The Corruption of Integrety

According to the “Ring of Fire” there is a Tea Party run “charity group” that is completely bogus raising money to help our troops in Afghanistan live a better life by giving them extra Oreo cookies and such.  But they showed old film footage from 2004 that is completely non germain.  Also it would seem that Eugene Scelia, son of Supreme Court Justice Anton Scelia- - is active in “desconstructing’ the Dodd-Frank bill signed into law by President Obama in mid 2010.  This bill promised many reforms such as consumer protection, the end of these bogus investment swaps and derivitives, and most importantly said ‘No bank would be deemed too big to fail” and that something like 2008 would never occur again.  Of course Scelia won’t recuse himself because “It’s up to the discretion of each Justice whether he feels the need to recruse himself” so he won’t.   It seems that Justice Allito also has a son who in normal times would be considered engaging in “conflict of interest” activity.  It seems that the New York Times has been bribed with a lot of money by tea party groups to slant their editorials a certain way.  All of these developments are very depressing.  It would seem that there is no such thing as honesty or integrity in any profession these days and there’s no one who can’t be bought off.  I had just about the whole hour show on with one disconcerting story like this after another. 

To review about Governor Rick Perry.  He was duly indicted by a Texas grand jury in accordance with Texas law to the specification that Rick Perry demanded that the head of the ethics board resign, or else he’d cut off funding to that department.  Of course he wanted to replace a sitting democrat with a Republican, who would then do nothing on ethics.  According to Norman Goldman, Perry didn’t necessarily do anything wrong because the law was too vaguely written.  Goldman pointed out that congress passed an “Honest politicians’ law in 1988 that has had many prosecutions for now these 26 years and all of a sudden the law is unconstitutional.  Or at least it is slated to be unconstitutional.  The Supreme Court today apparently declared this law unconstitutional, as if this were an emergency case that demanded their immediate attention to save the butt of a Texas republican, after no doubt other cases have languished for literally years without the Supreme Court choosing to hear them.  Whatever happened to the principle of “Newcomers have to go to the back of the line”.  Humm?

 The ISIS video was shown sadly to be genuine and the President was furious and delivered a brief speech on the subject.  Unfortunately Islam is the most barbarous of any of the world’s - - major religions.  As the President points out though, these ISIS people don’t much care who they murder.  Of course the President is still bombing, and perhaps we should now step up the bombing and work more closely with the Kurds perhaps sending in advisors or something.  Sadly, this situation is just too grave for the world to ignore.  But I didn’t know whether Sean was madder at ISIS or at President Obama for “getting back to his golf game after a two minute speech”.   Paul Ryan was on after two thirty, the second greatest liar in all of politics.  (Oliver North holds undisputed number one position)  Everything out of Ryan’s mouth was amanipulative political distortion, that served little constructive purpose. But he has a book out now called “The way forward”.  Yeah, right over a cliff!  He had Michael Brown’s attorney on.  I think the facts are pretty clear in my mind.  That Johnson fellow says the cop was pretty much on their case- - when he backed up his squad car the officer claims he just that minute heard an APB over the radio.  The thing is nobody even brought the cigar shop lifting incident till I think days later.  The video wasn’t out till six days later, and that was an edited portion only.  My point is that the store manager was as surprised as anybody that the police claim the officer knew about it- because he didn’t call 911.   And contrary to what Hannity says- - Dorian Johnson’s testimony is perfectly valid unless he’s a convicted felon.  Being with a friend who shop lifts is not my definition of conviction of a felony.  The testimony is that the officer, Wilson, used the F word a lot at him.  Brown slammed the officer’s car door shut.  He wasn’t “invading the car” as first reports had it.  Brown and Johnson was running away and when Brown was hit and he knew it, he turned around and said “I’m not armed”.   Forensic evidence indicates one shot came from the back.  Forensic evidence dictates that Brown who is 6 foot 4 was shot from a downward direction, as if he were on his knees.  But one reason why I don’t believe the officer is because not once did I hear “I was there to make an arrest” or “I need to question you” or anything of that nature.  Neither is there any response by Brown to questions that were never asked.  To me it seems the only reason why the officer “returned” to the conflict is that “he wasn’t done yet”.  They “got off too easy” so to speak.  Now Sean has lodged the accusation that the officer’s eye socket was blown out, which is something NOT ONCE mentioned anywhere till I just heard Sean Hannity raise that particular allegation on his show today.   The Department of Justice seems to have already concluded that the local authorities have no intension of doing a serious prosecution, for reasons Norman Goldman enumerated.

I turned on the Stephanie Miller show, and have her on right now.  I went to the liquor store for a dollar cup of coffee.   We had Cheerios for breakfast followed by two smaller pancakes (than they’ve had in the past) with whipped cream on them.  The coffee was good, but I got no food supplements today.   I intend to do another paragraph on the crucifixion of Jesus and all the interactions likely with the Roman authorities that previously hadn’t occurred to me.  I'll cut to the chase.  We know of all the rioting that has gone on for over a week in Ferguson over the death of one Black guy.  Well, remember in the Bible the authorities reasoned among themselves "We can't arrest Jesus during the Passover because the people will riot".  And yet when Jesus was before Pilate it WAS Passover and the people were close to Rioting in favor of killing Jesus if Pilate didn't act.  And yet we are to believe the minute Jesus was put to death, or even BEFORE he was put to death- - - all was quiet in the streets and there was not one thing that occurred in Jerusalem that merited the slightest mention at all after Jesus was pronounced dead.   There are no further arrests, no rioting or protesting or vows of reprisals for this unjust act.  Stephanie Miller notes there is a major cover-up and deception by these Ferguson cops.  That video doesn’t necessarily prove ‘robbery” but all we saw, all we were shown, was the last few seconds of an obviously longer encounter where there was a bit of a scuffle between the store owner and Michael Brown.  Stephanie and Chris point out that such a video released now may be a not too subtle attempt to contaminate the jury pool. 

Both of last night’s Law and Order episodes were disturbing.  You had this sixteen year old girl who was raped – twice by her estrange stepfather’s boss- - who always had a “bad attitude”.  But the jury let him off because the girl herself was under a great deal of emotional distress and at one pointed recanted the fact that any rape took place.   Then you have this case of Jake, who seems like your postcard wholesome kid, whose a fairly good looking eleven years ago and reasonably articulate- - the type of kid who might run for student body president when he got older.  But he’s a cold blooded murderer, and they are saying he’s a dangerous sociopath “who will only kill again”.   Anyhow the dead boy’s father just learns the kid killed his own little boy Henry- - and that he’s going to “get off” for it and that these other boys at the reform school regard Jake as a real psycho.  Anyhow right there in the court house the father grabs this officer’s gun and shoots Jake, which is a completely insane act right out there in public - -where he easily could have gotten shot himself.  Here is where I feel uncomfortable.  If that had happened with me- - where I just “went off the rails’ like that, I would not trust anything I’d say at that moment and want to get into therapy immediately and I certainly would be demanding an attorney.  If ever there was a case of “Don’t talk to the authorities without a lawyer” this is it.  Anyhow the guy got off- - and right after his acquittal he admits everything the female prosecutor had been wanting him to admit.  I guess he just "wanted to give the finger" to the legal system.