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Titolo: Ethics Case for Weiner? Maybe One of Psychiatry( e non solo lui...)

About New York
Ethics Case for Weiner? Maybe One of Psychiatry
By JIM DWYER
Published: June 7, 2011
Those elders must be hoping to heaven that Mr. Weiner departs before
the machinery of investigation is gassed up and rumbles toward the
Internet Protocol addresses where he composed his epistles.
By some schools of thought, if he wrote these personal messages on
government equipment, this could be seen as unethical behavior.
Still, ethics hardly seems the right discipline for this affair.
Psychiatry might help.
Any reckoning of the craziness of his behavior must take account of
his role among Congressional Democrats.
Mr. Weiner was his party’s id.
He spoke brazenly against Republican plans and icons, taking swings at
people like Paul Ryan and Michele Bachmann.
Less than a month ago, he told a reporter for The New York Times that
he knew that his own behavior was bound to be scrutinized.
In fact, conservative bloggers, led by an individual identified as
@PatriotUSA76, were tracking his Twitter account so carefully that
they sent warnings to women who were being followed online by Mr.
Weiner to be wary of him.
Mr. Weiner was copied into those warnings.
Even so, knowing that he was being watched, he kept up his stream of
lewd communications with strangers, people who identified themselves
as women.
A longstanding political friend of Mr. Weiner and his wife, Huma
Abedin, said on Tuesday that he was trying to come to grips with the
congressman’s recklessness.
“If you look at the sin — is it public or is it private — it’s
private,” said the friend, who did not want to be identified. “But you
go beyond sin, this is mental illness. It’s strange.”
The friend said he worried about the toll on Mr. Weiner, who has
worked only in politics as an adult. In 2000, Mr. Weiner’s eldest
brother, facing financial pressure and struggling with alcohol, was
killed by a car as he crossed a busy divided highway in Alexandria,
Va.
Asked about the congressman’s emotional state, Mr. Weiner’s spokesman
referred to his comments at the news conference on Monday, when the
congressman, weeping, said that he could not explain his behavior, but
that he intended to keep his seat in Congress.
No one can say where the Weiner case will wind up — lying to Wolf
Blitzer about Twitter is not a known federal crime — but history shows
that where there is a will, someone can find a way to prosecute.
YOU might think this is a matter for his household to decide, in the
first instance, and for his constituents to figure out for themselves
come the next election.
Nevertheless, the fact is that dishonesty about sexual behavior has
been criminalized.
Henry Cisneros, a member of President Bill Clinton’s cabinet, lied to
the F.B.I. about money that he gave to a mistress; he pleaded guilty
to a misdemeanor, and the investigation went on for most of a decade
and cost $22 million.
Mr. Clinton, who testified falsely in a civil suit about sexual
encounters with an intern, was investigated for perjury and
obstruction of justice at a cost of $12.5 million.
John Edwards was recently indicted for arranging payments to a
mistress with whom he had fathered a child. (Interestingly, one of Mr.
Clinton’s old defense lawyers, Lanny Breuer, is among those leading
the prosecution of Mr. Edwards.)
Who could bear the thought that we are about to begin months of
inquiries over whether Mr. Weiner sent seminaked pictures of himself
to strangers from his personal BlackBerry or from a government-issued
computer?
Or whether he brought discredit on the House of Representatives?
Having abetted nearly a decade of wars, and permitting fat cats to
bring the economy to a state of collapse, Congress ought to be able to
tolerate a few embarrassing and crude messages sent by one foolish man
in Queens.

in Queens.
I soliti due pesi e due misure, bastardi.
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