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Here is the steaming pile of justice the Democratic Party is serving us. It stinks to high hell. [View all]
Last edited Fri Mar 20, 2015, 09:39 AM - Edit history (2)
If you are rich and/or powerful, no worries. The Democratic Party has your ass covered. Republican or not. And like it or not, the disparity has been further institutionalized by what I call the Obama Doctrine.No prosecutions for Iraq War lies and deception costing 100,000 lives, setting the stage for ISIS.
No prosecutions for torture. All Apologies.
No prosecutions for lying to Congress about the true scope of NSA surveillance programs.
No prosecutions for Wall Street fraud that crippled the world's economy, depressed wages and left millions without jobs.
No prosecutions for our police force who, even with 4 or 5 cops, cannot take an unarmed black man into custody without beating him or shooting him dead.
No prosecutions in Ferguson for criminal conspiracy, racketeering and a corrupt organization run by municipal employees.
No penalties for senior government officials running unarchived, private email servers in their basement, boiler room, or wherever - thus leaving the nation's historical official public business vulnerable to hackers, foreign agents and random email administrators.
A misdemeanor with no jail time for David Petraeus who fed his mistress Top Secret information and gave special press access to reporters who were appropriately deferential which in some cases meant fucking Gen. Petraius.
Last month, a former C.I.A. officer, John C. Kiriakou, was released from prison after serving nearly two years for telling a reporter the name of a C.I.A. officer involved in the agency’s interrogation program. When Mr. Kiriakou pleaded guilty in October 2012, Mr. Petraeus was the C.I.A. director.
“Oaths do matter,” Mr. Petraeus said, “and there are indeed consequences for those who believe they are above the laws that protect our fellow officers and enable American intelligence agencies to operate with the requisite degree of secrecy.”
Days after making that statement, Mr. Petraeus was interviewed by the F.B.I. about whether he, too, had illegally disclosed classified information. He said he had not. A month later, the F.B.I. investigation became public, as did his affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. Mr. Petraeus resigned.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/us/politics/letter-calls-plea-deal-for-david-petraeus-a-profound-double-standard.html
The "Economy Class Citizen" Is Getting Their Ass Kicked
God help you if you aren't rich and/or a powerful individual in Washington. Federal prosecutors have charged more public servants for leaking classified information to journalists during the Obama administration than all previous administrations.
Meanwhile... With only 5% of the world’s population, the U.S. has 25% of the world’s prison population – that makes us the world’s largest jailer.
Since 1970, our prison population has risen 700%.
One in 99 adults are living behind bars in the U.S. This marks the highest rate of imprisonment in American history.
One in 31 adults are under some form of correctional control, counting prison, jail, parole and probation populations.
The Democratic Party doesn't need this shit. We have come to expect this behavior from Republicans. Why are New Democrats embracing this disparity by claiming it as the "new reality"?
https://www.aclu.org/safe-communities-fair-sentences/prison-crisis
How could anyone support such massive disparity? Yet, you won't hear the Democratic Party demanding reform. That's because it might upset the money interests who control the Democratic Party. It might even land some of them in jail. That would be a good thing.
Until we end the hypocrisy and deception, the two parties will remain closer than they appear.
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