Assassination of D.C. Madam

I am not much of a conspiracy theory buff. I do not believe in UFO hold at Area 51, and I laugh at people who tell me that the CIA did in JFK. But today a headline caught my eye: "Police: D.C. Madam killed herself..." I have looked more closely: it was an article form AP written by Mitch Stacy. I read it, and I could not believe my eyes.

Specifically, the following comment just blew my mind away: "... making good on her vow never to go to prison for running a high-end Washington prostitution ring..." I thought that reading on grade level was a prerequisite for being a writer for AP, but apparently I was wrong. What the D.C. Madam said was: "I'm sure as heck not going to be going to federal prison for one day, let alone four to eight years, because I'm shy about bringing in the deputy secretary of whatever. Not for a second. I'll bring every last one of them in if necessary."

Got it? Not "I will hang myself", but "I'll bring every last one of them." And now she is dead. There will be no bringing anyone, no deputy secretary needs to tremble thinking about his escapades. Yeah, trembling. Remember what happened to Eliot Spitzer? The Client Number 9, who used to be a powerful err... someone or other? I bet the politicos on D.C. Madam's list wouldn't like to share his fate and be remembered only as a next client number XYZ.

So, what is going to happen now? My guess would be - nothing. The police will accept the suicide story. Why not? It is convenient, and it is safe. If they try to dig deeper, some congressman, deputy secretary or commissioner will come after them, so why bother? The politicos will be only too happy to let the story die, lest someone finds his own name on the client list. The public? Well, the public is apathetic enough not to do anything, as usual. And the media? They have abdicated their responsibility as the nation's watchdog, and so we should not expect anything but talking heads reading press releases prepared by the politicos.

We, the people, have to demand a thorough investigation. We have to reject the cover story, and dig deeper. We need to publish the list of prostitutes' clients anyway, thus denying the crooks their objective.

I have not been this outraged about the death of a public figure and the subsequent stories about it since the year 2000. Do you remember? The plane carrying Senator Paul Wellstone crashed, killing the Senator and his family, and, by quite a coincidence, handing the control of the Senate to the Republicans for the next six years.

To quote a TV commercial: "People, wake up!" Do you really want a country where politicians get troublesome people murdered and no one even makes a peep?