It's the system that creates a Menendez & the System is also Hypocritical

This link shows the senator on the defensive. Oddly, though, he only gets vocal after the indictment. Prior to today, I only knew of judicial problems with regard to that Dominican Republic trip. But so what, no one can blame him for not stirring up muddy waters--still waters are not just the domain of psychopaths.


Tomorrow, I'll be joining actionnetwork.org as they demonstrate--in lower Manhattan--for keeping money out of politics. The streets should inadvertently get clogged with people if we were all doing our civic duty, bow. That's not going to happen because most of us are looking the other way--the Scalia way. By that, I mean Citizens United has been allowed to keep up its corruption of government and its disenfranchisement of the little people. Those of us who live at the delta of life's congruences, struggling with the rivers and tides of fortune while a whole sea of possibilities lie waiting ahead of us, will certainly continue to hob up and down while the Justice Department targets an unsophisticated Senator and while the  more cognizant occupying the other seats in Congress deal exclusively with the much safer corporatocracy. Menendez, imho, engaged in small town politics when he drew a million bucks from a friend who needed to milk the system (allegedly, of course); but, like him, others in Congress get campaign funding from corporations who also want to milk the system. Therein lies the hypocrisy.

I'm all in favor of condemning an illegal act by Senator Menendez but I'll be damned if I don't also want to stop the "legal" tit-for-tat.


The solution, as I've written before, is that we own the airwaves and we should commandeer the airwaves for the sake of transmitting candidates' opinions and platforms. We should also outlaw political printing and make the messages available in public places (LCD/LED screens) where those without Internet can see. There would be no legal reason for money in politics if we do this and we would be left with common criminality that would be poorly defended.


You think?


One last observation, if the Senator had interceded with a bureaucracy on behalf of his friend, have we considered all culpability? I think there is a serious need for ethics reform vis-a-vis the bureaucrat. A bureaucrat in any government department must be held accountable if criminality occurs on his/her watch as a result of a request by a member of Congress (let's see how far I can throw that lead balloon).

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