{"id":718,"date":"2009-07-23T10:50:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T10:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/07\/new-jersey.html"},"modified":"2009-07-23T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T10:50:30","slug":"new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/07\/new-jersey.html","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\">A big ole group of high <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/hobokennow\/index.ssf\/2009\/07\/press_conference_at_noon_on_ar.html\">New Jersey officials,<\/a> including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1010wins.com\/2-NJ-Mayors-Arrested\/4860171\">Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano were arrested<\/a> this morning,&nbsp;for charges including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vosizneias.com\/35485\/2009\/07\/23\/new-jersey-feds-bust-dozens-in-large-corruption-scandal\/\">corruption and money laundering<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"290\" alt=\"Peter Cammarano.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/Peter%20Cammarano.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dramatic, I said to my coworker.&nbsp; Yes, he replied with a giggle.&nbsp; There&#8217;s something about political corruption that brings out the &#8220;tsk&#8221; in us, and the busting up of a crime scene by the FBI feels kind&nbsp;of oddly&nbsp;satisfying.&nbsp; Is it because we revel in justice served and corruption revealed?&nbsp; Is it because we identify with the sweaty and hard-working FBI agents, pacing around yellow-lit rooms until 4 in the morning, rearranging pieces of evidence until the truth puzzle is solved?&nbsp; Should we actually be feeling the gravitas of the persistence of corruption and compassion for the families of those arrested (whose lives probably feel pretty ruined right now)?<\/p>\n<p>Last night at Hardcore Dharma Ethan advised us to try and note how many times this week we had the thought &#8220;People are unreliable and the world is screwed up.&#8221; In minute ways from 9pm in the evening (leaving the class) until 11:07 in the morning (writing this post) I&#8217;ve probably thought that about 74 times, not including thoughts about this&nbsp;scandal&nbsp;in my homestate of Yerz.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Sometime I wonder if we collectively use these kind of political-corruption-reveals to reinforce our generalizations of &#8220;us against the world.&#8221;&nbsp;How&nbsp;should a dharmic person react to this kind of sensational news? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big ole group of high New Jersey officials, including Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano were arrested this morning,&nbsp;for charges including corruption and money laundering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everybody-hurts","category-meritdemerit-badge"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Jersey! 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