Accountability?

It seems that Tomlinson, who recently resigned as head of Public Broadcasting, was guilty of some criminal acts. There seems to be no doubt about this. But is he going to be held accountable? The answer is almost certainly NO.

An Israeli officer was observed shooting a 13 year old Palestinian girl after she was wounded and lying helplessly on the ground. He fired shots into her head and proclaimed he was going to make sure she was finished (or words to that effect). This was observed by others. He has been exonerated. He said that if anything moves at all in a restricted zone, even a three year old, they needed to be killed. I guess Palestinian children should not be allowed to move when Israeli troops are present.

It has now been established that officers of some of the major oil companies met with Dick the Slimy with respect to the creation of our energy plan. Cheney tried successfully to keep this a secret. The oil people previously denied the meeting. They lied. As they were conveniently not under oath when they were asked about this they presumably will not be prosecuted (unless they might be for lying to Congress. I think this would be a long shot).

I was a fan of Hilary Clinton. I even contributed money to her organization. I never doubted that she was ambitious and, indeed, respected her for it. That dreadful Olson woman used to constantly harp on the fact that Hilary was ambitious. I always wanted to point out to her that being ambitious was not a crime in America, or even a behavior disorder or whatever. Olson died in a crash on 9/11 so the whole point is moot. But I must confess I would be hard pressed to support Hilary for president now that I know more about her. First of all, she was (perhaps still is) on the Board of Directors of Wal Mart. In my opinion this makes her just another corporate whore, and we certainly have enough of them. Second, she has supported the "war" in Iraq and has suggested that we should send an additional 80,000 troops for that lost cause. She has apparently indicated she did this because no woman could possibly be elected president if she was seen as soft on defense. I take this to mean she is willing to do anything to get elected and, if elected, would support our obscene military/industrial complex. Third, she has come out as an avid supporter of Israel, including support for their completely illegal wall that is stealing even more Palestinian land. I understand that no politician could survive in New York if they did not support Israel. This means to me she would continue to support our unceasing and uncritical support of an international pariah that has ignored world opinion and the U.N. far more egregiously than even Iraq. Unless someone is prepared to curb Israel and their occupation there will of course never be peace in the Middle East.