Charlie And The Roman Games

I keep hearing that Charlie didn't do anything wrong....at least compared to a lot of others. OK so why don't all of them get censured? We need to root out all the "Evil Doers".

Charlie thinks he was treated harshly. If I had done what he has done I would be facing criminal charges and my bank accounts would have been seized by the IRS. I wonder where it goes from here? Will the IRS follow up on the information they are having handed to them in a silver platter? Don't hold your breath till he is prosecuted. He will just offer to pay up, no penalties, no interest, and they will accept it. After all, according to him "I don't deal in average American citizens." The treatment of the "average American citizen" doesn't concern him, he is only concerned about how the privileged class is treated.

I think we should send Charlie into the arena and let him fight a lion or two, like they did with undesirables in Roman times. Of course having to stand there and listen to and look at Nancy during the censure may be a fate worse than facing a lion.......

Speaking of the Roman "games", I was struck by the similarity of our times to Roman times recently when I was sitting in front of the TV at a friends house. She doesn't allow politics to be talked about in her house and all you see on the TV is movies and children's shows.

In Roman times, toward the end, the government was about to fail because of excessive spending, foreign wars, and citizen unrest. Not dissimilar to our times, right? In order to control the citizens they had the "games" in the coliseum. If you can keep the citizens entertained they wont be able to riot in the streets. Let them take out their aggression in the arena.

Today we have "Survivor", "Cage fighting", and all sorts of violent movies on TV. This is the modern equivalent of the Roman "games". And of course, the FCC will try to shut up all dissent on the air waves. This will allow the government to pursue foreign wars, excessive spending, and Charlie Rangel without interference from its citizens.

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