13-12-2010, 10:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 13-12-2010, 06:01 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
David Guyatt Wrote:The price Cheney puts on himself speaks volumes.
And it speaks volumes too to the amount of dirty money he has generated for Halliburton over the years that they would offer to pay half a billion dollars to keep him out of prison.
It's also nice to know that the Nigerian criminal system is so flexible that money paid is justice served - which clearly tells us that wealth is above the law.
Just think of it as the privatization of 'justice'. Highest bidder goes free....etc. In the past wealthy men could buy their way out of military service [they still could until the ended the draft] - and now in the same spirit of injustice, wealthy men can buy their way out of legal problems, even verdicts of guilty and prison. So very fair. Oh, I love neo-feudalism. Can we have quaint old costumes too to play serf in?!
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass