The Twisted Morality of American Leadership: Don't Stiff a Hooker

Today my radio told me that members of the American SS sent to Columbia in advance of our Leader's visit for the Summit of the Americas were "recalled" after being caught doing business with prostitutes.  What my radio did NOT tell me, as I found out later reading the internet, was that they were bagged because one of the SS agents wouldn't pay a prostitute.  I also read that prostitution in Columbia is legal.

"“They had arranged to have a bunch of prostitutes come by and one of the agents refused to pay a prostitute,” author Ronald Kessler, a leading experts on the Secret Service and former Washington Post reporter, told the Daily News. “Yes, doubly good judgement there.”

Kessler told the Daily News the spurned hooker went to the police to report the lack of payment. “Their careers are over,” he said, before listing all the reasons why: “Number one, it is against basic ethics to go to a prostitute. Number two, it is incredibly embarrassing to the White House. And number three, it could leave them open to blackmail and a possible assassination attempt.”  Link Here

Perhaps this is a positive sign - that somehow there are people in our government that understand the risk of blackmail a married Secret Service agent presents if evidence of his/her behavior was recorded by others for that purpose.  Positive because something - as incredible as this is in light of the dark ages America lives in now - because corrective action was taken.

As a bonus - later news reports inform us that members of our New World Order Military were also allegedly involved but not really:

"Five U.S. Service members are suspected of "inappropriate conduct" related to the Secret Service unit providing security at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia.

"The conduct is alleged to have occurred in the same hotel where the recalled United States Secret Service agents were staying," said a Saturday release by U.S. Southern Command, out of Miami. The members of Joint Task Force "violated the curfew established by the United States Senior Defense Official in Colombia," the command said."Link Here

I admit I am not shocked or awed by this revelation.  I'd bet a one-way ticket to Afghanistan that none of this would have come to light if they simply paid their bill.  I would be a fool to believe this is an isolated or rare incident - and not the norm.  Our paid servants are having a party with our "war on terror" tax dollars - and demonstrated their scrupulous disbursement of taxpayer-backed money - whether out of their paychecks or not - by stiffing the hookers.  I wouldn't try that on Blackwater/XE or whatever the merc outfit calls themselves now - ya' know - not paying up.  Those guys get paid - handsomely - with our tax money.

I must assume that this "scandal" - leading to the SS agents dismissal - will prove to be effective in ensuring that our nation's finest will not be comprimised.  

However - more concerns are raised in my mind than are allayed by the actions of our leaders and their not-to-be-taken-seriously-ever words.  Why?

Consider this snippet from a PCR article:

"The US government pretends to live under the rule of law, to respect human rights, and to provide freedom and democracy to citizens. Washington’s pretense and the stark reality are diametrically opposed. 

US government officials routinely criticize other governments for being undemocratic and for violating human rights. Yet, no other country except Israel sends bombs, missiles, and drones into sovereign countries to murder civilian populations. The torture prisons of Abu Gahraib, Guantanamo, and CIA secret rendition sites are the contributions of the Bush/Obama regimes to human rights.  

Washington violates the human rights of its own citizens. Washington has suspended the civil liberties guaranteed in the US Constitution and declared its intention to detain US citizens indefinitely without due process of law.  President Obama has announced that he, at his discretion, can murder US citizens whom he regards as a threat to the US.

Congress did not respond to these extraordinary announcements with impeachment proceedings. There was no uproar from the federal courts, law schools, or bar associations. Glenn Greenwald reports that the Department of Homeland Security harasses journalists who refuse to be "presstitutes",  and we have seen videos of the brutal police oppression of peaceful OWS protestors.  Chris Floyd describes the torture-perverts who rule the US. "Link Here

Forgive me for ruining the party - but our "Leaders" and "Public Servants'" actions demonstrate their twisted morals and boundless hypocrisy once again thanks to their psychopathic track record regarding everything that is legal and humane.

Am I to understand that it is a higher crime to pay a hooker for services in Columbia than it is to illegally detain an American citizen without trial?  Apparently the answer is "yes."

Am I to understand that American government workers, SS, TSA, Fatherland Security, FBI, CIA, NSA - am I to understand that these folks can:

1.  Be legalized peeping Thoms (gawking at hookers if need be)

2.  Search American citizens without probable cause (hookers included)

3.  Torture citizens labeled "terrorists" (hookers included)

4.  Touch the genitals of WOMEN and CHILDREN at airports for absolutely no reason

5.  Kill people in foreign lands during military occupation of countries that have never attacked the US?
6.  Murder American citizens if so ordered by the president?

BUT THEY CANNOT:

1.  Hire a hooker in Columbia?

The Answer:  They can presently do all of the above - but they'd better remember to pay the damn prostitutes next time!

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UPDATE:  April 15, 2012 - "mick" commenter below reminded me of this video - I wonder - did somebody want to replace these secret service agents - admittedly not supposed to be angels - maybe good at their jobs- - but had to be gotten out of the way?  It's all speculation - but that's what we are all left with when all we have are lying tea leaves to read: