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ABSCAM — Part 9
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CALIFORNIA
TELEPHONE
job
June 7, 1982 ©
Senator Alan Cranston
United States Senate
Russell Senate Office Bldg., Room 229
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator Cranston:
I thank you for replying to my letter which I mailed to you concerning the
expulsion of Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr. I do not share your viewpoint
on this matter. You may call it entrapment or whatever you like. The fact
remains that Mr. Williams has accepted a bribe. Let's face it, many a
common prostitute is entraped by local vice squad. Why shouldn't similar
entrapment apply to disreputable politicians.
Let's face it, Dear Senator, Mr. Williams, Jr. is not a crook because he
took the bribe. To the contrary, he took the bribe because he is a crook.
If it takes the Department of Justice and the F.B.I. undercover operation
to keep you people in the Senate honest, I am all for it. Before the law
you politicians deserve the same treatment, respect and scrutiny as we other
common citizens including your petty shop lifter, prostitute, murderer, etc.
I consider the action of the Department of Justice a totally different
matter than you politicians taking a bribe. If it is that easy to leada
Senator into temptation then let's not have him represent the common man.
Very truly yours
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