Culture of bribes in Congress.

<body> Blatant Culture of Bribery And Public's Acceptance of the Crimes The practice of calling millions of dollars of bribes to members of Congress the polite name, political contributions, is an insult to the intelligence of the American people−or, recognizing he level of intelligence of most of them! What other reason would lobbyists and corporate interests have to give millions of dollars to members of Congress every time they seek to pass legislation−or block legislation−that would either enrich the briber, or incur an expense. If the bribes were not that, to bribe, why couldn't the corporations interested in passing or blocking legislation be limited to what the public is financially limited to: presenting arguments for or against the legislation. To give tens of thousands, or millions, to one or more members of Congress when a particular measure is being considered, is in the real world, bribes! The only purpose of giving millions of dollars to members of Congress is to bribe them into using their congressional positi9on for the benefit of the briber. Members of the public, unable to pay bribes, are limited to presenting arguments for or against a measure. Their interests in most cases, under the bribe practices in Congress, are strictly secondary to the financial interests of the corporate bribers. There is no limit to the list of corporate interests whose bribes to members of Congress have adversely affected the American public: Millions in bribes to members of Congress resulted in such public harm as in the following examples: Bribes by the credit card industry continues to subject the public to loan-shark practices, showing congressional contempt for the non-bribing public and favoritism for the bribe-making financial corporation. Public outrage in 2009 forced members of Congress to make minor changes, but allowing usurious interest rates to continue, along with some other harmful effects. Bribes from the health industry continues to inflict huge costs upon the American public. For instance, where the government requires pharmaceutical providers to bid on contracts for certain medications used by the Veterans Administration, the American public pays far more money for the same prescription due to the Congress removing the need for bidding when it applies to the American consumers. Pharmaceutical companies make billions in extra profits, making the millions of dollars of bribes to members of Congress a fabulous investment. Bribes from the savings and loan industry to such members of Congress and the "Keating Five," including Senator John McCain, to remove legislation that prevented the savings and loans from speculating with depositors money cost the American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars from the resulting frauds. Bribes received by members of Congress resulted in legislation, and pressure upon government regulators, that brought upon the United States the worst housing debacle since the 1930's financial depression. Bribes received by members of Congress resulted in numerous removal of protective legislation, and enacting of others, that knowingly would lead to the great financial debacle in the nation's history, and inflicting upon the American public harm beyond description, harm that will continue for decades. The media has published an unlimited number of examples of how millions of dollars of bribes were given to key members of Congress just prior to the passage of legislation that handsomely benefited the bribers. Various Forms of Congressional Bribe-Taking The bribes are given to be spent for getting reelected, are thereby avoid the more blatant direct use of the money for personal use. However, the distinction between whether the bribe is for personal use or to get re-elected becomes blurred. Most members of Congress are more subtle in what they will do for the bribes they receive. In some cases, motivated by the blatant real world of bribe taking that exists in Congress, the member of Congress will be less subtle and demand the amount of money demanded. One example was the California Republican congressman, Randy "Duke" Cunningham. He wrote on a napkin or other piece of paper what he expected to receive. Upon sentencing, he admitted to taking $2.4 million in bribes to steer Pentagon business to defense contractors providing the bribes. The culture of bribe-taking by members of Congress that none of them took exception to Cunningham's request to assist in passing legislation or pushing for contracts to be given to the briber. Nor did anyone in Congress, or the executive branch, find anything unusual when Cunningham pressured government departments to favor a particular defense contractor that was providing the bribe money. There is no reason why members of Congress should be allowed to receive any form of payment or benefit that the average American could not provide. Money obviously distorts the decision of anyone, and someone in a position of trust as members of Congress should be. Investigative Reporters Exposed The Bribes: Not Federal Prosecutors In most cases, the bribe-taking members of Congress were exposed by investigative reporters. Prosecutors carried out their responsibilities after the media reports forced them to act. With the shutdown of newspapers and the reduction of staff, the corruption will surely increase. Even investigative reports on national television programs have replaced investigative reporting with easily manipulated political pundits. after the retaliation against the TV exposing of Operation Tailwind and Dan Rather's exposure of President George Bush's sordid Texas National Guard records, and their removal, the broadcast media's appetite for exposing high-level corruption virtually died. Compounding the Corruption in Congress Bribes demanded, either in a subtle manner, or more direct, by members of Congress had inflicted and continues to inflict enormous personal and financial harm upon the American people and the nation. But the public, and the nation, has suffered great harm, many deaths, and a number of catastrophic events, enabled to occur by the documented conduct by a large number of members of Congress. These statements are not hyperbole; they are real, and they will continue until enough people exercise some form of outrage and use the information that is available at this site and in the related non-profit documentary books. Briefly, here are a few highlights of the documented misconduct by members of Congress, and how that misconduct has resulted in personal and financial harm to many Americans, deaths, and catastrophic events: From many decades, members of Congress have been repeatedly informed by government insiders of criminal activities involving people in key and high-level overt and covert operations. In every case they have "deep-sixth" the information, with grave personal and financial harm to the American public and the nation. See a sampling of these letters, and also recent letters and postings. From 1965 to the present date, former federal agent Rodney Stich and his coalition of other government agents and insiders have been providing in writing information to members of Congress on such matters as: Ongoing corruption in the government's aviation safety offices that enabled to occur a continuing series of major aviation disasters. The most recent in the ongoing series of such events were the hijackings of four airliners on September 11, 2001. See also the link related to comparison of blame for 9/11 and also the enablers. Surface-to-air missiles about to be transferred to Middle East terrorists. Among the letters sent to members of Congress was the one sent to Senator Arlen Specter. Within a year, evidence strongly indicated that a surface-to-air missile was responsible for the downing of TWA Flight 800. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Letters sent to members of Congress in 2003, informing them of evidence and a key witness to a series of murders involving a key FBI supervisor in the New York City offices. These letters were sent to each of members of the House Judiciary Committee while they were conducting hearings on the murders perpetrated by FBI agents in the Boston offices. Not a single recipient responded to the letters. Several years later, relying partly on the witness that Stich had offered to produce, the Brooklyn district attorney filed four murder charges against the FBI supervisor. (The murder charges were filed after local media publicity forced the prosecutor to act.) Sample link, and the details in the book, Crimes of the FBI-DOJ, and the Mafia. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Letters sent to members of Congress offering to provide evidence showing that several major terrorist attacks on U.S. targets succeeded because high-level FBI-DOJ personnel covered up for advance notice of several of the major terrorist attacks. had advance notice of the planned attack and withheld the information to avoid being charged with a crime. Stich offered to provide evidence and two key witnesses concerning the withholding of ultra-valuable information on planned terrorist attacks provided to FBI agents in the New York City offices, obtained from a mole insider a key al Qaeda cell and directly from Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the mastermind behind the planned bombing of 11 U.S. airliners departing Far East locations. Related links: Information on the al Qaeda mole. Sampling of information related to 9/11. Comparison of blame, besides the actual terrorists, for the conditions leading to 3,000 deaths on 9/11. And many other instances, as described in the related books. Congressional Cover-Up Pattern Constituted Obstruction of Justice Crimes During the 1960s, while Rodney Stich had federal airline safety responsibilities in areas experiencing a continual series of preventable airline disasters made possible by the documented corruption, members of Congress responded to his letters, acknowledging the seriousness of the charges. But then they claimed they didn't have any authority in those areas. Tell that to the many people jumping to their deaths from the Wor4ld Trade Center buildings after the same type of corruption enabled the terrorist to hijack four airliners and kill nearly 3,000 people within a few hours of each others! The recipients of those letters−and every letter since then−sent by people who obviously were qualified to make such charges, had a moral responsibility, a responsibility as a member of Congress, and a responsibility under the federal crime reporting statute that required any federal officer to receive information on ma federal crime provided by anyone who knows of a federal crime. During the last ten years for instance, every letter or fax sent to members of Congress seeking to report a particular continuing corrupt or criminal act, affecting enormous national interests, and would obviously continue to inflict great harm, goes unanswered. And that includes the unpublicized corrupt culture and specific people perpetrating the acts that have already inflicted enormous harm upon the people and the nation. The members of Congress that refused to respond to the offer to provide information on prior and continuing criminal acts knew that their refusal to respond to the offers constituted: Protection of people whose prior criminal acts have caused to be inflicted catastrophic harm upon the United States. Obstructing justice by withholding information on prior and continuing federal crimes. Those offenses were made worst by the nature of the deadly and catastrophic consequences resulting from the covering up of the underlying corruption. Conduct enabling known corrupt and criminal activities to continue, with the realization that the prior catastrophic events made possible by their earlier cover-up obstruction of justice action would continue as before. These were criminal acts under federal criminal statutes. The most probable reason for the non-response felonies included: They were at that stage so heavily involved as enablers to many tragic, deadly, and catastrophic consequences that for them to respond risked having hearings started on the matters on the matters which would show their cover-up complicity that enabled some of America's greatest harms and catastrophic events to occur or to continue to occur. If they were to respond, they would be on record as knowing of the serious charges and not having done anything about it, being not only a felony, but complicit in the subsequent event−including the 9/11 hijackings. However, many of the letters were sent to them by certified mail, and most of the faxes sent to them have a printed out record of the time, date, and fax number. The pressure from a force high in the federal government controlled their responses, and also protected them from the consequences of their corrupt cover-ups. That would be the people in control of the political U.S. Department of Justice, that for years have blocked every attempt to report the high-level corruption and protected the lawyers and judges that engaged in a series of sham and corrupt legal and judicial actions seeking to block former federal agent Rodney Stich from continuing his exposure of the high-level corruption. There is a massive amount of evidence to support that probability, in the 1000-plus pages at this site and in the related books. Hard Evidence of the Criminal Conduct Much of the information on ongoing criminal activities that former federal agent Rodney Stich and his coalition were presenting are supported by evidence at this internet site and in the related books. These are not vague allegations, or wild conspiracy theories by people with no background that have a fertile imaginations. For instance: The evidence of the many letters sent to members of Congress, by a highly qualified former federal agent, with specific charges, relating to specific major recent events, or those that soon followed, are shown by registered letters and faxes with automatically product list of recipients. The recipients of those letters did not have the legal or moral right to cavalierly ignore the serious charges. The evidence of the many legal filings that sought to report ongoing criminal activities in high-level government positions were repeatedly blocked from being reported, despite the legal requirement under the federal crime reporting statue to receive the information. The evidence of obstruction of justice conduct by Department of Justice employees and federal judges retaliating against former federal agent Rodney Stich for seeking to report ongoing criminal activities is proven by hard evidence. These include, for instance: The criminal contempt of court charge, and six month prison sentence, for exercising the mandatory requirement of the federal crime reporting statute constituted felonies under federal criminal statutes. The corrupt seize and liquidation of the assets that funded his exposure activities; the judicial order barring him from objecting to the seizure; the criminal contempt of court charge when he did file an objection, are all major criminal acts by people in control of powerful government departments. If they can do it to him, they can do it to you. The third criminal contempt of court charges by San Francisco federal judges Marilyn Patel and Vaughn Walker for having attempted to report the federal crimes to federal judges in New York City. The series of orders permanently stripping the former federal agent of the right to court access, while repeatedly violating major substantive and procedural rights protected by laws and the Constitution. The combination of corrupt judicial acts by federal judges, in conjunction with a hoard of lawyers and Department of Justice employees, exceed the legal criteria a conspiracy and a criminal racketeering enterprise (RICO). All of the acts stated at this site were crimes against the United States; setting a precedence for committing the same offenses against any other citizen, and were known to members of Congress who had a moral and legal duty to halt the corruption rather than aiding and abetting them through cover-ups. Trojan Horse Crimes Against The American People and the Nation The repeated and documented acts that constituted obstruction of justice crimes and retaliating against a former federal agent were crimes against the American people and the nation. Crimes against the former federal agent were indirectly, crimes against the American people and the United States. They caused, and enabled to occur, some of the great catastrophic events suffered by the people of the United States and the nation. Obviously, with so many people in key positions throughout government, the complicity of media people and media corporations covering up for the crimes, and the involvement of the powerful legal fraternity, there is virtually no possibility that the guilty will ever suffer, and no possibility that the continuing series of resulting consequences will be halted. Futility of Providing Evidence To the American Public For years, courageous insiders have risked their careers and their freedom, and often suffered greatly, for having the rare courage of speaking out. They encountered a total nonresponsive from the American people. Many books have been written by people with a sophisticated knowledge of various segments of the endemic corruption. Among them was former federal agent Rodney Stich, who has, since 1978, written over a dozen highly detailed and documented books on the corruption and the tragic effects upon the American people. He has appeared as guest and expert on over 3,000 radio and television shows since 1978. The initial appearances exposed the corruption responsible for a continuing series of airline disasters. He couldn't even get a response from the next-of-kin in those fraud related aviation disasters, similar to the inability to get any response from the nest-of-kin of the nearly 3,000 killed in the 9/11 hijackings of four airliners With that pathetic culture, it is obvious that the American public has by their apathy brought many of these tragedies down upon themselves. They asked for it; they earned it; and they better get ready for more of it. A Poem Fitting for Today's Americans A poem was written by Martin Niemoller that depicts a fact of life that most Americans have yet to learn: First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me. Pastor Martin Niemöller Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) first supported the rise of Adolf Hitler, and then upon learning the truth, and objecting, he was imprisoned. He wrote a poem about the state of denial of Germans about what Hitler was doing. Probably no better example could be shown than what has been done to the American people, in their name, while they lazily ignored the outrages. 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