The government has turned this nation into a oligarchy, with corporations running roughshod over the voting population that supports them all.
This is an era of profound lawlessness and unchecked evil.
Surely it is evil to throw the elderly and families into the streets while the banks that are doing the throwing are more profitable than ever. Actually banks don’t foreclose on people and throw them into the street, our nation’s courts do. And to do so, in so many cases, “our” courts must overlook so much individual and systemic wrongdoing.
And sadly too often this happens.
At what point in time will the masses wake up and realize that we are all enslaved by a society, by an economy, by a government binds and enslaves us all, ruining lives and destroying any hope of a lasting, orderly society?
Are they really so short-sighted that they cannot see the splits of division, not just in this country but around the world?
Demonstrators today are using their bodies to send a message to Eric Holder that it is time to stop shielding the big Wall Street banks from prosecution. Hundreds of homeowners who have been playing by the rules while the big banks have cheated them are risking arrest at the Department of Justice to make an unmistakable statement: it is about time for the government to side with poor and middle class folks who the bankers have screwed rather than those banks who have been cheating them.
The Campaign for a Fair Settlement put together devastating reports in April and May, the first of which points out that the administration has yet to prosecute a single major bank or top level executive for the widespread fraud leading to the system’s collapse, while the most recent report discusses how much better the economy would be if the administration was forcing the big banks to actually help homeowners who had been hurt by the banks. From the report:
more here
