shanghaijim wrote:The same as the guy that robbed a store of $1 so he can get mecial care ...yes, the US has a lot of problems and a lot of Sh*t that I do not like ...but still a dam better place than any other hole I have been in on this marble....including Chiner !

findus wrote:

shanghaijim wrote:The same as the guy that robbed a store of $1 so he can get mecial care ...yes, the US has a lot of problems and a lot of Sh*t that I do not like ...but still a dam better place than any other hole I have been in on this marble....including Chiner !

It's no small problem when your country continues a foreign policy of mass interference->invasion, piling trillions into these ventures, while continually bulking the pockets of the already (and mostly untouchable) rich, and can't look after its own people, most of whom increasingly feel held hostage to banks, insurance companies and such.

findus wrote:

shanghaijim wrote:The same as the guy that robbed a store of $1 so he can get mecial care ...yes, the US has a lot of problems and a lot of Sh*t that I do not like ...but still a dam better place than any other hole I have been in on this marble....including Chiner !

It's no small problem when your country continues a foreign policy of mass interference->invasion, piling trillions into these ventures, while continually bulking the pockets of the already (and mostly untouchable) rich, and can't look after its own people, most of whom increasingly feel held hostage to banks, insurance companies and such.

Michael wrote:The whole prison thing is very interesting. Prisons in the US are being outsourced to private companies in some states. They get so much $$$ per inmate to maintain them. Hence, the more "criminals" doing time, the richer these guys get. And it has been hinted at the a few judges are little better off for handing out maximum sentences.

Brun0 wrote:

findus wrote:

shanghaijim wrote:The same as the guy that robbed a store of $1 so he can get mecial care ...yes, the US has a lot of problems and a lot of Sh*t that I do not like ...but still a dam better place than any other hole I have been in on this marble....including Chiner !

It's no small problem when your country continues a foreign policy of mass interference->invasion, piling trillions into these ventures, while continually bulking the pockets of the already (and mostly untouchable) rich, and can't look after its own people, most of whom increasingly feel held hostage to banks, insurance companies and such.

Gee findanus, are we crawling back to that dark hole of ignorance called Your Life again?

Hypocritical much lately?

Your UK has done much worse in a far larger scale for much longer, and I'd even go as far as say as if you had education and health care, a lot of it came either from exploitation of other countries for a long time or you happened to have it because TWICE Uncle Sam rescued you from other countries sodomizing or about to sodomize the UK.

So, you for one should be grateful as fugg for America.

Further, ANY country would DIE to be in the position of exploiting that America has.

It's not that they exploit because they are America (assuming they do), they exploit because they can. Any country in the same situation (and your proved that before) would and did the same.

Hence, your entire point is, like your other posts, meaningless

Your best fliend love you long time,
HC

William M. Palmer, Esq.
Boston
June 24th, 2011
6:43 pm

I was in the 1990s a federal criminal prosecutor (for part of that time with the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act and International Fraud Unit of the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice). The dearth of prosecutions of individuals involved in corporate crimes results from a combination of factors: that federal prosecutors often have come from large, elite law firms - to which they will often be returning at very high income levels (this applies to all ranks of Justice - witness AG Holder's stint at Covington - where he likely made on the order of three or more million dollars a year); that a large fine is a concrete result that can be pointed to - and which goes to the government's coffers; that big companies can hire a team of expert defense attorneys who can complexify and delay an investigation - so that by the time the individuals' culpability is clear it seems a faded event of lesser importance. What Stewart points to is a symptom of the fact that the very large sums of money coursing through politics/business/law elite tend to make individuals who hold positions of official power from pressing hard. I saw this periodically at Main Justice when I was a public corruption prosecutor. There is a very different dynamic at work when the federal government goes after an inner-city black man who robbed a bank and a corporate executive who participated in a fraud. This doesn't mean that there won't be occasional cases where high-level executives are indicted, but rather that the ecosystem- by inducement/types of personalities who stay within it/various pressures - won't give rise to/countenance a systematic and aggressive investigation and prosecution of the power elite. Add in the factor that the FBI diverted its focus from white-collar crime and other select domestic crimes to terrorism prevention after 9.11, and there simply isn't the resources, attitude and interest to do what Stewart suggests - rightfully - is missing.