Same old Keys and Light Posts

In reading the first paragraph of the Preface in Bill Moyers The Secret Government, The Constitution in Crisis, I am struck by something a little odd. See if you are as well:

Within two years after congressional Watergate hearings in 1973, President Richard Nixon had resigned in disgrace. Nineteen corporations and sixty-one people, including Nixon's own chief of staff, four former cabinet officials, and his personal lawyer, had been charged with crimes relating to Watergate; dozens of the president's men had already been convicted and sentenced to prison. In the next presidential election his party was driven from power.

So... (As PAB likes to say)

What is wrong with the picture today? Saying that the current situation is analogous to Watergate seems something of a misnomer to me. Nineteen Corporations. Corporations. Can you imagine? And people going to jail. Let us move two paragraphs down:

Two years after the congressional Iran-contra hearings, a different system is working. As of this writing, no one has gone to jail for Iran-contra. Virtually no one resigned. And disgrace is as alien to most of the chief players as accountability or remorse. This particular future generation has seen it's principles threatened, and has declined to defend them.

1988. Almost twenty years ago this was written. The same fucking people come back to the trough and each time they get more power and money and influence. Each time this "party of personal responsibility" sees less and less in the way of punishment.

How does this relate to me bumping around the light post? Hell if I know. I have a bit more writing to do on this, but PAB has risen from his nap and adult intervention is required in his happy life.

He (PAB) is now zonked out and I can share my uninformed opinion. This relates to my bumping around the light pole because these people are breaking the law and engaging in treasonous activity without being even sanctioned. They don't even get a mark on their fucking pertinent record let alone the hard time that they so rightfully deserve. Nothing. Not one damn thing. Let me say it again:

Rule of law.

We are being dragged, one slow inch at a time, away from Liberty and Enlightenment. Away from Law and Order. Away from a Liberal Democracy where you and I get equal footing in the eyes of a blind Justice. Away from Privacy. Away from the right to do whatever the hell I want to do to MY BODY. Away from Informed Policy based on facts and Reason. Away from an America where hard work just might get you somewhere. Away from the Rule of Law.

I am not stupid. We have existed in a classed society from the beginning. I mean really folks:

9th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920) - Transcript

Sixty-sixth Congress of the United States of America; At the First Session,

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the nineteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution extending the right of suffrage to women.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislature of three-fourths of the several States.

"ARTICLE ————.

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

But things are getting a little weird.

What will it take to get a little Rule of Law around here? Crap. I need a beer.
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Image taken from the Interactive World of Dante site. For extra credit try and find the layer(s) of hell that our esteemed government officials would land in. Not that I believe in that nonsense.