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.
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":
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