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Edited on Fri Mar-28-08 01:50 PM by pitohui
i had some dirt on david duke and ultimately i did turn it over to the fbi, altho i felt they should have had this information years earlier, and i actually think they did -- he was prosecuted for far, far, FAR less than he did and far, far, FAR less than what the feds could easily prove -- i've always felt he paid off the right people or had help from hidden racists in high office -- we're talking a dude who didn't pay income tax for 20 years and yet i witnessed him betting $500 a hand at the gaming table and so did everybody else in a two-state area over a period of many years
for some years now i've had an ethical dilemma concerning a "friend," well, really a gambling contact, who is also a prominent politician in his state, i won't say the office or the state, just will say that it isn't louisiana or mississippi, or else the natural course of events would have outed him a long time before now
the short story is the guy's GOP and on the extremist side of the GOP at that, the classic "drown the gov't in the bathtub" type, he's completely one of the bad guys, on the other hand, his activities are not felonies, they're more in the lines of living a lifestyle that his constituents would fall out of their rockers if they had a clue train -- also there's a gay angle, and i don't like the idea of outing someone as gay and playing that as a gotcha, OTOH, the argument can be made that he's propping up an entire party that profits from playing straight against gay, so his hypocrisy is pretty huge -- he kind of stalks a friend of mine and at times i've had access to the emails (the politico doesn't know i'm reading and getting a chuckle out of some of these pathetic documents)
it just gives me an icky feeling all around, i don't esp. like reading someone's private mail where they're begging somebody to please please please come back to them and all that yadda yadda, if you have a heart at all, you just feel bad about something like that -- and yet he's soo evil, he tells the guy he married and had kids strictly because it's what you have to do to be a politician in that state, he told him a mean story about his wife's sexual (in)abilities, he's just so not nice on the inside and yet can be so nice to your face
i think if the guy goes any higher, i have to speak up but right now, he's in a district where he ran un-opposed anyway so i figure what's the point of creating chaos in my entire social circle?
but for now i'm doing nothing
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