WEINER'S SCHMECKEL

Congressman Anthony Weiner lacks integrity, has made it quite evident that he lacks good judgment by sexting with six women while married, and it has just recently been disclosed that he has sent nude photos of himself which some websites are now flashing on their pages. He lacks self respect, and because he lacks self-respect and has a poor self-image, he has taken to the web to expose himself in order to promote himself in the most obscene and lude manner. He has betrayed the trust of the people who elected him to represent them, opened himself to blackmail, ridicule, and scorn, and has broken his marriage vows and oath of office by his degenerate behavior.

If he had any self respect, any sense of decency, or an ounce of integrity left in him, and any respect for the office of congressman for the Congressional 9th District of New York, he would resign his post and never seek public office again. Anyone in the military caught doing what he did, would face a Court Marshall and would be drummed out of the service in disgrace with a Dishonorable Discharge. Anthony Weiner should learn to live up to the laws against sexual harassment he helped pass which were drafted to prevent such behavior from happening in the work place; laws which require immediate dismissal, and or resignation by the offending party, i.e., Weiner.

Several Democrats have called for Weiner to step down, but he has said that he will not. Who does this man think he is? Does he really believe that he is above the law? Is he that emotionally and mentally impaired? Is he not aware of what he has done, and the shame and disrepute he has brought upon himself and his name, not to mention to the office which he currently holds?

If some of the public reaction which I heard on the radio yesterday, and especially from talk radio hosts such as Imus, a man who is well liked by some conservatives, but who does not have a conservative ounce in him; any indication of where pop culture is headed, you can hear the trend on the radio and in television; then I am very concerned for our nation. One woman calling Sean Hannity excused this man’s behavior as something we should learn to expect and accept from our public officials, because in her words, “They all do it,” well; the fact is, they do not all “do it,” and no, we do not and should never expect this type of degeneracy and deviance from our public officials. If we discipline our service personnel, our police forces, our firemen, and others, including those in the workforce in private industry for much less, then why should we allow this kind of degeneracy from a congressman? This woman’s reaction and opinion is emblematic of half of Congressman Wiener’s community, which does not necessarily as some would think comprise mostly Jewish voters, but voters of other ethnic groups, though it is primarily white (65.9%), with some black (12.1%), and Hispanic (15.1%) voters, almost a quarter of which are 18 years of age. The median income of those living and voting in the 9th congressional district is $52,175.00, which is middle class. But almost half of this group excuses this behavior and support the embattled and disgraced congressman. Amazing, and what a double standard.

These people actually condone this outrageous behavior, make excuses for it, and justify their moral relativism with clever arguments of why a public servant’s private life ought to remain private – one of their favorite excuses, yet in the workplace such behavior would bring immediate dismissal and in some cases prosecution, and rightly so, established by laws which Congressman Weiner and others voted to enact as law. There was a time in this country when this type of behavior would have finished a politician’s career and he’d never be heard from again. But, another disgraced congressman, Charles Wrangle, Democrat of New York’s 15th congressional district, was found guilty of embezzlement, of tax evasion, and racketeering, yet his constituency reelected him in the last elections, and he continues to serve in the powerful Ways and Means Committee; a committee which has the purse strings over what congress does and does not spend. Amazing.

But, what we are witnessing here is the result of the moral relativism that has overtaken a great part of our nation and society, where greed and avarice are good and family values and traditional Judeo-Christian values are questioned, and even challenged by pop culture. This is the trend and the public figures caught in all sorts of scandals and criminal activities, while a complacent and partisan amoral media looks the other way. Oh yes, they’ll report some congressman’s indiscretions from time to time, but after they have done so, they will concoct all sorts of excuses for it, or as it has done with Weinergate; they’ll savage the original report which disclosed the congressman’s immoral extra-marital activities on Twitter, and his harassment of these six women. Sexting is now an acceptable form of communication for these journalists, so long as it’s Anthony Weiner doing it and not some “conservative.” Were it to be a conservative, they’d be all over the story. They only report it reluctantly because it is news, and news brings ratings, which brings money, which is revenue, much needed cash into their coffers in this depression called a recovery.

Look at how the media is handling Sarah Palin’s e-mails. Since when has the New York Times or any other organ of the mass media poured over thousands of any public official’s e-mails looking for some kind of indictable offense, some kind of salacious or inappropriate word, or expression, in order to destroy, defame, and or shame the person whose e-mails they are pouring over? When? NEVER. Why? Because Sarah Palin is loved and admired by too many people, and she is a very strong voice and represents a growing constituency throughout the country which the media is opposed to. And because they are opposed to it, they must do everything in their power to destroy this lady, because she may cause more damage to their agenda than they are prepared to accept. What I’ve heard on the radio the past week has been from very good analysis, to cheap shots against Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachman from the radical Left, and yet I have not heard a peep from the organs of the mainstream media about how wrong, Congressman Weiner’s behavior towards these women was, and not just his behavior towards them, but his lying to the public after he was discovered. This adds insult to injury. Not only was Weiner’s behavior reprehensible and unacceptable from a public officials – a sitting US Congressman, but he lied about it when it was first disclosed to the public, claiming that someone had hacked into his Twitter account.

This man’s behavior displayed to several women, disrespecting them by such acts is nothing short of a breach in our nation’s security. Why would it be? Because anyone who would act in such a manner cannot be trusted with the nation’s most sensitive secrets, because only a person of the utmost integrity and honesty should have access to the nation’s most sensitive secrets. Consider that if such a man can betray his spouse so easily and without remorse, and if he can lie so easily, such a person lacks any credibility, a key ingredient if he Is to lead and legislate effectively. Someone who can turn on a dime so easily cannot be trusted to hold the office of congressman. A person of such low moral caliber would be easily persuaded to betray his country by any foreign power seeking our nation’s secrets and using his moral lapses as a means to obtain what they want through blackmail. This is a very dangerous and precarious situation – to have someone like Anthony Wiener in such a sensitive post and Congressman Weiner should now resign his post, and allow someone else to take his place. Anthony Weiner must resign. And if he does not resign, he should be dismissed from office and stripped of his pension for life. He has disgraced his office, has brought shame and ill repute to himself, and has betrayed both oaths he made – the one he made to his wife and the one he made to his nation.