THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume X, Issue # 326, December 10, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
BLAGOJEVICH, FITZGERALD, & REAL POLITICAL CORRUPTION
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE DANGERS OF A THOROUGHLY CORRUPTED POLITICAL SYSTEM: TOXIC ENCROACHMENT ON THE FOUNDATIONS
OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC -- POLITICAL CORRUPTION ADVERSELY AFFECTING
AMERICA'S ABILITY TO FUNCTION AS A REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY CHARACTERIZED BY CONSTITUTIONALISM & THE
RULE OF LAW -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA & THE ILLINOIS DEMOCRATIC
PARTY POLITICAL MACHINE
FULL STORY:
For the moment, the abhorrent actions of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich are admittedly making almost as many waves
among the media elite as Idaho Senator Larry Craig playing “footsie” with an undercover agent in a Minneapolis Airport
restroom. But, while Craig’s behavior was reprehensible and reflective of serious personal moral flaws, Blagojevich is
accused of attempting to offer governance of the American people to the highest bidder.
In terms of its effects on America’s ability to function as a representative democratic republic, this crime ranks right up
there with the infusion of Chinese campaign “contributions” during the Clinton years, or the massive voter fraud
perpetrated by Barack Hussein Obama’s “community organizer” accomplices at ACORN. It is an affront to every decent
citizen of Illinois, as well as the entirety of the United States of America.
Unfortunately, if the reactions of voters to the avalanche of similar such dealings throughout the past year’s campaign
cycle are any indication, not many people will be alarmed by this toxic encroachment on the nation’s authority structure.
Any shred of objectivity among the political class or the “mainstream” (read: Liberal) media evaporated during the
succession of real scandals and corruption of the Clinton years. As a result, those individuals who get their information
and political direction from such sources as the “evening news” have become numb to the dangers of a thoroughly
corrupted political system.
In the present political climate, malfeasance is either ignored or deemed significant, based not on its own merits or the
impact it might have on real America, but overwhelmingly on whose party might reap political gain or negative fallout
from the light of public scrutiny. So seriously has this situation degenerated that, in the present, thoroughly partisan
and poisoned climate, no room for real justice exists.
Consider, as a sterling example, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, the principal law enforcement official in the unfolding
Blagojevich scandal. His last big moment in the national spotlight was in 2005, when he concluded a two-year
investigation involving high-level members of the Bush administration over the supposed “outing” of CIA employee
Valerie Plame.
Plame had become involved in a ruse to secure a role for her husband, Joe Wilson, in an investigation of Iraqi efforts to
acquire nuclear material from Nigeria. Commenting on Wilson’s actions, investigative pundit Robert Novak mentioned
Plame’s employment and relation to Wilson in a July 14, 2003, nationally syndicated column. Immediately, cries of “foul”
were heard throughout the Leftwing political realm, asserting that somebody high up in the Bush White House had
deliberately revealed Plame’s identity as retribution for Wilson’s unsupportive assessment (depending on which
“assessment” one might have read) of the Iraqi nuclear threat.
Conducting his absurdly lengthy investigation of anybody and everybody who had even the remotest link to the Plame
situation, Prosecutor Fitzgerald finally handed down an indictment of perjury against Louis I. “Scooter” Libby, then
Chief of Staff for Vice-President Dick Cheney. At worst, Libby did not correctly answer some questions of “he said/she
said” from conversations that had occurred months earlier.
Amazingly, it was eventually revealed to the public that, three months prior to even commencing his inquisition,
Fitzgerald had gained full knowledge of who perpetrated the non-crime of revealing Plame’s CIA status. Deputy
Secretary of State Richard Armitage had actually gone to Libby and confessed to the Plame leak. Yet the “investigation”
proceeded anyway! And, in the aftermath of this near “kangaroo court,” Fitzgerald made fantastic claims of having
saved America from grave threats to its very existence.
So, as honest Americans have been appalled at the degree of corruption, vice, and overt fraud permeating the
Democratic Party political machine and Obama camp throughout the 2008 election cycle, do they dare hope that
Fitzgerald, as U.S. Attorney of Illinois, might muster a similar degree of thoroughness and curiosity in pursuing justice for
Governor Blagojevich and his many political connections, including the President-Elect?
Those naive enough to seriously speculate on such things need not have even held their collective breaths. With a speed
vastly exceeding even Armitage’s confession of guilt, Fitzgerald has, without any two-year investigation of
Blagojevich’s every acquaintance going back to kindergarten, already pronounced Obama entirely innocent and clear of
any suspicion. The ugly picture painted by this affair reveals the decline and likely extinction of “old justice,” in which
right and wrong played the supreme role, as compared to its “new law” substitute, in which the legal system has become
the ultimate tool by which the state manages the people.
In truth, Obama’s coterie of close political associates and mentors reads like a “Who’s who” of highly suspicious Illinois
personages. From terrorist/anarchist William Ayers to “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright” and assistant hate-preacher Michael
Pfleger to real-estate racketeer Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the procession of sordid characters leaves little doubt as to what
kind of society Obama favors. And Blagojevich is right at home in such company.
This is the heart of Illinois politics, and indeed the murkiest realm of underhanded American politics in general. To accept
the notion that Obama flourished and grew there, that his political career was launched and guided from there, that he was
in complete collegiality with its chief operators, and made his stunning rise to national prominence from there, but was
wholly unconnected with any of its shady dealings, is to believe the unbelievable.
A prosecutor whose chief concern was not his own career, but truly had the best interest of the nation as his primary
motivation, would be turning over every rock, following every lead, and looking tirelessly into every detail in order to grasp
the entire extent of the corruption.
But the political tides have changed since 2005. Those who once lauded this Federal Prosecutor for his relentless tenacity
will now demand that he and his investigation avoid certain sacred turf, or face a firestorm of condemnation. Do not expect
Patrick Fitzgerald, the supposed “Prosecutor’s Prosecutor,” to shed any real light on this situation.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics, Political Competition, & the Control of
Public Policy: Elections, Political Parties, Political Factions,
Ideologies, Special Interest Groups, & Political Corruption
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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