4 posts tagged “crime”
Marine Times:
Sanchez investigation wraps up today
The Corps on Friday was slated to wrap up an investigation into allegations that a corporal in the Individual Ready Reserve who appeared in gay porn films before enlisting solicited more than $12,000 from private organizations by asking them to fund a deployment to Iraq he never made, according to e-mails from the investigating officer forwarded to Marine Corps Times. ...
There's this seesaw we've been trapped in since Nixon--one where the GOP runs up massive deficits and trashes trust in law and government as a force for good, then us Democrats have to come in and clean up but can't make real progress because of all the damage done, then the GOP comes back in and does the same thing again, then we have to come in and clean up again, etc...
I don't see an end to it, and i find it impossible to reconcile with any sort of real progress occuring, or even a halting of the reversals. It seems that we've been going backwards since the 70s, and watching the rest of the world go forward.
Each succeeding generation--as a result of this trashing, then cleaning, etc--has less faith in government as a force for good, and cynicism grows and grows so that even small improvements seem out of reach, let alone big things like universal health, or better lifelong public education, clean energy, etc.
Can it be stopped? We're stuck in it for 08 for sure.
Of course it's criminal--they should be impeached, and tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
