PROSECUTORS MAKE ENEMIES

What could the Hon Eliot Spitzer have been thinking. Did he let himself become as vulnerable as Bill Clinton had by trusting that if you think you say you are a good guy, everyone will believe it? One could make all sorts of psychological speculations. He's in his late 40s. Is it male menopause? Did success go to his head? Was his meteoric rise too much for him to maintain? Did his wife freeze him out? Did Daddy spoil him too much? Was this a substitution for childhood temper tantrums? I'm sure I'll never know though, it is wonderfully amusing to listen to the 'talking heads' enjoy their feeding frenzy with something other to talk about than Clinton/Obama .

There are those who are suspicious of the government. Jane Hamsher has written:

"All kinds of questions arise here:

1. Why would the bank tell the IRS and not Spitzer himself if there was a suspicious transfer? Spitzer is a longtime client, a rich guy and the governor. We're talking thousands of dollars here, not millions. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense that they spotted a "suspicious transfer" made by the governor, and that this is how things began. It's possible it was just ordinary paperwork the bank had to file with the government whenever some particular flag was raised, but if that's the case, why did the DoJ go to DefCon 3?

2. What is a USA doing prosecuting a prostitution case? This isn't normally what the feds spend their time with.

3. Mike Garcia is a Chertoff crony. Sources familiar with the investigation say that he sent a prosecution memo to DC two months ago asking for authority to indict a public figure (Spitzer). Which means they had their case made long before the wire tap of February 13. Why did they then include this line from that conversation in the complaint?"

Read the whole article for more detail. There are as many opinions as people asked, apparently. If one could trust the media, the truth might be known, but that seems highly unlikely, at this point, to happen soon.

The NY Times' Nicholas Kristof writes on Prostitution and the Law and asks the interesting question: Is it worse to pay for sex than to have an affair? Should prostitution be illegal. In Sweden the most success is from arresting the men who seek the prostitutes but the law leaves the women alone.

Meanwhile, all eyes turn away from our servicemen and women being killed in Iraq. The war is perceived by the media as a 'ho hum', apparently, these days. Why not? Sex is more fun than war; and war on sex gives it all!