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RUSH: Andrew in Evansville, Indiana<\/a>, hello, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/line>CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s good to be on. Thank you.<\/line>RUSH: You bet.<\/line>CALLER: I had an idea I wanted to run by you and see what you think about this. You\u2019ve had some experience with out of control prosecutors. What if the state started passing laws that punished prosecutors, put them in legal jeopardy for frivolous or political prosecution? Why couldn\u2019t we do something like that, because they\u2019re out of control all over this country. Look at Spitzer up in New York. I forget the guy\u2019s name down in Kentucky, but he\u2019s suing the governor down there. It\u2019s getting to the point where, you know, for the left the prosecutors are like the new court system. You know, they get in there and they can sue the governor. They can sue everybody they want.<\/line>RUSH: No, the prosecutors are the new political system, is what you mean.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah.<\/line> RUSH: You know, I must confess: before I can answer that, I\u2019d like to seek true legal expertise on what kind of laws there are, because I\u2019m not sure how the… I think we\u2019re talking about an area where the legal industry is required to police itself. You know, one thing you can do is sue for wrongful prosecution if you think it\u2019s happened to you. That\u2019s after the fact. There\u2019s nothing that can be… A judge, for example, cannot stop an investigation. A lot of people say, “Rush, why don\u2019t the judges just throw out the investigation?” Judges can\u2019t throw out an investigation. They can tell a prosecutor, “Enough\u2019s enough. Move on,” but a judge cannot cancel any kind of a police investigation. Now, once charges are filed, judge can say, “These are baseless charges,” and throw it out. But once an investigation is underway, there\u2019s nothing that can be done. That\u2019s why they have so much power, because it\u2019s only after the fact. I mean, look at DeLay. About all you can do is try to wage a media war, which is what DeLay did. But now if you listen to DeLay, he\u2019s looking forward to his trial. His thoughts of canceling all this out, they\u2019re gone.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: But the problem is, it\u2019s such an un-level playing field, because you may wage a media war and win, but all you\u2019ve done there is–<\/line>RUSH: Let me tell you something. Wait a second. I was going to elaborate on this. I hate to tell you this, but it never has been a level playing field. What\u2019s changing now is that policy is being criminalized, but in terms of a legal playing field, it never has been. It is why, in our founding documents, particularly in our legal system, it quite clearly stipulates that one is “innocent until proven guilty,” and the reason that\u2019s thrown in is because everybody — I don\u2019t care who you are, ask yourself. Go back to any big case in your day and remember it, and the minute you heard that X was charged with what, your first inclination was, “Guilty.” Folks, it\u2019s just in our DNA. It\u2019s the way human nature is. “O.J.? Gotta be guilty. Michael Jackson? Got to be guilty. Tom DeLay? Gotta be guilty.” Why would the prosecutors mess around? Prosecutors are good people. They are law enforcement, and they\u2019re enforcing our laws, and keeping bad people away from us — and so they charge somebody, you\u2019re guilty. So what\u2019s happened is most people have to set out to prove their defense, prove their innocence. It\u2019s up to the prosecution to prove their case, and these guys… look at Ronnie Earle. If they want they can charge you with anything without there even being any evidence, and they get their mug shot of you, and your fingerprints and so forth, and you still have to go in, and when you\u2019re acquitted, you still have the mug shot. <\/line> The media still has the mug shot, still has your fingerprints, and they still have the phrase, “Tom DeLay, accused<\/emphasize> of money laundering, (whispering) and acquitted three years later, said today that,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So the accusation will always follow you. You\u2019ve been accused of something, you are “the accused,” and that has always been the case. It\u2019s why in the legal system, we\u2019ve always strived to get the best judges possible, the best prosecutors. But when you start electing prosecutors and you get party politics going on, this really is nothing new. I mean, you could go talk to people who have been impacted by this, affected by it at the local level where it never makes any news outside the local town Gazette. But this is common. Now it\u2019s being expanded. Watergate was a good example of it, and you\u2019ve got the Democrats. If Democrats are able to win elections, they wouldn\u2019t even be bothering with this. But Watergate was such… Folks, I mean, do you understand what Watergate was to these people? You cannot understand. Whatever the most pleasurable experience in your life is — think about it right now; whatever it\u2019s been — multiply it by a factor of a hundred and pretend that you\u2019re having it for three years uninterrupted. That\u2019s what Watergate was, and they want it back. <\/line>They want it again! They want to relive it, and so this is the excellent chance, and Iraq provides the same opportunity for Vietnam, and if they have to politicize policy differences again to do it, they will do it. I don\u2019t mean to be negative about this. I\u2019m trying to be realistic. I\u2019m going to ask some people with genuine legal expertise. I have done so in fact, not very intensely, but I have asked when this DeLay thing came up, I\u2019ve asked some people and I\u2019ve pretty much gotten the answers that I\u2019ve shared with you, there\u2019s just not a whole lot you can do. There really isn\u2019t. Your day comes in court if you ever get charged with something, and that\u2019s where Rove and Libby and whoever else, and we don\u2019t know whoever, if anybody else, if anybody at all. So it\u2019s difficult, you know, not to jump the gun here because — and, by the way, one more thing to you. I have not lost faith here, but I can\u2019t come behind the Golden EIB Microphone here and pretend that this stuff isn\u2019t going on, and act like it isn\u2019t going on. That would be phony optimism, avoiding reality. I\u2019ve got to talk about this stuff, and within the context that it\u2019s out there. But we should keep our cool, as I am, and see what happens down the road. It\u2019s supposed to happen this week if all these leaks true, and once we know something firm then it\u2019ll be much easier to address this, particularly as it plays out in the future.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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