Over
a hundred years ago, a Brit politician, Lord Acton wrote: "Power
tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." We typically
think of kings and military dictators when reading these words. But
legislative assemblies are also centers of power, never more so than today,
ergo they have become the new hubs of corruption. Infused with
a special arrogance all their own, legislators see themselves as
representatives of the people. Never mind that "the people" are an
abstract, a patriotic buzzword, nothing more to them at least. The
real 'people power' is in the CONGRESS and that's what is "absolute"
under capitalist democracy, and the BIG CORPORATIONS KNOW IT full well,
therefore they curry favor, pay for and subsidize Senators and Congressmen.
The fact that elected officials take any kind of quid pro quo means
that "people power" is a farce. There is nothing but ABSOLUTE corruption.
The corruptible character of today's legislator is revealed when we see how these brigans affect a homey, plebian pose. How they keep a calculated distance from blue blood nobility. How their campaign rhetoric exemplifies readiness to appeal to the lowest common denominator. (e.g., "Vote for me and you'll get jobs" or other goodies.) We may properly characterize parliamentary corruption by quoting Oliver Cromwell's speech at the dissolution of Parliament in 1653: "It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice." According to Cromwell, Parliament was "a factious crew, and enemies to all good government." He called them "a pack of mercenary wretches...." True then, true today.
Then he asked, "Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?" Answering the question himself, he roared, "Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?"
Those who win election to office, be they legislators or presidents, more often than not follow the celebrated "GOLDEN CALF" model of leadership, by finding the issue that the CEO of the TRANSNATIONAL wants implemented, (NAFTA, GATT, loosing of the Wall Street Regulations, Dumping Welfare, sending our boys into third world countries to die to get oil ) then wrapping their 'buzz word mantra' minds around it, buying the Corporative spokespeople's 'high-minded-sounding reasons, logic, then hooking up fellow congress members with the campaign coffer money flow, creating a mini -parade in the House and Senate with the least honorable and most brazen of the lot getting in front of that issue in the Media. To say this is leadership is to utter an absurdity. Those who are the "first to follow" are not leaders. They are whores, puppets who bounce up and down the political stage on somebody else's string. Mark Twain once wrote that fleas could be taught "nearly anything that a Congressman can." In one letter he described legislators as "the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes." Such minds, souls, and hearts are easily overcome and subjected because smallness and selfishness and cowardice are traits coincident with subservience. What is absurd, and often missed, is the fact that many legislatures throughout the world are subservient to what is low; more in sympathy with the criminal than the victim; ready to reward the malingerer and slacker at the expense of the dutiful and diligent; ready to appease enemies and abandon allies; militantly wasteful of taxpayer monies; confusing righteousness with perverse notions of universal equality.
Nobody as yet dares to tell the whole
truth about the United States Congress, which presently dismantles the
Republic. And though I exaggerate in this column for effect, what follows
is hardly an exaggeration; for what
description better serves when the currency is debased, industries
driven overseas, indolence fostered, national defense sabotaged, the banks
corrupted and finance irrationalized? There is more, and worse to come.
To
understand the dangerous implications of today's legislative corruption,
the reader must consider what has happened on Wall Street and realize
that the way was paved for these Banksters by an "assume the pose" Congress
(the very best money could buy.) So the money flow to these Ho's
has to stop. No perks or free drinks at all for Congress from any corporative
fountain. Ever. Congress needs to be made up of vestal virgins, pure reason,
pure dedication, no other zeitgeist. Public Servants. Next, the VOTE and
MONEY need separating. Campaign coffers, ravening howling media with its
paws out, both need to be neatly neutered. So, how do we that?
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