JULY 23, 2009

      YESTERDAY, A STORY WAS ANNOUNCED IN THE AMERICAN NEWS MEDIA, BY THE FAMOUS AND RENOWNED HARVARD PROFESSOR HENRY GATES, COMPLAINING ABOUT HIS ALLEGED UNJUSTIFIED ARREST FOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT.

    ACCORDING TO THE PROFESSOR’S OWN STATEMENT, HE HAD ARRIVED LATE AT NIGHT TO HIS HOME IN CAMBRIDGE MASS., AFTER A TRIP TO CHINA WITH HIS DAUGHTER.    HE WAS CHAUFFERED TO HIS HOME FROM THE AIRPORT AND HAD DIFFICULTY GAINING ENTRANCE BECAUSE AS HE SAID THE DOOR WAS STUCK.   HIS CHAUFFER CAME TO HIS AID BY KICKING AT THE DOOR UNTIL IT OPENED.    APPARANTLY, THEIR ACTIONS AROUSED THE SUSPICIONS OF A NEIGHBOR WHO CALLED THE LOCAL POLICE AND REPORTED A POSSIBLE BREAK IN, BY TWO BLACK MEN WITH BACK PACKS AT THE HOME.   A POLICE SERGEANT WAS DISPACHED TO THE SCENE AND BY THAT TIME THE PROFFESSOR WAS INSIDE, SETTLING IN.    THE POLICEMAN, A SGT. CROWLY, WHO WAS WHITE, KNOCKED ON THE DOOR AND THE PROFESSOR ANSWERED.    THE POLICE OFFICER NOT KNOWING OR RECOGNIZING THE PROFESSOR, ASKED HIM FOR IDENTIFICATION AND THE PROFESSOR REPLIED, “WHY, BECAUSE I AM BLACK?”     NOW THAT REMARK WAS CERTAINLY NOT RESPONSIVE TO AN OFFICER RESPONDING TO A POSSIBLE HOME BURGLARY.    THE OFFICER ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS RESPONDING TO A POSSIBLE BURGLARY AND THEN ASKED HIM TO STEP OUTSIDE WHILE ASKING IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE IN THE HOME.   THE OBVIOUSLY AGITATED PROFESSOR, REPLIED, “NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS” AND REFUSED TO COMPLY WITH A LEGAL COMMAND OF THE POLICE OFFICER.    IT IS RATHER OBVIOUS TO ME THAT IT WAS THE INTENTION OF THE POLICE OFFICER TO TAKE THE PROFESSOR INTO CUSTODY AS PROTOCAL CALLS FOR IN SUCH A SITUATION SINCE THE MAN WAS UNCOOPERATIVE, NOT IDENTIFYING HIMSELF AND FOR HIS OWN SAFETY THE OFFICER SHOULD HAVE TAKEN HIM INTO CUSTODY, UNTIL HE COULD BE SURE THIS MAN WAS NOT ONE OF THE BURGLARS REPORTED AT THE HOME. 

     WHEN THE OFFICER, PERSISTED AND AGAIN ASKED FOR HIS IDENTIFICATION, PROFESSOR COMPOUNDED THE PROBLEM AGAIN BY ASKING FOR THE OFFICER’S IDENTIFICATION.    THE OFFICER ASKED HIM TO STEP OUTSIDE AGAIN, NOT BECAUSE THE PROFESSOR HAD ANY RIGHT TO STAY INSIDE HIS HOME BUT BECAUSE THE OFFICER FELT SAFER NOT ENTERING THE HOME FOR FEAR THE SECOND UNAUTHORIZED PERSON REPORTERD TO BE BURGLARIZING THE PREMISES WAS INSIDE.   THE PROFESSOR THEN TURNED AND WENT INSIDE TO RETRIEVE HIS ID IN THE KITCHEN.    THE OFFICER FOLLOWED HIM INSIDE PROBABLY BECAUSE HE WANTED TO KEEP THE MAN UNDER SURVIELLANCE.    THE PROFESSOR TOLD HIM THEN THAT HE LIVED IN THE HOME AND SHOWED THE OFFICER HIS ID.    THE OFFICER THEN WALKED BACK TO THE FRONT DOOR BECAUSE OTHER OFFICERS HAD ARRIVED AS POSSIBLE BACK UPS TO AID THE OFFICER IF THE NEED BE.   AT THAT POINT THE PROFESSOR DEMANDED THE OFFICER’S ID AND BADGE NUMBER.   IT IS OBVIOUS TO EVEN THE CASUAL OBSERVER THAT THE PROFESSOR WAS NOT ONLY UNCOOPERATIVE BUT CONFRONTATIONAL AND UNSUBMITTING TO THE LEGAL DEMANDS OF A POLICE OFFICER, UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES, THE INVESTIGATION OF A REPORTED BURGLARY.   

     THE OFFICER REACTED TO THE ACTIONS OF HARASSMENT INSULTS   AND NON COOPERATION OF THE PROFESSOR, BY PLACING HIM UNDER ARREST FOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND HE CERTAINLY HAD PROBABLE CAUSE TO DO SO.

    FROM THE PROFESSOR’S POINT OF VIEW, HE WAS TIRED FROM THE LONG TRIP AND HAPPY TO BE HOME, ONLY TO BE FRUSTRATED BECAUSE HE HAD TROUBLE ENTERING HIS HOME.   ONCE INSIDE, THE KNOCK ON THE DOOR WAS UNWELCOMED BUT HE ANSWERED ONLY TO BE CONFRONTED BY A UNIFORMED WHITE OFFICER, DEMANDING IDENTIFICATION.   HE SAW IT AS AN INSULT, AND BEING BLACK HE IMMEDIATELY TRIED TO PUT THE OFFICER ON THE DEFENSIVE BY TRYING TO MAKE THIS A RACIAL ISSUE, WHEN IT WAS NOT!    HE WAS, AS WE ALL KNOW, A FAMOUS AND RENOWNED PROFESSOR RESPECTED AROUND THE WORLD AND BESIDES, HE WAS, AS WE FOUND OUT LATER, A PERSONAL FRIEND OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, BARACK OBAMA.   HE MUST HAVE AN IMBRED DISLIKE FOR WHITES AND ESPECIALLY POLICE AUTHORITY, OR HE WOULD HAVE ONLY ASKED “WHY,” INSTEAD OF “WHY, BECAUSE I AM BLACK?”   WELL AT SOME POINT, HE MUST HAVE REALIZED THIS OFFICER WAS NOT ABOUT TO WALK AWAY FROM HIS TASK AND RESPONSIBILITY TO INVESTIGATE A POSSIBLE BURGLARY.  SO HE RETRIEVED HIS ID AND THEN, SATISFIED THAT HE HAD SHOWN THE OFFICE HE HAD A RIGHT TO BE IN THAT HOME, CONTINUED TO BE CONFRONTATIONAL WITH THE OFFICER WHILE THE OFFICER WAS NOT CERTAIN THE MAN MIGHT NOT BE AWARE THERE MAY BE BURGLARS, HIDING IN HIS HOME.    AT THIS POINT IT IS RATHER OBVIOUS THAT BOTH MEN HAD LOST THEIR COOL AND BOTH WERE INTENT ON TEACHING THE OTHER A LESSON IN MANNERS, RIGHTS AND AUTHORITY.    WHEN A PERSON HAS NO RESPECT FOR THE LAW AND DISPLAYS IT TO A UNIFORMED POLICE OFFICER IN A THREATENING AND INSULTING MANNER, THE OFFICER FOLLOWING PROTOCAL MUST REMOVE THAT PERSON FROM THE SCENE TO MAINTAIN ORDER, SO THE POLICE OFFICER MAY COMPLETE HIS INVESTIGATION OF A POSSIBLE BURGLARY.  

      WHEN COOLER HEADS PREVAILED AND THE THREAT OF A CRIME ABATED, THE CHARGES WERE DROPPED BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, NOT BECAUSE A MISTAKE WAS MADE BUT, BECAUSE IT WAS THE PRACTICAL THING TO DO, ONCE THE CITIZEN WAS CALMED DOWN AND COOPERATIVE.

      SO WHAT DOES THE PROFESSOR DO AFTER HIS RELEASE?   HE IS NOT SATISFIED TO CHALK THE MATTER UP TO ANOTHER OF LIFE’S EXPERIENCES, ESPECIALLY WHEN HE IS WRONG.    THE NEXT DAY, HE DECIDES TO GO PUBLIC AND ANNOUNCED TO THE WORLDTHAT HE WAS MISTREATED BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK, EVEN THOUGH HE KNOWS THAT IS NOT TRUE.   HE EVEN DEMANDS AN APOLOGY FROM SGT. CROWLY BECAUSE OF THE LEGAL ARREST, SOMETHING THE OFFICER CANNOT DO UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THE PROFESSOR HAS ALREADY CONSULTED WITH HIS ATTORNEY AND A POSSIBLE CIVIL SUIT IS CONTEMPLATED.

      PROFESSOR HENRY GATES IS TRYING VERY HARD TO HIDE HIS STUPIDITY IN THIS MATTER, BY TAKING THE OFFENSIVE AND EVEN HAS THE SUPPORT OF ANOTHER CLOSE FRIEND AND BLACK MAN, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, BARACK OBAMA, WHO SAID THE CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTED “…STUPIDLY…”, WHILE ADMITTING HE DOES NOT HAVE ALL THE FACTS IN THIS MATTER!

      IT IS OBVIOUS, THAT THIS MATTER WILL NOT END, SINCE PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS REKINDLED THE QUESTION OF RACIAL PROFILING INTO A CASE WHERE A GU LTY BLACK MAN RAISES IT, UN JUSTIFIABLY IN A CASE TO DEFEND HIS STUPID ACTS IN A SERIOUS INVESTIGATION, BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENT FOR HIS OWN SAFETY.    IF ANYONE IS STUPID AND WRONG IN THIS MATTER IT IS PROFESSOR GATES AND PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, WHO AS A LAWYER, NEVER LEARNED OR PRACTICED THE LAW HE WAS TAUGHT AND LICENSED TO PRACTICE AND STILL HASN’T LEARNED TO MIND HIS OWN BUSINESS.

      IT SEEMS TO ME, THAT, PROFESSOR HENRY GATES AND PRESIDENT OBAMA THINK, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOW RENOWNED AND FAMOUS BLACK MEN, THEY HAVE NOW ATTAINED SUPERIOR RIGHTS THAN US WHITE FOLKS.    THAT, MY FRIENDS, WILL PROVE THEIR UNDOING.    CHALK ONE UP FOR LAW AND ORDER, WITHOUT WHICH WE ARE UNDEFENDED IN THIS COUNTRY.     I, FOR ONE APPLAUD SGT. CROWLY FOR HIS PROFESSIONALISM AND DEDICATION TO DUTY.    HERE A POLICE OFFICER PUTS HIS LIFE ON THE LINE IN THE INTEREST OF SAFETY FOR THE PUBLIC, AND HE IS CHASTIZED BY NONE OTHER THAN A BLACK PRESIDENT OF THE U. S., AS HIS REWARD.    I WOULD ADVISE PRESIDENT OBAMA NOT TO VISIT CAMBRIDGE, OR HIS ALUMNI HARVARD, IN THE NEAR FUTURE.   ALSO, MR. PRESIDENT, I WOULD ADVISE YOU TO TELL YOUR FRIEND, THE PROFESSOR, TO GROW UP AND OBEY A LAW OFFICER.

     
      AS I WRITE THIS EPITAPH, FEW, IF ANY AMERICANS WILL BELIEVE WE COULD EVER LOSE THE FREEDOM OUR FOREFATHERS HAVE FOUGHT SO HARD AND LONG TO HAVE AND ENJOYED, SINCE 1776.

      BUT THAT WILL CERTAINLY BE OUR FATE, SOON, IF SOMETHING IS NOT DONE TO SAVE OUR CHERISHED WAY OF LIFE.    TODAY, WE ARE FACED WITH A CHALLENGE TO OUR FREEDOM NOT FROM THE USUAL FOREIGN ENEMIES, BUT FROM WITHIN OUR BORDERS, AND FROM OUR OWN GOVERNMENT AND OUR LEADERS.

      UNDER OUR DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WE VOTE FOR REPRESENTATIVES TO CONGRESS TO REPRESENT OUR INTERESTS IN THE U. S. GOVERNMENT.    OUR REPRESENTATIVES ARE ELECTED FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TWO YEARS, WHILE OUR SENATORS SERVE A TERM OF SIX YEARS IN STAGGERED TWO YEAR PERIODS, TWO EACH FROM OUR FIFTY STATES.    ALL THIS WAS PROVIDED IN OUR U. S. CONSTITUTION OF 1787, AS AMENDED.

     THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS ASSIGNED THE TASK OF PROPOSING NECESSARY LEGISLATION AND SPENDING MONEY FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO FUNCTION AND PROVIDE THE NEEDED SERVICES THE COUNTRY NEEDS, WHILE THE SENATE CONFIRMS THE LAWS PASSED BY THE HOUSE AFTER ARGUMENT AND COMPROMISE BETWEEN THEMSELVES AND THE TWO BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT.    THIS IS THE PROCESS BY WHICH IT WAS MEANT FOR THE CONGRESS TO ACT ON BEHALF OF ALL ITS INHABITANTS.    HOWEVER, FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS, EVERY THING HAS CHANGED AND THE PEOPLE ARE NOT REPRESENTED BY THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS, AS THEY SHOULD BE.  

      WASHINGTON HAS BEEN INVADED BY AN INCREASING NUMBER OF LOBBYISTS, FROM VARIOUS MONEYED INTERESTS, BENT ON CONVINCING THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, TO PASS LEGISLATION DESIGNED TO FAVOR THEIR INTERESTS AND NOT THE INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.    THEY ALSO OBJECT TO PROPOSED LEGISLATION WHICH MAY FAVOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BUT NOT THE INTEREST OF THE COMPANIES THAT HIRED THEM.    THESE LOBBYISTS HAVE SPREAD AROUND ENOUGH MONEY TO MOST CONGRESSMEN, THAT THEY HAVE BECOME ADDICTED TO THIS READILY AVAILABLE CASH.   THESE LOBBYISTS COME TO THEIR OFFICES AT THE CAPITOL IN SUCH LARGE NUMBERS THAT THE CONGRESSMEN FEEL IT MORE CONVENIENT TO ACCEPT THESE LARGE SUMS THAN TO ASK OR LOOK FOR THOSE SMALL, LIMITED   CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THEIR CONSTITUANTS.    IT IS ESTIMATED, ON THE AVERAGE, EACH CONGRESSMAN RECEIVES BETWEEN ONE AND TWO MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR FROM LOBBYISTS, WHILE THEIR PAY IS LESS THAN $200,000. A YEAR.  

      IT IS FOR THIS REASON, THE MONEY INVOLVED, THAT MOST CONGRESSMEN FEEL MORE OBLIGED TO PROTECT THE INTERESTS OF THESE LARGE DONORS, THAN THE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED THEM INTO OFFICE AND WHOM THEY ARE OBLIGATED TO REPRESENT FOR FREE.

      NOW YOU KNOW WHY IMPORTANT ISSUES AND MATTERS THAT NEED CONGRESS’S ATTENTION FOR ACTION AND SOLUTIION HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS.    IT IS THE CONGRESSMAN’S DRIVE FOR MONEY, OBSTENSIVELY FOR THEIR RE-ELECTION THAT GETS THEIR ATTENTION FIRST AND FOREMOST.    THEIR QUEST FOR MONEY IS THEIR PRINCIPLE DRIVING FORCE AND IT OCCUPIES MOST OF THEIR TIME EACH DAY.    NOW THAT THE SESSIONS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE ARE TELEVISED EACH DAY, HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE SPEAKERS SPEAK TO A FULL HOUSE AND SENATE?    IT IS MORE LIKELY THEY SPEAK TO AN EMPTY CHAMBER.    WHEN THE LAST 1100 PAGE STIMULIS PACKAGE WAS PASSED LAST FEBRUARY THE MEMBERS HAD ABOUT THREE HOURS TO READ IT, AND MOST WENT TO BED INSTEAD BUT, VOTED FOR IT BECAUSE OF THE PORK PROJECTS THEY MANAGE TO INCLUDE IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT.

     AS AN EXAMPLE, SOME OF THE IMPORTANT MATTERS THAT HAVE NEEDED ATTENTION, BUT  HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED FOR MANY YEARS, INCLUDE:

1.    THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM NEEDS COMPLETE OVERHAULING, BUT HAS ONLY HAD TEMPORARY, BAND AID PATCHES ATTACHED, BECAUSE NO ONE WANTS TO BE RESPONSIBLE TO VOTE FOR THE ADDITIONAL TAXES NEEDED TO FIX IT.

2.    THE NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM PROPOSED BY PRESIDENTS FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS WILL NOT BE PASSED FOR TWO REASONS.    PRESIDENT OBAMA IS AFRAID WE WILL READ ALL THE MULTI THOUSAND PAGE BILL  AND REALIZE IT WILL COST MORE TO RUN , WHILE COSTS HAVE NOT BEEN REDUCED AS PROMISED AND NEEDED, AND  WHILE IT CANNOT RUN WITHOUT NEW TAXES ON  THE ALREADY BURDENED AMERICANS.   LASTLY, THE INSURANCE LOBBY LIKES OUR SYSTEM JUST AS IT IS, AS THEY GET RICHER BY THE DAY, AND CONGRESS IS AFRAID TO OFFEND THEM LESS IT CUT OFF THEIR BIG POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS.

3.    THE PRICE OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND PHARMACEUTICALS WILL REMAIN AT TWICE THE WORLD AVERAGE, SIMPLY BECAUSE OUR CONGRESS HAS BEEN PAID OFF FOR YEARS NOT TO INTERFERE, WITNESS THE PRESCRIPTION PLAN PASS BY CONGRESS AT THE INSISTANCE OF PRESIDENT BUSH, WHEREBY AMERICANS ARE PROHIBITED FROM OVERSEAS PURCHASES OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, WHILE THE GOVERNMENT IS PAYING EXHORBITANT PRICES TO THEIR LOBBYING COMPANIES.    IN THIS CASE BOTH THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS ARE PLAINLY, PAID AND BOUGHT OFF.

4.     THE COST OF GASOLINE AND FUEL OIL HAS BEEN A CANCER ON AMERICANS SINCE THE FIRST OIL EMBARGO BY OPEC IN 1972.   TODAY WE CONTINUE TO IMPORT TWICE THE AMOUNT WE IMPORTED THEN AND WE ARE AT THEIR MERCY AND THAT OF THE EQUALLY GREEDY DOMESTIC OIL COMPANIES EVEN MORE.    CONGRESS HAS DONE NOTHING ABOUT PROMOTING LEGISLATION FOR THE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY WE NEED TO RID OURSELVES OF THIS STRANGLEHOLD EXCEPT A TOKEN AMOUNT WHEN A FULL SPEED AHEAD  APPROACH IS SORELY NEEDED.    THE FOREIGN AND LOCAL OIL LOBBYS HAVE BEEN GREASING THE PALMS OF CONGRESSMEN FOR THIRTY FIVE YEARS AND COUNTING, SO, AS LONG AS THESE CONGRESSMEN ARE LEFT IN OFFICE, DO NOT HOLD YOUR BREATH FOR THE NEEDED RELIEF, BUT EXPECT TO SUFFER EVEN MORE.

5.    THE PRESENT RISING UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM IN THE U. S. A., WILL NEVER BE CORRECTED AND REDUCED AS LONG AS CONGRESS CONTINUES TO REWARD COMPANIES THAT MOVE OVERSEAS IN SEARCH OF CHEAP LABOR.   THE FREE TRADE SYSTEM THIS COUNTRY ADOPTED TWENTY YEARS AGO HAS CAUSED THIS AND ALSO PRODUCED A RECORD TRADE IMBALANCE THROWING OUR MONEY OVERSEAS INSTEAD OF OUR TRADE GOODS,   THE STEEL, CONSTRUCTON AND AUTO UNIONS HAVE CAUSED THIS PROBLEM AND PRESIDENT OBAMA SEEMS SET TO CONTINUE TO FAVOR UNIONS IN THIS ENDEAVOR, WHILE ALL THE EMPLOYERS EITHER GO BANKRUPT OR SAIL AWAY OVERSEAS.

6.   THE MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE PROBLEM IN THE U. S. A. CAUSED BY GREEDY FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND WALL STREET, PREYING ON UNSUSPECTING AND UNQUALIFIED APPLICANTS, WILL CONTINUE UNABATED WHILE REAL ESTATE PRICES KEEP FALLING ON ALL AMERICAN’S HOMES, CAUSING A WAVE OF NEW FORECLOSURES EVERY MONTH WHILE INCREASING UNEMPLOYMENT ADDS TO THE PROBLEM.   ALL THE WHILE OUR LAST TWO PRESIDENTS, INCLUDING OBAMA HAVE COME TO THE AID OF THE VERY INSTITUTIONS THAT CAUSED THIS PROBLEM WHILE EVERY AMERICAN IS LOSING MORE EQUITY EVERY DAY.

NOW, THE BANKS THAT OBAMA SAID “ARE TOO BIG TO FAIL”, ARE MAKING RECORD PROFITS WITH OUR TAX MONEY WHILE EVERY AMERICAN CONTINUES TO SUFFER BECAUSE OF THE GREED OF THE BANKS AND WALL STREET, WHO ARE PROSPERING MORE THAN EVER BEFORE!

      DO NOT EXPECT CONGRESSTO VOTE OR THE PRESIDENT TO PROPOSE ANY LEGISLATION, TO SOLVE ANY OF THESE REAL, LONG STANDING PROBLEMS, OR TO SHUT OFF THIS LUCRATIVE SOURCE OF MONEY FROM THE WORLD’S LOBBYISTS.   THIS IS THEIR PERCEIVED MONEY FOR RE-ELECTION AND TO INSURE THEIR POWER AND LONGEVITY IN OFFICE.

      IN THE MEANTIME, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS HAVE BEEN ENTRENCHED IN OFFICE FOR THEIR OWN PERSONAL GAIN WHILE THE NEEDS OF THEIR CONSTITUANTS ARE IGNORED AND LEFT UNRESOLVED.

    WHEN YOU HAVE SUCH A SITUATION IN THE OPERATION OF OUR GOVERNMENT, YOU HAVE  A BREAKDOWN OF THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, UNDER OUR CONSTITUTION, DECAY FROM WITHIN, BASED ON THE MISTRUST OF OUR SERVANTS, THE ELECTED OFFICIALS WE VOTED INTO OFFICE TO RUN OUR GOVERNMENT.  

    SO, IF YOU WANT MORE OF THE SAME, CONTINUE TO RE-ELECT OUR GREEDY SELFISH CONGRESSMAN.   HOWEVER, IF YOU WANT TO PRODUCE THE CHANGE YOU NEED TO RETURN THE POWER OF YOUR VOTE TO THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY, AS IT SHOULD BE, THEN YOU MUST HAVE THE COURAGE AND OUTRAGE AND GOOD SENSE TO VOTE OUT OF OFFICE THOSE SCOUNDREL CONGRESSMEN.    YOU MUST REPLACE THEM WITH PERSONS WHO PLEDGE, TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE IN THEIR DISTRICT AND NO ONE ELSE.

     IT DOES NOT MATTER WHETHER YOU VOTE FOR  A REGISTERED DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN, NEITHER ONE DESERVES YOUR VOTE, SINCE THEY HAVE PROVEN TO BE THE CULPRITS WHO HAVE CAUSED THIS PROBLEM FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS.   WE HAVE CAST OUT ONE PARTY OVER THE OTHER, TIME AND TIME AGAIN ALWAYS WITH THE FRUSTRATION AND THE RESULT THAT NO IMPROVEMENT HAS BEEN MADE.   WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS NOW, IS A LIST OF INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES, NOT BEHOLDEN TO ANY POLITICAL PARTY OR GROUP.     YOU DO NOT NEED MONEY TO GET ELECTED OR RE-ELECTED, IF YOU DO THE BIDDING OF THE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED YOU.    THEY WILL KNOW AND RECOGNIZE YOUR EFFORTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND THEY WILL RE-ELECTED YOU WITHOUT ANY NEED TO SPEND A NICKEL FOR ADVERTISING.

     EVERY ONE KNOWS ABOUT THE PONZI SCHEME, WHERE THAT SCOUNDREL ASKED PEOPLE TO INVEST IN HIS COMPANY PROMISING A GUARANTEED TEN PERCENT INTEREST RETURN PER YEAR ON ALL FUNDS ENTRUSTED TO HIM. THE PONZI SCHEME FEEDS ON THE FACT THAT PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO INVEST IN HIS COMPANY AT A GREATER RATE THAN THE FUNDS HE IS PAYING THE INTEREST ON FROM THE PREVIOUS INVESTORS.
     BERNIE MADOFF WAS VERY SUCESSFUL AT THIS SCHEME, BECAUSE OF THE GREED OF THE INVESTORS AND THE FACT THE SECURITY AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, AN ARM OF THE U. S. GOVERNMENT FAILED TO REVEAL AND STOP IT FOR WHAT IT WAS, JUST ANOTHER PONZI SCHEME FOR MANY YEARS. YEARLY, ACCOUNTANT INVESTIGATORS FROM THE S.E.C. TRIED TO WARN THEIR SUPERIORS ABOUT IT FROM THE BEGINNING BUT WERE TOLD, "FORGET ABOUT IT, EVERYTHING IS OK".
SIMPLY PUT, THIS IS HOW MADOFF TOOK IN TWO BILLION DOLLARS IN INVESTORS, LARGE AND SMALL, FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND WORLD OVER SUCH A LONG PERIOD OF TIME. HE WAS OBVIOUSLY BEING PROTECTED BY SOMEONE IN THE HIGH ESCELON OF THE S E C OR THE U. S. GOVERNMENT.
OLD BERNIE MADOFF, NOW IN HIS SEVENTIES, QUICKLY PLEADED GUILTY TO THE CHARGE OF SECURITY FRAUD AND WAS RECENTLY SENTENCED TO 150 YEARS IN THE FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION IN BUTNER, NC.  LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT WHERE ALL THE MONEY WENT AND OF COURSE IT IS KNOWN HE MADE SOME LAST MINUTE TRANSFERSOF ASSETS TO HIS WIFE, RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. THE U. S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE IN NEW YORK CITY, IS MUM ABOUT GOING AFTER THESE ILL GOT GAINS IN THE HANDS OF THIRD PERSONS, OR AS TO ANY INVESTIGATION INTO WHO IN THE S E C DELIBERATLY HELPED WARD OFFA FULL S E C INVESTIGATION OF MADOFF'S DEALINGS FROM THE BEGINNING, BUT YOU CAN BE ASSURED IT IS HIS DUTY TO DO JUST THAT WITHOUT DELAY. HOPEFULLY THE TRUTH WILL SOONBE REVEALED AND AS MUCH FUNDS AS POSSIBLE RECOVERED FOR THOSE FOOLISH INVESTORS, SO GREEDY THEY FAIL TO CHECK OUT A COMPANY AND MAN, WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN SUSPECT FROM THE BEGINNING.
     ONE THING IS CERTAIN, THE SECURITY AND EXCHANGE COMMISION FAILED IN THEIR DUTY TO PROTECT THOSE INVESTORS AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE U. S. A. MAY BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THIS FAILURE. THE FACT THAT MADOFF NEVER INVESTED A NICKEL ANYWHERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN REVEALED IN THE FIRST YEARS S E C ACCOUNTING INVESTIGATION.
     OF COURSE, ANY PRUDENT INVESTOR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT A GUARANTEED TEN PERCENT RETURN ON AN INVESTMENT WAS UNHEARD OF IN THESE DAYS OF 2% OR 3% RETURN FROM MOST SOURCES. THIS PROMISE WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE AND, IN FACT WAS NOT TRUE.
     HOWEVER, IF ONE WOULD LOOK INTO THE STATE OF RETURN ON MOST INVESTMENTS EXCEPT THE STOCK MARKET, THEY WOULD SOON LEARN THAT THE U. S. GOVERNMENT WAS THE PRIME CONTRIBUTOR TO THE PROBLEM OF THE RATE OF RETURN ON INVESTMENTS. THE TREASURY SECRETARYS FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS HAVE BEEN REGULARLY LOWERING THE PRIME RATE, UNTIL IT IS ALMOST ZERO TO HELP THE BUSINESS FIELD WITH AVAILABLITY OF MONEY TO LOAN FROM BANKS AND LENDINGINSTSTUTIONS. THIS, IN TURN HAS CAUSED THE INTEREST PAID ON DEPOSIT IN BANKS IN SAVING ACCOUNTS AND CD'S TO FALL BELOW THE INFLATION RATE EACH YEAR. THIS EFFORT BY THE GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL INTEREST RATES WAS THE MAIN REASON THAT THE AVERAGE INVESTOR SOUGHT PLACES TO FIND A MORE DECENT RETURN, JUST TO KEEP UP WITH THE INFLATION RATE.
     THEREFORE,THE U. S. GOVERNMENT , UNWITTINGLY OR DELIBERATLY CAUSED THIS RUSH OF INVESTORS SEEKING BETTER RETURNS EVEN THOUGH THEY KNEW THEIR INVESTMENT WERE NOT PROTECTED BY THE GOVERNMENT GUARANTEES UNDER BANK DEPOSITS BY THE F.D.I.C.
OF COURSE, THE PRUDENT INVESTORS SUCH AS RETIREES, STUCK TO THEIR PROTECTED INVESTMENT EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE SUFFERING A LOSS ON THEIR DEPOSITS AND CD'S.
AS A RESULT, OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS, WE HAVE SEEN THESE PROFESSIONAL INVESTORS INVEST, AND THE AVERAGE CITIZEN, INVEST WITH PROFESSIONAL INVESTMENT FIRMS IN THEIR QUEST FOR BETTER RETURNS FOR THEIR MONEY. OF COURSE, THESE FIRMS SUFFERED HUGE LOSSES AFTER 9/11 AND AT THE END OF 2008, WHEN THE MORTGAGE LOAN BUBBLE COLLAPSED.
     THE NET RESULT IS, BECAUSE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S ATTEMT TO MANIPULATE THE INTEREST RATES THEY HAVE THROWN THE INVESTMENT MARKET INTO SUCH AN IMBALANCE THAT BANKS, LENDING INSTITUTIONS AND THE AVERAGE INVESTORS HAVE SUFFERED DEARLY.
THE U. S. GOVERNMENT HAS NO RIGHT TO ATTEMPT TO HELP BUSINESS WHEN IT KNOWS THAT IT IS DISCRIMINATING AGAINST THE PRUDENT CITIZEN. ADDED UP, THIS IS THE TRAGEDY OF THE LAST TWO ADMINISTRATIONS.
     OUR COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON AND THRIVED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF FREE ENTERPRIZE, THE NATURAL COMPETITION BETWEEN BUSINESSES TO BRING TO THE PUBLIC THE BEST PRODUCT AT THE LOWEST PRICE. ONCE THE GOVERNMENT INTERFERES WITH THIS PRINCIPLE AND PROCESS IT BREAKS DOWN AND SPELLS DISASTER TO THE ECONOMY.
THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED FROM THIS FIASCO IS FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO STAY OUT OF THE MANIPULATION OF INTEREST RATES AND INVESTMENTS OR THE PROCESS OF FREE ENTERPRISE IN BUSINESS.
     IT IS NOT THE BUSINESS OF OUR GOVBERNMENT TO AID ONE BUSINESS OR PERSON TO THE DETRIMENT OF ANOTHER BUSINESS OR PERSON. PLAIN AND SIMPLE, THIS IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF THE DISCRIMINATION BY OUR GOVERNMENT, WHO IS SWORN BY LAW TO PREVENT IT.
     WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE ON THIS, MADOFF, MATTER THE U. S. GOVERNMENT WILL ULTIMATELY PAY A PRICE FOR FAILING TO DO THE VITAL JOB ENTRUSTED TO IT IN THE S.E.C.