

    In fact, noted Collings, there were several other defendants appearing in court the same day who were charged with the same offense.

    In his opinion, Collings wrote that the U.S. Attorney is “is not being faithful to a cardinal principle of our legal system, i.e., that all persons stand equal before the law and are to be treated equally in a court of justice once judicial processes are invoked. It is quite apparent that Mr. Sullivan is being treated differently from others who have been charged with the same crime in similar circumstances.”

    Ultimately, Collings acknowledged that he had no choice other than to allow the case to be dismissed, but “that the Court must so act does not require the Court to believe that the end result is a just one.”

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — September 12, 2009 @ 4:22 pm - September 12, 2009

  2. Ron Radosh has more. Quoting a friend of his who works in the U.S. Attorney’s office:

    The judge [Collings] is spot on. In fact, these sorts of misdemeanors are typically handled… with no review [or] meaningful scrutiny by senior management. [Sullivan's lenient] treatment is nothing short of extraordinary… paradigmatic of special pleading…

    Various bloggers have noted that
    (1) the U.S. Attorney is a careerist, but his supervisor is an Obama appointee;
    (2) As the self-appointed One True Remaining Conservative(tm), Sullivan has been a shameless cheerleader for the Dear Leader on certain matters like Porkulus and the socialization of American medicine.

    Radosh notes the strong appearance that the U.S. Attorney was, in effect, paying off Sullivan.

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — September 12, 2009 @ 4:35 pm - September 12, 2009

  3. One more link and then I’ll stop. Ongoing pot use (use that you can’t or won’t give up) will sooner or later cause you to become politically left-liberal. (Argue it at the link)

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — September 12, 2009 @ 4:55 pm - September 12, 2009

  4. [...] Andrew Sullivan: In His Own Words [...]

    Pingback by GayPatriot » Yawn, Left-Winger Blogger Caught with Dime Bag — September 12, 2009 @ 5:06 pm - September 12, 2009

  5. Perhaps Sully’s pot-induced hazes explain his Palin hallucinations.

    I guess our soul has been corroded just a teensy bit more.

    Comment by SoCalRobert — September 12, 2009 @ 5:24 pm - September 12, 2009

  6. Robert,

    I think you are spot on.

    Comment by American Elephant — September 12, 2009 @ 6:31 pm - September 12, 2009

  7. Isn’t the Cape Cod National Seashore a gay cruising spot?

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 12, 2009 @ 9:06 pm - September 12, 2009

  8. I wonder how these post would have gone if Sullivan was still the gay darling of gay conservatives.

    Comment by Kevin — September 13, 2009 @ 3:59 am - September 13, 2009

  9. so it is:

    The Cape Cod National Seashore is teaming up with local officials this summer for a “public education” approach to a soaring number of citations for debauchery in Cape Cod’s dunes:

    “An example of the complaints was a call reporting Wednesday that a 65- to 70-year-old man was flashing people at Herring Cove Beach, according to Seashore records. In a Sept. 19, 2007, letter, a New Jersey family walking with children in the dunes encountered ‘several couples and then a large group of men having group sex in the nude, including oral and anal sex right out in the open.’ In an August 2007 letter, a whale-watch boat captain leaving Provincetown Harbor with passengers reported seeing 20 to 30 nude men ‘playing around’ near Wood End Lighthouse. Other complaints describe Seashore visitors encountering public sex acts at Head of the Meadow Beach in North Truro and near a Seashore building off North Pamet Road in Truro.”

    What are the odds that the nation’s foremost advocate for gay marriage, Mrs. Milky Glutes, is hanging out, getting stoned at an outdoor gay bathhouse to strengthen his marriage?

    Comment by American Elephant — September 13, 2009 @ 5:19 am - September 13, 2009

  10. Truro… that’s where K went after he left the MIB. Maybe the nude men were just aliens exchanging long protein strands… but I doubt it.

    Comment by V the K — September 13, 2009 @ 9:24 am - September 13, 2009

  11. I wonder how these post would have gone if Sullivan was still the gay darling of gay conservatives.

    But you don’t have to wonder, Kevin.

    This blog has condemned people who were supposed to be “conservative darlings” – but who then showed hypocrisy or failed to live up to honorable standards – time and time again.

    Any regular reader of this blog would know that. You must be new around here, Kevin. Or, if not: then you must be one of those left-wing commentors who simply DOES NOT READ before spewing.

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — September 13, 2009 @ 9:40 am - September 13, 2009

  12. How does he reconcile his pot and unprotected anal sex with his Catholicism?

    Comment by Ashpenaz — September 14, 2009 @ 12:14 am - September 14, 2009

  13. Ash – Good question. E-mail him and ask.

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — September 14, 2009 @ 10:55 am - September 14, 2009

  14. Ash,

    He has implied before that he knows better than the Pope what it means to be a “real” Catholic.

    Comment by American Elephant — September 15, 2009 @ 2:30 am - September 15, 2009

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