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Let us suppose you are a new government employee and the boss is showing you around the office. He motions at the receptionist’s desk and an appetizing plate of bonbons resident there.
The boss warns you. Eating a bonbon is forbidden under any circumstances.
Intrigued, over time you see the bonbons gradually disappear during the week. On Mondays the plate has a new supply of the tasty morsels.
Sooner or later, you will take a bonbon.
Forty years ago my friend Abdul Saab told me this tale. It’s truer today than it was then.
Once a day for the next ten I will feature Sibel Edmonds’ interview with antiwar.com.
Unless you have worked within the civil service or in the organized crime apparatus, Sibel’s remarks may surprise you.
Especially if you are a political pundit or commentator, you will filter out Sibel’s hard-won insights. “If you will elect my candidate [fill in the blank], [s]he will make everything right.â€
Wrong!!!
[S]he when elected will only cover-up for the perpetrators. They control the flow of funding and bribes. They abide forever in the bowels of the government pausing briefly to sire the next generation of thieves and miscreants.
