Political Corruption 1: Ted Kennedy

[JaJae]

I was thinking of making a website dealing with corrupt politicians. I’m from NJ and it’s running rampant here. Motivez is making a local news site. I was thinking of the same, but realized the vast majority of my stories would evolve around NJ corruption. So I decided why stop at NJ corruption? So I’m gonna talk about political corruption as a whole. Singling out individual people and writing about them. This is my first writing and it’s basically brainstorming and throwing out ideas. Not exactly a finished piece. In fact, it will be written in roughly 15 minutes.

I figured who could I start off with? I would need someone easily able to research and someone prominent in today’s politics. The goal of this site would be to talk about things that people can’t readily find all over the internet. For this reason I decided to start out with Ted Kennedy. It’s no secret I despise the man. Many on this forum have defended him until the end of eternity saying he’s a good politician who gets results. It is true he accomplishes a lot. But is he a corrupt hypocrite? I believe so. In fact, I believe he is one of the most hypocritical and corrupt politicians in today’s government.

I guess I’ll get Chappaquiddick out of the way. You can’t write a piece about Kennedy without throwing this out there. Everyone knows the story, so I won’t get too much into detail. Basically, Ted Kennedy left a party with a younger employee and drove off a bridge. He escaped the car and went back to the party. He attempted to find an alibi. He went back and told a few friends what happened and rather than calling the police they ran back to the scene of the crime. They decided not to attempt a rescue and left her there without ever calling any authorities or rescue workers. She suffocated in an air pocket in the passenger foot well. It is widely believed they could have saved her had they called for help. It was now very late. Kennedy was tired from driving off a bridge and running around back and forth and dealing with the night’s events. So he decided to go back to his hotel. Only problem is he was checked into a hotel on an island and the ferry had stopped running at this point. So he literally swam back across the river and went to bed. Later on he saw on TV that his car was being pulled out of the river. He called the authorities and reported the accident.

He was found guilty for his crimes. Yet the judge only sentenced him to 30 days. And then waved those 30 days and said since he was a Senator it would be better off it Kennedy didn’t serve any time. It is absolutely amazing that Kennedy has remained in office for so long and repeatedly accuses others for their integrity on the Senate floor.

The next issue to deal with is the wind power dispute. This is another commonly known issue of Kennedy. Essentially Kennedy is all for alternative energy, except when it’s in his back yard. A proposal was set to use wind power roughly six miles from his house. Kennedy adamantly opposed it. A lot of people think the turbines would be placed in his view and it was an aesthetic complaint Ted Kennedy had. This is not true. He would not have been able to see them from his house. Instead is seems other options were more probable. Robert Kennedy Jr. complained vehemently that the turbines would be built in their families favorite sailing and yachting area. Kennedy called for further studies to be done while privately trying to get the plan cancelled. The Army Corps of Engineers released a 3800 page study that took into account every environmental and economic aspect of the turbines. The final result was that the project would have extremely minimal environmental and wildlife conflicts with compelling economic benefits for the area. Kennedy then went on a rampage calling for greater federal regulation of wind farms and partnered up with Republicans such as John Warner (R-VA) to get the project and more strict wind farm laws passed. Mary Jo Kopechne was not available for comment.

Now the deep dark secret to Kennedy. OIL. That’s right, Ted Kennedy and the Kennedy’s have profited in the tens of millions through the oil industry. Kennedy tries to keep this information secret and liberals writing about American oil companies regularly ignore the fact that he owns two oil companies. This comes as a shock since Kennedy is constantly trying to impose taxes on oil companies and attacks their integrity on their means of making money. In fact hasn’t he proposed bills to increase taxes on the oil companies? Yes. But if you actually read the bill he sets clear and distinct standards for smaller companies and larger companies. Guess where he drew the line? That’s right, just above his company so that he could continue to make millions off oil without seeing any hits from his increased tax bill. Now the Kennedy’s including Ted Kennedy have a history setting up trust funds in Fiji and all kinds of crazy means to prevent themselves from paying taxes. I’d have to spend years of my life going over all their tax fraud. But something of note here that might give some a chuckle. In order to prevent paying taxes on their oil business they eventually came up with the brilliant idea to convert the company’s holdings into a “royalty trust.” Why change from corporate status to a royalty trust? Simple… corporations are forced to pay things like corporation taxes. So by changing the name, he essentially saved himself in taxes. They pay no income or corporate taxes, just a flat 15% on capital gains which is far less other oil companies.

Some people are probably wondering I’m talking about with the Fiji above. That’s a simple enough story. When Joe Kennedy died he was worth roughly $500 million. Rather than pay the inheritance taxes that Ted Kennedy wanted to increase, they each set up a trust fund in Fiji so that it would be untouchable. All they had to pay was $134k in estate taxes. That’s basically .025 percent to inherit their fortunes. Pretty good deal huh? But wait, isn’t this senator who is the champion of attacking businesses and the rich from avoiding taxes? It’s he the leader and champion of take from the rich, give to the poor?

Anti-gun laws. Ok I don’t have too much. But basically Kennedy is for banning just about every type of firearm in the nation. However, his personal bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unregistered weapon… wait, weapons. It wasn’t a simple pistol and backup in his ankle. He was arrested for carrying two submachine guns with 150 rounds of ammunition. When asked why he was carrying them, he said the Senator wanted him to.

I could really go on and on about his corruption and hypocrisy, but there are other fish to fry. I hope people learned something about their Senator from Massachusetts. If you're interested in learning more, look into the no-bid Fourth and D street buyout where he and his family refused to uphold the minority clause from the land purchase that required him to lease to a certain percentage of minorities (essentially a built in affirmative action clause on the buyout).

Also feel free to check out my thread on his alliance with the KGB to overturn the US administration.
Ted Kennedy caught in another scandal!

[Diamond Cross]

None of this matters. In partisan politics, people are willing to forgive their own party members while chiding the other party members to no end on the exact same issue. For example, the race card. Arnold Schwartzenegger was called a Nazi just because of his father being a real member of the Nazi Party. But they don't get on to Hillary when she calls Jews Kikes. In fact, it's so bad now that they are willing to forget the worse crimes committed by their members, such as the girl Ted
Kennedy girl, rather than forgive the other party members for the exact same thing.

Just one reason why I hate partisan poltics.

[DosEquis]

At least you will have plenty of material

[JaJae]

Originally Posted by DosEquis

At least you will have plenty of material

I agree up next on the hit squad is probably John Boehner.

[nbiggershaft]

Originally Posted by JaJae

I was thinking of making a website dealing with corrupt politicians. I’m from NJ and it’s running rampant here. Motivez is making a local news site. I was thinking of the same, but realized the vast majority of my stories would evolve around NJ corruption. So I decided why stop at NJ corruption? So I’m gonna talk about political corruption as a whole. Singling out individual people and writing about them. This is my first writing and it’s basically brainstorming and throwing out ideas. Not exactly a finished piece. In fact, it will be written in roughly 15 minutes.

I figured who could I start off with? I would need someone easily able to research and someone prominent in today’s politics. The goal of this site would be to talk about things that people can’t readily find all over the internet. For this reason I decided to start out with Ted Kennedy. It’s no secret I despise the man. Many on this forum have defended him until the end of eternity saying he’s a good politician who gets results. It is true he accomplishes a lot. But is he a corrupt hypocrite? I believe so. In fact, I believe he is one of the most hypocritical and corrupt politicians in today’s government.

I guess I’ll get Chappaquiddick out of the way. You can’t write a piece about Kennedy without throwing this out there. Everyone knows the story, so I won’t get too much into detail. Basically, Ted Kennedy left a party with a younger employee and drove off a bridge. He escaped the car and went back to the party. He attempted to find an alibi. He went back and told a few friends what happened and rather than calling the police they ran back to the scene of the crime. They decided not to attempt a rescue and left her there without ever calling any authorities or rescue workers. She suffocated in an air pocket in the passenger foot well. It is widely believed they could have saved her had they called for help. It was now very late. Kennedy was tired from driving off a bridge and running around back and forth and dealing with the night’s events. So he decided to go back to his hotel. Only problem is he was checked into a hotel on an island and the ferry had stopped running at this point. So he literally swam back across the river and went to bed. Later on he saw on TV that his car was being pulled out of the river. He called the authorities and reported the accident.

He was found guilty for his crimes. Yet the judge only sentenced him to 30 days. And then waved those 30 days and said since he was a Senator it would be better off it Kennedy didn’t serve any time. It is absolutely amazing that Kennedy has remained in office for so long and repeatedly accuses others for their integrity on the Senate floor.

The next issue to deal with is the wind power dispute. This is another commonly known issue of Kennedy. Essentially Kennedy is all for alternative energy, except when it’s in his back yard. A proposal was set to use wind power roughly six miles from his house. Kennedy adamantly opposed it. A lot of people think the turbines would be placed in his view and it was an aesthetic complaint Ted Kennedy had. This is not true. He would not have been able to see them from his house. Instead is seems other options were more probable. Robert Kennedy Jr. complained vehemently that the turbines would be built in their families favorite sailing and yachting area. Kennedy called for further studies to be done while privately trying to get the plan cancelled. The Army Corps of Engineers released a 3800 page study that took into account every environmental and economic aspect of the turbines. The final result was that the project would have extremely minimal environmental and wildlife conflicts with compelling economic benefits for the area. Kennedy then went on a rampage calling for greater federal regulation of wind farms and partnered up with Republicans such as John Warner (R-VA) to get the project and more strict wind farm laws passed. Mary Jo Kopechne was not available for comment.

Now the deep dark secret to Kennedy. OIL. That’s right, Ted Kennedy and the Kennedy’s have profited in the tens of millions through the oil industry. Kennedy tries to keep this information secret and liberals writing about American oil companies regularly ignore the fact that he owns two oil companies. This comes as a shock since Kennedy is constantly trying to impose taxes on oil companies and attacks their integrity on their means of making money. In fact hasn’t he proposed bills to increase taxes on the oil companies? Yes. But if you actually read the bill he sets clear and distinct standards for smaller companies and larger companies. Guess where he drew the line? That’s right, just above his company so that he could continue to make millions off oil without seeing any hits from his increased tax bill. Now the Kennedy’s including Ted Kennedy have a history setting up trust funds in Fiji and all kinds of crazy means to prevent themselves from paying taxes. I’d have to spend years of my life going over all their tax fraud. But something of note here that might give some a chuckle. In order to prevent paying taxes on their oil business they eventually came up with the brilliant idea to convert the company’s holdings into a “royalty trust.” Why change from corporate status to a royalty trust? Simple… corporations are forced to pay things like corporation taxes. So by changing the name, he essentially saved himself in taxes. They pay no income or corporate taxes, just a flat 15% on capital gains which is far less other oil companies.

Some people are probably wondering I’m talking about with the Fiji above. That’s a simple enough story. When Joe Kennedy died he was worth roughly $500 million. Rather than pay the inheritance taxes that Ted Kennedy wanted to increase, they each set up a trust fund in Fiji so that it would be untouchable. All they had to pay was $134k in estate taxes. That’s basically .025 percent to inherit their fortunes. Pretty good deal huh? But wait, isn’t this senator who is the champion of attacking businesses and the rich from avoiding taxes? It’s he the leader and champion of take from the rich, give to the poor?

Anti-gun laws. Ok I don’t have too much. But basically Kennedy is for banning just about every type of firearm in the nation. However, his personal bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unregistered weapon… wait, weapons. It wasn’t a simple pistol and backup in his ankle. He was arrested for carrying two submachine guns with 150 rounds of ammunition. When asked why he was carrying them, he said the Senator wanted him to.

I could really go on and on about his corruption and hypocrisy, but there are other fish to fry. I hope people learned something about their Senator from Massachusetts. If you're interested in learning more, look into the no-bid Fourth and D street buyout where he and his family refused to uphold the minority clause from the land purchase that required him to lease to a certain percentage of minorities (essentially a built in affirmative action clause on the buyout).

I figured you were going to write about political trading for earmarks, bullying, bribing ect. Most of what you described above I couldn't care less about. Oil think maybe. There are certainly more corrupt democratic members of congress.

[JaJae]

Originally Posted by nbiggershaft

I figured you were going to write about political trading for earmarks, bullying, bribing ect. Most of what you described above I couldn't care less about. Oil think maybe. There are certainly more corrupt democratic members of congress.

None with his amount of power and incredible hypocrisy that come to mind so quickly and readily.

[nbiggershaft]

Originally Posted by JaJae

None with his amount of power and incredible hypocrisy that come to mind so quickly and readily.

Neither his killing a girl nor his not wanting windmills near his house effects the country in any significant way. Congressmen with much less hypocrisy and skeletons can do alot more harm by just acting in ways that financially benefit their constituents.

[JaJae]

Originally Posted by nbiggershaft

Neither his killing a girl nor his not wanting windmills near his house effects the country in any significant way. Congressmen with much less hypocrisy and skeletons can do alot more harm by just acting in ways that financially benefit their constituents.

Our politicians are role models and should be help to a high standard. People who kill girls and try to cover it up, lie about what they stand for and cheat on their taxes are not good congressmen.

Killing a girl is huge. Not many other Senators can say they got away with killing someone. Not many politicians can say they're hypocrites on all the key issues they stand for: taxing the rich, milking the oil companies, affirmative action, environment, gun control, etc. Kennedy is all for taxing the rich, taxing the dead, taxing the oil, taxing this taxing that, but in every instance he does all he can to avoid the very taxes he says we have a moral duty to impose.

Kennedy is a fake and an embarrassment to our country and political system.

[Diamond Cross]

B ut yet he still resides in office.

Why?

If people truly cared, they'd get rid of him.

[nbiggershaft]

Originally Posted by JaJae

Our politicians are role models and should be help to a high standard.

him doing his job> him being a good person

[avsp]

He didnt exactly 'kill' anyone tho' did he?

Not that his actions werent highly questionable.

[KatKanPlay]

I like this idea, but havent we discussed the evil Ted Kennedy enough?