What's the difference between what Pellicano received 15 yrs for and what the FDLE, Holmes County Sheriff's Dept, et al are doing? Or, for that matter, the government with their warrantless wiretapping? There isn't any difference except that the private citizen is accountable, but the state isn't. Official misconduct becomes accepted behavior and even considered the "norm," resulting in the breakdown of the rule of law and eventual dissolution of all our rights. As it is, the government doesn't believe that you have any rights, but only privileges. And they're taking them away, too.

Unaccountability makes this type of blatant abuse and arrogance inevitable. Checks and balances are just so many meaningless words like the oxymoron of government ethics or integrity. You don't have to look any further than our economic meltdown to see where there is leading. And, remember that these rights killing laws will be used to collect the bill for the economic transgressions or possibly even against a political opponent or critic or maybe even someone a cop just doesn't like.

Joe


Last edited by Joe Keegan; 12/16/08 10:06 AM.