Negative Space: corruption
- Always get tape
- As Val Kilmer said in Thunderheart, Always get tape. The more your interviewer fears tape, the more important it is that you get it. And the mainstream media fears tape more than corrupt cops do.
- Broken but Unbowed
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott talks about how he survived the accident that paralyzed him, and how the United States can survive the system that paralyzes it.
- Democrats introduce mens rea reform
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Congressional Democrats move to extend FBI Director Comey’s Clinton mens rea standard to all Americans.
- Essential revolution: fight corruption
- The only sure means of fighting corruption is to take away the powers that invite it.
- Government oxymoron: anti-corruption laws
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We can’t pass laws to reduce corruption. To reduce corruption we must reduce laws.
- The International Pathology of the War on Drugs: Corruption, Instability, and Narco-Terrorism
- It is hard to imagine a system more suited for funding terrorism and crime than the drug war.
- The Pathology of the War on Drugs: Corruption and Violence in the Black Market
- Prohibition isn’t just lucrative for organized crime, but also for law enforcement. Whereever prohibition is stepped up, corruption among law enforcement and the criminal justice system increases.
- Pennsylvania AG says crime is racist
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Pennsylvania Attorney General vows to stop investigating and prosecuting crimes. “We know most blacks commit crimes, so it’s racist to target criminals for prosecution.”
- Stop the rot—with sunlight and sunset
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If reform conservatism needs an anticorruption agenda, what structural changes should be on that agenda?
- A tale of two negotiators
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If you want to see how Republicans in Congress fail to pass successful reforms, compare the House Obamacare “repeal” with the White House’s budget.
- Throw Them All Out
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IPO nowadays stands for Invest in Politicians Often. Investing in politicians brings huge returns.
More Information
- Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets• (paperback)
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Schweizer turns the problem of corruption around, and in doing so makes it much easier to understand and to combat. If we look at the problem as one of extortion by politicians rather than of bribery by lobbyists, it is a lot easier to understand why the “bribes” happen when and how they do. There will always be an infinite source of people affected by legislation, making combatting bribery impossible. In most other industries, regulations apply to sellers, not buyers, for the simple reason that it’s more effective: there are always fewer sellers than buyers. And politicians are not passively waiting for bribes. They are…• (Peter Schweizer)
- The Voters vs. the Party
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“I haven’t been reading a lot of Trump indictment analysis by Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Turley, Alan Dershowitz… They’re all great legal minds, but how naïve do you have to be still to think that America has anything recognizable as a ‘justice’ system?”
- Throw Them All Out• (hardcover)
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So far, this has been a fascinating and frightening work. Peter Schweizer details not just the insider deals that congress engages in, but how they can get away with it—by making sure that the laws they create don’t apply to them. (Peter Schweizer)
