The Peoria Journal Star published an editorial from their staff on 3/23/06, page A4. I am not concerned with the editorial except for one sentence. The following is a quote from that editorial: “If we may put it delicately, state government in Springfield and Chicago is a bipartisan cesspool of corruption.”
Whoa!!! That is quite a statement! I admit that I have lived in Illinois for less than two years. Yet, I haven’t read about any cesspool of corruption of state government. Does the editorial staff have proof to support their statement? Is this another instance of the editorial staff saying it is true and therefore it must be true? Is this an example of their philosophy that there are many truths and we can pick and choose the truth we want to believe and accept?
Last year the editorial writers professed their undying devotion to “the rule of law.” One of the basic tenets of “the rule of law” is that an individual, no matter who he is or what he is accused of, is innocent until proven guilty.
Is the editorial staff declaring that the present governor is guilty of corruption even though he has not even been accused of any such action in a court of law? Is the editorial staff declaring that the Republican nominee for governor is guilty of corruption even though she has not even been accused of any such action in a court of law? Do the editorial writers have any proof to support their stated conclusion that “state government … is a bipartisan cesspool of corruption”?
When the editorial writers refer to state government do they include all elected governmental officials in the executive portion of government? When the editorial writers refer to state government do they include all elected governmental officials in the State House of Representatives and the State Senate? When the editorial writers refer to state government do they include all elected members of the judiciary? When the editorial writers refer to state government do they include all non-elected members of the various state bureaucracies?
Do you think the editorial writers should be just a little more specific in their broad picture of state corruption? Do you think the editorial writers should present at least some proof that their conclusion of a vast network of corruption is true? Do you think the editorial writers should support “the rule of law” which they claim to champion? Do the editorial writers understand the concept of innocent until proven guilty in a court of law?
Do you think the editorial writers should wait until a court of law declares their assessment to be true? Maybe, we don’t need a court of law because we have the editorial writers of the Peoria Journal Star. Are the editorial writers the prosecutor, the judge, and the jury? Have you ever known them to be wrong?
Whoa!!! That is quite a statement! I admit that I have lived in Illinois for less than two years. Yet, I haven’t read about any cesspool of corruption of state government. Does the editorial staff have proof to support their statement? Is this another instance of the editorial staff saying it is true and therefore it must be true? Is this an example of their philosophy that there are many truths and we can pick and choose the truth we want to believe and accept?
Last year the editorial writers professed their undying devotion to “the rule of law.” One of the basic tenets of “the rule of law” is that an individual, no matter who he is or what he is accused of, is innocent until proven guilty.
Is the editorial staff declaring that the present governor is guilty of corruption even though he has not even been accused of any such action in a court of law? Is the editorial staff declaring that the Republican nominee for governor is guilty of corruption even though she has not even been accused of any such action in a court of law? Do the editorial writers have any proof to support their stated conclusion that “state government … is a bipartisan cesspool of corruption”?
When the editorial writers refer to state government do they include all elected governmental officials in the executive portion of government? When the editorial writers refer to state government do they include all elected governmental officials in the State House of Representatives and the State Senate? When the editorial writers refer to state government do they include all elected members of the judiciary? When the editorial writers refer to state government do they include all non-elected members of the various state bureaucracies?
Do you think the editorial writers should be just a little more specific in their broad picture of state corruption? Do you think the editorial writers should present at least some proof that their conclusion of a vast network of corruption is true? Do you think the editorial writers should support “the rule of law” which they claim to champion? Do the editorial writers understand the concept of innocent until proven guilty in a court of law?
Do you think the editorial writers should wait until a court of law declares their assessment to be true? Maybe, we don’t need a court of law because we have the editorial writers of the Peoria Journal Star. Are the editorial writers the prosecutor, the judge, and the jury? Have you ever known them to be wrong?
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