During a pre-convention trip to Chicago the President's appearance disrupts many everyday activities that
normally occur in the area that he is visiting. One couple, Mr. & Mrs. Medoza, is
blocked from returning to their parked car by street blocades. They are also upset
about the U.S servicement that had recently died in Somalia (future unethical act)
because of lack of support from this country. Mrs. Mendoza, unable to contain herself
, yells out, "You suck, those boys died". She and her husband are later arrested. I
guess this former constituitional law professor is unaware of the first amendment to the constitution.
In a moment of unrestrained arrogance President Clinton announced that he was the only American President to know something about Agriculture. While we all know that Washington
and Jefferson were farmers, and even as recently as Jimmy Carter we have had a
farmer as a President, Bill Clinton still made this outrageous statement. As far as I
know this man has never had a job that wasn't financed in some way by tax dollars.
Maybe he learned about farming from watching "The Waltons".
During this
administration President Clinton has not been shy about using all of the power before
him to accomplish whatever ends he deems appropriate. One of the agencies that has
been used to abuse is the IRS. At the present no less than five conservative think tanks are being audited by the IRS. No liberal organizations of equivalent stature are faced with audits. This political use of the IRS is clearly unethical if not downright illegal
Prior to the 1996 elections, President Clinton ordered INS officals to ignore the flood of ilegal immigrants
flowing across our borders from Mexico. Additionally there was a push to make as
many of these immigrants citizens as soon as possible. This meant that traditional
requirements were set aside (like knowledge of the US constitution). At the same time
voter registration drives registered many of these new residents as voters, citizens or
not. While their votes would not be enough to influence the national election, it appears
that Bill Clinton was able to get rid of one of his most vocal critics in Southern
California. Bob Dornan was able to carry 133 precints to his opponents 103.
But in several Santa Anna precints he lost by margins of 8 and 9 to 1. In a country
where 6 to 4 is considered a landslide, it seems unbelieveable that nearly 9 out of 10
voters would think the same way about anything.
The
creation of a new national monument in Utah apparently was done for more
than environmental reasons. While the president claims that his only
interest was to preserve a "beautiful,exoctic place," a key archeological
site and other important environmental sites, that the citizens of Utah
wanted to be included, were left out of the 1.7 milliom acre memorial. The
largest deposit of environment-friendly coal in the world was included
however. There is only one other substantial deposit of this high grade coal
anywhere in the world, and it is located not coincidentally in Indonesia
under the control of the Lippo investment group. Taking Utah's coal off of
the market has substantially enhanced the value of the Indonesia coal on the
world market. Taken with the hundreds of thousands of dollars donated to the
re-election campaign for the president by the Lippo group, I think it only
follows that we have a case of Quid Pro Coal.
Christmas Eve 1996 saw the patrons of Washington's National Cathedral
joined by our President Bill Clinton and his family. The service presented a
rare opportunity for those in attendance to share Christmas greetings with the
president. One in attendance was the Reverend Robert Schenck, General Secretary
to the National ClergyCouncil. His message to the president consisted of eight
well chosen words, a scriptual admonition referring to the president's veto of
the partial birth abortion, he said quietly and respectfully, "God will hold
you to account, Mr. President." The President appeared shocked at hearing this
truth and activated his Secret Service Agents. The Reverend Schenck was
accosted and prevented from leaving the Cathedral. He was searched and his
driver's license was removed from his wallet. It was over 2 hours before his
driver's license was returned and he was free to go on his way. At least he
didn't have to go to jail like William Kelly (unethical act #48) or Judy
Mendoza (unethical act #31).
April 19, 1993, a black day in United States history. 76 United States citizens were massacred in their compund home.The massacre marked the end of a standoff that had begun February 28, 1993 when BATF agents unsuccessfully stormed the compound killing four residents of the compound in an attempt to arrest David Koresh, leader of the group. Four BATF agents were also killed in the botched raid. The mission was an over reaction from the very beginning.
If BATF agents had wished to apprehend Koresh, his day to day activities presented many opportunities to do this without stepping foot on the grounds of the compound.
Congress held hearings to determine what had gone wrong and who was ultimately
responsible. Their findings were: 1) Attorney General Janet Reno's approval of the FBI's plan to end the
standoff on April 19 was premature and highly irresponsible.
2) The attorney general knew or should have known that the reasons cited
for ending the standoff lacked merit.
3)The CS riot control agent insertion and assault plan was fatally flawed.
The prior behavior of the Davidians gave no reason to believe that they
would react in the manner suggested bythe FBI. The attorney general should
have rejected the plan and demanded an alternative plan.
4) Following the FBI's April 19 assault on the Branch Davidian compound,
Attorney General Reno offered her resignation. In light of her ultimate
responsibility for the disastrous assault and its resulting deaths, the
president should have accepted it.
In 1993 President Bill Clinton appointed Elders to the office of U.S.
Surgeon General. After fairly lengthy debate in her confirmation hearings
over her support of condoms and sex education and her positions on abortion,
she emerged as U.S. Surgeon General. These were not new relavations to the
president as she stuggled with these same issues as Surgeon General of
Arkansas under then Govenor Bill Clinton. Her outspokenness and her radical
views quickly began to erode her support. Namely, she suggested looking
into legalizing drugs as a possible solution to drug violence, continued
to support broad sex education in schools, and issued various controversial
statements about guns, homosexuality, and other issues. In 1994 during the
World AIDS Day at the United Nations, the controversy over Elders reached
its apex when Elders suggested that masturbation should be encouraged as a
way to prevent teenagers from engaging in other sexual activities. The next
day, Bill Clinton under considerable political pressure demanded and
received Elders' resignation. Her speech will be remembered forever as the
"I have a wet dream" speech.
In July of 1993 in one of many unprecedented actions by the Clinton
Administration, FBI director William Sessions was fired. The director of
the FBI is seen as nonpolitical position. The term of office is ten years
and often is filled during the entire span of a presidential term. Clearly
President Clinton wanted his own man in the office, so Sessions was fired
for allowing his wife to accompany him on government aircraft on a space
available basis (at least he wasn't using it for a haircut - see unethical
act #34), and for making personal phone calls from his office. Contrast
this to William Kennedy III, who was only reprimanded for a clear cut
abuse of power in the Travel Office scandal (unethical act #49). Sessions
was originally investigated by the Bush Administration after he began to
look into the controversial prosecution of the head of the Atlanta branch
of the Banca Nazionale del Lavaro over illicit loans to Iraq. He was fully
exonerated in the handling of that case, but enemies from this case could
have diminished any support Sessions may have had in Washington D.C.. It
should also be noted that FBI files on Republicans began to flow into the
White House (unethical act #6) just two days after Sessions was replaced
with Louis Freeh.
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