[May 07, 1999]

  The Supreme Court decision handed down last week that said it was perfectly proper for corporations and individuals to bribe public officials at every level as long as you can’t prove the government official acted on that bribe. In other words, it is now perfectly legal for corporations and others to bribe public officials. (And to think I was outraged when President Clinton turned the White House into what one truck driver described to me as the Washington Whore House by selling the right to spend the night in Lincoln’s bedroom to anyone who would pay $50,000. My anger was especially intense because Lincoln was not only a cornerstone of everything America stands for as he stated so magnificently in our second Declaration of Independence, his Gettysburg Address, “of the people, by the people, for the people,” Lincoln was also a great mystic who was closer to God than any American president. To sell Lincoln’s bedroom for money is and act of infamy and desecration beyond the comprehension of decent people who love this country.)
  The absurdity of this ruling – an absurdity known by every one of the Supreme Court Justices – is that I as a Senator can take enormous bribes from a corporation and abstain from voting on a bill so it can’t be proved I acted on it, but I can trade off my vote with the votes of my colleagues who will vote the way the corporation who paid me want them to vote. In exchange, I vote the way the corporations have bribed my fellow Senators to vote. And that way we can take all the bribes we want and never be held Accountable for having acted on those bribes. Among those who can now openly take such bribes are the Supreme Court Justices themselves. They and their families can be flown on lush corporate jets to posh resorts anywhere in the world for a vacation, and it’s all perfectly legal.
  Can anyone show me where it says in the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, or anywhere in the letters of Jefferson, Madison, Washington or Adams that we were to be a government controlled by the rich and powerful who could openly and legally bribe our government officials?
  The question must be asked: What could possibly have been going on in the unconscious Shadow part of the psyche of the Supreme Court Justices to even think of handing down such a heinous, evil, destructive decision?