Months ago Sandack told me not to
send him e-mails anymore because I referred to some legislators as liars and
thieves. I wrote him back and asked: what should I call people who disregard
truth and steal what other people have earned? He did not respond.
Ronald
Sandack and others like him chose not to honor
their oath of office in December, 2013 when they voted “Yes” to break a
constitutional contract (SB 1) with public employees. Breaking a promise is a theft
of “trust.”
“Maybe we'll get a voice this
time,” Sandack said. “It's simple: the tax increase is a bad idea. It's a renege of a promise that it
would be temporary, and I'm glad at least 30 Democrats saw that for what it
is.”
In the book, The 48 Laws of
power by Robert Greene, there is an appropriate allusion to describe the many
politicians in the Illinois House and Senate. It’s called “The Liar”:
“Once upon a time there was a king of Armenia who, being
of a curious turn of mind and in need of some new diversion, sent his heralds
throughout the land to make the following proclamation: ‘Hear this! Whatever
man [or woman] among you can prove him [or her] self the most outrageous liar
in Armenia shall receive an apple made of pure gold from the hands of His
Majesty the King!’
“People began to swarm to the palace from every town and
hamlet in the country, people of all ranks and conditions, princes, merchants,
farmers, priests, rich and poor, tall and short, fat and thin. There was no
lack of liars in the land, and each one told his tale to the king. A ruler, however,
has heard practically every sort of lie and none of those now told him
convinced the kind that he had listened to the best of them.
“The king was beginning to grow tired of his new sport
and was thinking of calling the whole contest off without declaring a winner,
when there appeared before him a poor, ragged man, carrying a large earthenware
pitcher under his arm.
“‘What can I do for you?’ asked His Majesty.
“‘Sire!’ said the poor man, slightly bewildered. ‘Surely you remember? You owe me a pot of gold, and I have come to collect it.’
“‘You are a perfect liar, sir!’ exclaimed the king. ‘I owe you no money!’
“‘Then give me the golden apple!’
“The king, realizing that the man was trying to trick him, started to hedge. ‘No,
no! You are not a liar!’
‘Then give me the pot of gold you owe me, sire,’ said the man.
“The king saw the dilemma. He handed over the golden
apple.”
(Armenian Folk-Tales and Fables, retold by Charles
Downing, 1993)
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