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Ollie North autographing books at NRA Firearms Museum
Wash Post story here. Sounds like he sold 400 of his book on heroes of the war on radical islam, which is very, very good.
UPDATE: it wasn't a pardon, he got his conviction reversed on appeal and the government never moved to retry him. At the time of his Congressional testimony, I said they had just blown any criminal charges, and got into a debate with another attorney on it. I was right. The Congressional committee subpoenaed him and questioned him under oath, on TV. BIG 5th Amendment problem when he's later prosecuted. Unless someone could find a prosecution team, and 12 people for the jury, who were completely unaware of his testimony (for several days the biggest news item) or anything resulting from it.
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I find it ironic a felon is signing book at an NRA convention.
I don't care if he got pardoned (offhand I do not think he did), IMO it's in poor taste for him to be there but thats just me.
Posted by: VXbinaca at August 28, 2009 10:51 PM
Thats complex, Dave.
Is he a free man? Sure I guess technically he is. I still maintain it's in bad taste to have him there.
Then again I can go eat sand I guess as I'm not a member of the NRA.
Thanks for that Dave, hope you're doing good health-wise.
Posted by: VXbinaca at August 29, 2009 04:13 PM
I don't hate Ollie North, but neither do I respect him. He knew he broke his oath. Further he knew he wasn't the really guilty party. A Lt.Col. in the Marine Corps is the equivalent of an assistant shift manager at McDonald's. He did not run a shadow government on his own, he did not trade arms for hostages on his own.
I grant him that he thinks he did right, but guys who really did right are being short shrifted here. Billy Mitchell comes to mind. and others.
Posted by: straightarrow at August 30, 2009 01:35 AM