guilt and innocence this week

what a delightful turn of events. that a wonderful reporter with the AP, Tom LoBianco, dug beneath the hyped up press releases of the educational deform movement, and exposed a weasel named Tony Bennett (my state's former superintendent of public schools) as the cheating, lying, son of a bitch that he is!

and what an interesting turn of events that these discoveries caused the lying, cheating, son of a bitch, weasel to do two things: 1. deny and lie to defend himself and 2. resign from his current position as chief of Florida's public schools.

i'm sorry, but when you're innocent, you don't just give up and resign. you stand up and you defend your innocence, knowing that when the full truth comes out, you will be vindicated. at least you try.

and my best guess is this, that he didn't actually want to resign. the guy is THAT arrogant, that he, himself, would believe that he could weather this and in a few weeks, proceed with evil business, as per usual. however, my true guess is that the powers that be, told him to resign hoping that they could minimize the damage to their heavily-invested interests in the "reform" efforts. you just can't throw away billions of dollars of profit because your little lapdog was stupid enough to leave behind an email trace of his guilt.

what a guilty bunch of bums. although i'm sure they are under the table taking good care of their little scapegoat. i've no doubt of that. and i'm sure their continued care plan trumped his arrogance. anyway what a bunch of horribly guilty awful people. the lot of them.

and then there is ariel castro. and i gotta say this. the man, crazy or no, needs to be behind bars. his crimes, were horrific. and he's guilty. but i'll also give him this: while tony bennett stood there arrogantly denying his crimes, castro really couldn't deny his guilt. and he didn't. but it's interesting that he evoked a defense of himself saying "i'm sick."

and you know, here's the thing. the fact is- he IS sick. he's not wrong in citing that as a defense for himself. he and any other abuser of children or adults are as sick as they come. they are needing to be put away forever kind of sick.

i mean, as if to prove how really very sick he was, castro then goes on to ask for our sympathy not just because of his illness, but because of his now being an "empty-nester." really, that's a very seriously ill person who doesn't have a clue as to how that sounds to his fellow human beings.

so here's where i'm perhaps askew with the rest of the world. as horrific as i find ariel castro's crimes (much more horrific than tony bennett's)- i find castro, the more human of the two. he's a very very sick man. yes. bennett, he's just a lying, cheating, arrogant pig.