We deplore the corruption of third world countries as though we were not also guilty. Because most of our corruption is often more subtle, it goes undetected by we commoners.
The current case before our Supreme Court about Obamacare is a contest to determine the constitutionality of the law. That's OK but it should also be about the criminal way it was passed. Can any law be legal if votes to pass it were purchased with bribery using tax payer money? Is bribery just politics or is it criminal? If a lobbyist bribes a Congressman, he's in deep doo-doo. Only those who make the laws can break the laws.
During the passage of Obamacare we witnessed the most blatant acts of bribery which were allowed to stand by everyone. If I bribed a local inspector in Podunk, I'd be locked up in a minute but the President can bribe Senators with millions of dollars and members of Congress can bribe each other by swapping votes worth millions. Why aren't these acts illegal? Shouldn't politics be subject to RICO? Isn't it organised crime?
I reject the mantra that it's just "politics", just as in the case of the local inspector, I reject the suggestion that it's just "business". We have lost all confidence in most of our finest institutions because of such behavior yet we stand idly by and allow it, like wimpy victims, cowering in a corner. WE ARE THE COUNTRY. We can't let entrenched criminals continue to run our country. The few who don't engage in these practices are, sooner or later, also corrupted because there is no resistance from anyone.
If we don't condemn corruption of this kind, it has our implied consent. It institutionalises a criminal system of government.
The current case before our Supreme Court about Obamacare is a contest to determine the constitutionality of the law. That's OK but it should also be about the criminal way it was passed. Can any law be legal if votes to pass it were purchased with bribery using tax payer money? Is bribery just politics or is it criminal? If a lobbyist bribes a Congressman, he's in deep doo-doo. Only those who make the laws can break the laws.
During the passage of Obamacare we witnessed the most blatant acts of bribery which were allowed to stand by everyone. If I bribed a local inspector in Podunk, I'd be locked up in a minute but the President can bribe Senators with millions of dollars and members of Congress can bribe each other by swapping votes worth millions. Why aren't these acts illegal? Shouldn't politics be subject to RICO? Isn't it organised crime?
I reject the mantra that it's just "politics", just as in the case of the local inspector, I reject the suggestion that it's just "business". We have lost all confidence in most of our finest institutions because of such behavior yet we stand idly by and allow it, like wimpy victims, cowering in a corner. WE ARE THE COUNTRY. We can't let entrenched criminals continue to run our country. The few who don't engage in these practices are, sooner or later, also corrupted because there is no resistance from anyone.
If we don't condemn corruption of this kind, it has our implied consent. It institutionalises a criminal system of government.
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