By David Glenn Cox
From the oh boy, someone really up fucked department. Upstate New York District Attorney Sandra Doorley has taken career self-destruction to a whole new level. Pulled over by the cops for speeding she decided, well, she’d had a really hard day and so decided not to stop. Wow, it really was a bad day, wasn’t it? I can’t say that I’ve ever had one day that bad. But then, that view was always tempered with the knowledge that I might do time in jail or get tazed, if I didn’t stop for the police.
I happened upon this story early. Day one; Event happens seen on a local’s YouTube channel. Just take the ticket and shut up! But oh no, it just wasn’t meant to be. Doorley berates the cop with America’s least popular excuse. “Do you know who I am? Let me just call up your boss little policeman, you’re in big trouble now mister! Just take the ticket and shut up! Take the ticket!
Day two; Town council puts out a unanimous letter calling for an investigation of the District Attorney. Now, I bet you wished you had taken the ticket!
Day three; the sad apology. I’ve let you good people down. Please, please forgive me! Don’t let happen, what I think is about to happen. I should have just taken the ticket and kept my mouth shut.
Day Four; ABC NEWS! Sixty Minutes is on line three and CNN is on line four.
The mouth has no reverse gear and sometimes, no clutch. If you cast your bread upon the waters, you can’t ever reel it back in. Years ago, Alabama Senator Jerimiah Denton was asked, Why he wasn’t back home campaigning for reelection? Denton was also having a really bad day. He spit back in an angry tone. I’m too busy working to be kissing babies and shaking hands! Or I’m real important and they are not. Even in blood red Alabama, a proud Republican senator just can’t talk like that, and Denton was toast.
Doorley’s career has the life expectancy of a fruit fly. If it were the Assistant, District Attorney in hot water for blowing off the cops? What discipline would Doorley herself recommend for her underling? Yeah, that’s what I thought too. We’re really going to miss you, best of luck in your next opportunity. It’s just one of those things, It’s just too public and too egregious. You remember officer Jeff from security, don’t you? He’s going to walk you down to the front door after you collect your things.
Contrast that with Thornton Township and Dolton Illinois Mayor, Tiffany “light fingers” Henyard. She’s taken a community with a two and half million-dollar surplus and turned it into a seven-million-dollar deficit. With nothing to show for it but a handful of unpaid bills and threatening collection letters. That’s the seven million that we know about, she’s kept the books private from the council. Henyard’s evasive answers are of the bargain basement variety. “Huh? I don’t know nothing about that?”
You don’t remember if you flew first class with your entourage to Vegas on the people’s dime? And yet, Henyard gets away with it for years. Then the FBI showed up. If Henyard has any thoughts of escaping the reach of the law. Perhaps now, would be a good time to begin making her travel arrangements. Someplace nice, without an extradition treaty. You can steal! You can fleece the public with near impunity! But watch your mouth. Don’t end up in a YouTube video today. That should be our motto and our guide. That motto should be on your desk in your heart and posted over your door. Don’t end up in a YouTube video today.
Interestingly and as pointed out by DA Doorley herself because she was the DA, she would be the person prosecuting her own ticket. In other words, she could just decline to prosecute and send the ticket to the ticket morgue and land of things forgotten about. She just wanted to vent her spleen at an underling, wasting her precious time. We’re damn near one quarter into this new Century of ours and cameras are everywhere. It’s a fact of life, and it’s not going away.
So here is this well-educated person with an important job. Too dumb to realize she was preaching her manifesto of Doorley Uber Allis directly into the policeman’s body camera. “Money doesn’t talk, it swears!” Or at least it acts inappropriately. The sins don’t match our outrage. Steal yourself rich, but back talk to us just once, and your ass is grass.
Then we have the peculiar case of an individual under siege from state and Federal prosecutors. And in all of these other cases, the underlings have all been found guilty or have taken a plea. Every single one of them, handing out jail time like lunch! Nobody leaves the courthouse without a conviction! But here is the unitary executive somehow innocent. A rube surrounded by cutthroats! Either a mastermind or a dumbass, take your pick as they both fit, and they both look unattractive.
An extreme Court does double back flips and asks, maybe we can bend the rules for Trump just this once. Famous last words, just this once. Gee, is a crime really a crime if the President, does it? Let’s reframe the question, how would the court feel about a President who had Supreme Court Justices arrested? And had them shipped bound, naked and gagged for an all-electric Guantanamo prison cell without trial or hearing, all because El Presidente says so.
“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” ― Hunter S. Thompson
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