stevens no!
I guess we don't need to convict corrupt public officials, or at least, the ones who did something corrupt. Instead we need to have a system of government corruption lawyers who aren't corrupt capable of trying the case without violating ethical standards and practices and at least give us the possibility of convicting other corrupt public officials.
What a great country... We can get off most of the opening day baseball games on a day in April where it snows in parts of the country. But we cannot convict a blatantly corrupt public official and have to let him off on what amounts to a technicality because we apparently don't have a justice system that is fair and impartial anymore. I like our sense of priorities (even though I love baseball too).
07 April 2009
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Did you happen to catch Frontline last night? It was on corrupt business practices - corporations bribing foreign royalty/gov't officials....scary.
There's an amazing level of "investment" that turns out to be little more than bribes to allow a corporate entity to exist. Money gets diverted like that alot, and makes it difficult to perceive or study things like developmental economics or how it might work, if it all. It certainly makes transparency impossible. This is sort of where I get off on the system of lobbying we have in our own country. It induces others to do the same rather than to allow for honest competitive balances. We may have sort of cleaned up the foreign "investment", but we still have a long way to go to set up a sane system of rules internally, something many European nations have.
It took me a bit to get around to watching. I felt like using my monitor for its semi-intended purpose. Watching TV is much better this way. If ESPN gets around to putting more stuff online, I will be getting rid of cable.
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