If someone is completely innocent; why the need to lie under oath?
I was commenting on Gonzo bragging about doing just that. It wasn't a hypothetical.
But no, I would not lie under oath. Maybe you do not take an oath as a serious thing?
So are you implying that a moral code is something you can just set asside? So the ends justify the means?
Is that the message?
Absofuckinglutely.
This system you arte in such awe of has completely abrogated any claim to morality. Any claim at all. And in ways that are legion.
Yes ma'am. I have done many things that skate on the edge of the law, jumped through loopholes, and even outright subverted a corrupt system designed to put men in lose-lose situations. I have paid men as day laborers so they had money to buy Birthday presents for their kids. I have let them stay rent free to give them time to get their act together. I have let near ex wives who have taken restraining orders out on them know they are staying with me, wait for them to call when I KNOW they will, and then sent the cops after THEM - so their husbands get the kids. I have helped police nail exes in drug stings. I have held onto property for men so they HAVE it.
And fugginay right, I have lied. When I watch a man get the snot beat out of him over and over, come out of his house bloody, and the fucking sheriffs pull up and start to arrest him, I have told them I saw it start, and her start it - because she always does.
I've paid for lawyers, paid bail, paid back child support for guys down on their luck. I have spent thousands in money, goods, and time helping out my brothers. Tens of thousands - maybe more.
You? What the fuck have you done - besides run your mouth?
Because of my efforts there are a bunch of men who have their kids or access to them, who have a life, who have kept their property, and their sanity. You?
And you know what? Since there are kids who haven't had their Daddies ripped out of their life - I can live with that, and sleep soundly. There is a greater good. Without a doubt, those ends do indeed justify those means.
And if you value your precious "system" over that, your moral poverty is without bounds. And you dare preach to me from your high perch?
Get your fingernails dirty for twenty or so years, then you might be worthy to dare toi criticize me.