Let's not forget that there are some to whom the rules are believed not apply. Whether it's Spitzer or , it's amazing to watch crooks fall.
Meet Evan Cohen. He's in jail. A member of the Elite.
"The onetime chairman of the lib-net, Evan Cohen has been arrested in Guam and awaits extradition to Hawaii where he faces charges of theft, fraud and money laundering. If convicted, he could face up to ten years in prison. Since leaving Air America, Cohen returned to his native Guam where he's the managing director of a radio and TV production company. Read the court documents HERE." (pdf)
When I write about the Level Playing Field, I'm not talking about balancing crooks on the Right with crooks on the Left. It's a view that law serves as a leveler. And the strict enforcement of law is the best service that a society can provide its citizens.
One of the reason why I hate stupid laws. Or vague laws. Or law that exceeds the authority lawmakers receive from their constitutions, federal and state. But that is for another time. This is about simple crookedness and getting caught.
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It's referred to as "Airhead America" for good reason.
Perhaps, if convicted, he'll be cell mates with Randy Cunningham, Bob Allen or Larry Craig.
And, thankfully, anonymous provides the proof of my assesment of the Left's lens.
Duke Cunningham was in mind when I wrote this. But raw corruption exists. It attempts to mask its corruption from the view of others. It tries to be sneaky...covert. It either thinks it can't, or won't, get caught.
And I wondered if anyone would attempt the Tu Quoque fallacy, and Bingo!
A clever tactic, whereby I can steal from you if I think you are a thief. "You're another" isn't a defense. It is,however, an admission of one's own character weakness. And justifying one's own character flaws by pointing out the weakness in character of others simply serves to underscore the comenter's own character flaws.
Be careful of the tactics you choose to argue. They reveal as much as you wish it to conceal. Duke Cunningham will always bear the mark left by his own corruption.
I believe on the Left this is referred to as "solidarity". On the Right it is refered to as getting caught and going to jail.
Who would you be more willing to trust?
Uh huh, right. This weasle Evan Cohen..no one elected him to anything-he worked for a private media outlet that was careless enough with it's finances that he could just clean out the account and leave the country. Just another hustler. The kind of two bit embezzler that the business world is full of, but what the hell, that's life in USA. The sin isn't in the crime, the sin is in getting caught. Now this Cunningham, well, he was an elected official- he blathered out some sort of sworn sacred oath to the Government of the People of the USA that he was going to play a straight game, but he must'a had his fingers crossed or something because a wall of shit fell on him for it. Cunningham already had life dicked, but obviously he's one of those kind'a guys that thinks he should have it all, not just what he's earned. Who would you trust? I'd trust that punk Cohen a lot further than Cunningham. Capitalism, by it's nature, is larcenous. Cohen stole some money. Cunningham committed something far worse.
A more apt comparison would be Cunningham and Alle with William J. Jefferson and John Conyers, the latter who are still in office.
Then of course we could also compare Larry Craig with Barney Frank...
For the capitalists, might I suggest Mr. Cohen with Ken DeLay? Of course Enron was a an evil energy company engaged in massive fraud, while Air America was merely a 'voice of sanity in a right-wing-nut- talk-show world', that simply got "careless"...
Amazing.
It's curious that Bernie Ward's name hasn't been raised. I'll toss it into play. He deserves some recognition for the years of leftist cant he drooled over KGO's airwaves and the lying finagle he attempted when caught. "I was only doing research," or words to that effect. As if the evidence didn't exist. He and Larry Craig might be well paired for their own circle in hell, although I hear the First Amendment has been invoked to defend Craig's freedom of digital gestures under toilet stall partitions. The levelness of their playing fields seem to be displayed when you tally those on the left who are still playing in public, vs those on the right whose play time is controlled by the warden.
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