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President Bush gave Charles Colson the Presidential Citizens Medal. All Colson did was conspire to kill a US journalist while working as White House counsel. And conspire to firebomb the Brookings Institution and orchestrated the Watergate burglary. The guy was awarded 15 honorary doctorates and praised by so many Republicans.

Jack Anderson would possibly be dead since the conspiracy only halted when Watergate happened.

Surely there is redemption for Ross. Colson spent less than a year in prison even though the others (eg G Gordon Liddy) admtted they were planning to kill Anderson.




Chuck Colson is also not a good person. If we want to let this rest by putting Ulbricht and Colson on the same level, I'm fine with that.


OK tptacek... same level as you say. So a year in prison for both and then medals. You are OK with that?


I'm not OK with honoring Chuck Colson, either.


Relieved to hear that because I didn't really want to give Ulbricht a medal either.




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