21-01-2011, 12:24 PM
Quote:In a rare blistering attack on the Department of Justice, a career veteran of the agency recently told Raw Story that the Obama administration handing Bush-era officials "a get out of jail free card" sets "a dangerous precedent" that could encourage other offenses by future leaders.
Shades of Berlusconi's immunity from prosecution law that he passed, but which is now being reviewed by independent judges.
But let's recall that baby Bush leaned at his Daddy's knee. At the end of his Administration, George H W Bush used his gift of presidential pardons to ensure a number of his senior cabinet officers, including Defense Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, walked free.
Power protects itself.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14