Posted by
Sam Heath on Monday, March 10, 2008 4:18:44 PM
Several things in my opinion are not wrong, but they sure are illegal. Drugs, gambling, prostitution, but where would those like Governor Spitzer be without these things being illegal, how would Al Capone and The Godfather have made a living? Of course, when something is illegal those on the wrong side of the tracks breaking the law do time and politicians like Spitzer et al. usually get a pass, and if all money laundering schemes were abolished I doubt any politician could possibly survive. It’s just as well I’m not in control of things because I would abolish capital punishment, make marijuana and prostitution legal and require mandatory birth control for those unable to provide a proper home for children.
What I wish both liberals and conservatives would do is go after businesses like Countrywide that as far as I am concerned are really into money laundering, something I mentioned in WG when the ads began appearing. When you have hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide coming in from illegal sources, a primary reason for politicians refusing to secure our borders, you must have a number of entities to wash the money and many of those in the United Nations are in my opinion complicit. After all, the love of money doesn’t have any scruples or recognize any borders or other limitations.
Here in America, apart from the mortgage money lending scams, don’t you wonder about some of those commercials and know in your bones they simply can’t be selling enough of that junk to turn a profit? Moneylenders are infamous for extortion, but what about the junk peddlers? Ever ask yourself how some of these outfits including those at the local level, I refrain from mentioning some in Kern County, are selling enough merchandise to afford those endless commercials? Sometimes when viewing these I get the feeling TV stations are in a “don’t ask, don’t tell” mode concerning advertisers.
But just try to get a handle on the whole real estate business and you are soon drowning in a sea of paperwork designed to obscure the trail of slime and money laundering that includes everything from the lowest real estate peddlers to architectural combines, the construction industry, escrow and title companies, all of which have bought politicians and judges at the local, state, and federal levels; and sometimes, albeit rarely, one of these is caught and brought to justice; though more often those like the Clintons and Whitewater get a pass and Bill hands out pardons wholesale in the end. But the Clintons, Bush, Cheney, et al. are just symptoms of the disease and such is the way of the world we live in.
Speaking of the United Nations, eight years ago when I proposed a Constitutional amendment to protect children from molesters I enquired of the UN whether any nation in the world had a provision in their foundational charter of government directed specifically to the welfare of children. Not surprisingly, none have any such provision. Because of this I eventually became involved with UNICEF because a few thinking people realized after doing the research this was a rather unusual situation and it aroused their curiosity. It isn’t often someone approaches the organization with an original query. But as things began to unravel because of so many scandals and money laundering schemes, I lost all confidence in those at the UN and UNICEF being genuinely concerned for the welfare of children.
If you don’t read The Huffington Post you are missing something good. Unlike Ann Coulter, Arianna has never asked to be removed from the mailing list for The Weedpatch Gazette; and, after all, even Alec Baldwin is capable of making real sense at times and Arianna has done a terrific job of garnering some of the best and brightest to her publication.
For example, this morning I went to Jamie Lee Curtis’ brief article about looking up rather than down and really enjoyed her simple and direct writing about the problem of too many devices in our lives that prevent eye contact, human to human communication. And though Jamie did question parenthetically whether there ever were any “good old days,” my being old enough to pronounce on this I can assure her that when it comes to human communications there were indeed some good old days in which this took place; but you have to go back to an age before TV to really appreciate this having been the case, a time when children and adults read good books and magazines, listened to radio, saw really good films, and so forth. These things gave us all something to talk about, and there was a far greater sense of “community” at that time in America than there is now.
Admittedly I have a pretty dim view of the world; and especially of America’s prospects for the future. But those of us raised in Norman Rockwell’s America, the nation that fought and won WWII and reflected in the values of Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, and Mayberry had every reason to believe in the future of America. But to all the “Toto’s” out there, we aren’t in Kansas anymore. How well I recall seeing the Wizard of Oz when it was released; sheer, wondrous magic for me; but I can’t go back to 1939 and see it for the first time again; however, as with the America I recall from so long ago how I wish I were able to do so.