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In reply to the discussion: Why has Jeb Bush's college graduation year been omitted by the media for at least 30 years now? [View all]anobserver2
(836 posts)I am up late tonight writing, and I see people are reading this thread.
If one can understand and if one acknowledges that corruption results in the falsification of credentials, by those seeking power,
then perhaps one has to ask: Is there a flip-side to this type of mentality? Meaning: Are people who are corrupt and seeking power and fabricating credentials ever "going after" those they perceive as competition, meaning: are those who are genuinely smart ever blacklisted?
It would not surprise me personally, in the least, if all those FL teachers, who recently disclosed to the GOP-led State of FL that they have high SAT scores -- in response to the state now offering financial bonuses to teachers with high SAT scores - eventually find themselves facing a host of bizarre situations: falsely arrested by corrupt police on fake DUI charges, written up for non-existent incidents by their GOP principals, etc. etc. etc.
Can this really happen? I think it is a legitimate question -- especially when power is obtained by those who have to fabricate their own credentials, because: such people may really worry about potential competition by those who are actually smart.
Again, it would not surprise me in the least if those highest scoring SAT teachers soon find themselves in some type of weird, unexplainable situation in the future whereby: their good reputations are falsely and wrongly tainted. It sure can prevent them from thinking about running for office.
I was shocked to recently learn from a question I asked the state attorney's office in the 20th circuit the exact number of people arrested in one region of FL in one year, when such arrest resulted in: no criminal charges filed. Just a criminal arrest. I think it was over 4,300 people -- in one year, in one region of FL. That's how many people were arrested -- but not prosecuted. Here is the exact number and what that office wrote to me (and they then sent me the document showing this number):
...In response to your request, the total number of individuals arrested which
resulted in No Charges Filed for the year 2000 is 4389.
Richard J. Montecalvo
Assistant State Attorney for Special Prosecutions
Office of the State Attorney - 20th Judicial Circuit of Florida
P.O. Box 399
Fort Myers, Florida 33902
So - "no charges filed" is the final disposition for "4,389" people: but, they all now have a CRIMINAL RECORD. Yet, Jeb Bush has no criminal record, His father has no criminal record. Somehow, this does not seem fair to me.
Is that how it goes? It's a question I have been asking for years now, due to my own personal experiences. 'Nuff said.