The Expansionist

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Telling the Boss. The Republican leadership is very angry with The New York Times for spilling the beans about a secret program of the Bush Administration to spy on bank accounts. Why? Don't the people have the right to know that their Government is watching their banking transactions? Don't the Republicans trust the people to judge the program on its merits?
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Well, you see, the problem is not with The People but with The People Who Matter — the rich. The Republican Party exists for one reason above all others: to serve the rich. And the rich may not want their banking activities watched.
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You see, not everything the rich do with their money is ethical. Some of it, like moving funds to tax havens offshore, may be borderline — or outrite — illegal. Can the rich really be secure in the knowledge that some Government whistleblower might see illegal activities in their banking transactions and institute prosecutions?
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Tho the program might have been initiated to track only funds going to terrorist organizations, no Government program can be kept narrowly confined to an original purpose. All Government programs overspill their banks, like the Mississippi in hurricane season.
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This scandal threatens to drown the Republican Party. See ya. Wouldn't want to be ya.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 2,525.)

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 2:55 PM

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