Corruption and Consequences

This morning on the radio a corrupt sheriff in New Mexico, who was selling departmental goods, including body armor, on eBay was the topic. This sheriff, who was on his way out anyway by way of the election of someone else, has admitted what he did and resigned. He is not in jail yet and whoever is in charge of that sort of thing is working on a case that may possibly lead to criminal charges.

Read that last part of the sentence, possibly. That is pathetic and it is illustrative of our government today that this person is not behind bars at this moment. His excuse was personal financial hardships and some hold the opinion that he should be a sympathetic character because he was in dire financial straits and because the items he sold had little value or were to be destroyed.

Nonsense. First, it is not acceptable that a public servant steals and profits from stolen items because they cannot manage their personal finances. No one else can get away with stealing because they have financial hardship. Since when are public servants above the law?

The next assertion is the worse of them, excusing this thief because some of the items that were stolen were of little value or were meant to be disposed of. That does not matter in any sense. If this sheriff had stolen and re-sold a pencil he would still be stealing and should be sent to prison.

A sheriff is supposed to lead law enforcement and it is in part an indictment of the public who elected this person twice to a position of such stature. From the news, it seems as though it was not much a surprise that this sheriff behaved in such a way. He is nothing more than another democrat crook that deserves to rot in a jail cell.