Thou
shall not steal is a pretty basic commandment to heed
No
one should have the right or standing to take what another owns and needs
When
someone robs a bank with a gun rather than a knife or note, putting lives in danger
before he is done
The
law tacks on more years to deter in the future other robbers to the use of a
gun shun
When
a con artist scams the elderly of their retirement or the unsophisticated in a
Ponzi scheme
The
judge when it comes to sentencing most likely levies the max and a new
sphincter ream
Likewise,
when a con artist under a bogus sham charity plays to our natural tendencies to
reach out to help our fellow humans in dire need
The
con artist steals not once but three times, first from the sucker donating as
his human nature for kindness heeds
Second
to the supposed victims receiving less or almost nothing due to the con artist’s
insatiable greed
And
lastly to the sucker’s trust and goodwill which after fooled once his desire to
aid again goes to seed
If
the con artist is an elected representative, a public servant “representing us”
Who
to line his or her pockets steals the donations for personal use—time to be
thrown under the prison bus
Representative
Corrine Brown, a Florida Democrat poster child for the need to limit terms
Convicted
of raising money for a sham charity only to on her own personal lavish expenses
the donations burn
The
five years levied since the counts should be at least three per above should
have been set at least at fifteen
Then
the desire of other politicians in safe districts with annuity like terms from
stealing due to enhanced jail time be weaned.
Matters
not whether the politician is Blue or Red
No
matter the amount of idealism, the longer you stay the more likely corruption
instead
Like
the salmon coming from the oceans into the fresh water spawning creeks
Longer
it stays, the more the idealism begins to rot, fall away and the fish to reek
Until
the salmon, a pastel of rotting flesh, against the forces of corruption becomes
very weak
Idealism
now dead at the bottom of the spawning creek
©
December 4, 2017 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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