Jack Abramoff due to be released from prison
Via Raw Story:
And as soon as this week, or next, Abramoff will he on his way out the doors of a federal prison and into a halfway house, where he will reside until he's formally released.
I'm still amazed at what he got away with and how light a sentence he received, because I'm idealistic enough to think somehow, somewhere, justice should be done. After his 3 1/2 years in prison, he will go to a halfway house, then he will go home to his wife and children. He may be disgraced, but I doubt he is repentant.
Caution: Rant ahead
He will probably write a book and recover enough money to allow him to travel in the circles of days past. Perhaps not with the kind of high-rolling money that he wishes for, but with enough that he will never worry about where his next unemployment check will come from. While he may not be the influencer that he was once, he will have enough influence to move in the same circles as though nothing had ever happened, as though he hadn't bilked tribes out of millions, as though he hadn't sold Congressmen on the idea of giving oil companies and financial firms lots of legislative breaks in exchange for campaign booty.
I suggest you see Casino Jack to remind yourself of the evil this man is and represents. He should spill it all, name names, hand over receipts and affidavits and hammer all of his College Republican buddies. Maybe then I could forgive his easy payment of his "debt to society."
The truth of Abramoff is this: our democracy is inexorably weaker because of what he did and because he did not pay a fair price for his malfeasance.
More on Abramoff in the archives.
http://www.alternet.org/story/114674/
Theres a very good reason why Scooter Libby took the train during his legal difficulties.
.... this week, or next
where more bodies are buried than J Abramoff. I doubt he'll suffer. He'll make more money by not publishing his memoirs than he ever could by writing them.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Faux is the place where losers, felons and whack jobs like glen beck spend their winters of discontent.
"think tank" opportunities.
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His area of expertise: Democrat Party Corruption
never took Abramoff's 'lobby' money. He could easily.
A lot of them 'sold out' for the measly sums of $500.
...and because the open thread comes past my bedtime..
Redstate referes to Helen Tomas as " a 274 year old witch" http://www.redstate.com/tabithahale/2010/06/0...
blacks
gays
hispanics
now you can add the elderly to the list of people conservatives hate and ridicule.
Maybe Erik Erikson will grab his wife's shotgun and hunt down Helen Thomas along with the American census workers looking to make a few extra bucks in the post Bush economy.
I commented elsewhere on this same principle, re Madoff. The point is not that I'm recycling, but that the evil is widespread:
Look at it this way: An alleyway mugger who steals one person's purse/wallet hurts one person (at least immediately). A person like Madoff hurts untold numbers of persons. And a person like Abramoff hurts, not just discrete individuals, but the fundamental trust on which democracy depends.
I'm not a Jew, and I admit to being clueless here. Can someone who knows more about the faith explain how Abramoff could care more about covering his head than about the social justice I've always admired in Judaism?
The light sentence is to implicitly reward the NOT talking and exposing all the sordid other people who took/gave the money.
This happens time and time again when the 'big' people get caught for monstrous crimes. Just think Scooter Libby and his top tier exploits, a token 30 months and then the POTUS commutation.
And Libby is most likely to get his suspended law license back in 2012 too. His 'rehabilitation' and re-admittance back into the world of DC lawyer-land/politics/sleaze will be complete. The paying lecture tour and paid job at Faux will help too.
Meanwhile the random pothead who got busted in Smallville will have served their full sentence, had their career and family life destroyed and most like never be able to get a proper job again for life.
Scumbag.
And yet petty marijuana criminals are in jail and small time drug users or dealers spend more time than this asshole. We have no justice in this corporate prison industrial complex of a nation. Of by and for the people is long gone. Home of the brave. More like slave. Sad day.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
there is no justice.
me-oww!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfg0_FbIqqw
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
"I'm idealistic enough to think somehow, somewhere, justice..." , anymore that is being idealistic alright . There is no law or justice now , the crooks and criminals are in charge , own it all and they call the shots . It's worse than ever ... it's blatant and a matter of fact . We the people have never been so powerless .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Abramoff, captain of The Wrecking Crew
"It is true that public attitudes toward government conform ever more closely to the cynical views of the right; it is even true that the right's fortunes depend on robust public cynicism toward government. But no individual senator can rightly claim all the credit for this development. At least some of the thanks must go to our mass culture, whose typecast politicians are always on the take and even whose FBI agents are the pawns of a mysterious conspiracy."
"It is no coincidence that the movies to which Jack Abramoff and his team of right-wing lobbyists referred constantly were the Godfather series; these are classics of the disillusionment genre, in which the cops and the senators are always corrupt and only thieves have honor, secretly pulling the puppet strings of the visible world.*
"This romantic passion for the mafia makes a kind of cosmic sense for the antigovernment crowd, as the mafia's real-world power is greatest in those regions of Italy where government is worst and civic trust is feeblest. Nor is it limited to the confessed felon Abramoff; Rudy Giuliani is, oddly, a big fan of The Godfather, and according to John Podhoretz, all the young "Reaganites" in the eighties loved to quote from the movie."
[...] As it happens, conservative antigovernment crusaders have often taken up the question of what to do about government. The utopian dream is to wreck it."
"The Wrecking Crew"; How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation" by Thomas Frank.
once you amass the power and the wealth, they move in on legitimate business and politics. The kids become lawyers and brokers, the grand-kids become politicians. Then the family becomes blue blood.
The classic mafia that makes the news is generally the middling tier which is struggling to achieve status and respectability.
Just think of how many US senators come from now respectable organized crime families.
You call that a rant?
In 140 character profanity-laced bites.
I've done a great job of avoiding twitter to date...
I don't need a new internet addiction.
Seriously, why can't there be executive revoking of the release of a criminal like Jack (rhymes with Madoff) Abramoff ???? I'm just sayin....
http://liquiddaddy.blogspot.com/2010/04/state...
one of the slimiest, most corrupt politicians of our time... my guess is he will get off scott free in these corrupted states of amoralca.
can do amazing things in delaying justice and legitimizing the corrupt.
The forty nine reign of J. Edgar Hoover at the top job of the FBI springs to mind, Surpasses even the worst longevity of the most evil of any of the KGBs top apparatchiks, Washington was petrified of Hoover and what he could have done to any individual who spoke out against him.
"I'm still amazed at what he got away with and how light a sentence he received, because I'm idealistic enough to think somehow, somewhere, justice should be done. After his 3 1/2 years in prison, he will go to a halfway house, then he will go home to his wife and children."
Made-Off is above the law, because he is both a Republican AND a high-level capitalist. The Rule of Law does not apply to them, as Bush and Cheney made so very clear.
That Made-Off got punished AT ALL is a miracle. Recall that the Bush FEC HELPED Made-Off steal all that money by ignoring their investigator's reports for over a decade! If they could the GOP would have made him a national hero, like Cheney wanted to do with High-Criminal 'Scooter' Libby.
Too bad he didn't steal $20 from a liquor store, then he'd be in prison for another decade.
... steal a lot and then they make you King."
You watch the GOP EMBRACE this guy when he is released... just watch.
Bob Dylan
Betcha ten bucks this prick will be back to some sort of variation of his old shit within a month.
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