Lying under Oaf ( sic )

           A close friend of mine - who says he is a born again Jeffersonian

    Democrat - E-mails me from North Conway, N.H. : " Clinton lied under

    oath .I believe he must resign ". Then this rather stale line : " We

    are a government of laws. not men ".

           I suspect that he is the captive audience of too many Republican

    old maids . One of them said, " He ( Clinton ) lied on TV !  "

         Is LYING ON TV as serious an offense -in general - as LYING UNDER

    OATH ? To tell the truth is rarely even a program on TV !

       If lies in themselves were explosive, every TV set in the country

    would blow up every day .

           The lie itself is an offense to right minded people ? If a man

    told his wife just how HORRIBLE she looked most of the time - after

    the first year of marital bliss - I'll bet she would find this TRUTH

    TELLING even more offensive than LYING ON TV or UNDER OATH.

          Even UNDER OATH it is always wiser to tell the wife that she is

    JUST GORGEOUS !

           Lying under oath is a serious matter if it involves the national

    interests of the United States.

           It can be maintained that we are government of laws - not men -

    only if our laws were written in stone by God Himself on Mount Sinai.

         We are indeed GOVERNED by laws that interpreted differently by

    different men. If this were not so , judges on every level could be

    replaced by computers. ( edit : laws that are interpreted )

           Not for nothing the rebels of every generation conclude : THE

    LAW IS AN ASS !

           Our just judges did not abolish slavery. It took a civil war !