Inauguration speech

[Don Vito Corleone]

George Dubya has done a pretty decent job with his inaugural address today, IMO.

Now that he is sworn in, the law prevents me from criticizing him, so let's hope for the best!

 

[GL]

He executed the speech well. But I'm a person of substance and no politician has actual substance in their speeches; just a lot of feel good generalizations. Ask yourself "how" after each proposal put forth in that inaugural speech and you won't find yourself with any answers...not from that speech anyhow.

-GL

 

[Dibs]

<< Now that he is sworn in, the law prevents me from criticizing him, so let's hope for the best! >>



The law doesn't prevent you from criticizing him--just from lodging any threats of harm/violence against him. If you are in the Armed Forces, however, you are partially correct.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Dibs:

I am in the Armed Forces, and I am completely correct.

Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Jutice provides that &quot;[a]ny commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he or she is on duty or present, violates this article.&quot;

 

[hominid skull]

Anyone can read a speach off of an auto-queue.

 

[Dibs]

Tee:

I only said partially because I couldn't find my copy of the article. Also, there is nothing that says you couldn't think about criticizing the pres.

Later.

 

[narzy]

it has no clause on HOW those words are used. kinda odd, usually in laws they have a sub headding, EX: Typed, Spoken, written ect...

Just interesting

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

The underlying implication is that the words are &quot;published&quot; (not in the traditional sense that they are printed or recorded; this is a legal term of art that means the words are stated to another person, either verbally or through another medium).

As a practical matter one would probably not be penalized for this unless it occured in a public place or was somehow documented.

The entire UCMJ is relatively compact, linguistically and otherwise, because of the very real possibility that an entire prosecution from start to finish might have to happen in a deployed context. The UCMJ and the relevant evidentiary and procedural rules are all contained in the Manual for Courts-Martial, a medium-sized softcover volume.

 

[Piano Man]

It was a dull speech, but then again, that is usually the norm for inauguration speeches. I've studied a lot of them, and I don't recall anything from Clinton's, Bush's, Reagan's, Carter's, Ford's, or Nixon's. JFK's was the last one that was decent. Of course, Kennedy was a good speaker.

 

[Tominator]

GL

Review Ronald Reagan's speeches...then say that.

 

[GL]

Tominator,

I assume you're implying he's an exception? I'll check them out.

-GL

 

[IamDavid]

I thought it was a very good speach.. Just wish politicians would write there own speaches. At least the important ones.

 

[fallenoncrack]

BUSH all the way !

 

[Moonbeam]

Bush all the way won't be very far>

 

[006agent]

look they all start the same...it is how they end.