According to American Law, at least in theory, no one is supposed to be above it. We're all supposed to be subject to the same blind Justice no matter who we are or what we do. Of course, that's sadly laughable. Just turn on the news and see the different strokes for different folks playing out on a daily basis.
What got me thinking about this is the fact that people don't seem to care anymore whether someone is honest, or whether they're a renowned liar. Honesty, integrity, ethics and values, the important points in a person's character just don't seem to matter.
Personally, I hate being lied to. It's a sign of either fear or utter disrespect. Since I'm not a particularly scary person and have no sway over anyone else, I have to believe that when someone lies to me, it's because they don't respect me. And that bothers me. Particularly if it's someone I've hired for a job.
Now, you might say, "Ah ha! You hired them, therefore you do have power over them!" And that would be true - if it were a regular job in which I am either their employer or their supervisor.
But when I vote to elect someone into public office, that's a form of hiring. They're going to work, supposedly representing me and my neighbors and, in exchange, they'll get paid. It's a job - just look at the Career Politicians we have.
So I don't really have power or control over them, not unless they really do badly, in which case the majority of that person's constituents have to get together and agree, then there's the messy business of a recall election. How often does that happen?
With all that's happening with Hillary Clinton again, I am astonished that she is doing so well in the polls. Is it because the majority of people who say they would vote to elect her like being lied to? Have they no self-respect, or are they truly the moronic ignorant hands-out sheeple that some people say they are? Mindless creatures who cannot, under any circumstance, think for themselves or discern right from wrong - is that who these people are?
I mean, let's face it, there has got to be some fire under all that smoke. That thick haze has been pretty constant for more than twenty years, now.
Remember the Rose Law Firm and the Whitewater investigation? Two years or something into it, the files just magically appeared in Hillary's White House office. Of course, they had been carefully purged of anything remotely damning but, golly gee whiz, there they were!
Remember Vince Foster and his "suicide"? That case was never solved, never definitively proved one way or the other, but whispers went around for months after the event. There was doubt that it was suicide. Some said that it was a murder because the scene made no sense and the Clintons or their associates were complicit.
Then there was Filegate. The FBI file scandal where one of the Clinton aides was accused of gathering files and information on people the Clintons didn't like.
And Travelgate and futures trading, investigations galore and accusations of perjury. and all the rest of them. Since Bill and Hillary first appeared on the national stage, it has been one scandal or another without relief.
While Hillary was Secretary of State, hubby Bill wanted to go to North Korea and the Congo and collect speaker's fees, for Heaven's sake!
More recently there was Benghazi and her 'what does it matter' comment. Now, that, taken out of context, is damning. In the time, it was spoken in frustration and without thought, but still...
A woman who wants to be President is sitting in a hearing room with the grieving families of the men killed that night, on television, and she basically says 'who cares'? Oh, yeah. That's who I want as a leader. Yep - with that attitude I'll follow 'em... nowhere.
Now there's the scandal over whether she was sending and receiving classified information across an open domain service. That's pretty scary. Our national secrets aren't precisely secret, anyway. Not with Snowden and the Chinese and Israelis snooping around, but it's a nice illusion to keep that at least some of our secrets will remain secret. But where is the sense of loyalty and responsibility?
When I worked for a government defense contractor a few years ago, they were very serious about security. I had no clearance at all but if I plugged anything into their network, IT knew about it. If I sent an e-mail, IT knew about it and had access to it. There was no privacy there - it was all for them, as it should be in a national defense setting.
Yet Hillary Clinton, the wannabe next President, doesn't seem to have one shred or iota of intelligence when it comes to our nation's intelligence. She certainly hasn't any commonsense, or any sense at all. If I was her mother I would give her a good hard shake and demand to know, "What were you thinking?"
Answer to that would no doubt be, "I wasn't" and that is not the kind of person I want sitting in the White House with the nuclear codes to hand.
Still, for many, she is bulletproof. She is above the law and must be excused from all culpability no matter what she does or how damaging it might be to our country. Her sycophants just wave their hands and say, 'oh, that doesn't matter.'
There's a word for that, but I'll let you guess what it is.
Have a lovely day.
Best~
Philippa
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