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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 12 Num. 26
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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PUBLIC, STUNNED, GIVES UP
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"Bribery [campaign contribution] is no mere felony. It's
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treason. It's systematic. That =is= the way it is done.
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Bribery and corruption is a process of revolution, to make
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a democratic government represent, not the people, but a
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part, the worse part, of the people."
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-- *The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens*
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"There had been a burst, a volcanic eruption, of 'steals' and
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'jobs,' all in the administration of Mayor Ashbridge. I asked
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how they had dared do such a wild, wholesale business in such a
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short time. I was really puzzled and wanted only to understand
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the politics; technically it looked like bad politics."
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"You could put over one of those steals in New York or anywhere
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else, but one would be enough to strain any machine I know of.
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And five or -- more!"
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"'We reasoned,' he answered, 'we agreed among ourselves that it
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was exactly the five or -- more that would save us. If we did
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any of these things alone the papers and the public would
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concentrate on it, get the facts, and fight. But we reasoned
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that if we poured them all out fast and furious, one, two, three
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-- one after the other -- the papers couldn't handle them all and
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the public would be stunned and -- give up. Too much.'"
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"I was stunned. 'Well, you Pennsylvania politicians know
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something even Tammany [Hall] doesn't know.'"
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"He nodded. 'Yes,' he said. 'We know a lot they don't know. We
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know that public despair is possible and that that is good
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politics.'"
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[Excerpts from *The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens*]
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For related stories, visit:
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http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html
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Aperi os tuum muto, et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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