The Washington Madam

Deborah Jeane Palfrey was a hypocritical scapegoat of the American judicial system. The Extreme Right, Zip Coon, sits and waits disguising his own disgusting behavior waiting to make an example of Jim Crow. Deborah Jeane Palfrey became Washington's scapegoat. I hope the hundreds of john's for which Pamela Martin and Associates provided sexual gratification take a moment to ponder if their own infidelity was worth a woman's life. Is this another Chappaquiddick? Obviously in the moral judgment of her clients the services she offered were worth the legal risk of being exposed publicly. Time and time again we see mainstream politicians, clergymen, and celebrities fall from grace because of their sexual desire. Is this physical act that God created and gave us worth this public humiliation and personal despair? Prostitution is legal in many other countries. How can it be that a former porn producer and actress successfully married a preacher with a Ph.d from Stanford, took over his tele-evangelical ministry, and continues to preach on television with no repercussions from the media? Pastor Melissa Scott, like Tracy Lords, is a shining example of a woman who successfully and eloquently works and beats the system. Tracy Lords charmed a judge and jury into dropping her case of underage adult film acting. Deborah Jeane was more humanly vulnerable, and ironically like Norma Jean her death should be remembered just as tragically. She may have not been a Hollywood star, but evidently she provided a service that many high-powered men felt was important. Whatever the service may have been, providing immediate physical release or prolonged sexual titillation, what these women did is and has been thought important to America. It is only when an Extreme Religious Right enters politics does the hypocrisy begin. Vulnerable women are bait for the debacle that is the media, the paparazzi, and Hollywood. Scant to be found is an ounce of compassion, expertly personified in David Lynch's classic movie Mulholland Drive. Conversely Betty Elms, a dream character with rose-colored glasses, ultimately is Diane Selwyn, a lesbian who commits suicide after not finding fame and fortune in Hollywood, California. It seems Deborah Jeane's story is not that unique and uncommon. The bottom line is what are we all here for? Do we really care about gas from Iraq? Do we really care about housing futures? Do we really care about financial portfolios? When the quintessential elements of life are bled from us by a selfish, greedy, and hypocritical political faction that hides behind an ivory pulpit, then the likes of the Dark Ages have all ready been thrust upon us. We do not need a Black Plague, because a plague of moral darkness has been put into motion.