Whither
art thou, the National Press Club?
I
see multiple indictments facing Kevin Rudd in the mismanagement of everything,
massive deficits, unworkable policies, illegal immigrants / multiple tragedies,
Climate Tax reconfiguration farce, the NBN white
elephant.
And
the litany of 6 years of scores of other catastrophes the PM is seemingly
allowed to plead nolo – contenderer to by the National Press Club; all
under the aegis of a ‘honeymoon’.
I
sometimes see great articles – Rudd or Labor never, ever feel the slightest
obligation to respond to.
Is
that all there is to it guys?
Have
you no sense of responsibility?
Have
you not noticed
that Rudd never gets a tough question that he cannot run away from?
Geoff
Seidner
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nolo
contendere (no-low kahn-ten-durr-ray) n. Latin for "I will not
contest" the charges which is a plea made by a defendant to a criminal charge,
allowing the judge to then find him/her guilty, often called a "plea of no
contest." (See: no contest)
[Latin, I will not
contest it.] A plea in a criminal case by which the defendant
answers the charges made in the indictment by declining to dispute or admit the
fact of his or her guilt.
The defendant who
pleads nolo contendere submits for a udgment fixing a fine or
sentence the same as if he or she had pleaded guilty. The difference is that a
plea of nolo contendere cannot later be used to prove wrongdoing in
a civil suit for monetary damages, but a plea of guilty can. Nolo contendere is especially popular in antitrust actions,
such as price-fixing cases, where it is very likely that civil actions for
treble damages will be started after the defendant has been successfully
prosecuted.
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