Why JE must be discredited at all costs.

[JDPriestly]

20. When the Edwards scandal first broke, I felt like you now feel

but since that time I have seen the corporate control of our "democracy" grow to outrageous proportions. It has gotten to the point that the corporations have choked even the illusion of "democracy" out of our country. The Occupy movement was just the beginning of the reaction to that fact.

John Edwards dared to point out the truth -- about corporations, about the closing of factories, about the economic injustice in our country. He was the only candidate; he is one of very few politicians to speak out on those issues. Whether he meant what he said, we cannot now determine because he was not put to the test. He was not elected.

I suspect you could find campaign finance violations and personal, moral and financial (especially financial) indiscretions and scandals in the lives of many of our prominent leaders including a number of politicians.

The corporate scandal-mongers, the corporate-owned news media and the political parties distract us with sex scandals and other titillating gossip to distract us from the real issues -- which include economic injustice.

John Edwards spoke to these real issues. I hope we will hear his voice again. I'd rather a flawed but courageous man (and I will agree Edwards has serious personal issues) speak truth to power than see cowardly men compromise with cynical, inhuman corporations that place their profits over the interests of my grandchildren and the rest of mankind.

When I was quite young, I became fascinated by the Book of Job in the Bible. John Edwards' story reminds me very much of the story of Job. The similarities between the myth of Job and the life of John Edwards are quite incredible. I hope that we will continue to hear from John Edwards. I'm sure the experiences he has had including this trial have awakened him even more to the need to speak out on economic and social injustice.