Friday, October 21, 2011

Prosecute Wall St Before They Impoverish You

Moreover, the ruling elite and the wealthiest Americans have become exempt from a uniform standard of justice, Glenn Greenwald argues in "With Liberty and Justice for Some":
Instead, the United States now has the exact opposite of a single set of laws before which everyone is equal. It has an entrenched two-tiered system of justice: the country's most powerful political and financial elites are virtually immunized from the rule of law, empowered to commit felonies with full-scale impunity and to act without any constraints, while the politically powerless are imprisoned with greater ease and in far greater numbers than in any other country on the planet.

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