The Culture of Corruption cannot be stopped. It grows daily. We don’t know how long this growth
will continue. Or, once it stops, if we’ll ever know to what extent it grew.
Each member of this elite(ist) society solidifies their position with words or deeds. Sometimes both. They choose their legacy with clear vision. The members of the C.O.C. select the medium of their addition to history alone and with no regret. They do not or would not ask your opinion.
Or mine.
In the future, we will look to them to tell us when to turn an eye to injustice at home or abroad. When to sacrifice life for manufactured information that will serve vendettas, egos and the thickest of wallets. They will inform us when we should be more afraid for our lives. They will not, however, tell us how much they know about us. Or what really happened. They will look us in the eye when they issue denials. Their political capital has been liquidated, but they are still spending.
I bring you the Culture of Corruption.
- DA, 2006, Banner Elk, NC
We've come a long way. But only in the sense we've outlasted ourselves. Something along the lines of breaking a mirror and enduring seven years of bad luck. Only, in the end, it turns out to be eight.
The Culture of Corruption was founded upon unwavering values. Qualities such as perseverence, loyalty and ingenuity. Perseverence to stop at nothing in advancing an agenda. Not even the law. Loyalty which can't be subpoenaed or cracked by Congressional inquiries. Ingenuity which continues to not only exploit but to create and buttress loopholes small enough to go unnoticed and large enough to create a vacuum of justice.
Ah yes, the Culture of Corruption. We've met before. And we'll meet again — each time you grow stronger. If ever the circumstances permit your demise we'll have won far more than our freedom.
The world will be watching.
- DA, 2/5/08, Chapel Hill, NC
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