The lawless U.S. of A.

As was to be expected, U.S. president George W. Bush has commuted Scooter Libby's sentence so he will not have to go to prison. It's not a pardon, mind you, the guy will still have to pay a 250,000 dollar fine. What mattered was not going to prison, the fine will no doubt be paid by rich Republican Party donors as they have already promised to do.
(AlJazeera.net: Bush commutes Libby's prison term); (The Independent: Bush steps in to commute Libby's prison term); (The Guardian: Commuting his destiny); (TheRawStory: Scooter Libby gets out of jail free with card from President Bush); (The Times: President steps in to save Libby from ‘excessive’ prison sentence).

What does this charade says about “justice” or rather “injustice” in the U.S.? It means you can commit any crime you like, endanger the “national security” of the country as much as you like, and get away with it without any punishment, as long as the president approves. All the laws of the U.S. are worthless scraps of paper, only invented to make bickering lawyers rich. They are worthless! If the president says you can do it, you do it. If not, you end up in jail. Who needs laws if there is dictator Bush to decide?

Delaware Democratic Senator Joe Biden called on Americans to “flood the White House with calls expressing outrage over this blatant disregard for the rule of law.”

While Libby escapes prison...

... an upright man who has made a tremendous contribution to world peace by exposing Israel's nuclear arsenal has been sentenced to a 6-month prison term in Israel for the crime of talking to foreigners! Mordechai Vanunu already spent 18 years in prison and would like nothing more than to leave the damned soil of Israel. He was not even allowed to talk to foreigners! (The Guardian: Vanunu jailed again after talks with foreigners).

Moreover, he has no hope that the Israeli president will commute his sentence. The outgoing president, Moshe Katsav, is too busy raping his female secretaries, while the incoming president, Shimon Perez, played a crucial role in the establishment of Israel's nuclear arsenal and therefore hates Vanuanu intensely.

Come to think of it: if Scooter Libby doesn't have to spend time in prison, even poor Paris Hilton was treated unfairly. Libby may very well be the fall guy, the scapegoat, to shield criminals higher up the hierarchy such as Cheney and Bush himself, but that doesn't make him innocent.