16-12-2012, 08:23 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Peter Lemkin Wrote:JUAN GONZÃLEZ: Well, let's go on to HSBC. The banking giant has escaped indictment for laundering billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and groups linked to al-Qaeda. The bank reportedly supplied a billion dollars to a firm whose founder had ties to al-Qaeda and shipped billions in cash from Mexico to the United States despite warnings the money was coming from drug cartels. Earlier this year, a Senate investigation concluded that HSBC provided a, quote, "gateway for terrorists to gain access to U.S. dollars and the U.S. financial system."I'm pretty sure if I (knowingly or otherwise) supplied money or services to drug cartels or Al Qaida I would be in prison....
Despite evidence of wrongdoing, the Justice Department has allowed the bank to avoid prosecution and pay a $1.9 billion fine. No top HSBC officials will face charges.
Yeah....with your political views, even a 120$ contribution to a charity that the USA or one of its doggies believes is a front for some terrorist group - as opposed to one of OUR terror groups - you'd be in deep shit!....and looking at possible prison. But, a banker.....they have a get-out-of-jail-free card...and don't share your political views.
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"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