STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Monday, 19 August 2013

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5. In American History class, they used to teach, "No one is above the law."

It was part of the American Ideal. Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican, used to say it.

Was I a silly child in thinking it was true? Or did it really change when Ford pardoned Nixon? 'Cause I never hear anyone make that claim anymore. It has become a standard of TV crime shows that the rich get way different treatment from the criminal justice system. And politicians? On TV shows, the plot would turn on the police being FORBIDDEN from looking at them too closely. Only the bravest renegade cop would follow the leads pointing toward the politicians. By the greatest luck the scruffy hero could survive and win in the end. And we would all think, "Well, that ending wasn't very realistic."