I may lack terminology and knowledge some have more in, but I know one thing, what is right and what is wrong. These politician have 1001 excuses, we pay their salaries for God sakes, they should be listening to half of us. We are not going to tolerate the bullshit excuses anymore, it is time to answer to people not give them the brush off like for years are able to do.
Here's something Crazy Mac (my dearly departed daddy) used to say. When you're trying to understand a complex situation, you only have to ask two questions; who's fuckin' who and where'd the money go?
The first thing to understand in this is that these people's salaries are a pittance compared to the rest of the funding machine. Mr. Connerty-Marin, like all bureaucratic cogs in the machine, is in a sticky situation. He's got a job description that requires him to respond to our concerns. That's what he's paid to do, right? But his employer runs on campaign contributions. So Mr. Connerty-Marin has to try to do that without alienating any big contributors. We may as well put the poor dude in a round room and tell him to piss in the corner.
What we have to do is get the media on it. That can be anything from serious newspaper, television, radio journalism to novels, biographies and documentary books like Ben Foster's
Like Hell or
Help At Any Cost, movies like
Boot Camp and
Over The GW and anything else you can think of.
Our trouble is that the sadistic lunatics who run this industry enjoy a public image as heroes. What we have to do is to change that image in the public conscience by getting the truth out there in all these many ways. Then it becomes expedient for the bureaucrats to go after them. And then maybe they will.
