Congressional Chicanery

They did it again. After working for over a year, our legislative millionaires 'fixed' the financial flim-flam that caused the recession the only way they knew how; by slathering on a new bureaucracy atop the corrupt bureaucracies. Now we will pay even more bureaucrats to accept industry bribes to look away until disaster recurs, same as happened with the “Mineral Management Service,” whose flagrant negligence and skill at accepting bribes led directly to the latest Ocean oil gusher disaster.

More bureaucrats is the problem that never fails to make the next disaster mere costly and destructive than the catastrophe that they were hired to fix. A workable solution is both cheap and easy. It works so well the the politicians gradually sneaked it back out of sight. What is it? It is a citizen-accessible bounty on corruption..

Dirty deeds of political or corporate size are very hard to conceal. Eventually such corruption gets seen and blabbed to people who are not enjoying the gravy train. Ethical people near the source of corruption are suppressed by the grafters with threats of job loss, but still grumble to family, friends coworkers or others. Often such persons are glad to act as cops when cops refuse to police white collar crime, especially when they are rewarded in proportion to the damage averted. E. g, when Nixon signed the environmental legislation prompted by the Love Canal catastrophe, citizens were rewarded for reporting corporate megapolluters. A direct result of this opportunity was a major cleanup of water and air pollution. We solved acid rain, DDT, dioxin, PCB, mercury and other pollution. Then the corporations paid their politician stooges to take these laws and incentives away from honest citizens. Loopholes were added. The end result was a switch back to the way things were before, when polluting was easy to get away with and citizen whistleblowing was very costly.

Every week, cops get on television and promote their neighborhood watch , force multiplier and sting (bait) anti-crime philosophies, but just try to apply these extremely effective strategies to corporate and polical crime. You can not do it: The corporate media will not allow these solutions past their editors for fear of being blackballed by their politician cronies. Try to put simple solutions like these on the net, and you and your site swiftly become targets. With common street crime, anything goes! Lies, baiting operations, beatings, torture, evidence theft, evidence manufacture, phony science, eyewitness steering, secret prisons; all these are standard police tactics to get their 'Bad Guys'. But do not try to apply these methods to elite, corporate or political supercriminals who steal from everyone and whose money-grabbing antics wreck significant portions of society and the environment. The last time politicians got stung, they told the FBI to end all operations designed to catch crooked politicians. After 'ABSCAM', there were no more ABSCAMS. This is such ancient history that no one even remembers the FBI dressing up as wealthy oil sheiks and buying politicians. But our prisons groan under the weight of drugs, of cops using sex, chopshops and pawnshops as bait to create more criminals to cage. Putting a bounty on corruption does not create crime with bait, it merely helps people do the right thing and report corruption in progress instead of participate or look the other way in fear of their jobs.

Stop politicians, police and the media from tying citizens' hands behind our backs. Let the force multipliers and neighborhood watches work in the political and corporate realms too. These methods are too effective to restrict to mere street crime alone!