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Capital Police incident report states Kennedy under influence of alcohol
Bar hostess says Kennedy drinking that night

As I’ve pointed out elsewhere, if he lied to the police about this, that was obstruction of justice.

However, there is a much more serious side to this.

Kennedy told officers he was going to a House vote at 2:45 AM. As you may be aware, the U.S. Constitution protects Members of Congress from being arrested or detained by the police in most circumstances providing they are going to or from the House to vote. This is to protect from interference in the Democratic process by the administration or police.

He lied to the Capital Police officers and told them he was on his way to a vote at 2:45 AM… when there was no vote… which may have caused the Capital Police to confer with higher-ups and the higher-ups to order not to arrest Kennedy because of the U.S. Constitution… is Kennedy guilty of obstruction of justice: a felony?

If I was on a jury, I’d have to conclude he was.

He’s trying to escape legal jeopardy.

Q. Why did he lie about his drinking to the officers if he did so?
A. Obstruction of justice.

Q. Why did he lie about going to a vote at 2:45 AM if he wasn’t?
A. Abusing his power as a Congressman to subvert the U.S. Constitution and obstruct justice.

So now he’s saying he wasn’t drinking, but he was abusing prescription drugs. This despite the two previous sources I cited that state he was either “under the influence of alcohol” (the cops) or “drinking” (bar hostess).

And Kennedy’s own statement said that he took precisely the prescribed amount of his prescription drugs and no more.

His statements have changed multiple times, but it’s his actions that night, which were in my opinion felonious.

If it walks like abusing his power to subvert the U.S. Constitution and obstruction of justice and if it talks like abusing his power to subvert the U.S. Constitution and obstruction of justice, it’s a duck.

Key Point:

Patrick Kennedy abused his power as a Congressman to subvert the U.S. Constitution and obstruct justice when he lied to the Capital Police about going to a House vote at 2:45 AM when there wasn’t any House vote at that time.

The police supervisors making the call not do field sobriety testing or issue a traffic summons (no headlights) need to be held accountable.

Couple a traffic infraction with a motor vehicle accident in many states and that allows for a pre-screening test of the driver’s breath for alcohol automatically.

Refusing said pre-screen would be another traffic infraction.

US Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-RI, son of Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-MA, crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday while intoxicated and incapable to drive – and no charges were filed.

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Why would we not expect a Congressional Representative to get this sort of treatment, Kennedy or not? Sadly, I think that most would get the same, though the furor would be raising the roof if this were say, Tom Delay.

And that absolves him how?

The lesson here is that a good many of our elected officials are taking advantage of the public trust while creating a ruling class of family and friends who have too much influence on American policy. This is not the way it is supposed to be.

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 Patrick Kennedy has a new explanation for his Car wreck in the wee hours of Thursday morning.  He claims that he had prescribed medication that made him goofier than usual.Kennedy (d, RI) in his own defense claims that he was……

John and Bobby were his uncles. Patrick is the son of Ted.

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This won’t harm Kennedy at all though. The ones who will pay are the beat cops that tried to do their jobs. The supervisors who covered it up may suffer short-term, but in the long run they will “taken care of” for helping out a Kennedy.

[LINK] LA Times Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.) denied through his office Thursday that he had been drinking before he crashed a car into a Capitol Hill security barricade at 2:45 a. His father, Ted Kennedy, was one year older…