06-12-2021, 03:41 PM
(06-12-2021, 01:53 PM)F2d5thCav Wrote: Two things stand out in this thumbnail history. One, corruption is everywhere, including down into the rural counties of the USA. Two, this was taking place some 55 years ago, which forces one to realize just how long things have been thoroughly corrupt. The sheriff of McNairy County before Pusser was corrupt, and probably some of the judges in the area as well. Interstate crime was taking place and apparently the FBI was asleep at the switch, as were the state bureaus of investigation for both states.
It seems, if people are serious about confronting corruption, they are going to have start at the most local levels. And they will have to realize it will be a murderous affair with losses on both sides, because the criminals won't just give themselves up.
Cheers
That is where it started.
When we think of the "government", we think Federal, the big Kahuna. But the Federal government is actually made up of the mayors, governors, senators, and congressmen, that we sent to Washington from our tiny little local areas.
If we want to change things. We need to change the way we do business. If your representative is not serving you in your district, they are not going to serve you in Washington.
If you are voting for someone you don't really know, but you like how they look, or because they are popular, then you shouldn't be voting.
If your representative, stops representing the people of their district, then you bring them home. Once representatives realize that being a politician is not a cushy job, that places them a pedestal, and gives them a ticket to potential godhood, they will do what they were sent to Washington to do.
We gave up control, when we forgot that the government is to serve the people, not the other way around.
For every one person that read this post. About 7.99 billion have not.
Yet I still post.
