Posted on 12/17/2006 4:35:47 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
Anyone who couldn't see this coming must have been just smart enough to campaign for open borders.
Just the tip of the iceberg folks.
Pathetic and disgusting and so ........ Mexican. Thank you George Bush!!
BTW there are thousands of immigration laws George Bush could enforce right now. But refuses too
Charming.
SNORT.
Snort, indeed. That sleazy defense attorney has got an excuse for anything his clients may do.
As the Valley grows and receives larger shares of state and federal funding, more and more locals get involved in government and some don't know the law, Alvarez said.
"People here don't have the experience in management ... mistakes are made, and some are criminal," Alvarez said.
The story itself is troubling, but did you notice the story is written in simple "one-sentence" paragraphs" .....
Shows the level of reading most people in the valley are now getting - if they speak English at all.
If we're talking the South (of the US) the bribe culture has always been pretty active down here. I'd say it really only began to change about 30 years ago, with the professionalization of various police and judicial agencies. Of course, it just moved up the line, to people like the esteemed Jefferson, he of the big bucks in the freezer...
Recruiters Caught in Drug Probe
Sigh.
I guess the "bribe culture" is also seeping into Arizona.
From your link:
So far, 69 members of the military, prison guards, law enforcement employees and other public employees have been convicted of accepting bribes to help smuggle cocaine.
Seeps? What amateurs. [Chicago native]
The bribe culture has been in Texas forever. I'm familiar with San Antonio's culture.
There are political street operatives who round up Mexican-American votes for cash. The traditional payment for a vote went from $1.00 in the 1930s-40s to $5.00 by the mid 80s. Don't live there anymore so don't have the market price.
Several city councilmen were recently convicted for being among a long line of politicians in Bexar county who took cash for votes.
Some judges were for sale. I had a young friend who had a drug bust for an ounce of speed--a serious felony offense and he was looking at 10-20 years. I took him to a Dem poltician/lawyer. He came out shaking his head, "I don't understand it," he said. "He told me that if I paid him $1500 this week (while judge so and so was presiding judge), he'd guarantee me immediate Deferred Adjudication, but if I couldn't pay it until next week, it'd only be $500 down, but he couldn't guarantee anything and I might go to jail." I laughed and explained what the lawyer was telling him. Do you smell a $1,000 rat?
Another judge was famous in attorney circles for ruling in favor of attractive ladies in contested divorces over money if they visited him privately in his chambers for sex. The lawyers arranged the trysts.
The corruption went so far that one night as I was standing next to a county judge at a noisy crowded singles bar, I heard him tell a man who claimed to be newly arrived in town who to call to score some cocaine.
Many City and county employees have routinely accepted bribes for various services they do for people.
Viva Mordida! It keeps the wheels of government and justice moving.
Europe has a HUGE problem with corruption and not just in the easter ends of the EU. Socialist salaries are a nightmarish low, cash bribes are the only way to make the ends meet.
And in europe, those are the good jobs.
Thank the Lord that LBJ left the planet before the news of these Texas Scandals hit the news. Imagine that. Corruption in Texas! Just so hard to believe.
What's next? Vote fraud in the Mexican illegal alien community?
It's a little like the Soviet Union. You have socializm where nobody makes any money, so the only way to make ends meet is under the table.
They demand it.
Texas HAs A Whorehouse In IT!!!!!
Bookmarked as another side effect of illegal immigration that people are turning a blind eye to.
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