Here the Bongu intellectual can be seen in typical action. She stays silent when her friends and coworkers go on the rampage in the name of patriotism - committing extortion, thuggery and murder. But when the opposition does so (and even when it does not) she is very upset.
And the rampant criminality of the apparatus of AL and BNP cannot be compared with anything in the US. Unless she was robbed recently by a card carrying Democrat who invoked the name of George Washington as he defaced her poster of Joy.
Bongu intellectuals are hypocrites.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Farida Majid <farida_majid@...> wrote:
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> Pierce writes: "...over the course of a decade, a bunch of cheats, thieves, and suited mountebanks stole most of the national economy and then wrecked whatever was left of it. But what's most extraordinary about the whole thing is that, after they swindled their swindles and heisted their heists, and got paid off by the rest of us for having looted our national economy, they all kept doing the same things they were doing before."
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> f all the things for which I have little patience - Willard Romney, lottery machines in convenience stores, and the current state of the Montreal Canadiens, to name only three - the notion that the best way to deal with things is to "look forward, not back" is right at the top of the list. This is especially true as regards the undeniable fact that, over the course of a decade, a bunch of cheats, thieves, and suited mountebanks stole most of the national economy and then wrecked whatever was left of it. But what's most extraordinary about the whole thing is that, after they swindled their swindles and heisted their heists, and got paid off by the rest of us for having looted our naional economy, they all kept doing the same things they were doing before. These included extravagant bonuses and, of course, continued crimes of capital that ought to be capital crimes.
> This is extraordinary. All this Citigroup fraud and thuggery took place after the events of the great meltdown had taken place. This whisteblower's co-workers, instead of checking for fraud or making reports about underwriting defects to the FHA as required, argued with her over the soundness of the loans, she said. Employees who acted as "gatekeepers" applied "what they describe as 'brute force' to pressure Citi's quality control managers" into downplaying defects, according to the government's complaint.
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> Last year. The more I think about it, the more I believe that we, as a society, gave up on the pillory too soon. And $158.3 million is tip money for CitiGroup.
> This is what happens when real punishment for real crimes is considered to be too inconvenient, or too difficult, or too traumatic for the nation, which is made up completely of candyglass children incapable of existing with the knowledge that their financial lords of the universe are really no different from stick-up kids in a bodega. This is what happens when nobody goes to jail. This is what happens today.
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> +25 # Willman 2012-02-17 18:30
> Those that hold the gold make the rules.
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> I was once told that in Norway (and perhaps other countries) everyone's taxable income and tax paid is publicly listed. Now that would be useful information if Wikileaks could publish the income and tax paid by the top 1% along with some idea as to what public good they achieved in order to earn such riches.
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> Chase Banks have been popping up all over my neighborhood of late; ugly, cheerless storefronts wrapped in cold cyan and steel gray. This, during one of our nation's worst economic crises, when many more Americans are going hungry and homeless than ever before — it's vulgar and disgusting. Makes me proud to be credit union member.
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> Physically yes. However, what goes around comes around. There a universal law that protects right and punishes wrong. If you continue to do what you know to be wrong, you can expect to pay in some way for those bad actions. You can call it the "golden rule" or "Good actions, good reactions, bad actions, bad reactions. As you give so you receive". There may be no time factor but you get what's coming to you.
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> It is, as Pierce has explained so well, nothing short of "extraordinary" that the US has become a society with a two-tiered judicial system. Financial movers and shakers are rewarded after breaking the law and ruining the lives of countless people, while a teenager can get sent to prison for selling a marijuana cigarette to his friend. Presidents who start illegal and unconstitutiona l wars protect each other from prosecution while legal demonstrators are beaten on the spot and sometimes even killed. Perhaps the next kid that stands before a judge for selling a few joints to his friends could try his luck with the Obama defense, i.e., "Your honor, as our President has said, I think we should look ahead and put things like this behind us." He probably wouldn't get very far, even if he gave Obama what the boy considered to be a substantial campaign contribution.
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> 0 # cordleycoit 2012-02-17 22:26
> Time to make a little adjustment? No it is time to make real changes.Otherwise they will come for us with chains. .Let's stop moving the deck chairs around and make real chains.
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> 0 # Catch22 2012-02-17 22:50
> Many people caight up in this this...either directly or indirectly are no different to the Nazis at the termination of WWII...we were following orders...the last refuge...TAG
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> +1 # grouchy 2012-02-17 23:14
> Greed has always been at the core of American society--and thus things don't change that much. A shame.
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