[Vision2020] W. Mark Felt, hero or heel?

[Phil Nisbet]

Andreas you wrote


"The fact that Nixon died a free man in 1994 is one of the great
injustices of our time. So is the fact that the man that brought him
down is being smeared on every news outlet that his co-conspirators
can reach."

You can not possibly be serious.  The fact that Pol Pot did not die in goal 
or that Stalin died in his bed, may be one of the biggest injustices, along 
with the death of Dr Joeseph Mengele in freedom in Brazil, but are you 
suggesting that a cover up of governmental wrong doing is deserving of what 
would have been over a 20 year jail term?  Heck we do not give murderers and 
rapists that many years in prison in this day and age.

Felt himself broke with his oath of office and broke into the homes of 
relatives of Weather Underground people.  The homes he broke into were of 
people who were totally innocent of wrong going and not involved in 
terrorist activities.  He was convicted and ended up pardoned.  So, he 
turned in Nixon for covering up one set of government illegalities but was 
up to his hubs in similar activities.  The Hoover and immediate post Hoover 
FBI was loaded with that sort of thing, but it does not excuse the guy for 
his breeches of Constitutional Civil Liberties, ones that he was sworn to 
protect in the oath of office he took in the first place.

If Eichmann killed Hitler, I would have still seen him hanged in Tel Aviv.  
I see no difference in the case of Felt, who routinely broke into people's 
homes without a warrant, tapped their phones and generally invaded their 
privacy and property, yet seems to be getting kudos for having turned 
somebody else in for doing the same thing that he did before and after his 
episode as Deep Throat.

Phil Nisbet

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