Is it only me, or doesn't it seem to anyone else that if those who have broken the law know they will go unpunished, then there is no reason for whomever is next elected to obey the law?  As long as the corruption and criminality is paying off, and there is acknowledgement and acceptance without consequences, then anybody who throws their hat in the ring is assured the freedom to screw the electorate and desecrate the nation and the world while they have their turn at the public
trough.

Whereas, does it not seem to be the purpose of justice and laws to see to it that those who violate the laws are penalized in some fashion to discourage those who would seek the same position for purposes of corruption to alter their course? 

Why have courts and judges?  Why have legislators?  Why have elections?    Why speak of liberty when all citizens are  subjected to the whims and wishes of the corrupt and the destructive, without a structured process for correction  of injustice? 

Where is there a structure for justice?  Where is there any driving force other than greed and power?
Why not address the nation as "Ye fools!" 

If this corruption must be accepted with never an attempt made at justice, then we have no government.  We have a mob, and we have tribes and cults.  We have slaves and masters.  We have bullshit on oatmeal cookies.  We do not chose to know ourselves for what we are.  We watch the movies and the football games, and the "Real Wives....of Slutville" and we eat our cookies, while we wait for the next s.o.b. to stand before us and tell us how wonderful he/she is, how humble he/she is, and how utterly freaking stupid we would be to elect anyone but them to terrorize and humiliate us.
"Oh, thank'ee, thank'ee great and goodly master!" 

Is it the majority opinion among our citizens that we are so evolved and adapted to lies, theft, slaughter, greed, and inhumanity that there would be none among us who would seek elected office in order to demonstrate their willingness to protect and defend, not only the constitution, but also the inhabitants of these United States?  Are we really so damned corrupt that to be required to work within our own laws, and accept our own, much bragged about,  justice, that we would rather slaughter one another than to behave with respect for some form of legal, structured government? 

What in the hell are we?  That's the first obvious question.

A second, less obvious, but more profound question is, "Why and how long will we be permitted to exist?"

 
i think you get the funny rant post of the year for 2012.

no one permits us to exist but us.  And no one will save ourselves from us but us.  It works for climate change and gun control too.

Thanks, Oskar.  One would think I would have it memorized by now.

Al Gore is God???

(Don't tell him that!)