Family Ties

Reading and hearing about Governor Perry lately here in Texas. The big news, his ideas to require all school girls to obtain a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer and his ideas on selling the State Lottery off. He states that marketing the lottery off to private interest could raise $14 billion. Now an AP reporter has done his homework and discovered that our State government is no better than the Federal government when it comes to friends and family ties, to obtain favors and money. It seems that his son, Griffin landed a job two weeks ago with the very same company advising the Governor on selling the Lottery and his old former Chief of Staff Mike Toomey, is a lobbyist for Merck, the one's making and providing the vaccine that would be used to inoculate your school girls. Yet, like most he says it is all coincidence and there is no handshakes going on under the table. Let's get real, now if two plus two equals FOUR, then family ties mean something or nothing. Why, haven't we all heard the story before? It's just coincidence that the President of Afghanistan happened to be a former big player in the oil company there, that finished it's pipeline after we arrived- and left fairly quickly I might add.
Where does the pipeline go carrying all that Afghan oil- where else- Walmart land or better known as China. Why it's just coincidence that Cheney has ties with Halliburton who won one of the first and largest civil contracts to support the military in Iraq. It's just coincidence that Condeleeza Rice was an oil company executive. Somewhere, down the line coincidences quit, and conspiracy begins. Regardless, what you anti-conspiracist say. Family ties and old friends will always drive politics and new legislation. I promise. Conspiracy isn't anything more than two or more individuals agreeing to accomplish something together and doing so in secret. The word comes from conspire or conspiring- Webster's defines it as such.
1 a : to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act or an act which becomes unlawful as a result of the secret agreement b : SCHEME2 : to act in harmony toward a common end
Now , as a friend told me once, in a moment of his ignorance, there is no such thing as conspiracy. Yet, doesn't even the Bible tell us that conspiracy exist, wasn't it the Pharisee's that conspired to have Christ killed. So, conspiracy, secret agreements and more have existed throughout history. The Roman Senate conspired to kill Caesar. Well, not all conspiracies have to do with killing someone. A conspiracy can exist between, "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine. "There sure is a lot of scratching backs going on these days in America. What do you think?

Dr. J.