Outrage of the Week

Wednesday, May 12--Outrage of the Week is devoted to listing the most outrageous behavior by our government and other public officials that are either criminal, immoral or unethical -- a clear abuse of their authority and responsibility, hurting the American people because we can no longer hold them Accessible and Accountable.

A new outrage will be put up either daily or on a regular basis throughout the week, and at the end of the week we ask you to vote for the outrage you feel is most destructive.

We also encourage you to send in to us your Outrage of the Week. The tragedy is that what would have been an outrage that would have required immediate sanction, even prison, 20 years ago is routinely done today and nobody has any power to do anything about it. (The Rosenbergs were arrested, tried, convicted and executed for espionage in far less time than it's taken to simply fire the most treasonous spy in American history, the man who sold all our nuclear secrets to the Chinese, let alone arrest him. But that's what America has become today.)

Outrage #1: The Supreme Court openly declares that America is no longer a Democracy, but a Corporate Oligarchy controlled by a rich elite.

A Supreme Court decision was handed down last week that said it was perfectly proper for corporations and individuals to bribe public officials at every level as long as you can't prove the government official acted on that bribe. In other words, it is now perfectly legal for corporations and others to bribe public officials. (And to think I was outraged when President Clinton turned the White House into what one truck driver described to me as the Washington Whore House by selling the right to spend the night in Lincoln's bedroom to anyone who would pay $50,000.

My anger was especially intense because Lincoln was not only a cornerstone of everything America stands for as he stated so magnificently in our second Declaration of Independence, his Gettysburg Address, "of the people, by the people, for the people," Lincoln was also a great mystic who was closer to God than any American president. To sell Lincoln's bedroom for money is an act of infamy and desecration beyond the comprehension of decent people who love this country.)

The absurdity of this ruling - an absurdity known by every one of the Supreme Court Justices - is that, if I am a Senator, I can take endless - no limit -- bribes from a corporation, a group, or an individual, and simply abstain from voting on a bill so it can't be proved I acted on that bribe. However, I can act on it indirectly by trading off my vote with the votes of my colleagues, and they can vote the way the corporation who paid me wants me to vote.

In exchange, I vote the way the corporations have bribed my fellow Senators to vote. In that way we can take all the bribes we want and never be held Accountable for having acted on those bribes. Of course, among those who can now openly take such bribes are the Supreme Court Justices themselves. They and their families can be flown on lush corporate jets to posh resorts anywhere in the world for a free vacation, and it's all perfectly legal.

Can anyone show me where it says in the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, or anywhere in the letters of Jefferson, Madison, Washington or Adams that we were to be a government controlled by the rich and powerful who could openly and legally bribe our government officials?

The question must be asked: What could possibly have been going on in the unconscious Shadow part of the psyche of the Supreme Court Justices to even think of handing down such a heinous, evil, destructive decision?

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