What Can We Get Away With?

Rudi Giuliani says that he could convict those associated with the Clinton Foundation by using the RICO statutes.  After all, these laws were created to bring organized crime under control.  The idea was to make it easier to prove an illegal conspiracy.

I have no doubt that as a former federal prosecutor with sterling record, Giuliani is correct.  He also says he would have been able to prosecute Hillary’s server cover-up successfully.  FBI Director James Comey decided he could not demonstrate an intent to violate that law, whereas Giuliani claims there is ample evidence to do so.

Whether or not this is true, the WikiLeaks revelations have made one thing clear.  Hillary and her cronies have little regard for legal niceties.  They never ask: What is the right thing to do?  Their question is: What can we get away with?  How might we spin an embarrassment so that it looks constructive?

Hillary’s associates are as amoral as she is.  Like members of organized crime, they do not worry about ethics.  If something is not nailed down, they are happy to spirit it away.  In other words, if they are allowed into the White House, it will be converted into a kleptocracy within minutes.

Let me provide some illustrations about how dishonest these people are.  Their efforts to hide Secretary Clinton’s illegal server are widely known.  But now Comey’s previous catalog of her sins has been expanded such that he is reopening her case.

However let us look as something more mundane.  Even in matters of policy, she says things that are flagrantly dishonest.  These are brought forward, not because she believes them correct, but because she assumes she can convince naïve voters that they are.

Consider Hillary’s plan to make a college education virtually free.  Those college students, the ones who flocked around Bernie Sanders, find this prospect enticing.  They not only presume it will relieve them of debt, but will furnish a credential with which they can obtain a lucrative job.

In fact, Hillary’s gambit would likely backfire.  Even the Chronicle of Higher Education came to this conclusion.  Mind you, the Chronicle is a notoriously left-wing publication.  On more than one occasion, it ejected conservative columnists from its pages.

In any event, the Chronicle concluded two things.  First, if the government provides free tuition for most students, small private colleges are doomed.  They will be unable to compete with the larger public institutions that will consequently close their doors. 

Although these diminutive schools are where American higher education began, they will disappear.  Likewise, although they ensure a diversity of thought that protects our liberties, their voices will be silenced.

Second, the Chronicle argued that free tuition will dumb down the public colleges.  They will become larger and thus less selective.  This means that for additional students are to graduate, the standards must decline.  Given that these schools have already hit new lows, this will be low indeed.

In other words, a college education will cease being a college education.  Once this occurs, the academy will not be able to provide high quality jobs for its under-achieving applicants.  They may think four more years of schooling will increase their earning capacity, but it won’t.

If this is true, it is another Hillary lie.  She may shout promises to cheering throngs; nonetheless these folks are being bamboozled.  They are snookered every bit as effectively as the folks who drank watered-down gin during Prohibition.

Hillary is a con artist.  Her people are white-collar crooks.  None have compunctions about deceiving others.  If we elect her president, we will therefore get what we deserve.  It will be as if we decided to play three card Monty on Times Square.  Ought we be surprised if we are cheated?

A couple of weeks ago Charles Krauthammer enumerated the reasons Clinton should not be elected.  Then he told us he would write-in someone other than Trump.  I believe this is tantamount to a vote for her.  I cannot do that!  Her depravity is too great.  I will cast my ballot for the Donald.

Melvyn L. Fein, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology

Kennesaw State University