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« Thoughts re Ted Kennedy | Main | How fast things can go bad ... »

Ollie North autographing books at NRA Firearms Museum

Posted by David Hardy · 28 August 2009 03:27 PM

Wash Post story here. Sounds like he sold 400 of his book on heroes of the war on radical islam, which is very, very good.

UPDATE: it wasn't a pardon, he got his conviction reversed on appeal and the government never moved to retry him. At the time of his Congressional testimony, I said they had just blown any criminal charges, and got into a debate with another attorney on it. I was right. The Congressional committee subpoenaed him and questioned him under oath, on TV. BIG 5th Amendment problem when he's later prosecuted. Unless someone could find a prosecution team, and 12 people for the jury, who were completely unaware of his testimony (for several days the biggest news item) or anything resulting from it.

3 Comments | Leave a comment

VXbinaca | August 28, 2009 10:51 PM | Reply

I find it ironic a felon is signing book at an NRA convention.

I don't care if he got pardoned (offhand I do not think he did), IMO it's in poor taste for him to be there but thats just me.

VXbinaca | August 29, 2009 4:13 PM | Reply

Thats complex, Dave.

Is he a free man? Sure I guess technically he is. I still maintain it's in bad taste to have him there.

Then again I can go eat sand I guess as I'm not a member of the NRA.


Thanks for that Dave, hope you're doing good health-wise.

straightarrow | August 30, 2009 1:35 AM | Reply

I don't hate Ollie North, but neither do I respect him. He knew he broke his oath. Further he knew he wasn't the really guilty party. A Lt.Col. in the Marine Corps is the equivalent of an assistant shift manager at McDonald's. He did not run a shadow government on his own, he did not trade arms for hostages on his own.

I grant him that he thinks he did right, but guys who really did right are being short shrifted here. Billy Mitchell comes to mind. and others.

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