EQUAL PROTECTION

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws ..the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

There is another provision in the Constitution that is not part of the Bill of Rights.

This provision deals with Franking Privileges.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS22771.pdf

This is a long and involved PDF but it is worth the read to lend some understanding as to how important the Post Office really was in Colonial Days. After all the Post Office is one of the few divisions of Government that is even mentioned in the Constitution.

Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution provides in part that Congress shall have the power to:

To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;

Just read my PDF link to see how this provision has been construed over the years.

Rostenkowski's political career ended in 1994 after a two year investigation by the Justice Department. In a case led by future U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Rostenkowski was indicted on corruption charges for his role in the House post office scandal. ...

In his commentary titled: "The Rules Kept Changing; Dan Rostenkowski Didn’t",[11] Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Mike Royko, a frequent Rostenkowski critic, wrote “Nobody should be taking pleasure from Rostenkowski’s misfortune. Not unless you have never, ever, broken even a minor law and gotten away with it, fudged a bit on your taxes or violated any of the Ten Commandments.’ “Only a few decades ago, none of this would have been happening. That’s because the rules changed. Most of the things he was nailed for would have been legal and common or, at worst, nickel-dime offenses when he began his career in Congress.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rostenkowski

You see Franking Privileges go back centuries in this country, even before a Constitution was even drafted for this Country. And Franking Privileges are not always easy to define.

So Daniel R went ahead and abused the system. And he was duly prosecuted and lost his elected position as well as all praise for anything he may have accomplished in his position in the House of Representatives.

What bothers me or what perks my interest in all of this involves the prosecutor.

Prosecutors have choices. Prosecutors have limited resources. Prosecutors pick and choose who they shall prosecute and how they shall prosecute.

The specific prosecutor involved in this matter that destroyed a good man's career went by the name of Eric Holder!

I have been calling Darrel Issa a liar and a cheat and a felon for sometime now and the NYT is catching up with all of these allegations.
 

The proximity of the two offices reflects Mr. Issa’s dual careers, a meshing of public and private interests rarely seen in government.

Most wealthy members of Congress push their financial activities to the side, with many even placing them in blind trusts to avoid appearances of conflicts of interest. But Mr. Issa (pronounced EYE-suh), one of Washington’s richest lawmakers, may be alone in the hands-on role he has played in overseeing a remarkable array of outside business interests since his election in 2000.

Even as he has built a reputation as a forceful Congressional advocate for business, Mr. Issa has bought up office buildings, split a holding company into separate multimillion-dollar businesses, started an insurance company, traded hundreds of millions of dollars in securities, invested in overseas funds, retained an interest in his auto-alarm company and built up a family foundation.

As his private wealth and public power have grown, so too has the overlap between his private and business lives, with at least some of the congressman’s government actions helping to make a rich man even richer and raising the potential for conflicts. …

But perhaps his clearest statement on the issue came last year amid Toyota’s recalls of millions of automobiles with dangerous acceleration problems. Then, Mr. Issa brushed aside suggestions that his electronics company’s role as a major supplier of alarms to Toyota made him go easy on the automaker as he led an investigation into the recalls.

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According to his filings, Mr. Issa’s minimum wealth doubled in the last year, and he appears flush with cash: he bought dozens of mutual funds in 2010 worth as much as $80 million, managed by Wall Street powerhouses, without selling off any securities.

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In one 2008 sale, months before the stock market crashed, his family foundation earned $357,000 on an initial investment of less than $19,000 — a return of nearly 1,900 percent in just seven months, the foundation reported to the Internal Revenue Service. It reported acquiring the security, then known as AIM International Small Company Fund, at a cost basis representing a tiny fraction of the market value.

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At a House hearing in 2008 on a much-debated proposal to merge the satellite radio companies Sirius and XM, despite objections on competitive grounds, Mr. Issa praised the “viable combined market” the deal would create as he questioned Sirius’s chief executive and talked of opportunities for expansion.

What Mr. Issa did not mention was that his electronics firm was then in a lucrative partnership with Sirius to distribute its audio products.

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As with Merrill Lynch, Mr. Issa is keenly interested in Goldman’s performance.

A few weeks before opening his inquiry into the Goldman lawsuit, in fact, he bought another large batch of shares in one of the firm’s high-yield mutual funds, records show. By the end of the year, his stake in Goldman’s fund was worth as much as $25 million.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/us/politics/15issa.html?_r=1

Take some time and really read this NYT article. Because history tells us that when the New York Times closes in on some politician; that politician finds himself in some trouble.

Now there is good news here even before any investigations begin.

Darrel Issa has promised that he would initiate 100,000 investigations into the most corrupt Administration in the history of man.

The Republican congressman who is taking over responsibility for congressional oversight called President Obama's administration "one of the most corrupt administrations" on Sunday and predicted that the investigations he is planning over the next two years could result in about $200 billion in savings for U.S. taxpayers. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4680653

And at every single turn some 8 months into his powerful position;

nothing is revealed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5s6zr64LHg

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_127/issa_promised_tough_oversight_isnt-205893-1.html

And why is this?

Because this felon has been too too busy making as much money as fast as possible sponsoring legislation that improves the businesses in his neighborhood; that expand highways in his neighborhood; that directly addresses problems for businesses in his neighborhood and that directly funds businesses in his neighborhood.

And this all means that Issa's particular businesses (businesses directly or indirectly owned by him) seem to benefit from expanded highways, seem to benefit from Federal intervention into his businesses, and his businesses seem to receive direct monies from the Federal Government; all through legislation sponsored by this criminal.

And, to top this all off, this bastard has through his own inside information traded in commodities and bonds and corporate shares to his personal benefit so that now he is worth almost 1 billion dollars.

And who, pray tell, is the Attorney General for the United States of America?

Issa's felonies have nothing to do with obscure analyzes of the U. S. Constitution.

Issa's felonies have little to do with the construction of certain legal mandates bases upon Congressional Mandates for legal performance of duties with regard to Federal Offices.

Issa's felonies are not subject to trite philosophical discussions as to what kind of standard members of Congress must follow.

No.

Darrel Issa's felonies are there for all of us to see.

Plain and simple graft; plain and simple attempts to make money; plain and simple and transparent attempts to milk our government for everything it is worth as an elected official!

ERIC HOLDER, PERFORM THE DUTIES FOR WHICH YOU WERE APPOiNTED TO PERFORM!