Fiddling While Boston Burns — President Signed S. 716 While We Were Distracted

S. 716 was pushed through the Senate by Harry Reid, approved by the House and signed by the President on April 15th, 2013, as America was distracted by the Boston Marathon bombing. All over the span of two working days.

And the media gave Harry Reid, the president and the rest of the Congress another pass as our attention was diverted.

Read the bill to find out what's in it after it was passed and is now a law:

S.716 — To modify the requirements under the STOCK Act regarding online access to certain financial disclosure statements and related forms. (Considered and Passed Senate – CPS)

 
S 716 CPS

113th CONGRESS  1st Session  S. 716 To modify the requirements under the STOCK Act regarding online access to certain financial disclosure statements and related forms.


IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES  April 11, 2013 Mr. REID introduced the following bill; which was read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed

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Statement by the Press Secretary on S. 716

On Monday, April 15, 2013, the President signed into law:

S. 716, which eliminates the requirement in the STOCK Act to make available on official websites the financial disclosure forms of employees of the executive and legislative branches other than the President, the Vice President, Members of and candidates for Congress, and several specified Presidentially nominated and Senate-confirmed officers; and delays until January 1, 2014, the date by which systems must be developed that enable public access to financial disclosure forms of covered individuals.

Consider the absolute hypocrisy of Senator Harry Reid. He pushes forth a bill eliminating the required financial disclosure forms, yet here he is during the 2012 election, calling for transparency regarding Mitt Romney's tax returns:

Also, regarding President Obama's propensity for failed promises and hypocrisy, here is a flashback: on January 21, 2009 the president promised, "Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency."

It is clear that our federal government is above the law — their law. They write the laws for the rest of us, which they are exempt from. People cannot be free in a country with a two-tiered justice system; with no checks and balances, no deterrents or accountability.

It is times like these when you truly have to ask yourself:

"Who benefits?"

In ancient Greece, the Senate would ask among themselves, "Cui bono" ("to whose benefit?", literally "as a benefit to whom?"), also rendered as cui prodest, a Latin adage that is used either to suggest a hidden motive or to indicate that the party responsible for something may not be who it appears at first to be.

Commonly the phrase is used to suggest that the person or people guilty of committing a crime may be found among those who have something to gain, chiefly with an eye toward financial gain. The party that benefits may not always be obvious or may have successfully diverted attention to a scapegoat, for example.

The Roman orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero, in his speech Pro Roscio Amerino, section 84, attributed the expression cui bono to the Roman consul and censor Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla:

L. Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset.

"The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?'"

Nero fiddled while Rome burned, then built upon its ashes the glorious Domus Aurea to honor himself.

Adolf Hitler fire-bombed his own Reichstag parliament building one week before general elections in 1933, then blamed it on his political enemies as a pretext to go to war with them.

The US government falsely accused Spain in 1898 of blowing up the USS Maine, in order to generate support from the American people for the Spanish-American War, sparking the famous slogan, "Remember the Maine - to hell with Spain."

Over 1,100 pages of de-classified Vietnam-era transcripts revealed that senators knew the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a staged act of false flag terror promulgated to enter the war in Vietnam.

In 1962, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously proposed state-sponsored acts of terrorism on American soil, AGAINST American citizens, called Operation Northwoods. The head of every branch of the US armed forces gave written approval to sink US Navy ships, shoot down hijacked American planes, and gun-down and bomb civilians on the streets of Washington, D.C. and Miami as a pretext to invade Cuba.

Who benefits? When you answer this question, you have your culprit.


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