If you have been keeping up with the Hillary email scandal (and who hasn’t) and you are living in reality, one has to wonder whether the decision not to prosecute Hillary is just a way to twist the law in order to give Hillary a pussy pass.
The urban dictionary defines pussy pass as: “the phenomenon that female criminals get off with a lighter sentence than males” and describes it with an example: “That woman who killed her babies used her pussy pass to get off on probation.”
So women who do unspeakable things get off often because people perceive women to have a more pure intent then men. Sure, she killed the babies but there was a good reason.
In Hillary Clinton’s case, the good reason was no malicious intent. She should get a gentle scolding and the American people should understand how she just made a little careless mistake that could have cost them their lives. But no worries. It’s just a special pass for the anointed ones.
There is no way of getting around this: According to Director James Comey (disclosure: a former colleague and longtime friend of mine), Hillary Clinton checked every box required for a felony violation of Section 793(f) of the federal penal code (Title 18): With lawful access to highly classified information she acted with gross negligence in removing and causing it to be removed it from its proper place of custody, and she transmitted it and caused it to be transmitted to others not authorized to have it, in patent violation of her trust. Director Comey even conceded that former Secretary Clinton was “extremely careless” and strongly suggested that her recklessness very likely led to communications (her own and those she corresponded with) being intercepted by foreign intelligence services.
In essence, in order to give Mrs. Clinton a pass, the FBI rewrote the statute, inserting an intent element that Congress did not require. The added intent element, moreover, makes no sense: The point of having a statute that criminalizes gross negligence is to underscore that government officials have a special obligation to safeguard national defense secrets; when they fail to carry out that obligation due to gross negligence, they are guilty of serious wrongdoing. The lack of intent to harm our country is irrelevant. People never intend the bad things that happen due to gross negligence.
So, in essence, if a woman like Hillary breaks the law or does something harmful, the law is simply changed to clear her. In this case, she is given a pass because her intentions were not mean. If one is grossly negligent and mean, that would be bad (and of course only bad, Republican men can be guilty of anything), but if one is a grossly negligent Democratic woman, then the intent is said to be good, and the person is innocent of a crime.
The pussy pass is alive and well when it comes to liberal politics. But naturally, all we will hear is how women are mistreated and held to a higher standard then men in the business and political milieu. Sure they are.
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