The USOC added:
"The behavior of these athletes is not acceptable, nor does it represent the values of Team USA or the conduct of the vast majority of its members."Our first epiphany that America was in trouble on the issue of lying about matters large and small came in 2006. It was a seemingly small matter. We were browsing in a plant nursery in the Northeast and noticed that several dozen containers of Purple Fountain Grass were sitting in the perennial plant section instead of with other annuals where they belonged. We walked over to the young nursery manager and mentioned the mistake. His spontaneous quip has been seared on our brains every since. He said: "If the President can lie, so can I."
That was during the presidency of George W. Bush, where he took the nation to war with Iraq on the basis that it had "weapons of mass destruction," which it did not.
Today, the United States faces a Presidential election in less than three months where the two major party candidates for the highest office in the land have repeatedly lied to the American people about critical issues. They know they have lied, the American people know they have lied, and yet they are not disqualified from the most critical post in the world: Commander in Chief of a nation with 7,000 nuclear warheads. Important, powerful people can now lie with impunity in the United States of America - and that arrogance is trickling down to the next generation.
When President Obama ran for his first term in office in 2008, he attempted to stand apart from his opponent, Hillary Clinton, by repeatedly stating that he wasn't taking money from registered lobbyists. It was a monster lie. On January 22, 2008, the President stated in Greenville, South Carolina: "Washington lobbyists haven't funded my campaign, they won't run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of working Americans when I am president."
We wrote the following at the time:
"The Center for Responsive Politics website allows one to pull up the filings made by lobbyists, registering under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 with the clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and secretary of the U.S. Senate. These top five contributors to the Obama campaign have filed as registered lobbyists: Sidley Austin LLP; Skadden, Arps, et al; Jenner & Block; Kirkland & Ellis; Wilmerhale, aka Wilmer Cutler Pickering.Read the rest here.
"Is it possible that Senator Obama does not know that corporate law firms are also frequently registered lobbyists? Or is he making a distinction that because these funds are coming from the employees of these firms, he's not really taking money directly from registered lobbyists? That thesis seems disingenuous when many of these individual donors own these law firms as equity partners or shareholders and share in the profits generated from lobbying.
"Far from keeping his distance from lobbyists, Senator Obama and his campaign seem to be brainstorming with them.
"The political publication, The Hill, reported on December 20, 2007, that three salaried aides on the Obama campaign were registered lobbyists for dozens of corporations. (The Obama campaign said they had stopped lobbying since joining the campaign.) Bob Bauer, counsel to the Obama campaign, is an attorney with Perkins Coie. That law firm is also a registered lobbyist."
There is no moral compass in the USA, INC.. It is a secular society by law, and most religious basis for ethics is nonexistent. Couple that with the intent by TPTB to either implant Jewish dogma, or Satanism through their media, and we are a nation adrift.. without a rudder, with diminishing power, and in treacherous waters.
There is little to be optimistic about the outcome. It was helpful for me to finally discover that Christianity is a more evolved, more enlightened, philosophy then had existed previously. Where the USA once preached as a nation that practiced Christian values of tolerance, mercy, self-limiting behavior, in pursuit of peace, today it practices the "Wolfowitz doctrine" of "do unto others and you fear that they might do unto you, only do it first".... regarding first strike capabilities among nations.
And the citizens of the USA,INC., as exhibited by the Olympic swimmers, do not appear to have the requisite moral judgement to even be considered real Americans. They have disqualified themselves from representing the "best" of America, and should have their citizenship suspended for 5 years... to get past the next Olympic.
America exists in the Declaration of Independence and in the most basic Christian teachings. We have been led backwards to a primitive time and perpetual conflict based upon deception and ill will.... a world of endless wars and suffering much as it was when Christ first appeared to teach better way. He was right.