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3. Lack of patriotism. Where is the moral outrage over the double standard enjoyed by American corporations that abandon their nation or overcharge their government for products and services during wartime? After all, average people are supposed to be patriotic, and often find themselves ostracized, threatened and condemned for even questioning the motives for war. Yet corporations that engage in ruthless war profiteering, or that leave America during wartime to exploit lax labor and environmental standards in other nations, are praised for their business “acumen.”

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4. Price gouging. Where is the moral outrage over the price gouging of big oil companies, who carry politicians around in their hip pockets, destroying the economies of entire nations because the billions they already make in profit aren’t enough?

5. The protection of corporate fascism. Where is the moral outrage over the fact that, regardless of what political party is in power, all governmental institutions, under the guise (or lies) of promoting “freedom” and “democracy,” exploit their resources to protect the profits of multi-national corporations, awarding no-bid “rebuilding” contracts to political cronies, and using the military to ensure continued oil profits in Iraq and the abundance of cheap labor in Central and South America, while condemning as subversive or anti-democratic, and frequently destroying, any group or social movement that strives for social, racial or economic justice.

Now the cowardice of Pelosi’s pansies has come home to roost. The party that refused to impeach Bush and Cheney again finds one of their own, New York’s Democratic governor Eliot Spitzer, caught in a sex scandal. And once again the Republican Party feigned “moral” outrage, and threatened to impeach Spitzer if he did not resign.

So forget the slaughter of innocents, forget the lies that caused thousands of Americans to die in an illegal war, forget the exploitation of the workers and the millions without health insurance, forget the cowardice of the war hawks who refused to serve in the military themselves, forget the undermining of democracy through electoral fraud and corrupt Supreme Court justices, forget the fact that corporate fascism has replaced democracy in America, forget the fact that torture is now an acceptable part of American jurisprudence, and forget that every law, policy and institution in America is designed to ensure that the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. After all, in the eyes of the plutocrats who truly control America, none of these things are immoral.

The moral of the story is this: American politicians can do nothing immoral, illegal or worthy of impeachment, no matter how vile, unjust or corrupt it may be, as long as they keep their clothes on while doing it.

And the fact that Americans continue to permit such a moral to exist is the greatest immorality of all.

David R. Hoffman
Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru

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