Governor Eliot Spitzer's Sex Scandal Exemplifies What Happens To Those With Power - Page 3
Four minutes later, Client 9 was in the hotel, Lewis told Kristen in another call...No more calls were logged until 12:02 a.m. — Valentine's Day — nearly 2½ hours later. At that time, Kristen told Lewis that Client 9 had left and she had collected $4,300.
Lewis told the prostitute she'd been told that Client 9 "would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think are safe — you know — I mean that ... very basic things," the affidavit says.
Kristen told Lewis, "I have a way of dealing with that. ... I'd be like, listen dude, you really want the sex?"
"I don't think he's difficult," Kristen is quoted as saying. "I mean it's just kind of like ... whatever ... I'm here for a purpose. I know what my purpose is. I am not a ... moron, you know what I mean."
Spitzer, who built his career on rooting out public corruption as New York attorney general, became a national figure with a series of high-profile Wall Street investigations. He also prosecuted prostitution rings.
Really, this whole scenario requires no commentary, as it speaks for itself. Spitzer, an elected official who's built his career on fighting crime and those who subvert justice, made a conscious decision to hire a prostitute, violate several federal laws, ON VALENTINE'S DAY no less, and sully his reputation and break the heart of his family.
No one is perfect, we all make mistakes, but these were the kinds of mistakes Spitzer took an oath to prosecute, not commit. It is the height of hypocrisy. Just like when you read about religious leaders preaching tolerance, ethics and kindness, but instead commit heinous acts of moral turpitude. This type of violation coming from the very people we look to for setting the standard we should all hope to live by — well — it just stings all the more.
Is there ANYONE with power who isn't corrupt? It just proves the statement by Lord John Acton is true, we can't trust ANYONE with too much money, too much power, too much fame or "absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Every. Single. Time.
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