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Eliot Spitzer: Thug

Why is this man smiling?Let us be blunt.   The problem with Eliot Spitzer is not that he is a whore mongering hypocrite, heck nobody is perfect.    The problem with Spiter is and has been that he s a thug.   Spiter was eesentially Bernhard Goetz [1] with a  badge    White characters like Paul Kersey [2] are popular with the public, they still criminals.

Since the day he assumed office as New York State Attorney General, Spiter has left behind a long string of innocent victims.    From Dick Grass, to Hank Greenburg, to Silda Spitzer,  Spitzer’s victims were Innocent, Wall Street Journal [3]:

Instead, reporters felt obligated to run with whatever he handed them. Consider the report in the wake of a 2005 op-ed in this newspaper by John Whitehead. A respected Wall Street figure, Mr. Whitehead dared to criticize Mr. Spitzer for his unscrupulously zealous pursuit of Mr. Greenberg. Mr. Spitzer later threatened Mr. Whitehead, telling him in a phone call that “You will pay the price. This is only the beginning and you will pay dearly for what you have done.” Some months later, after more Spitzer excesses, Mr. Whitehead had the temerity to write another op-ed describing what Mr. Spitzer had said.

Spitzer’s MO was shun criminal prosecutions and instead file civil law suit and then seek a settlement.   Spizter had good reason to avoid the insides of a court room.    This cases were legally weak, WSJ [4]:

The world is discovering why New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been so reluctant to take his business targets into an actual courtroom. A jury of regular men and women might be inclined to instruct him in securities law and the concept of criminal intent.

Mr. Spitzer received precisely such an education yesterday, when a jury found former Bank of America broker Theodore C. Sihpol not guilty on 29 counts, including several of grand larceny, related to after-hours mutual fund trading. The judge declared a mistrial on four other counts in which a single juror had held out for conviction. Mr. Spitzer must now decide whether to retry the case on those four counts. But given the magnitude of his repudiation, and the suffering his office has already imposed on Mr. Sihpol, a prosecutor with any sense of decency would throw in the towel.

I mean it is not like Spiter’s thuggery was some dark deeply held state secret.   Via Michelle Malkin [5], from the People’s Cube [6], April ’06:

Eliot Spiter as NapoleanState police descended on Wall Street early this morning in a major crackdown on money-grubbing capitalist reprobates, commonly known by their derogatory name, “Wall Street CEOs.” The massive dragnet, dubbed “Operation Corner Office,” was organized and coordinated by a legendary people’s New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer [7], whose dedication to class struggle has earned him respect and adoration of all the city’s 402,281 welfare recipients.

In a nation which values freedom, democracy and the rule of law, there is simply no place for thugs like Spizter.  Shame on the stooges and dupes in the meda wo  enabled, and cheered on Spitzer’s rule of thuggery.