| The impetus behind the prosecution, and the persecution, of Elliot Spitzer has nothing to do with the enforcement of laws. It has everything to do with revenge and with partisan gamesmanship.
This is a class one example of "the politics of personal destruction".
I know, I know, what he did was wrong, sleazy and a betrayal of his family.
Consider how many millions, yes millions, of American men are "guilty" of the same or similar "crimes"? Infidelity, of all sorts, is unfortunately common in our culture.
What we have here is a situation in which the federal government has been taken over by an, essentially, criminal administration that has easy access to every telephonic "switch" in the nation. All in the name of "national security" of course.
Is there anyone who doubts that it would be beneath the corrupt bastards in the Bush administration (and the even more corrupt bastards behind them) to have been illicitly listening to every word Spitzer has been saying on the phone "in private" since he was elected?
Can I prove that in a court of law? No; but the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming.
The Bush administration is, at it's core, an essentially criminal enterprise.
I wish Spitzer had had the chops to have come out with a complete abject sincere and total confession to the public so that he wouldn't be subject to any more implicit blackmail from the scumbags who have been illicitly leaking the dirty details.
I wish he had held a ten hour news conference in which he laid it all on the line and concluded with an announcement that he was going to go to war with the TRULY evil sons of bitches who were/are behind this attack on the democratic process and the Democratic party.
Again, don't misunderstand me. I am NOT defending Elliott Spiter's wrong doing in this matter. I am saying that the wrong doing of those who have conducted this politically inspired "investigation" far far far exceeds anything Spitzer has done and that it is a direct threat to our democratic process and to our Constitution.
If these scumbags in the Bush administration and the wall street bastards behind them have the power to do this to a sitting governor who is also a multimillionaire; then no one is safe.
The implicit message is: "Don't fuck with the system. If you dare to try to reform anything in such a way that it actually impinges of the status quo; you will be hunted down and destroyed by any means necessary." And we'll even get the "good citizens" whose best interests you were trying to serve to cheer as you are destroyed!
There are those who will say, "Lento, you are a naive fool, the world is an irredeemably dirty corrupt place, politics is hardball and this is par for the course."
And, to some extent, I would even acknowledge that that often seems to be true. I ask you; is there really no hope for the good to prevail? If we continue to allow the "perfect to be the enemy of the good" then the answer is clearly no.
Is there anyone of us who could sustain an "investigation" that could look into every corner of our lives from birth to the present moment?
Is there anyone of us who hasn't at one time or another done something that we are ashamed of and that would be devastating if it was splashed onto the front pages of the worlds media for all to judge and ridicule?
Is there anyone of us who hasn't privately failed to live up to the highest ideals that we publicly proclaim?
Is there anyone of us who is perfect?
The rush to judgment and "execution" in this matter of Elliot Spitzer is an abomination that would not stand up to a month of real scrutiny. That's why the Republicans have pushed so hard to railroad this man in the court of public opinion.
I wish Elliot Spitzer had the real chutzpah to take a few months to make the kind of case in defense of democracy that I've outlined above.
Again, what he did was and is indefensible; that's a relatively peripheral issue at this point; what was done TO him is many orders of magnitude worse.
The screwing of Elliott Spizer is the screwing of democracy, and the real shame of it is that the evil bastards behind this have manipulated the situation so that most of us have picked up a stone and thrown it.
The barely repressed glee of those who are profiting from this political assassination is profoundly disgusting.
Anyway, Spitzer is about to make his announcement; the "smart money" says he's going to quit and that he's cut some kind of deal to reduce his legal exposure.....and I can't blame him too much if he takes that route.
Make no mistake about it. What has happened was, and is, a real "high tech lynching".
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