Innocent Until Proven Guilty?

Reposted as history. Originally posted in May of 2005.

Not if you are a Republican who supports Israel. Just ask Lawrence Franklin.

The Franklin Arrest
New York Sun - Staff Editorial - May 5, 2005

As for Mr. Franklin, he was nothing if not a staunch critic of an unelected bureaucracy he believed was too complacent about the threat posed by Iran and other terrorist states. On the basis of what is now known, he deserves an apology. It may turn out that the FBI will file additional charges against him. But until that happens, and it is looking much less likely that it will, then the burden is on his slanderers in the government to show their faces.

However I would not hold my breath expecting it to happen. Mark this as one more attack of the democrat lie machine. Like the attacks on John Bolton and John Ashcroft, the attack on Lawrence Franklin is merely additional evidence of the socialist and anti American inclinations of the entrenched bearucrats in Washington. Sandy Berger can be convicted of stealing documents and he walks. A Republican discusses with our allies things that are "claimed" to be off limits and (without conviction) his reputation is destroyed. Think anyone in the press will apologize?

[On 6/13/2005 Franklin was finally indicted for some the crimes of which he has been accused in the press. It still does not explain why Sandy Berger got away with worse. If convicted I am sure Franklin will do hard time. Why? Because he is helping that evil nation Israel. Berger was simply helping our friends, communist China.]