Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Family Values And The Department of Homeland Security

The latest drama from the Bush Administration should be the last straw for anybody that considers the recent obvious and flagrant episodes of corruption to be relatively isolated incidents and not indicative of an overall systemic problem. Yet, while a former child porn “star” has been berating the Congress for not acting quickly or adequately enough to solve the rampant problem of child sex abuse as pertains to internet pornography, yet another member of the Bush Administration, an assistant press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security,has been busted for solicitation of sex from what he thought was a fourteen year old girl, but turned out to be an undercover agent. A clue, idiot-just because somebody puts a profile on an inernet site doesn’t necessarily mean they are telling you the truth, they may in fact lie about at least some things, like, well, let’s see now, maybe-THEIR FUCKING AGE??

In the meantime, yet another high ranking official from the same Department of Homeland Security was busted for exposing himself at a Florida mall. I mean, really, these are the people who are entrusted with protecting the country from terrorists, and on the one hand, they are engaging in the most vile and obscene criminal act imaginable, and on the other hand, these great terror warriors who are supposed to be intelligence agents are lured into walking right into this with their eyes-and in some cases their zippers-wide open.

I guess it should have sent off warning signals after all when Jeff Gannon, a male escort and scion of a homosexual porn site, was granted a press pass to White House press briefings where he was allowed to ask leading questions of a complimentary nature meant to put a good face on Administration policies. Yeah,some face. I used to shake my head with derision when the story was circulated that Gannon was actually in real life a Jeff Guckert, who was abducted as a child while on the course of his rounds delivering newspapers, and had been raised to be a male prostitute by those who abducted him. From there, it developed that there was actually a ring of these people,with White House connections.

Suddenly, the story doesn’t seem quite so absurd.