Thursday, October 27, 2011

How the Legal System Was Deep-Sixed to Serve Elite America and Occupy Wall Street Became Inevitable | | AlterNet

How the Legal System Was Deep-Sixed to Serve Elite America and Occupy Wall Street Became Inevitable | | AlterNet

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It is now clearly understood that, rather than apply the law equally to all, Wall Street tycoons have engaged in egregious criminality -- acts which destroyed the economic security of millions of people around the world -- without experiencing the slightest legal repercussions. Giant financial institutions were caught red-handed engaging in massive, systematic fraud to foreclose on people's homes and the reaction of the political class, led by the Obama administration, was toshield them from meaningful consequences. Rather than submit on an equal basis to the rules, through an oligarchical, democracy-subverting control of the political process, they now control the process of writing those rules and how they are applied.

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