Unpardonable
By Debra Saunders
December 30, 2008
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Only the president of the United States has the power to right the wrongness of their sentences. Only Bush can bring justice -- for in these cases, a commutation would not bring mercy but justice -- to men who have known mindless punishment without leavening proportion.
The outrage is not simply that a well-connected white white-collar criminal won a pardon. It also would be an outrage if Bush failed to do right by Aaron, an unconnected African-American man serving life for a first-time nonviolent offense, and two Latino Border Patrol agents who, if they did break the law, did so in the heat of the chase, not the cool of a boardroom.
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E-mail Debra J. Saunders at dsaunders@sfchronicle.com.
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