"Pick-Pockets!"

When I was a young teen I worked for "Riverview Park" in Chicago, it was the premier amusement park in the mid-west. The season for the park ran from Memorial Day through Labor Day , six days a week with Mondays off. The park featured rides like the "Bobs , Silver Flash , Fireball , and Wild Mouse" , I won't list them all it would take up the whole column. I'll bet during the course of the summer eighty percent of Chicago and the suburbs populous attended the park. Along with the rides there were attractions like the "Freak Show", penny arcades , shooting galleries, and games of skill .As I can now attest most of the skill games were rigged so one could never win the big prizes. When the park closed at season's end many of the "side-show" people would travel with the carnival circuit from one small town to another. As a side job many of these people "worked" as pick-pockets while the unsuspecting public were roaming about the carnival looking around rather then protecting their wallets. One can hardly blame the town-folks as they watched the rides and their children run around , who would pay attention to the occasional "bump" of a stranger in the crowd. The carnival was a perfect distraction. Eric Holder , our attorney general , wishes to try the 911 conspirators on trial in New York City the scene of the attacks. If this takes place in New York it will turn into a "circus" the press will have a field day , the security costs will be astronomical ; it will make The O.J. and Michael Jackson trials look like parking violations. It will be 24-7 coverage,what a side-show.Oh by the way we also have a trillion dollar health-care debacle that the congress wants to pass going on at the same time.I don't want to seem jaded , but wouldn't a distraction like this trial be a great dodge to mask and push through a bill that the voting public has already voiced reservations about it's validity. As the public would be consumed by the spotlight that glares upon the spectacle of the "Trial Of The Century"the administration could possibly sneak the bill through congress and up to Obama's desk for approval. We should be very careful about what is going on behind our backs and not be distracted by the "bump" of this trial. The American tax-payer doesn't need his pocket picked by the Obama health-care program. Don't let these pick-pockets fleece the people of the United States of America . We will be losing more then a few bills and a couple of credit cards , it will be over a trillion dollars . America don't be distracted!!