sometimes politics shows you that what goes around comes around. over in the states tom delay is accused of money laundering and has had to step down from his role as the republican leader of the house of representatives.
he claims that texan prosecutors are manufacturing charges against him. can you say ken starr and bill clinton....
the charges refer to money laundering and how delay conspired to get around the rules for campaign funding.
typically it is the rich just trying to get richer. the political motivation is one to ensure that the dollars keep flowing into the right (geddit!!) pockets and that there is no protection for the average joe.
this is the american dream.
over here we have the prospect of david cameron (a prospective candidate for the tory leadership) undergoing trial by media over the story that a member of his family is a drug addicit and that cameron himself may or may not have taken drugs when he was at college.
to their credit the tory party has rallied behind him and pretty much said that this should not be a factor in the forthcoming election.
william hague has even gone so far as to say "there would be big gaps at the top of most professions if past drug use had been held against them."
and he is right... up to a point.
the tories are very very keen to tell us how to live our lives - how mothers should be at home, how the family and marriage is sacrosanct, how drugs are bad and should be illegal. but when it comes to practicing what you preach they always seem to fall on their arses.
so should it matter that cameron may or may not have taken drugs in his past? the fact he will not confirm or deny it tends to prove that it does matter and he knows that the core of the tory party will see that as being a reason why they should not vote for him.
should he talk about his family situation? well as he has already used his disabled child as a sympathy getter then yes he has made the rest fair game.
it is rare to see the political turds getting a black eye, but it is nice when it happens.
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I like to believe that Karma exists, however I don't see it much, not as much as I think it should be.
And politics is a place were it should be hapening.
I am sick of polititions preaching to us and then behaving terribly and getting away with it because they are rich or connected.
I am sick of bogus legislations, the destruction of human rights and public services.
But what sickens me most is that power and money are put above people. And selling it as good for us. (ie War, Arms deals, privatisation, and so much more)
And I can not understand how they get away with things time and agian (such as kick backs, dodgy legisation, business deals, drugs and the rest). Surely it's about time they started to pay for the things they have done.
Whatever happened to justice?
justice disappeared when the political class decided that to line their own pockets was much better than serving the people.
you can understand it with the torys, but with new labour it is almost unforgiveable.
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