Catching Criminals, Making Criminals

THE LATEST VICTIM OF the great American fun house culture is a previously respectable conservative republican Congressperson who bought enough cocaine from an undercover police officer to have a very good time at a very wild party. The Congressperson immediately confessed to alcoholism leading to further bad decision making, entered a rehab program, and got off with only six months probation. End of controversy, end of scandal, end of story. Smart move. No word yet on whether the fall out from this will cost him his seat in Congress. A fallen man, from lofty respectable conservative status to disgraced druggie. How we Americans love our public drama! However, by striking first, he is trying very hard, obviously, to hold on to his political power. Rest assured you'll hear more about it, as his political opponents try to run him out of Congress. Ironic, his cocaine use, since he voted to administer drug tests to all recipients of federal aid. It makes you wonder how many members of congress (of the 545 members) use drugs. You can rest assured that a good many of them have tried illegal, but very fun recreational durgs, and that a good many still use them, on a fairly regular basis. If a detective poses as a hot 14 year old girl and goes online to where people go looking for sex, chances are, some pre-existing pedaphiles will be caught, some will be manufactured on the spot. If someone starts dealing drugs, chances are, some drug users will become customers, and some people will become drug users. Lay some money down in public and leave it there, over and over again, a new criminal will be born every minute.The ugly truth is, and we all know it; you could have an undercover cop approach anyone in the United States, and offer something that would turn the person into a law breaker. We sure know how to catch criminals in America. We know how to make criminals too. The question is; can we catch them as fast as we make them?