The Hubris of the Jackson Political Brand at it again
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- Category: Justice
- Published: Thursday, 15 August 2013 03:40
- Written by Attorney taleph Haynes Davis, Esq.
Posted on August 15, 2013
“I still believe in the power of forgiveness; I believe in the power of redemption,” Jackson said when approached by a reporter after the hearing. “Today I manned up and tried to accept responsibility for the errors of my ways. And I still believe in resurrection.” —NBC News, reporting on 8/14/2013.
That is what the former U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. said to media assembled in front of a vehicle that he was about to enter after her was sentenced Wednesday, August 14, 2013 to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items according to NBC News.
Jackson will also face 36 months of probation, 500 hours of community service and continued mental health care. His wife, Sandra Jackson, was sentenced to one year after pleading guilty to tax fraud. The couple’s prison sentences will be staggered, and the judge left it up to the Jacksons’ discretion to determine who will be first to serve his or her sentence. She will also have to pay $22,000 in restitution and will face a year of supervised probation upon her release.
Jesse Jackson Jr. elected to serve his sentence first according to media reports.
I must caution you right now. I am a big cynic and I am highly critical when it comes to politicians and their fall from grace when they violate the law, and violate the trust of the citizens who elected them. I am even a bigger cynic and even more critical when politicians that fall from grace and violate the law, and violate the trust of the citizens who elected them, steal and misappropriate campaign contributions as did Jackson.
Again, Jackson said; “I still believe in the power of forgiveness; I believe in the power of redemption.” “Today I manned up and tried to accept responsibility for the errors of my ways. And I still believe in resurrection.”
I, however, must ask the following question; what did Jackson really mean when he uttered those statements?
Well, for this writer, those statements to the media represent the continuation of the hubris of the Jackson Political Brand.
Yes, it is the inseparable hubris of the Jackson Political Brand at it again.
The following example of the grammatical usage of the word “hubris” taken from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary sums it up for me; “His failure was brought on by his hubris.” And that is spot on as to this Jackson saga. Indeed, it was his hubris that brought on his failure.
It is also exact as to the active and on-going continuation of the “hubris” of the Jackson Political Brand. It will never go away. Never.
Here is yet another example of the grammatical usage of the word “hubris” taken from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary that also sums up this Jackson saga and puts into perspective what I call “the hubris of the Jackson Political Brand at it again.”
“When conceived it was a project of almost unimaginable boldness and foolhardiness, requiring great bravura, risking great hubris.” —Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman, 1998.
According to a report filed by by Pete Williams and Matthew DeLuca, of NBC News, Jackson said the following in a statement to the court:
“I misled the American people,” Jackson said in a statement to the court, according to NBC Chicago. “I misled the House of Representatives. I misled the media by filing my reports. I was wrong. And I don’t fault anyone. And I hope even those who still support me don’t hold any judgment against you.”
For me, it’s more hubris at it again, and sadly Jackson cannot let it go or the Jackson Political Brand. The above statements would be sufficient but for the following; “And I hope even those who still support me don’t hold any judgment against you.”
Now you have to ask yourself, why would anyone hold any judgment “against” the court of Judge Berman Jackson?
The answer is that it is, again that good old Jackson Political Brand and its “hubris” again. It will never go away.
“You stand here not just because you violated the law, but because you violated the trust of the people of Chicago,” Judge Berman Jackson said, according to NBC Chicago.
Indeed, that statement from Judge Jackson in court today, the Jackson Political Brand and its “hubris” was put on notice as to the limitations of “hubris.”
Okay, here we go one more time: “I still believe in the power of forgiveness; I believe in the power of redemption,” Jackson said when approached by a reporter after the hearing. “Today I manned up and tried to accept responsibility for the errors of my ways. And I still believe in resurrection.”
I believe that Jesse Jackson Jr. will be pondering what those utterances really mean while he serves his 30 months in a federal prison.
I believe that Jesse Jackson, Jr. believes that he will be able to mount some kind of political comeback after serving his term in some way that only he knows how it should be able to happen. I believe Jesse Jackson, Jr. will write a book while in prison that will include his personal memoirs and his theories of politics and their corruption on “good people” as he probably thinks that he is. I believe that Jesse Jackson, Jr. thinks that the people of his Illinois district will forgive him, and as a result, he will be able to make a “triumphant” return upon his release from prison. And I believe Jesse Jackson Jr. believes that he will be “resurrected” in time for consideration for a Presidential pardon sometime in January 2016 from President Barack Obama.
Remember; it is part of the Jackson Political Brand and its “hubris.”