Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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Today's title is a Latin phrase which I roughly translate as - Ain't none of you illegitimate offspring honest enough to be left alone.

Witness this. In case that doesn't work, I summarize.

I guess Che Guevarra was busy.

The Occupy Whatever Doesn't Have a Toilet has spawned a political party. The Occupation Party.

If you do like me and look for 'em you'll find several competing websites, each claiming to be the true party website and the others are merely hijackers. Karmic justice?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Anyway, news outlets report one variation of the OP has put forth a 10 point platform, which I could not find. Admittedly, my search was not massive, but it was more detailed than the average internet user would put forth.

All I could find were articles which listed 3 of the 10 points.

Consider:

• reversing the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision granting corporations the right to spend an unlimited amount of money on political campaigns.

Somewhere in here is a Dr. Suess book.

• limiting the influence of lobbyists.

• prosecuting those responsible for the recent recession.

I understand point 1 above has infuriated many people. In addition to taking massive delight (and dare I say joy?) in this, I wholeheartedly support the SCOTUS decision.


How corporations spend their money on political campaigns in no one's business except the corporation's stockholders. I see no difference between a corporation executive and the Board of Directors making decisions to spend on a political campaign and me spending my money on a political campaign. Except they probably have more money.


If you object to this and complain big money is buying elections, I ask YET AGAIN - Whom did you vote for? How many of the available candidates did you bother to research and study? To this I add, if political campaign advertising annoys you, ignore it.

A smart blonde, Turning it off.

Your TV and radio have off buttons. You can decline to look at ads in print publications. You can install ad blockers (if you are smart enough to use browsers with blockers) for internet use.


I got rid of TV years ago. I'll bet you I am better informed about the state of the nation today than anyone involved in the Occupy movements.


Do not whine and complain and demand a change in the law because you are too lazy to perform due diligence.


Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? If we get to the point, as so many people believe has happened, this is necessary then it's time for far more drastic measures. The kind of measures I often joke about.


If you don't get that, then I ain't explaining else I run afoul of a SCOTUS ruling which I do disagree with.


Point 2 above.


How? First, define lobbyist.

If you contact your elected representative on a matter are you a lobbyist? That is the basic definition. You want to limit the public's contact with elected reps?

If the truth hurts, you're living wrong.

Maybe you prefer to say a lobbyist is a person who represents a group of people to an elected official.


Ever heard of a representative form of government? That is what we have now in this nation. We elected people to represent us. So if you shut THAT down, you are again attempting to limit public and private contact with elected officials.


A lobbyist is paid? By whom? How much? 


Elected officials, by and large, are paid. They also lobby each other for support for various positions.

If you want government in a vacuum in which elected officials are treated like radioactive AIDS ridden biological waste, then by all means do something about lobbyists. 


Me? I think we need more lobbyists.


Point 3.

Bout time too.

Egad. I love this one. Let's hold everyone who contributed to the current recession accountable for the recession. Gonna be bloody tough to head over to China and arrest the Communist Party leaders, much less bring 'em back here for trial.


Who ya gonna charge? What ya gonna charge 'em with? How are you going to charge them?

If you point to the housing meltdown, no one held a gun to head of those homeowners and forced 'em to take mortgages they couldn't afford. 

Quit blaming me 'cause you are an idiot.

No matter where you go looking for someone to prosecute you are eventually going to find a single person who made a bad decision. That single person is going to be, yes, You. Me. Everyone in the Occupy movement.

One average person making a bad personal financial decision won't have much effect on the overall economy. Get millions of average people making bad personal financial decisions, and yeah, you will have a major impact on the economy.


If we start filing criminal charges against people who make bad personal financial decisions, I suggest we start with the Occupy Movement people.

The Occupy Movement is all about finding someone else to blame for their own stupidity, when you bother to look hard enough.

Sooner or later, people have to take responsibility for their own actions.


Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? When and if you ever get done with that incestuous chain of logic you can look for me in the deer woods or AT MY JOB. I'm trying to feed my family, which is my responsibility, not yours.