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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Fri Nov 28, 2014, 06:22 PM Nov 2014

We no longer have a "justice system". We have a "JUST US" system. [View all]

We have Supreme Court justices---Scalia and Thomas, at a minimum---who have blatant, in-your-face conflicts of interest which would subject any lower court or state court judge to strong disciplinary measures if they did not cost them their positions.

We have widely-acknowledged war criminals who not only remain free, they are often sought-after speakers and TV commentators when the PTB are looking for criticism of the Uppity Black Usurper.

We have people who effectively stole hundreds of millions of dollar from (mostly) the US middle class just prior to the Bush Recession who not only remain free, they have been allowed to resume their thieving ways while complaining about "takers".

We have individuals---one of them a governor---who have been proven to have stolen millions and millions of dollars from taxpayers and consumers yet---because they were incorporated---cannot be criminally charged.

And, most sadly, we have more dead children, pollution and class division than we can keep track of.

The "US" in the "JUST US" system?

As George Carlin told us: "It's a big club and you ain't in it!"

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