Anyway, still studying. 8 hours left.

especially when all that they know is based on a very corrupt, republican usda’s[patrick fitzgerald] press conference announcing an indictment of the governor of illinois. now, some think that patrick fitzgerald is an honorable man. i do not. he is[has been] a gunsell for fascist bastids. the purported “progressive left” lionized fitzgerald because of his lengthy investigation into the “outing” of valerie plame wilson. but, i think that any objective review of his conduct of that investigation, and its prosecution, is one of egregious malfeasance. the scooter was served up as the ham sandwich and fitz protected the real boars[bush, cheney, rove, addington, to name but a few]. succinctly, it was a very well tailored investigation, prosecution.

i think that this blagojevitch indictment may involve lots of reptillian[and stealth reptillian, aka demtillian] sleaze. one of the most interesting aspects concerning the evidence sustaining this indictment is the issue of WIRETAPPING. one of the questions that must be asked is this one:

since we have learned that the resident, george walker bush, ordered illegal wiretapping within hours of his false swearing ceremony, and since we have learned that we are going to be denied access to the extent of that wiretapping, i think that there is a distinct possibility that the indictment promulgated by fitzpatrick is “tainted”….unsustainable in a court ruled by an honest judge[but, as the late sherman skolnick kept informing us, there are no such courts/judges in the chicago jurisdiction].

i care to add that this bush-ordered illegal wiretapping may have been a resumption of the practices of previous presidents[all the way back to fdr and the fbi’s/oni’s black bag ops on amerikan pols/citizens]. recognizing this program, perhaps you can use this as one of the excuses for a democratic party becoming supine, becoming an ally of the reptillian party, in the destruction of the u.s. constitution/bill of rights.

personally, i don’t think they had to be blackmailed. politicians, whether they employ the moniker r, d, are still members of the all-encompassing criminal syndicate. but that is just how my studies into amerikan politics since the ascendancy of the first gangster president, harry truman, have informed me.

i shall just close this section this way, the activities fitzgerald served up in his indictment at this stage are allegations only. a trial and a jury verdict will be required to transform these republican allegations into criminal acts. that is a forthcoming situation. for all we know, these charges could be dropped at any time in the future, prior to any trial.

therefore, this demtillian/reptillian rush to deny blagojevitch his consitutional protections is quite anti-constitutional. and i think we should pause to reflect upon this demtillian/reptillian rush to judgment.

HAVING SAID THAT, i care to relate the realities of post ww2 amerikan politics as i have encountered them.

for the overture of this discussion, let us just understand that i sat in golf locker rooms, around dinner tables in private residences, dinner tables at private clubs, where political objectives were discussed. amongst those individuals that made/enforced decisions as to who would be candidates for public office and as to how the voting would be tabulated[fraudulent outcomes occurred long before electronic voting machines were introduced]. over my lifetime, i must tell you that i have concluded that most u.s. elections are a very theatrical event[i.e., unreal].

my observations of u.s. politics have occurred in ohio and texas. my brother-in-law, involved in california politics, informs me that my observations into political corruption in those two states are similar to what he observed in california.

one aspect of post ww2 politics that i noticed was that the politician with a long-term incumbency objective possessed a country property. and that it was developed for “boys only” events. a stock tank well stocked with fish for easy catching. perhaps a clubhouse. and more assets of that kind.

the most important aspect of that property was that it be out of the line of sight of the electorate and the press. so that its usage was virtually secret.

actually, i think that the press knew of some of these “entertainment” properties. but, the press being whores, kept those secrets.

here is one story. i could tell you many more. but this one is illustrative of how it has been being done in the usa for decades. i think it is the story of the political realities that have governed the usa since ww2.

to set the scene, imagine that you are a judge in one of america’s major industrial states[illinois, indiana, michigan, ohio, etc]. with no public fanfare or notification, you are notified that you are going to be feted at an “outing” on a saturday at a sporting club in the country. and you don’t even have to drive to get there, transport will have been arranged. moreover, you will learn that the “outing” will be financed by contributions to your political party….that the cost to a non-judicial attendee will be $5,000.

the financiers of the “outing” would be well-known were they to be publicly identified. they will all be ceo’s, coo’s, chief counsels of major corporations with issues before those courts administered by those judges[the guests of honor].

for the purposes of illustration, let us consider that for 50 judges there would be 50 corporate litigants attending the “outing”. and up front, they would have invested $250,000 in that “outing”. in this instance, with the up-front proceeds going to the state party[in this instance, reptillian].

but what always interested me, as sort of a bystander, was what was left on the floor after the “guests” left. there would be these envelopes filled with cash. these would be completely anonymous.

so, 50 “guests” with issues before state courts. and after the “outing”, 50 anonymous envelopes stuffed with cash[approx $10k/envelope] just lying around on the floor. untraceable. $500,000 that could go anywhere. at anytime.

and that is a small picture of how it works on one occasion in one year.

i think you can make the extrapolations.

that is the amerikan political system. recognizing this reality, i think you might have a better understanding of the humbuggery of the pols’ shock at the purported blagojevitch telephone conversations.

if you are interested in more of how the corruption works, let me know. i would be more than pleased to tell you more stories of how the pols, and their handlers/financiers, launder your money. and put it into their offshore accounts.

Justice Earl Warre wrote for the court:

“The Constitution does not vest in the Congress a discretionary power to deny membership by majority vote,” [they may] “judge only the qualifications set forth in the Constitution,”

So, it is by no means clear cut that the Senate can absolutely refuse to seat Burris. It is possible, but is is also quite possible that the better legal argument rests with Burris and his demand to be seated. He appears to possess the basic qualifications for office, which are that he be be at least 30 years old, a U.S. citizen and “an inhabitant” of the state of Illinois.

But I imagine you’re really asking about elected officials. The first one I checked, David Orr, Cook County Clerk, has never donated either personally or through his campaign committee, to Blagojevich.

I then checked Pat Quinn, the Lt. Governor. He likewise has never contributed, either personally nor through his campaign committee. (Note that his campaign committee did have to list two in-kind contributions totaling about $900 since some joint campaign literature was printed early in the 2002 general election. In 2006, though he was on the same ballot line as Blagojevich, they never mentioned each other, and Quinn listed no such joint expenditures.

Likewise, Congressman Davis never seems to have contributed to a Blagojevich, personally nor through his committee.

That’s just the first three I thought to check. Can we stop with the “every Dem in Illinois must have contributed” thing? For that matter, can we stop with the “must haves”. These things are verifiable, and so people should either check their facts or not say them.

This defense reminds me of Bill Murray’s army entrance interview in Stripes.

“Convicted? Oh, no, definitely never convicted.”

Everyone needs to put “innocent till proven guilty” out of their minds. That’s part of how we got here. We know what he said, and these are not just words, not just play-acting. His words were directives to staff to get things done, and staff came back and said, I followed those directives. The question of whether a jury will find him “guilty under the law” is irrelevant to our own judgment of whether he is fit to govern or to make appointments to the office he tried to sell for personal gain.

There’s also the mundane, practical but nonetheless important consideration that facing criminal charges tends to stress one’s monetary resources. In addition to the implications in the Affidavit filed with the Complaint of MacBlago appearing to be in urgent need of funds, I seem to recall reports of MacBlago being behind in payments to the lawyers acting in his interests while Fitzgerald has been climbing up the ladder of indictments, plea deals, trials and sentence deals towards him, even before this Complaint was filed.