Is The Justice Department Over Reaching On Fraud Enforcement in An Election Year?

It seems whenever there is a tough economy, there are more shysters who come out of the woodwork. This makes sense of course because if money is tight, and fewer people to get a job, it's more difficult for these culprits to get a real job to use their cunning and intellectual abilities for positive purposes such as making a profit in their own small businesses. Okay so, I'd like to talk about this for a moment if I might.

You see, I've also noticed another trend. Whenever there is a major election going on, candidates claim that when they get into office they will stop the crime, scams, and fraud. It's hard to say why they do this - perhaps they are redirecting attention away from themselves and their own political shenanigans. But I would suspect that's not the only reason. It's because negative events make better headlines, and if a politician can point at some negative event, and then claim they will fix it, all the suddenly more voters take interest.

In fact, I think a little bit of that is going on right now. There was an interesting piece recently on the FBI website which was of value to discuss, the title of the government press release was; "Attorney General Eric Holder Launches Consumer Protection Working Group to Combat Consumer Fraud Working Group Created Under President Obama's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force Brings Together Federal, State, and Local Partners," and it appeared on their site on February 13, 2011.

The reality is - we already have the government bureaucracy to take care of some of these problems, not to mention lots of law enforcement agencies. So why is it now that the Obama Administration wants to jump on this right away, during an election year. How come they didn't work on this problem in the last couple of years? It is not as if there was ever a shortage of dishonest people in the world, so why now?

Another comment that I would like to make, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, is that I guess my biggest question is; when will the FBI investigate the Obama Administration for abuse of law, violating the constitution, and other fraudulent activity (in my opinion)? Seriously, let's talk about that and not just because it's an election year, we can wait until after the election to seek justice and return things back to the rule of law.

If the Obama Administration is merely trying to secure their proposed budget by showing that they need more money to do the job, then the DOJ should have been doing it all along. As we look for things such as corporate malfeasance, how about government administrative and executive leadership malfeasance? Well, I dare to ask the question, yes even in an election year. Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Online Crimes. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/

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Role of Chief Justice

The Chief Justice of Canada is chosen by the governor in council, in effect the Prime Minister of Canada in consultation with the federal cabinet.

The role of the Chief Justice of Canada has four main parts - judge, administrator of the Supreme Court, head of the Canadian judiciary and a public representative for the Supreme Court of Canada.

Major responsibilities of the Chief Justice of Canada include: The Chief Justice of Canada presides at all sittings of the Supreme Court at which he or she is present. The Chief Justice also chooses the panels of Justices which hear Supreme Court of Canada cases. The Chief Justice of Canada heads the Supreme Court staff of over 150 employees who are members of the federal government public service. The Chief Justice of Canada chairs the Canadian Judicial Council, made up of the chief and associate chief justices and judges of all courts whose members are appointed by the federal government. The Canadian Judicial Council provides continuing education for judges, handles complaints about federally appointed judges and coordinates the discussion of issues of importance to the judiciary in Canada. The Chief Justice of Canada, as well as other Justices of the Supreme Court, acts as a deputy to the Governor General of Canada for giving Royal Assent to bills and signing other official documents. If the Governor General of Canada dies, or becomes incapacitated or is out of the country for more than one month, then the Chief Justice of Canada becomes Administrator of Canada and assumes the duties of the Governor General.

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