Department of Justice: Hypocrisy Unit

In New York, the Department of Justice's local "Public Integrity Unit" is defending its heavy-handed pursuit of Eliot Spitzer.

In California, the Department of Justice has shut down the Public Integrity Unit in Los Angeles. It seems that the Bush White House was not comfortable with a Public Integrity Unit that was questioning the integrity of Republicans.

Using the powers of prosecution to go after political opponents while giving the members of your own party a free ride is very serious corruption. That's not just taking cash, that's destroying the foundation of a free nation. Throwing your political enemies in jail is a tactic of a thuggish dictatorship, it has no place in a democracy.

But, as you should be well aware by now, "democracy" and "freedom" are worship words to the Bush Administration. They are platitudes to be mouthed in order to justify brutality and aggression, nothing more.

And if you think this does not connect to the Bush Administration's single-minded determination to protect the telecommunications companies at all costs, you are deluding yourself.