# 2 February 2012

Jive Talkin'

The topper for me, though, was the President’s cheeky announcement that he’d ordered the Department of Justice to form a “special unit” to investigate mortgage fraud and other lethal irregularities in the banking sector. The fact that his congressional audience did not bust out laughing shows what a convocation of craven and perfidious cat’s paws they are. Note to readers: the DOJ has a long-established criminal division fully empowered to prosecute all the familiar scams of our time from NINJA lending to the robo-signing of titles to MERS mortgage mischief, to the bundling and sales of booby-trapped CDOs - up to and including whatever Jon Corzine thought he was doing at MF Global.

Well I burst out laughing. Next we’ll have a special unit for war crimes and illegal government surveillance.

Filed under [Obama] [Wall Street] [Crimes] [Rule of Law] [Kunstler]
# 27 January 2012
Bradley Manning should’ve really considered committing some war crimes instead of exposing them.
—Rules of American justice
Filed under [Manning] [War] [Crimes] [Accountability] [America]
# 10:20

Rules of American justice

“It’s just another barbaric act of Americans against Iraqis,” al-Dulaimi told The Associated Press. “They spill the blood of Iraqis and get this worthless sentence for the savage crime against innocent civilians.”

Do we think we can condone war crimes without anyone noticing? Without paying for it later?

Filed under [America] [Iraq] [War] [Crimes] [Greenwald]
# 12 December 2011
When you see all these patriarchal institutions being revealed as either perpetrating sex crimes or covering them up you have to believe that this has been one of the biggest secrets of the human experience.
—Sheriff Arpaio apologizes to victims, if there were any
Filed under [America] [Sex] [Crimes]
# 22 September 2011
After accusing the plaintiffs of harboring anti-Americanism for daring to enforce the mandates of the United States Constitution against precisely the activities most feared by the American Founders … he turned his scornful ire to the ACLU for the crime of representing these plaintiffs — for free — in a lawsuit to enforce the privacy rights of all American citizens
—Dennis G. Jacobs: Case study in judicial pathology
Filed under [Laws] [Crimes] [Government] [Judiciary] [Corruption] [Greenwald]
# 24 May 2011
As the U.S. DOJ steadfastly looks the other way and other state Attorneys General prepare to settle all potential charges in exchange for payment of woefully inadequate ‘cost-of-doing-business’ fines, Schneiderman is doing the opposite, aggressively expanding his investigation in a way that could single-handedly sabotage the efforts to permanently protect this industry from accountability.
—Eric Schneiderman vs. Wall Street and its political servants
Filed under [Laws] [Crimes] [Money] [NYC] [NYS] [Due Process] [Schneiderman] [Greenwald]
# 25 March 2011
fuckyeahbradleymanning: Thought a chart might be useful to compare the treatment of Bradley Manning, Wikileaks defendant vs. the treatment of Jeremy Morlock, Afghan Kill Team defendant.

fuckyeahbradleymanning:

Thought a chart might be useful to compare the treatment of Bradley Manning, Wikileaks defendant vs. the treatment of Jeremy Morlock, Afghan Kill Team defendant.

Filed under [Manning] [War] [Crimes] [Morlock] [Death]