The subject of Pam Frampton’s Saturday column is on an issue that has been bothering me some time — the ludicrous fiction that is the politician’s blind trust.
The idea that anyone can place their assets in a blind trust and then make decisions that affect their assets without bias, is a farce that defies description. And to refer any ethical question for a decision to a “politically appointed ethics commissioner” who owe their lucrative appointment to the party they are judging is an even higher level of farce.
The public is expected to believe that immediately on forming the “blind trust” politicians forget all details of their assets and what would benefit them.
Come on, get serious. Do they really expect us to believe this?
To paraphrase a quotation from George Orwell that I am fond of, “you would have to be a politician with a blind trust to believe things like that, no ordinary person could be such a fool.”
Barry Imhoff
St. John’s
