Nan, I agree with most of what you said, but it's not relevant to the point that we're making, or at least the one I'm making, which is that there should be consequences for committing perjury.
I don't care that Clinton lied about sex. I don't care that Clemens lied about HGH use. I care that they committed a crime by lying under oath. They could have lied about the color of socks they wore yesterday. Doesn't matter. The government should not tolerate people willfully lying under oath.
The entire justice system would collapse if we never punished anyone for perjuring themselves. There is no incentive to tell the truth if you know that there's no consequence for framing someone (in this case, McNamee) and not telling the truth. That's why Roger Clemens needs to spend some time in jail - not because he took steroids, but because he lied, under oath, to the government.
I don't care how famous he is, how scapegoated he feels, how complicit Major League Baseball is in his downfall. No one forced him to commit a crime by lying under oath. He did that all by himself and must pay a price for it.
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