My friend went on a tirade today about

whether everyone has a price.

He said price is not necessarily financial.

Would every judge resist temptation?

That was the puzzle he posed.

He reckoned that we are all moral human beings

and that the idea that some judges will fall is

abhorrant to him.

On the other hand, he reasoned that perhaps

his view is naive.

He referenced J. Edgar Hoover and how powerful

he was, basically because of the amount of knowledge

he had on other people.  He was way more powerful

than anyone else in the world because he had so

much power over so many people.  Nobody could

touch him, just becase he has so much info on

people and could turn any situation into the outcome

he diesired.

A good person would find that reprehensible, and yet that

is the history we have in our country.  A person with

semi-decent character would find this troublesome,

but I guess for all of us that is the history of our country

and we have to accept it.

From my perspective I guess what we need specifically

to make the country good is to teach our children

to make these critical moral distinctions. Think

about this.

How many situations do we know where people

have been placed in gray situations and were

unable to make the correct decision.  Largely,

I would assert, because they lacked the moral

development they required, when they were

younger.  They had not faced the issues.

In reality this is what I recommend.  Teach your

children well like the song goes.  They are our future.