The US system of justice is relentlessly imprisoning anyone who doesn't happen to be an executive of a multinational corporation, according to the Guardian, which calls the US the "world's largest prison state". We imprison "more of our citizens than any nation on earth, both in absolute numbers and proportionally. We imprison people for longer periods of time, more mercilessly, and for more trivial transgressions than any nation in the west." That's pretty strong stuff.
The article continues, "On Tuesday, not only did the US Justice Department announce that HSBC would not be criminally prosecuted, but outright claimed that the reason is that they are too important,
too instrumental to subject them to such disruptions. In other words,
shielding them from the system of criminal sanction to which the rest of
us are subject is not for their good, but for our common good. We
should not be angry, but grateful, for the extraordinary gift bestowed
on the global banking giant:"
Write your Congress Representatives and Senators and President Obama if you think that's not justice.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Comments are moderated for relevance and civility. Spam is discarded.